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Updated: June 23, 2025
In the immensity of thought, going to and coming from Los Angeles, my imagination has spread its wings like an eagle. Thou hast been a beautiful day-dream, posing or reclining, dancing, or swaying with grace superlative on thy restive steed. I have not greeted my good friend Adan. I can but look and look and keep on looking at his incomparable sister, the rose of roses, the queen of queens."
For a time their way lay along a narrow passage. They had made two abrupt turns before they dared to light the lantern they had brought. When Rafael did, it revealed nothing but earthy walls and the imprint of feet on the ground. After a little, however, the passage suddenly widened, and it was Adan who uttered the first exclamation of surprise. It was, indeed, a hoarse gurgle.
"What strange fancies you have, Roldan. A forest cannot talk." "Oh hush." "Ay, yi, Roldan! Roldan!" The horses were standing upright, neighing pitifully. Adan gave a hoarse gurgle and crossed himself. "The adventures have begun," said Roldan. In a great swath of moonlight on a ledge some yards above them, standing on his hind legs and swinging his forepaws goodnaturedly, was an immense grey bear.
He sprang up and called Anastacio. In a second that warrior was on his feet and had leaped over his alert sentinels into the square. "What is it?" he demanded. "Listen." Anastacio threw himself full length and laid his ear to the ground. A moment later he was erect again. He caught Roldan by one shoulder and Adan by the other. By this time every Indian in the camp was pressing about his chief.
But Adan Centurion's heart failed him; to cut out the old Sea-wolf from under one of his own batteries was more than he had the stomach for, and he accordingly sailed away.
"Do you want any more adventures?" asked Adan feebly, after a time. "Not at present," said Roldan. He raised himself stiffly. "Come," he said, "this will never do. We shall both have rheumatism. We must have a fire at once." Adan groaned pathetically, but got on his feet.
As they crouched on the ground they looked like two little white savages, and they were neither comfortable nor happy. "We must keep this fire going all night," said Roldan, "or we shall be eaten by bears, to say nothing of rattlesnakes " "Hist!" whispered Adan. "I hear one." Both boys sprang to their feet. "Where?" "Near the horse."
Surely it was, as I said, more natural for them to hide at the edge of the forest until we had gone." "That dog said there was food here, and that they were more afraid of us than of a long walk at night. Wherever they are, we find them. They are a prize second only to the head of Anastacio. Search the huts." Roldan sprang to his feet, pulling Adan with him.
As evening drew on, came a message from our enemies, the Habr Awal, who offered, if we would wait till sunrise, to enter the city in our train. The Gerad Adan had counselled me not to provoke these men; so, contrary to the advice of my two companions, I returned a polite answer, purporting that we would expect them till eight o'clock the next morning.
"I do not understand," he said. "It seemed not two leagues away when we started, and we have come that far and more, and still it seems exactly the same distance beyond." "The atmosphere is so clear," suggested Adan. "But I wish we were there. My mouth is parched, my tongue is dry and the horses, Roldan. Soon they will be as limp as sails in a calm."
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