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The strap was drawn up to another hole. "Now, Catala, stand back," commanded Unzar, "and count three slowly. At the word 'three, Senor Arillaga, we begin. You understand." "I understand." "Ready.... Count." "One." Felipe and Unzar each put his right hand grasping the knife behind his back as etiquette demanded. "Two."
The organ ceased, and in the stillness that followed all could hear that furious gallop. On it came, up the hill, into the courtyard. Then a shout, hurried footsteps, the door swung in, and Felipe Arillaga, ragged, dripping, half fainting, hatless and stained with mud, sprang toward Buelna.
But he had not armed himself against diplomacy. "Señor Don Vicente de la Vega y Arillaga," said Don Guido Cabañares, who had been selected as spokesman, "perhaps you have not learned during your brief visit to our capital that the Señorita Doña Ysabel Herrera, La Favorita of Alta California, has sworn by the Holy Virgin, by the blessed Junipero Serra, that she will wed no man who does not bring her a lapful of pearls.
"Knife to knife, Unzar Ytuerate. I am Felipe Arillaga, and may God be thanked for the chance that brings this quarrel to my hand." "You! You!" gasped Unzar. Fury choked him; his hands clutched and unclutched now fists, now claws. His teeth grated sharply while a quivering sensation as of a chill crisped his flesh.
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