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He's simply dropped out of everything, and to-night I overheard his mother tell Mrs. Erskine that he was going to winter at Coronado, for the polo. It's odd, when he was rushing Suzanne so violently. Perhaps she turned him down." "Lucky for her if she did," growled Vernon. "He's a pretty-average cad, if you want to know; I don't believe he'll show up again in a hurry."
For two weeks or more Coronado had been watching his uncle day and night, and at last had found in his trunk a paper of powder which he suspected to be arsenic. A blunderer would have destroyed or hidden it, thereby warning Garcia that he was being looked after, and causing him to be more careful about his hiding places.
From there down the Arkansas and Missouri to St. Louis it is mostly water carriage; and from St. Louis you can sail anywhere." Coronado was alarmed. He must put a stopper on this project. He called up all his resources. "My dear Mrs. Stanley, allow me. Remember that emigrants move westward, and not eastward.
But at last came the dance; the chief and his comrades led Thurstane away to look at it; now was the time to talk of this fateful betrothal. "Something is passing outside," observed Clara. "Shall we go to see?" "I am entirely at your command," replied Coronado, with his charming air of gentle respect. "But if you can give me a few minutes of your time, I shall be very grateful."
Not improbably, Coronado or others of the early Spanish explorers had ridden this trail, west and north around the great bend, into the territory of the Moquis and Navahos. Within the memory of settlers not yet white-haired, more than one war-party of renegade Apaches had sneaked along the ancient way in search of victims.
The expedition was reorganized as follows: On horseback, Clara, Coronado, Thurstane, Texas Smith, and four Mexicans; on mules, Mrs. Stanley, Glover, the three Indian women, the four soldiers, and the ten drivers and muleteers. There were besides eighteen burden mules loaded with provisions and other baggage. In all, five women, twenty-two men, and forty-five animals.
I suppose there is just such a low, big moon as this looking in upon you where you sit, you little dot of a woman, lost in the piazza perspectives of the Coronado; and you might think small things of our present habitation a little tent among the bushes, with wind-blown weeds against the moon, shifting their shadow-patterns over our canvas walls.
"If we go back to-morrow," she began again, "do you think we shall overtake them?" "I think it very probable," lied Coronado. "And if we don't overtake them, will they join us at the Moqui pueblos?" "Yes, yes. I have little doubt of it." "When do you think we ought to start?" "To-morrow morning." "Won't that be too early?" "Day after to-morrow then." "Won't that be too late?"
While Coronado was in Quivira, De Soto was wandering along the borders of the plains west of the Mississippi River, though neither knew of the nearness of the other. An Indian woman who ran away from Coronado's army fell in with De Soto's, nine days later.
"You Spaniards are the best people I ever saw. Your men absolutely emulate women in unselfishness." "We would do it if it were possible," bowed Coronado. "You do it," magnanimously insisted Aunt Maria, who felt that the baser sex ought to be encouraged. "Señor Garcia, I ask a favor of you," continued Clara. "You must charge all the costs of the journey overland to me."
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