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Taking off his hat, he waved an ironical farewell, and then followed the party down the hillside into the broad valley below. They could see the road stretching like a thread along it, but to their disappointment, not a figure was visible upon it. Now that there was no longer danger of treachery, the party closed up together. "How far is it to Vittoria, Garcias?" "Twenty good miles, senor."
The guerilla furiously drew a pistol; but Garcias placed himself between him and Tom. "I have promised him a safe conduct," he said, "and have given my word for his safety. He is only a boy, and a young fool; don't trouble with him."
But I want it now, and must use it. I need not say to you that the words are Spanish, nor that they are to be found in the short Introduction to "Gil Blas," nor that they mean, "Here lies buried the soul of the licentiate Pedro Garcias." I warned all young people off the premises when I began my notes referring to old age. I must be equally fair with old people now.
The strained, throbbing silence that followed Longorio's last words did more to frighten the woman than had his most ardent advances. After a time he lifted Alaire's hand; she felt his lips hot and damp upon her flesh; then he turned and went away with the document. When he reappeared he was smiling. "These Garcias shall know who interceded for them. You shall have their thanks," said he.
School-teachers from abroad have tried before now at Las Uvas to have school begin on the first of September, but got nothing else to stir in the heads of the little Castros, Garcias, and Romeros but feasts and cock-fights until after the Sixteenth. Perhaps you need to be told that this is the anniversary of the Republic, when liberty awoke and cried in the provinces of Old Mexico.
No defeat could dishonor and disgrace her as much as your fiendish cruelty. It is in revenge for the deeds that you and those like you do, that the French carry the sword and fire to your villages. We may drive the French out, but never will a country which fights by murder and treachery become a great nation. Are you ready, Garcias!"
His brow was as black as thunder; he was evidently prepared for the news of his lieutenant's death. "These messengers want to speak to you for a moment," Garcias said. The chief stopped with an impatient gesture. "Senor," Tom said, with a dignity which surprised the chief; "we are not what we seem.
"We are just in time," Garcias said; "Nunez is starting on some expedition or other." When they reached the spot there were nearly two hundred men assembled. They greeted Garcias with shouts of welcome as he arrived. "Ah, ah! Garcias, just in time.
And then what?" He scowled at them fiercely. "We will not forget," the Garcias chorused. There was a murmur from the onlookers; some one cried: "VIVA LONGORIO!" The general bowed smilingly; then, taking Alaire's arm, he waved the idlers out of his path with a magnificent gesture. When, later in the day, Mrs.
But Haley's shack was too near Pine Flat, and now with a reward probably offered, he feared the Garcias greasers, father and son, not to be trusted. The wisest course was to lie low and keep to himself, anyway till he knew more. So he tracked across the country from landmark to landmark, a cave, an abandoned tunnel, the shell of a ruined cabin.
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