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But she explained that she had been to get eggs for a setting hen, and Antone had stopped her and told her that the new calf had been prematurely born, out on the hills, and had "been gone for die," and so she had driven over to Juanita, and gotten the calf.
Mark and Antone, two steady, middle-aged men, whom I had often admired for their sobriety, replied that they did not strike the first blow; that they had submitted to much before they had yielded to their passions; but as they acknowledged that they had at last defended themselves, their excuse was overruled.
And they all might have been seen wending their way away. " `Bud, says Luke to me, `I want you to fix up a little and go up to San Antone with me. " `Let me get on my Mexican spurs, says I, `and I'm your company. "One of the sisters or so seems to have stayed at the ranch with Mrs. Summers and the kid. We rides to Encinal and catches the International, and hits San Antone in the morning.
He was undoubtedly growing older; and he looked at his watch several times a day before the hour came for his siesta. "John," he said, to his junior partner, "you shall go on this year to buy the goods." Platt looked tired. "I'm told," said he, "that New York is a plumb dead town; but I'll go. I can take a whirl in San Antone for a few days on my way and have some fun."
Anything new?" "Well no, sah. Ev'ything jes' 'bout de same." "Is the Colonel home?" "No, sah. He's done gone to San Antone." "Has he shipped yet?" "Yes, sah." "Who went up to Chicago with them?" "Mistah Sattlee an' John Dick an' some mo'." "Is Steve Brown at home?" "No, sah. He 's gone somewha's. An' he ain' come back. Mos' all de men folks is gone away." "Has Miss Alice got back yet?" "No, sah.
His forty-five emptied, he jammed it back into its holster and stood rigid, staring into the blackness about him, every sense on the qui vive. Galloway had given over shooting; he might be dead or merely waiting. Vidal had held his fire, seeming frightened, uncertain, half stunned. Antone would be leaning forward, peering with frowning eyes, trying to locate him.
"Gone away from here," said Quain deliberately, nodding at the rope's end. "The tide floated her off, of course; but how this happened is beyond me. I could kill Antone." He named the Portuguese labourer charged with the care of the boats at Tanglewood. "It's his job to see that these cables are replaced when they show signs of wear."
"'Finest piano in San Antone, says Uncle Cal, waving his hand, proud. 'Genuine rosewood, and the finest, loudest tone you ever listened to. I heard the storekeeper play it, and I took it on the spot and paid cash down. "Me and Ben and Uncle Cal and a Mexican lifted it out of the wagon and carried it in the house and set it in a corner.
He heard her inveigling Antone, the old Italian labourer, into confidences. Tonight he watched her in great satisfaction; he liked to have her here in his home, one of the pretty Stricklands, Peter Joyce's wife. Nobody else was here, nobody else belonged here, they were masters of their own lives.
And alongside this lad when we have him to-morrow, Archie, there'll be a special bottle o' wine some red-colored wine. I don't know the name of it. Good stuff, though, and ol' Antone gave it to me a special bottle." "An' well he might arter all the money you spent there, Sammie." "An' why not there as well as the next place? Why not there as well as here? Why not?"
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