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The store, a big, white wooden building like a barn, stood fifty yards from the ranch-house. Beyond it were the horse corrals; and still farther the wool sheds and the brush-topped shearing pens for the Rancho Cibolo raised both cattle and sheep. Behind the store, at a little distance, were the grass-thatched jacals of the Mexicans who bestowed their allegiance upon the Cibolo.
The nearest house, they told us, was a Rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off; and one of them went up, at the request of our officer, to order a horse to be sent down, with which the agent, who was on board, might go up to the Pueblo.
She struck into it boldly, and urged her horse to the top of his speed, until she reached the cross-road that led to the rancho. But here she paused and allowed the reins to drop idly on the mustang's back. A singular and unaccountable irresolution seized her.
Among the Goajiros of Colombia to mention the dead before his kinsmen is a dreadful offence, which is often punished with death; for if it happens on the rancho of the deceased, in presence of his nephew or uncle, they will assuredly kill the offender on the spot if they can. But if he escapes, the penalty resolves itself into a heavy fine, usually of two or more oxen.
The thicket near the rancho rustled and shook, and Pepe appeared. This young man presented a different figure from the forlorn one that had greeted the two girls on their first arrival at the camp. His curly hair was now carefully brushed and oiled.
Lopez faced Hardy, across the table. "Señor Loan Fish," he said, "if my frand, 'e pay you ze money, zen ze rancho belong to him?" "If he pays me before eight o'clock," the other replied promptly. "Señor Wall Street," the bandit now addressed Pell, "you 'ave ten sousand dollar. I want it." Pell was amazed. "But I " Lopez snapped his fingers.
The tortillas, being still warm, and therefore capable of being twisted into any form, served as a substitute for all these contrivances of civilisation, which in a Mexican rancho are considered superfluous things. Their simple meal was hardly over when a very unusual sound fell upon their ears. "Ho! what's that?" cried Rosita, starting to her feet, and listening.
And she knew the horsemen could not be Rancho Seco men for they had gone southward from the ranch, and there was no grass range where the horsemen were riding. Also, the men were riding eastward, toward the Rancho Seco. Trembling a little with apprehension, she mounted Billy and sent him down the slope to the floor of the valley.
Tucker, with brightening eyes. "Well, yes, of course if you like but as if for yourself. Do you know the Rancho de los Cuervos?" "I do." "It's almost the only bit of real property your husband hasn't sold, mortgaged, or pledged. Why it was exempt, or whether only forgotten, I can't say." "I'll tell you why," said Mrs. Tucker, with a slight return of color.
Anyway, Playmate, I says, 'we'll take a chance on Jerkline Jo. And that's what me and Playmate did. "I hunted up the owners o' the land when I gets to Los Angeles, and makes 'em an offer on twelve thousan' acres comprisin' the entire tract known as Paloma Rancho, an ancient Spanish grant. Good for nothin', I'd been told, but to run cows on in winter, when the filaree and bunch grass are green.
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