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They undoubtedly saved the collection. That night he wrote to Henry: "DEAR BROTHER, I am back, of course. It is an unpleasant way of mine this coming back. It was visionary for me to try a fall with the sciences at Hudson. You would have been too many for them; I ran away. I found Colton sick at Cincinnati. The Texan Rangers had left.
Ned slid across the floor, and once more pulled the rope with the old fervor, sending the notes of the tune that he could play best far out over the valley of the San Antonio. But no reply came from the Comanches. They did not dare to rush the place again in the face of those deadly Texan rifles.
He heard the Mexican trumpets pealing presently, and then he saw their infantry advancing in dark masses with heavy squadrons of cavalry on either flank. But as soon as they came within range, they were swept by the deadly fire of the Texan rifles and were driven back in confusion. Ned noticed that this always happened. The Mexicans could never carry a Texan position by a frontal attack.
Anyhow, a letter of introduction isn't quite an excuse for murder." "It wasn't murder." "That's what you say. I'll be glad to have you prove it." "They followed Dillon if that is his name out of town." "They put it that they were on their way home, when they were attacked." "By an old man and his daughter," the Texan added significantly. "There again we have only your statement for it.
I'll be wantin' most likely to see you in a while " "We'll both be here," interrupted Jennie. "Both of us. We'll be in Number 11." Outside the hotel the Texan paused to roll and light a cigarette, and as he blew the smoke from his lungs, he smiled cynically. "Purdy's work was so damn coarse he got just what was comin' to him. There's only me an' the pilgrim, now an' it's me an' him for it.
"That man may consider himself born to no common destiny who has conquered the Napoleon of the West," went on the Mexican general, bombastically. "It now remains for him to be generous to the vanquished." Again Houston looked at him, a look that made Santa Anna quail. "You should have remembered that at the Alamo," said the Texan commander.
"Obed," he said, "everybody can do as he pleases, and I propose that you and I and the Ring Tailed Panther scout toward San Antonio. Cos and his army are marching toward that town, and while the Texan campaign of defense is being arranged and the leaders are being chosen we might give a lot of help." "Just what I was thinking," said Obed.
The enemy did not fight like the Texan Rangers with whom the young officer had been pitted before. In fact, they fell back, and began to use their pistols. One of the Riverlawns dropped from his steed with his face covered with blood.
I carried him down a good supper from a restaurant, and then hunted up the Texan, who told me that he had started in betting, and at first won and then lost $7,600, and that his only object in arresting Houstin was to scare him so as to get his money back. The other man he could not find.
"The moment they strike the water turn loose with your rifles an' roar an' scratch an' claw!" But when they were within one hundred yards of the Guadalupe the Mexicans suddenly sheered off. Evidently they did not like the looks of the Texan rifles which they could plainly see. The defenders of the fords uttered a derisive shout, and some of the Mexicans fired.
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