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This was poor reward for having settled the country and built a saw-mill and a flour mill besides. "There's the Rio Americano," spoke Mr. Grigsby, pointing ahead, after they had passed old Fort Sutter. About a quarter of a mile before on the left, a line of trees indicated the course of a river the American.
As Ridge reached this group the woman cried, imploringly, "Help, Señor Americano! For love of the good God help me reach the city before my little ones perish!" Ridge could understand and could talk to her in her own tongue. So in a few minutes he had learned her pitiful story. It was that of many another a tale of starvation, sickness, death of her husband, and of homeless wandering for days.
"A thousand pardons, Madame la Vicomtesse," he said. "I am the Alcalde de Barrio, and a wild Americano has passed the sentry at St. Charles's gate without heeding his Excellency's authority and command. I saw the man with my own eyes. I should know him again in a hundred. We have traced him here to this house, Madame la Vicomtesse. Behold the horse which he rode!"
She raised a quick hand and pointed to the parrot. "Chatter! Questions put when you do not expect an answer. A hundred years of words and only a red and yellow bundle of feathers at the end. It is deeds we want, Señor Americano, you and I!" He returned her look steadily. "Then tell me what you want of me," he said. "And in one word I'll give you yes or no." "That is man talk!" she cried.
Señor Hunter, tell the pretty señora that I say we shall be friends. Amiga mia, I shall call her, and I shall learn the Americano language, that we may talk together." She meant every word of it, Dade knew; and with a troublesome, squeezed feeling in his throat he interpreted her speech with painstaking exactness. Mrs.
Ameda sat upright, and rubbed his eyes with well-feigned sleepiness: "Well, Señor Americano, what is it Indians smelling about?" Dr. Bryant could not repress a smile at the drowsy tone of the ranchero, who scarce five moments before had crept from his side. "Upon my word, you seem a match for the seven sleepers of old.
Meaning, "Remember how you butchered our soldiers!" "Me no Alamo! Me no Alamo!" shrieked many of the Mexicans. "Good Americano! Me no Alamo!" They wished the Texans to understand that they were not responsible for the cold-blooded slaughter at the mission.
Demonio! asesino! ladron! They would all be glad to see him seated in the chair of the "garrote." No "buen Catolico" would have acted as he had done no one but a sinful "heretico" a blood-loving "Americano"! How he would be punished when caught!
"Signor Americano," said Petro, warmly, "you have insulted my uncle and myself by this secret interview with Signora Florinda, and I demand of you immediate satisfaction for it." "Signor Petro, I have no cause for contention with you," was the reply of Carlton. "I know you love not the lady, and you are equally aware of her feelings towards you.
Foreigners kept two of the three hotels, as is indicated by their names Hotel Française Fonda Americano, and the Washington House. Americans ran the gambling joints. French and Germans, mainly, kept the restaurants. We stopped over one day at the Fonda Americano; and then realizing that we were probably in for a long wait, found two rooms in a house off the main street.
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