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"It wouldn't surprise me none to see Mac up and around inside of a couple of weeks, for he's as hard as old hick'ry." "Well, I'm not going to Alamito Ranch and leave him out here to die of neglect, orders or no orders!" said she to the lieutenant. The young officer's face colored; he plucked at his new mustache in embarrassment.
Whether by design on the part of Thorn, or merely the blind leading of the hunt, Macdonald could not tell, the contest of wits had brought them within sight of Alamito ranchhouse.
It was run by a pocket-compass, according to your story. Allowing for the variation, the point on the Alamito River where you should have searched for your treasure is exactly six miles and nine hundred and forty-five varas farther west than the place you hit upon. Oh, what a fool you are, Jim!" "What is this variation that you speak of?" I asked. "I thought figures never lied."
"I shall always have a softness in my heart for Alamito, because it gave me you. That garden out there yielded me the dearest flower that any garden ever gave a man" he took her hands, and folded them above his heart "a flower with a soul in it to keep it alive forever." She bowed her head as he spoke, as if receiving a benediction. "I hate saying good-bye to Mrs.
"They're crowdin' in so thick right around me that I can't breathe comfortable any more; the smell of 'em's in the wind. They're runnin' over three of the biggest ranches up here besides the Alamito, and the Drovers' Association wants a little of your old-time holy scare throwed into the cussed coyotes." Mark nodded in the pause which seemed to have been made for him to nod, and Chadron went on.
He was unconscious still from the blow of Saul Chadron's big bullet. As she ministered to him she felt that he would open his eyes on this world's pains and cruel injustices nevermore. And why had Major King ordered her, virtually under arrest, to Alamito Ranch, instead of sending her in disgrace to the post?
"I have the honor to report the safe return of the detachment dispatched to Alamito Ranch for the convoy of Miss Landcraft," he said. Colonel Landcraft returned the salute, and stood stiffly while his officer spoke. "Very well, sir," said he.
The lieutenant returned hastily. "Miss Landcraft, I am ordered to convey you to Alamito Ranch under guard," said he. Banjo Gibson, held to be harmless and insignificant by Major King, had been set free. Now he came up, leading his horse, shocked to the deepest fibers of his sensitive soul by the cowardly deed that Saul Chadron had done.
The whole burro cavalcade laden with the treasure started from an old Spanish mission in Dolores County. They travelled due south by the compass until they reached the Alamito River. They forded this, and buried the treasure on the top of a little mountain shaped like a pack-saddle standing in a row between two higher ones. A heap of stones marked the place of the buried treasure.
Chance Dalton, foreman of Alamito Ranch, was in charge of the expedition that rode late that afternoon against Macdonald's homestead to liberate Mark Thorn, and close his mouth in the cattlemen's effective way upon the bloody secrets which he might in vainglorious boast reveal.
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