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El Paso was the gateway city from the old Spanish Dominions of the South. Santa Fe was the central military post, and Taos was the watch tower on the very outskirts of the back-of-beyond of Spanish territory in the wilderness land of the New World.
You've been having high old times in that back-of-beyond town of yours, haven't you? Battles, murders, sudden deaths! who'd ha' thought a slow old hill-country town like Highmarket could have produced so much excitement! What's happened to that chap they collared? I haven't had time to look at the papers this last day or two been too busy." "Committed for trial," answered Stoner.
It was a regular outside bush township, and though the distance oughtn't to have much to say to people's honesty, you'll mostly find that these far-out back-of-beyond places have got men and women to match 'em. Except the squatters and overseers, the other people's mostly a shady lot. Some's run away from places that were too hot to hold 'em.
Marychurch Abbey, at the end of the eighteenth century, had very certainly nothing to offer him under that head. And then, with a swiftness of conception and decision possible only to mercurial-minded persons, his thought darted back to Tandy's, that unkempt, morally malodorous back-of-beyond and No Man's Land.
"But fancy any one offering money for land here," observed Hope, toying with his claret glass, which had just been refilled, by the attentive Cockatoo, "at the Back-of-Beyond, as it were. I shouldn't care to live here the neighborhood is so desolate." "All the same you do live here!" interposed Mrs. Jasher smartly, and with a roguish glance at Lucy.
"It must be a sportsman's safari," said Kingozi, this time to himself, "though what a sportsman wants in this back-of-beyond is a fair conundrum.
For not only did it supply a convenient receiving house for smuggled goods, but a convenient rendezvous for the more lawless characters of the neighbourhood a back-of-beyond and No Man's Land where the devil could, with impunity, have things very much his own way.
The nonchalant gentleman who introduced the others was Jean Péré, dressed as a wood-runner, voyaging and hunting in this back-of-beyond for pleasure. A long way to come for pleasure, thought Sargeant all the leagues and leagues from French camps on Lake Superior. But England and France were at peace. The gentlemen bore passports.
For sadness with laughter at bottom there are few things to compare with the sight of a coat-less, muddy-booted, millionaire, his hat adorned with trout-flies, and a string of small fish in his hand, clawing wildly at the telephone of some back-of-beyond 'health resort. Thus: 'Hello! Hello! Yes. Who's there? Oh, all right. Go ahead. Yes, it's me! Hey, what? Repeat. Sold for how much?
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