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"But, senores, I have no words to depict his amazement, his fury, his despair and distraction, when he heard that the animal loaded with the gun-carriage had, during the last night march, somehow or other tumbled down a precipice. He broke into menaces of death and torture against the escort. I kept out of his way all that day, lying behind some bushes, and wondering what he would do now.
'Senor teniente, he said, thickly, and as if very much cast down, 'do not ask me about the senorita, for I prefer not to think about her at all when I am amongst you." "He looked, with a frown, all about the room, full of smoking and talking officers. Of course I did not insist. "These, senores, were the last words I was to hear him utter for a long, long time.
But before one of them spoke Morano flung to them from far off a little piece of his wisdom: for cast a truth into an occasion and it will always trouble the waters, usually stirring up contradiction, but always bringing something to the surface. "Señores," he said, "no man can enjoy a hanging with a dry throat."
We all wanted to go; and Don Gaspar, in spite of the remains of his malarial fever, fairly insisted on accompanying the expedition. "Señores," he said with dignity, "this was my own man from my own people." Nevertheless somebody had to stay in camp, although at first some of us were inclined to slur over that necessity.
He said your real reason for coming here was that you were detectives trying to earn the reward. That is false, is it not, señores?" "We're no detectives. Rand's no thief." "Ah, so I thought. But Schwandorf often tells truth to conceal his lies, so that it is sometimes hard to know which is true and which untrue.
"They all come, señor," he announced. "Pig tief say Fransoy rob him and he go casser office window." He turned and waved his hand threateningly as a big man in ragged white clothes came into the light. "Fuera, puerco ladron!" The man took off a large palm-leaf hat and flourished it with ironical courtesy. "Here is gran escandolo, señores. La belle chose, verdad!
It is a mercy there was no ceiling. Holding on to the latch of the door, I heard the grinding of the roof-tiles cease above my head. The shock was over. "'Out of the house! The door! Fly, Santierra, fly! howled the general. You know, senores, in our country the bravest are not ashamed of the fear an earthquake strikes into all the senses of man. One never gets used to it.
"All right, Senores!" said Carnero, as he received the bridles of the two horses, "I will see that the nags are properly rubbed down and attended to, and that they shall be in readiness to go back with the coach and the servants to-morrow. Adios, Senores; luck go with you!"
Every word must have burnt her lips, but she never departed from a gentle and melancholy dignity which filled me with respect against my will. Senores, we are no match for women. But I could hardly believe my ears when she began her tale.
Or so Ruiz Rios says. And I " She broke off, shuddering. And then, bewildering Jim Kendric if no one else, two big tears gathered in her eyes and spilled down to her cheeks! "Señores Kendric and West," announced Rios autocratically, "you will take all orders from me now. You will not leave the house, either of you, unless I give the word.
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