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Updated: September 2, 2025
After this doleful speech the Senator climbed reluctantly into his saddle, and he and Don Estevan took the route, riding side by side, as in the morning. Behind, at a few paces distance, followed Cuchillo and Baraja, and after these the little recua of mules with the other domestics.
Baraja, on his side, reflected that the dollars he had already pocketed might be better employed than in defraying the expenses of his own funeral; and on this reflection was equally ready to desist from his intention. "Be it so, then!" cried Cuchillo, speaking first; "I sacrifice my feelings to the common good." "And I," said Baraja, "I am willing to follow so noble an example.
"Then," continued the herdsman, "then they don't regard either light or fire; and if we are not determined to defend the water against their approach, we had better get out of their way altogether. These animals are always more thirsty than hungry." "How when they have drunk?" asked Baraja, whose countenance, under the light of the fire, betrayed considerable uneasiness.
These valises contained provisions and the menage necessary for a halt. On seeing Cuchillo and Baraja, the foremost of the two cavaliers halted, and the troop followed his example. "'Tis the Senor Don Estevan," said Baraja, in a subdued voice. "This is the man, senor," he continued, presenting Cuchillo to the cavalier with the pano de sol.
No," added he, repulsing the assistance that Baraja was endeavouring to render him, "my hour is come remember my old friend " and the flowing blood cut short his speech. At that moment the best mounted among the Indians showed themselves in the moonlight. Travellers who have met only with civilised Indians can with difficulty form any idea of the savage tribes.
Oroche, Baraja, and Pedro Diaz pressed one against the other, sometimes retiring to avoid the long lances of their enemies sometimes advancing and striking in their turn encouraging each other, and never pausing but to glance at their chief.
The men themselves sought out the thickest shade to protect them from the fervid rays of the sun, and for a while both observed a complete silence. Baraja was the first to resume the conversation. "You may laugh at me, Senor Cuchillo," said he, fanning himself with his felt hat, "but to say the truth the time appears very long to me when I am not playing."
"I agree with you," replied Baraja; "but then you know it was kindled at the express wish of the guide so that he might find the way to where we should be encamped. Both humanity towards Cuchillo, as well as our own interest in his safety, required us to light the fire." "Ah! that is not so certain. Between ourselves, I haven't much confidence in this Cuchillo.
"And those men who are with him who are they?" cried he. "The two tiger-killers," replied Baraja. A short deliberation took place in a low voice between Don Estevan and Pedro Diaz, which ended by these words, pronounced aloud: "We must destroy the bridge of the Salto de Agua, and the devil is in it if they overtake us before we reach Tubac;" and at this they all set off at full gallop.
In spite of the terrifying words of the old shepherd, his sang froid in the greatest perils and his resolution full of consoling fatalism, sustained the more wavering courage of Baraja. As he shuddered at the horrible sounds which must be heard to be appreciated he cast upon Benito a glance in order to catch from him a little of his philosophy.
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