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Calling in some hombres from the rear of the hacienda, he gave them ample instructions, with medicine and food, and an hour later Harry and I were lying side by side in his own bed a rude affair, but infinitely better than granite refreshed, bandaged, and as comfortable as their kindly ministrations could make us.
It was old Suma-theek with four of his Indians. They held, tightly bound with belts and bandanas, two disheveled little hombres. "Take 'em to jail, Boss?" panted Suma-theek. "I find 'em trying get back to lower town!" "No! No! Back up into the mountains. I'll get horses to you and you must take them to Cabillo. Lord, I forgot to warn you!" Suma-theek turned quickly but not quickly enough.
"Yes, I do!" said Rimrock, "didn't I borrow his picked rock? Well, keep out then; I know my friends. He'll be drunk for a month and at the end of his fiesta he won't have a dollar to his name, but as long as he lives he can tell the other hombres about that big sack of money he had." Rimrock laid down one big bill, which paid for all the dollars, and walked out of the bank on air.
We'll jest wait until they dip down into the cañon and then double in back of him, and scare up them hombres over at the mouth of Hell's Hip Pocket. We want to git 'em started out of that. I believe you're right, though, Rufe we can run this bunch out without firin' a shot." That evening after the day's riding Creede sat down on his heels by the fire and heated the end of an iron rod.
Three halls are used for grouping, according to their rank, those who are about to be presented: first, the saleta, where ordinary people all the world, in fact wait; next, the cámara, for those who have titles or wear the grand cross; third, the antecámara, reserved for the Grandes of Spain, and gentiles hombres en ejercio.
Then all was still. "Hear the dead calling to the dead," sneered Manuel. An awestruck sort of hum proceeded from the Spaniards. Was the senorita alive? In the cave? Or where? "Her nod would have saved thee, Castro," said Manuel slowly. I got up. I heard Castro stammer wildly: "She shall fill both your hands with gold. Do you hear, hombres? I, Castro, tell you each man both hands " He had done it.
"Those hombres don't appear to be breaking any speed records, I see," Weir remarked, quietly. "Humph," Atkinson grunted. "What do they think this is? A rest cure?" The superintendent's silence suddenly gave way. "I ought to land on 'em with an ax-handle and put the fear of God in their lazy souls," he exclaimed, bitterly. "Well, do it." "What!" "Do it." "Say, am I hearing right?"
It means our ancestors conquered the Indians, in New England, that we fought the British in the Revolution and the rebels in the Civil War and the hombres in the Spanish-American War. It means that fifty years ago the father or the grandfather of every man in this room came out here and fought the Indians and the wolves and the Mormons "
The orchestra was composed of three Mexicans hombres with mandolins and a guitar, and an Irish rough-neck who brought from the piano a beauty of melody that was like a memory of the Sod. The four men produced dance music that New York might have envied. Several Cabillo couples attended the dance. Oscar Ames and Jane and one or two other ranchers and their wives were there.
"The kind you get with a good hickory pick-handle across his skull," said Henderson in a tender, meditative way as he took down half a cup of coffee at a gulp. "I've worked hombres in Mexico and in South America and in America. You must never trust 'em. Just when you get where their politeness has smoothed you down, look out for a knife in your back.
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