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"Are you the hombre that caused all the stir back in San Felipe?" "What can I do fo' yo'?" asked the Texan briefly. "Well," said Goliday, "let's be friends. I'll be quite frank. I want the S Bar. Is it true yo're goin' there to run the place for the old woman?" "It is," The Kid told him. "I'll pay yuh well to let the place alone," offered Goliday after a pause.
Although he ranked as only a slave, they were free to admit that whatever his color he had done well; and Marse Jim Bowie was proud of his faithful servant boy. This evening the Indians withdrew, discouraged. The Texan treasure-seekers went home while they had the chance.
Oscar Gleeson, the Texan, was correct in his suspicion of the purpose of the Comanches in making Captain Shirril their prisoner; having secured possession of him, they intended to force a liberal ransom on the part of his friends, as a condition of his restoration to liberty.
They are en route to bury the bones of a dead man, not to rescue one still living. Just as the Texan Rangers are approaching the Staked Plain on its eastern edge, another body of horsemen, about their equal in number, ascends to the same plateau, coming from the very opposite direction the west.
Some one else nearly upset him with one before he reached the middle, and the Texan remarked, quite audibly, as he passed: "The damned razor-back!" But the man made his way to the end of the table and drew out the chair opposite Miss Carmichael with a degree of assurance that precipitated the rest of the table into a pretty pother. Suppose she should countenance his audacity?
True, this was a violation of the flag of truce, but under the circumstances it would not have been one-tenth as flagrant as that by which our government captured the famous Seminole chieftain Osceola, and held him prisoner until his death; but with two doughty warriors to combat, it would seem that nothing could be more foolhardy than any such effort on the part of the Texan.
Occasionally some one of the several other men in the "smoker" would throw in a remark to reinforce what he said, but he really didn't need any help; he was sufficient in himself. In the course of a short time the controversy narrowed itself down to an argument between the old soldier and the Texan.
Indeed, I have strong reasons to believe that instructions have already been given by the Texan Government to propose to the Government of Great Britain, forthwith on the failure, to enter into a treaty of commerce and an alliance offensive and defensive. WASHINGTON, May 17, 1844.
About two years after the Texan revolution, a difficulty occurred between the new government and a portion of the people, which threatened the most serious consequences even the bloodshed and horrors of civil war.
We'll come in on the Blasted Pine road. About nine to-night, I should think." As they rode easily along the dusty road, the Texan explained his plan to his friends. "We don't want any trouble with Yorky's crowd. We ain't any of us deputies, and my commission doesn't run in Wyoming, of course.
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