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See what you can do for Vaca. He's pretty sick." "It shall be as the señor says. And the señor has made a fight?" "With those hombres? Not this journey! José Vaca made a mistake; that's all." Armigo, perturbed, shuffled to the house. Waring unsaddled the horses and turned them into the corral. As he lifted the saddle from Vaca's horse, he hesitated.
Kid Wolf was singing to the longhorns in a half-mocking, drawling tenor, as he rode slowly along: "Oh, the desaht winds are blowin', on the Rio! And we'd like to be a-goin', back to Rio! But befo' we do, We've got to see this through, Like all good hombres do, from the Rio!" The prisoners had been lashed securely to their horses and brought along. Already several miles had been traveled.
I swayed to and fro in the saddle, but faithful to the plan of our escape, I tried to make clear my desire that these peons should be sworn to secrecy immediately. Meantime, somebody was trying to disengage my feet from the stirrups. "Certainly. It is as your worship wishes." The careworn man at the head of my horse was utterly in the dark. "Attention!" he shouted. "Catch hold, hombres.
"I had fifty hombres building a bridge over a draw, getting ready for a mining outfit. No whites for a million miles except my two cart drivers, Ryan and Connors. The hombres and the Irish don't get on well together and I was always expecting trouble. "One day I was in the tent door when Ryan ran up the trail and beckoned me with his arm. I started on the run.
A man ran up to the little group then plunged back toward the hall. "A rope!" he yelled. "Bring a rope. They've got the two hombres." Men seemed to spring up out of the ground. "Run, Pen, toward the upper camp!" cried Jim. "I won't!" exclaimed Pen. "They won't shoot while a woman is standing here." She plunged away from Jim and caught Suma-theek's arm.
And Drew, surveying the enemy with a critical and experienced eye, was sure that he was indeed meeting either green troops or militia. They were as wide-eyed in their return stare as the civilians on the streets around. Kirby chuckled. "Strut it up, roosters," he urged from the corner of his mouth. "Cutthroats, banditti, hoss thieves jus' downright bad hombres, that's us.
"We're savin' our strength they'll be plenty of fast ridin' to do latah." The Kid could not resist the temptation to break into song. His soft chant rose above the faint whisper of the desert wind: "Oh, theah's jumpin' beans and six-guns south o' Rio, And muy malo hombres by the dozen, We're a-watchin' out fo' trouble south o' Rio, And when it comes, some lead will be a-buzzin'."
You've helped organize the Alliance, you've talked to the hombres, you've been the god in the machine in this part of the country, and all that. Now be a prophet in words of one syllable and tell me what you think of the outlook." With his fingers Holly Sommers packed the tobacco down into the bowl of his pipe.
Soon the draw shallowed until they found themselves out in the open, with the square-topped mountain five miles or so ahead and a little to the left; a high, untraversable sandstone ledge to their right, and what looked like plain sailing straight ahead past the mountain. Applehead twisted his body in the saddle and gave a grunt. "Throw some lead back at them hombres, Lite," he snapped.
Kid Wolf, keeping a careful eye on him, but ignoring him otherwise, hummed a fragment of song: "Oh, theah's hombres poison mean, on the Rio! And theah's deadly men at Dodge, no'th o' Rio! And to-day, from what I've seen, Theah's some bad ones in between, And I aim to keep it clean, beyond the Rio!" Stars began to twinkle cheerily in the black vault overhead.
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