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Several days had elapsed since the fall of the _presidio_ of San Lucar. The pueblo had been given up to pillage, with refinements of barbarity impossible to describe. Only the principal buildings had been spared, thanks to the measures employed by the Tigercat, who to save the immense treasures they contained, had allotted them to the most powerful _sachems_ of the tribes who followed him.
The old freebooter had established his headquarters in the former dwelling of Don Torribio Quiroga, which the latter had gracefully ceded to him. Dona Hermosa and her father had resumed possession of their own mansion.