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Gentlemen, I regret to have been obliged to deceive such gallant compadres; but war knows no law. The boat meets 'em Lord knows what the party at the oars thought they climbs in an' the last I sees of 'em they was puttin' for shore each havin' taken a oar from the boatman, an' they sure was makin' that boat hum.
It was nothing but the lowest deceit. It was enough to make our soldiers furious." Dolores giggled. "They say he went to his officers and told them: 'Compadres, we are now going into Espinal. I will meet you at the Plaza, and I will shoot the last man who arrives there. Dios! There ensued a foot-race."
It was a form of reprisal that they liked least of all, for it meant a cut, and a cut meant sheep wandering aimlessly without a master until they became coyote bait at the rate of five dollars a head. The padron was a kind man and called them compadres, when he was pleased, but if one of them suffered a cut he cursed, and fired him, and made him walk back to town.
He's just too sweet for anything," said Pete. "You know Benavides, Stan?" "Joe and I are lifelong friends of a week's standing. Compadres eh, Joe? He came to console my captivity on your account, at first, and found me so charming that he came back on his own." "Ah, que hombre! Do not beliefing heem, Don Hooaleece.
But he said: 'I am gone, my Becodar. I haven't got five minutes in me. Put on your compadreship quick. I snatched up the sombrero and put it on, and his I tucked under his head. So that we were compadres again. Ah, senor, senor! Soon he drew my cheek down to his and said: 'Adios, compadre: Bernal is thine now. While your eyes see, and your foot travels, let him not want a friend.
Antonio began to hack viciously with his machete, in an effort to aid Hilario's labors. The sound of his sturdy blows betrayed the party's whereabouts so clearly that finally the older man could restrain himself no longer. "Give it to them, compadres; it is a game that we can play." O'Reilly had been gripping his rifle tensely, his heart in his throat, his pulses pounding.
Eleven men nodded assent and looked down at the slips of paper they had produced from inner pockets and held ready in their hands. "Then I shall ask you, compadres, to listen carefully to the report from each district, so that you may judge the wisdom of foreshortening the interval between to-night and the date set for the uprising.
A Mexican herder dropped his gun suddenly and slipped down behind a rock; and his compadres, not knowing from whence the hostile fire came, pushed out their carbines and began to shoot wildly; the deep cañon reverberated to the rattle of thirty-thirtys and the steady crack, crack of the rifle above threw the sheep camp into confusion.
The padres offered to remove the dam if the settlers were injured thereby, and also claimed that they were always glad to attend to the sick when their own pressing duties allowed. On January 14, 1811, Padre Francisco Dumetz, one of Serra's original compadres, died at San Gabriel.
And not only Jasper with his pet man-killing Chihuahuano and all those low-browed compadres whom he called by circumlocution "brothers," but Jim, sore with his defeat, and many others and every man armed. After the first rain they had disappeared from the desert absolutely, their tracks pointing toward the east.
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