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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1892
Page
4
An English traveler named Percy endures capture after a duel, is transported in a bullock cart for days with gags and poor food, and is kept under watch in a muddy estancia. Illness follows dehydration and neglect, but a Gaucho doctor helps him recover to a gaunt, weakened state weeks later.
Percy, captive near a river course likely Rio de la Plata, endures a riddled escape plan. A tall Spaniard, Huntly’s betrayer, demands ten thousand dollars ransom and threatens death if rescue attempts occur. Percy begins learning Mongrel-Spanish, gains rough aid from Dutch guards, and later devises progress by exploiting a broken wagon wheel and a missing axle pin to reach a river steamer.
Percy Lovel, fleeing with a kept boy, reaches Buenos Aires in rags and seeks help to locate Mr. Emerick. He meets Belle Lorimer, who offers to assist with influential connections and directs him to a contact while remaining in danger of exposure. She gives him her address and promises aid as he waits for tomorrow.
The excerpt mentions Senator Hoar at the Windsor Hotel in London since June 1 and a London eye consult. It touts De Witt’s Sarsaparilla as a cure and promotes Little Early Risers pills. Buffalo Bill and Richard Harding Davis are noted visiting London with De Wolf Hopper as American names.
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