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Then they set forth to meet him, and they brought the one survivor of the Canton party to the ranch-house. His bare-feet were bleeding; he was half-clad; and his tongue was swollen with thirst. They got his story and they rode to Guadalupe Cañon where they found the bodies of his companions. They buried them on the little boot-hill overlooking the ranch buildings.
"Oh, you are proud of your red boots!" sneered the rider, looking down at Lorand's bare-feet. "It's easy for you to say so," was Lorand's sharp reply; "sitting on that hack." But "hack" means a kind of four-footed animal which this rider found no pleasure in hearing mentioned. "My own training," he said proudly, as if in self-defence against this cutting remark. "I know.
Get it into your pates that fifteen days from now you will be conquerors new clothes, good gaiters, famous shoes, and every man with a great-coat; but, my children, to get these things you must march to Milan, where they are. And we marched. France, crushed as flat as a bed-bug, straightened up. We were thirty thousand bare-feet against eighty thousand Austrian bullies, all fine men, well set-up.
Mose, bare-feet, linsey-woolsey and all, was brought along to act as guide and he was fairly purring with contentment at the importance it gave him over the other negroes. It seems that he had been in the habit of finding his way around in the cave ever since he was a little shaver, and he knew the route, Radnor told me, better than the professional guides.
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