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Longorio breathed an oath and swung his long legs over the edge of the bed. "You have poisoned my mind. A whole day and night, eh? That is bad. What happened? What kind of a fool is her husband? I cannot bear to think of this! See, I am beside myself. Caramba! I live in paradise; I come flying on the wings of the wind, only to learn that my blessed divinity has a lover.
Longorio did not bulk so large now; even these few hours had greatly diminished his importance, so that he appeared merely as an impulsive foreigner who had allowed a woman to turn his head. Alaire knew with what admiration even a moderately attractive American woman is greeted in Mexico, and she had no idea that this fellow had experienced anything more than a fleeting infatuation.
A thousand apologies for my delay," he said. "Caramba! I did not dream I did not understand your message." He continued to regard her with that same queer intensity. "You are General Longorio?" Alaire was surprised to note that her voice quavered uncertainly, and annoyed to feel her face still flushing. "Your obedient servant." With a gesture Mrs.
General Longorio is going to marry you. We all got drunk last night to celebrate the wedding. Yes, and the priest is waiting." "I will make you rich." "Ho! I wouldn't live to spend a single peso. Felipe disobeyed orders, and the general shot him before he could cross himself. Boom! The poor fellow was in hell in a minute. No.
"It is not altogether safe," ventured José. "That country over there is alive with refugees." "I will take some men with me," said Longorio. "Now go and let me think." Had it not been for her fears, Paloma Jones would have taken her visit to the Austin ranch as an unmixed enjoyment. To her Alaire had always been an ideally romantic figure.
You came alone into Mexico, where we are fighting and killing each other? Well! That is spirit. You are wonderful, superb!" He smiled, showing the whitest and evenest teeth. Such extravagant homage was embarrassing, yet no woman could be wholly displeased by admiration so spontaneous and intense as that which Longorio manifested in every look and word.
Thinking to put an end to these blandishments, Alaire undertook to return the general's ring, with the pretense that she considered it no more than a talisman loaned her for the time being. But it was a task to make Longorio accept it. He was shocked, offended, hurt; he declared the ring to be of no value; it was no more than a trifling evidence of his esteem. But Alaire was firm.
General Longorio has confiscated my stock," Alaire told him. Ellsworth started. "Longorio! That's bad." "Yes. One of my riders just brought the news. I was afraid of this very thing, and so I was preparing to bring the stock over. Still I never thought they'd actually confiscate it." "Why shouldn't they?" Alaire interrogated the speaker silently.
Quickly writing a few lines on a page from her note-book, she gave him the scrap of paper, which he carefully placed in his hat; then, shaking his head doubtfully, he left the car. Flushed with triumph, Dolores took the first occasion to enlarge upon her theme. "You will see what a monster this Longorio is," she declared. "It was like him to steal your beautiful cattle; he would steal a crucifix.
Knowing that in this man's help alone lay her chance of adjusting her loss, Alaire deliberately smiled upon him. "Can I count upon your help in obtaining my rights?" she asked. "Assuredly." "But how? Where?" Longorio thought for a moment, and his tone altered as he said: "Señora, there seems to be an unhappy complication in our way, and this we must remove.
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