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At that instant the watchers saw the Mexican thunder down upon Glass, his lariat swinging about his head. Lazily the rope uncoiled and settled over the fleeing figure, then, amid a cloud of dust, Carara's horse set itself upon its haunches and the white-clad figure came to the end of its flight.
"I never said nothin' like that whatever. I mean we bet it, and we lost it. Listen! There goes Carara's piece!" Out past the corral floated the announcement in a man's metallic syllables: "The Baggage Coach Ahead, as sung by Helena Mora for the Echo Phonograph, of New York and Pa-a-aris!" From the dusk to the right of the two listeners now issued soft Spanish phrases. "Madre de Dios!
It was seen now that Carara's lariat was tightly drawn about the new arrival's waist. Then the valet broke into coherent speech, but he spoke a tongue not common to his profession. "Nix on that welcome stuff," he burst forth, in husky, alcoholic accents; "that goes on the door-mat!" It was plain that he was very angry. "If that racket means welcome, I don't want it.
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