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Not that I had the smallest fear of what the mare could do to me, by fair play and horse-trickery, but that the glory of sitting upon her seemed to be too great for me; especially as there were rumours abroad that she was not a mare after all, but a witch.
"Come up, my beauty," and he whipped up the mare. "You drive with spirit," cried Durtal. "It is true; I forgot to say to you, that over and above my other functions, I also have, if need be, that of coachman." Durtal thought all the same that these people were extraordinary who lived an interior life in God.
Winding up the lariat, he descended to the ground, and made a detour to where Bonnie Bird remained standing, and to where he had cast his pistol. The mare and weapon secured, he continued on his way, but made certain to wander into no more quicksand spots. "It was too narrow an escape for comfort," was the way in which Pawnee Brown expressed himself, when he told the story later.
In the meantime his mare pissed to ease her belly, but it was in such abundance that it did overflow the country seven leagues, and all the piss of that urinal flood ran glib away towards the ford of Vede, wherewith the water was so swollen that all the forces the enemy had there were with great horror drowned, except some who had taken the way on the left hand towards the hills.
'Sir, said the old man, stopping him, 'may I presume to ask from what part of the world you come? The king stopped to tell him, and as they were discoursing together, an old woman came up; who, stopping likewise, wept and sighed bitterly at the sight of the mare.
"Hallo, Pendyce!" he called out heartily; "didn't see you on the platform. How's your wife?" Mr. Pendyce, turning to answer, met the little burning eyes of Captain Bellew, who came out third. They failed to salute each other, and Bellow, springing into his cart, wrenched his mare round, circled the farmers' gigs, and, sitting forward, drove off at a furious pace.
When Toni, from the deck of the vessel, saw the lad coming along the wharf the following morning, he was greatly tempted to hide himself.... "If Doña Cinta should call me again in order to question me!..." But he calmed himself with the thought that the boy was probably coming of his own free will to pass a few hours on the Mare Nostrum.
"Oh, that will do nicely; how kind you are, Captain Yorke." "Will the young lady be able to ride one of your horses?" asked Geoffrey, addressing Mrs. Seymour. "I can ride anything," said Betty hastily, "for my mare is" and then she bit her lip and colored brightly as Geoffrey turned toward her. "You will be quite safe, for I shall lead your horse myself. Let me first attend Mrs. Seymour."
He paused; but Beryl said nothing. She was listening to the whole story in speechless, unfeigned astonishment. "Also," her informant proceeded, "the sahib's mare was frightened, not by an accident, but by a trick. It was the sahib's will that she should run away.
Allis brushed from her eyes the tears of sympathy that had welled into them, and, raising her voice, spoke bravely, clinging to the vain hope: "Lucretia is game, father she may win yet the race is not lost till they're past the post." Then her voice died away, and she kept pleading over and over in her heart, "Come on Lucretia come on, brave little mare! Is she gaining, father can you see?"
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