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He reached for a chair, and, seating himself at the opposite side of the table, began to roll a finical cigarette. "Ah, Meester Tansee," he said, with a sultry fire in his silky, black eyes, "I give myself pleasure to see you this evening. Meester Tansee, you have many times come to eat at my table. I theenk you a safe man a verree good friend. How much would it please you to leeve forever?"
I come to thees country seventeen fifteen. I saw your Alamo reduced. It was like yesterday to me. Three hundred ninety-six year ago I learn the secret always to leeve. Look at these clothes I war at these diamantes. Do you theenk I buy them with the money I make with selling the chili-con-carne, Meester Tansee?" "I should think not," said Tansey, promptly. Torres laughed loudly.
"Not come back any more?" inquired Tansey. "No; not leave leeve; the not-to-die." "I would call that," said Tansey, "a snap." Torres leaned his elbows upon the table, swallowed a mouthful of smoke, and spake each word being projected in a little puff of gray. "How old do you theenk I am, Meester Tansee?" "Oh, twenty-eight or thirty." "Thees day," said the Mexican, "ees my birthday.
"Hear me," said Torres, leaning over the table until he lay flat upon it; "eet is the chili-con-carne made not from the beef or the chicken, but from the flesh of the señorita young and tender. That ees the secret. Everee month you must eat of it, having care to do so before the moon is full, and you will not die any times. See how I trust you, friend Tansee!
When I marry her she is young seventeen year bonita. Like the rest she ees become old and what you say! tough? I am the same young all the time. To-night I resolve to dress myself and find another wife befitting my age. This old woman try to scr-r-ratch my face. Ha! ha! Meester Tansee same way they do entre los Americanos." "And this health-food you spoke of?" said Tansey.
I am four hundred and three years of old to-day." "Another proof," said Tansey, airily, "of the healthfulness of our climate." "Eet is not the air. I am to relate to you a secret of verree fine value. Listen me, Meester Tansee. At the age of twenty-three I arrive in Mexico from Spain. When? In the year fifteen hundred nineteen, with the soldados of Hernando Cortez.
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