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Updated: June 9, 2025
A fountain, with jet and ornamental basin, occupies its centre; and several trees, well trimmed, stand in large vessels, so that their roots may not injure the pavement. Around this court you see the doors of the different apartments, some of them glazed and tastefully curtained. There is still an important portion of the mansion to be spoken of the "azotea," or roof.
The tables were not alluring. The waiters were American negroes. A Filipino youth, dressed in a white suit, and wearing his black hair in a pompadour, was beating out "rag time" at a cracked old piano. "Easy is the descent into Avernus!" But there was consolation in the monkey and the azotea, though we could neither pet the one nor walk on the other.
Several remained by the entrance, while the rest ran forward. Carlos had for a moment contemplated escape in that direction. It occurred to him, if he could get up to the house and on the azotea, he might drop off on either side, and, favoured by the darkness, return to the meadow at some distant point. This idea vanished the moment he saw that the entrance was occupied. He glanced to the walls.
The next moment an Indian boy appeared upon the azotea, and taking off his hat approached the padre with an air of reverence. "You will guide the capitan through the path in the chapparal to the hunters' hut." "Si, Senor." "Don't tell any one you have done so." "No, Senor." "If you do you shall catch the `cuarto. Vaya!"
As we rode out from El Paso, I chanced to look back. There was a long string of dark objects waving over the gates. There was no mistaking what they were, for they were unlike anything else. They were scalps! It is the second evening after our arrival at the old house on the Del Norte. We have gone up to the azotea Seguin, Saint Vrain, and myself; I know not why, but guided thither by our host.
As Padre Joaquin walked forward on the azotea, his busy bustling air showed that he was charged with some "novedad;" and the triumphant smile upon his countenance told that he calculated upon its being of interest to those to whom he was about to communicate it. "Good day, father! Good day, your reverence!" said the Comandante and Roblado speaking at the same time.
"No; I do not go myself on this expedition; but my best officer, Captain Roblado, will lead it. He is now getting ready. You may wait for him." As Vizcarra said this, he turned abruptly away from the wall, and continued his promenade along the azotea. No doubt he felt ill at ease in a tete-a-tete with the cibolero, and was glad to end it.
"Well, she's gone to sleep," said the old woman, aloud. "As she's young and has no cares, she sleeps like a corpse." When all was silence she raised herself slowly and threw a look about her. She saw the azotea with its little arbors bathed in the ghostly light of the moon. "An untroubled future! She sleeps like a corpse!" she repeated in a low voice as she made her way out to the azotea.
He was not a sentinel, though at opposite angles of the building two of these could be seen who carried carbines their heads and shoulders just appearing above the crenated top of the battlement towers. The man en promenade was an officer, and the part of the azotea upon which he moved was the roof of the officers' quarter, separated from the rest by a wall of equal height with the parapet.
For such a short stretch I can run like a deer: I shall not be overtaken. When I return I shall tell you how to act. "See! Don Juan!" he continued, grasping the ranchero by the arm, and drawing him forward to the edge of the chapparal. "It is he! by Heaven, it is he!" Carlos pointed to the azotea of the Presidio, where the head and shoulders of a man were seen above the line of the parapet.
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