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Tio Pancho, the hotel proprietor, set his great silver-rimmed anteojos upon his nose and divided the papers into a number of smaller rolls. A barefooted muchacho dashed in, desiring the post of messenger. "Bien venido," said Tio Pancho. "This to Senora Conant; that to el Doctor S-S-Schlegel Dios! what a name to say! that to Senor Davis one for Don Alberto.
He picked up a stone, tested it for weight, then reconsidered and put the sling back. "I remember. Big Mac and Pancho. Mac said he must have stuck it in his pocket absent-mindedly while repairing his equipment." "That's what he said," Rick agreed. "Only transistors aren't like radio tubes. They don't need replacing often." "Meaning?" "He might have been telling the truth or he might not."
It was not a very great distance to the large corrals back of the big house where the people were to meet, and as they drew near the grounds Tonio and Tita could see Pancho dashing about on Pinto after stray cows, and other cowboys rounding up the calves and putting them in a corral by themselves.
I shall make you as handsome a present as my circumstances will permit in recognition of your long and faithful service." Then Pancho Cueto did an unexpected thing: he laughed shortly and shook his head. Dona Isabel was ready to faint and her voice quavered as she went on: "Understand me, we part the best of friends despite all I have heard against you.
"Meanwhile I shall proceed toward my settlement with Pancho Cueto." His very careless confidence gave Rosa courage. Esteban went about his plan of destroying Pancho Cueto with youthful energy and zest. First he secured, at some pains, a half- stick of dynamite, a cap and fuse, and a gallon or more of kerosene; then he assembled his followers and led them once again into the San Juan.
His arms were hanging down listlessly on each side as if in the greatest prostration, yet I could not resist the impression that the rascal had only just got into the hammock when he heard of my arrival. "You have arrived, friend Pancho, in time," he said, in accents of exaggerated weakness. "I am absolutely exhaust. I am bursted, caved in, kerflummoxed.
It is a great thing to have learning, though a peon can get along with very little of it, praise God." Up to this time Pancho had not said a single word. He had brought sticks for the fire and had listened silently to the stories; but now he spoke. "When the peons get enough learning, they will learn not to be peons at all," he said. "But whatever will they be then?" gasped Doña Teresa.
It began after dark, so as to be just as disagreeable as possible, and under the too slight cover of their tents the campers could hear the rush and the roar of it like the tramping of myriad feet on the leaves. Pancho and the two Chinamen huddled under the broad sycamores in their rubber blankets, and were dry and comfortable; but all the waterproof tents leaked, save Elsie's.
When the reeds had all been put on board, Pancho took Tonio in his arms and Pedro took Pablo, and they tossed them into the boat as if they had been sacks of meal. The boys scrambled under the covered part and out to the bow at once, and Pablo got astride the very nose of the boat and let his feet hang over. Then Pedro lifted Tita in.
Owing to the impossibility of importing negroes, the market steadily improved, and Esteban reaped a handsome profit from those he had on hand, especially when his crop of young girls matured. His sugar-plantations prospered, too, and Pancho Cueto, who managed them, continued to wonder where the money went.
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