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Nor was his mind made any easier when Frank took occasion, half an hour later, to bend toward him, and say in the most natural manner possible, though in low tones: "They're on the job again, Bob Abajo and Eugene because I happened to see them watching us start down the trail; and they had some one along with them, perhaps a guide; so we'll have to take it for granted that they mean to dog us all the time, hoping to steal our thunder, if we make any lucky find!"
Any one meeting them on the road would have mistaken them for a party of traders en route from the Rio Abajo to the capital of Santa Fe. But they went not so far. Albuquerque was the goal of their journey, though on arriving there which they did a little after midnight they made no stop in the town, nor any noise to disturb its inhabitants, at that hour asleep.
But speaking of Abajo, perhaps that's him coming back now," and as he spoke the Kentucky boy pointed across to a point where a single rider could be seen heading for the ranch house. He was still far away, but the eyes of Frank Haywood were very keen. Besides, he knew the "style" of every cowboy who was in the employ of his father, and was able to pick them out almost as far as he could see them.
The value of the 128,000 arrobes of tobacco sent to Spain, in the abundant years, either in cigars, leaf or snuff, at the customary prices there, exceeded the sum of five million dollars. The tobacco of the Vuelta de Abajo is the most celebrated, but large quantities are exported which are produced in other parts of the island.
I know his type pretty well, and you can rest assured that they're always on the lookout for easy money." "But didn't it strike you, dad," ventured Frank, "that his excuse for being under that window was silly?" "Yes, because Abajo has always been able to understand, without asking what he should do under such conditions. He wanted some excuse for drawing near the open window, and he found it.
"I have become attached to him: money is no object." "I am sorry to hear it. I have travelled two hundred miles to buy that horse." I looked at my new acquaintance with astonishment, involuntarily repeating his last words. "You must have followed us from the Arkansas, then?" "No, I came from the Rio Abajo." "The Rio Abajo! You mean from down the Del Norte?" "Yes."
After all, there's nothing like your own kind. We don't understand these fellows. Their ways are not the same as ours; and I reckon we puncture their pride often enough. But there's no trouble now about understanding why Abajo gave us the go-by to-day." "Huh! he had some news worth while carrying to his boss," said Frank.
Clayley and myself entered the inclosure. As we pushed through a copse we were saluted by the hoarse bark of a couple of mastiffs, and we could perceive several forms moving in front of the rancho. We stopped a moment to observe them. "Quitate, Carlo! Pompo!" "Papa, mandalos!" We recognised the voices, and pressed forward. "Afuera, malditos perros! abajo!"
A Plymouth lad who could speak Spanish knocked down the first man he met with an 'Abajo, perro! 'Down, you dog, down! No life was taken; Drake never hurt man if he could help it. The crew crossed themselves, jumped overboard, and swam ashore. The prize was examined. Four hundred pounds' weight of gold was found in her, besides other plunder.
"When Abajo, hanging about the window of our ranch house, heard what we had to say about the message that came floating down the Colorado in that bottle, and carried the wonderful news to his employer, Eugene Warringford, he set the game going that must end right here.
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