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This time he was answered by a dry laugh from Nostromo. "You seem much concerned at a very natural thing, senor doctor. I wonder why? It is very likely that before long we shall all get shot one after another, if not by Sotillo, then by Pedrito, or Fuentes, or Gamacho. And we may even get the estrapade, too, or worse quien sabe? with your pretty tale of the silver you put into Sotillo's head."
O Molly, I want to go home!" Molly still rocked and spoke in the singsong voice one uses to a sobbing child. "You no run 'way! Kut-le catch right off! Make it all harder for you!" Rhoda shivered a little. "If I once get away, Kut-le never will catch me alive!" Molly chuckled indulgently. "How you run? No sabe how eat, how drink, how find the trail! Better stay with Molly."
That is a term common to 'doughboys, who, as you doubtless know, are merely uniformed pedestrians; but we of the cavalry always speak of our immediate fighting coterie as a 'troop. Likewise the 'battalion' of the inconsequent doughboy has for our behoof been supplanted by the more formidable word 'squadron, to show that we are de jure as well as de facto men of war. Sabe?"
The chickens would gather round close to listen. They liked to hear their praises sung, all right. You bet they sabe! The only reason a chicken, or any other critter, isn't intelligent is because he hasn't no chance to expand. Why, we used to run races with 'em.
She disappeared for a moment and came back with a glass full of wine, which she set down on the table. "Drink this," she invited. "And thank you for saving me." Craig emptied the glass eagerly. He was beginning to be more than a little conscious of his fatigue. "I just happened to be the first to see him," he said. "They aren't quite wild enough to allow that here, are they?" "Quien sabe?
I will ask all people, sabe, everywhere, your people, my people, and if everybody pay twenty dollars, then we pay twenty dollars. Sabe? But we no pay twenty dollars unless you get us to Cruces poco pronto, sabe? Now we start." The boatman broke into a torrent of talk. "Says he's got to find his assistant," Talbot explained to us.
The two Indians stopped before Kut-le, and Alchise jerked a thumb at the stranger. "Sabe no white talk," he said. Kut-le passed the stranger a cigarette, which he accepted without comment. A rapid conversation followed between the three Indians. "He is an Apache," explained Kut-le, finally, to Rhoda. "His name is Injun Tom.
"I reckon I wasn't doin' no braggin'," denied Dade, reddening a little. Calumet fixed a hostile eye on him. "Braggin' goes," he said shortly. "If you'd said you was a barber, now, no one would expect you to fit any sills together. But when you say you've done carpenter work that makes it different. You ought to sabe sills."
"Darned if I did n't hustle that outfit from pit to boxes, but nobody there seemed to sabe this yere Brown. Mercedes, she was there all right, 'bout ten minutes ago, but just naturally faded away before I hit the shebang. Doorkeeper piped it she had a guy with her when she broke loose, an' he reckoned she must have lit out fer home." "For home?" a faint ray of light breaking from the word.
Rivas surveyed Anse none too amicably, his gaze going from man to horse and its gear, then back to the Texan once more. "You are Tejano," he said flatly. "From the Neusca——" Anse showed no surpise at being so accurately identified. "Been bush poppin’," he agreed, smiling. "Not much cattle here," Rivas returned. "Run hosses in th’ San Sabe ’fore th’ war."
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