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But the knowledge which the outlaw carefully concealed, was that he himself after having reached the Golden Valley guided by Arellanos, murdered his companion, in hope of having all the treasure to himself. It was true enough that the Indians appeared afterwards, and it was with difficulty that the assassin could save his own scalp.
"And is that a fact," continued Cuchillo, interrogatively, "that with the exception of a hut which you have abandoned, a horse which has dropped dead between your legs, and the garments you carry on your back, that Arellanos and his widow have left you nothing?" "Nothing but the memory of their goodness to me, and a reverence for their name." "Poor Arellanos!
"You have taken," said the latter, in his turn, "a vow, from which nothing ought to release you; the wife of Arellanos received it from you on her death-bed; you have her husband's murderer in your power; there is nothing here to deny it."
At the same time listen attentively to what I say." "I listen," answered Fabian, directing his glance as his companion, had instructed him. "Do you remember nothing of your young days, more than you have just related to the Canadian?" "Nothing ever since I learnt that Arellanos was not my father, I have tried to remember something, but to no purpose.
All looked strange and imposing, and rarely had the foot of a white man pressed this desert clothed in its virgin wildness. Perhaps Marcos Arellanos and Cuchillo were the only white men who had ever wandered to this remote place. A vague sentiment of awe caused the hunters involuntarily to lower their voices before the supernatural charm of this austere landscape.
But how did you discover this placer?" "Thus, senor. There was a gambusino called Marcos Arellanos, who was celebrated throughout the whole province. It was he who discovered this bonanza in company with another of the same calling as himself; but just as they were about to gather some of the gold, they were attacked by the Apache Indians.
As she spoke these words her eyes moist with tears, yet shining with their own sweet lustre the poor girl approached, and, by a sudden impulse, threw herself upon her father's shoulder to hide her rising blushes. "I knew then that I loved him only," she murmured. "But of whom do you speak?" "Of Tiburcio Arellanos of the Count Fabian de Mediana they are one and the same person."
We shall now leave him to tell his own story as to how he made the acquaintance of young Arellanos, and it will be seen that this story is a mere deception practised upon Don Estevan. "Nevertheless," resumed Cuchillo in breaking the silence, "I was determined to free my mind from all doubt upon the subject.
With regard to Tiburcio Arellanos, we need hardly state what the reader has no doubt already divined that this young man was in reality no other than Fabian, the last descendant of the Counts of Mediana. Cuchillo has already related how the English brig brought him to Guaymas.
Broad shoulders and well-developed limbs denoted a man of European vigour, whose personal strength would be equal, if occasion required it, to the execution of those passionate designs nourished under the tropical skies of Spanish America. Tiburcio Arellanos was in truth the type of a noble and ancient race, transplanted into a country still less than half civilised.
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