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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Captain Forest?" repeated Don Felipe slowly, as if trying to recall a chance meeting. "I have never met him. What is he like?" "Ah, he's a grand Señor," answered Señora with enthusiasm. "A Caballero every inch, and rides a horse that's the devil himself.
She makes no remark, but stepping towards the yucca and reaching up, impales the piece of paper on one of its topmost spikes. "Now, caballero," she says, "you mount my mare. See, she stands ready for you." Hamersley again protests, saying he can walk well enough. But his tottering steps contradict him, and he urges his objections in vain.
'I am quite prepared, he added, 'to give this caballero the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he has been in this matter the tool of unscrupulous persons. Seeing that he is a friend of General Vincente's, and has an introduction to his Excellency the Duke of Vittoria, he is without the pale of my jurisdiction.
Here he will find at almost any time of the day scores of weary burros slaking their thirst; busy water-carriers filling their red earthen jars; the street gamin wetting his thirsty lips; the itinerant fruit peddler seeking for customers; the gay caballero pausing to water the handsome animal he bestrides; while the tramway mules seek their share of the refreshing liquid.
I looked around me, the company consisted of the same individuals to whose conversation I had been listening before I sank into slumber; but the beggar was now the spokesman, and he was haranguing with considerable vehemence. "I beg your pardon, Caballero," said I, "but I did not hear the commencement of your discourse. Who are those who have been captured?"
Returning to Alta California, he became a soldier. Often had he sallied out to drive the warlike Indian toward the Sacramento. In watching his mustangs and cattle, he rode far to the slopes of the Sierra Nevadas. Their summits glittered under the blue skies, crowned with silvery snows, unprofaned by the foot of man. A sturdy caballero, courtly and sagacious.
I answered him courteously and diplomatically, taking good care to tell him nothing that I did not want to be known. "I see," he said, "it was a love of adventure that brought you here you English are always running after adventures. A caballero like you can have no sympathy with these rascally rebels."
The little tire-woman twittered of her mistress. The senorita had been most anxious all day ever since she had heard the friar had come. Castro muttered: "Tell the Excellency that her orders have been obeyed. The English caballero has been warned. I have been sleepless in my watchfulness over the guest of the house, as the senorita has desired for the honour of the Riegos.
They rolled about the room until they met De la Vega's. General Castro came hastily forward. "What does this mean?" he asked. "What do you wish?" The friar raised his arm, and pointed his shaking finger at De la Vega. "Kill him!" he said, in a loud hoarse whisper. "He has desecrated the Mother of God!" Every caballero in the room turned upon De la Vega with furious satisfaction.
To this may be added riotous excesses, gambling and drunkenness, which in time decreased his patrimony, even as his rebellious and quarrelsome spirit had alienated his family and neighbors. His wife, borne down by shame and sorrow, died while her son was still an infant. In a fit of equal remorse and recklessness the caballero married again within the year.
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