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At daylight, therefore, on the 27th, a prize crew was sent on board of the Abby Bradford, with orders to proceed to New Orleans, and at six o'clock the Sumter was again outside of the inhospitable port of Puerto Caballo. The anchor was not fairly at the cathead when a sail was reported seaward, which on capture proved to be the barque Joseph Maxwell, of Philadelphia.
Benito, wet, dusty, and tired, rode up to his employer to report progress. "Dios! This is hot work for an old man. We will never finish by dark," said he, whereupon Law promptly volunteered his services. "Lend me your rope, Benito, till I get another caballo." "Eh? That Montrosa is the best cutting horse on Las Palmas." But Dave shook his head vigorously.
In the meantime, I have the honour to request that your Excellency will permit me to leave this prize vessel with her cargo in the port of Puerto Caballo, until the question of prize can be adjudicated by the proper tribunals of my country.
"And now, if I turn the buckskin loose, he may go back and he may not. I was wondering " Manuel cut him short. "To-morrow I ride to town," he said. "I will take the caballo back with me, if that pleases the señors. I will turn him loose near the Mission, and he will go to his stable. "The señor," he added, "was very brave. Madre de Dios! To run away with a prisoner of the Vigilantes!
Moving forward to the head of the horses, he watched out of the tail of his eye Pedro's lazy survey of the team. "Where you got thot horse?" inquired Pedro, after a long moment, as he slowly removed a cigarette from between his lips. "I mean," he added, "where you haf steal thot caballo?" Felipe winced. But he did not immediately retort.
It is believed that these unfriendly demonstrations on the part of the Governor of Puerto Caballo were owing to a fear that the Sumter was in truth employed upon some such enterprise as that on which the agent of Don Castro at Curaçao had vainly endeavoured to engage her, and was endeavouring to effect a landing for revolutionary troops.
"That senora, she's all right, you bet!" he praised the feat to those who stood near him; "me, I not be stuck on ron my caballo down that place. You bet she's fine rider. My sombrero, he's come off to that lady!" Jean, hearing, glanced at him with that little quirk of the lips which was the beginning of a smile, and rode off to join her father and Lite Avery.
We allowed that maybe this Pinto caballo got cross-eyed from associatin' with old Hasenberg, who was strictly on the bias, any way you figured." "You ain't so bad, after all, Curly," said Dan Andersen, sitting up. "You're beginning now to hit the human interest part. You ought to be a reg'lar contributor." "Shut up!" said Curly.
Not so very long since they still used the infamous method of punishment which the people call the 'caballo y vaca, and which is a thousand times more dreadful than death itself.
"And I'm tellin' you thees, Franke," he went on, suddenly belligerent toward the other. "If you don' t'ink I'm gettin' thee right caballo, I have you arrested for stealin' thot seex dolars thot time! Money is money, too. But a horse is a horse. I know thees horse. Thot's enough!" Yet he relapsed into a moody silence, puffing thoughtfully on his cigarette.
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