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"The old Don was pasturing his sheep in the Rio Chama valley and he had started a little village there called the place Torreon, I think, from a high tower house he had built to overlook the valley so that Indians could be seen if they attempted an attack.
"I reckon it's not for want of trying, since the heiress is so beautiful. There's always plenty of willing lads to take over the job of prince regent under such circumstances." The spine of the New Mexican stiffened ever so slightly. "Señorita Valdés is princess of the Rio Chama valley.
It was of the regulation ten-words length, and this was the body of it: Send immediately, by express, little brown leather trunk in garret. The signature at the bottom of it was "Richard Gordon." A fisherman was whipping the stream of the Rio Chama.
He meant to find out just what the Moreño grant was worth. After he had investigated his legal standing he would look over the valley of the Chama himself. He took no stock in Don Manuel's assurance that the land was worthless, any more than he gave weight to his warning that a personal visit to the scene would be dangerous if the settlers believed he came to interfere with their rights.
"It never has been done not in the time of Don Alvaro or even in that of Don Bartolomé." "And so you think it never can?" she asked, with a smile. "The Rio Chama Valley is grazing land. It is not for agriculture. Everybody knows that," he insisted doggedly. "Everybody knows we were given two legs with which to walk, but it is an economy to ride. So we use horses." Fernando shrugged his shoulders.
Reaching to the east, it was checked by the mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range; flowing to the west, the mountains and hills of the main divide, and the spur now between the Chama and the Rio Grande, limited its extent. To the south it was deflected westwardly by the spur of the mountains called the Picuris range, some fifteen miles south of Taos.
In one of these cliffs, sixty feet above the sea, beds of mussels were found: ostrea, pinna, chama; according to Dr. V. M. O. denticula, Bron.; O. cornucopiae, Chemn.; O. rosacea, Desh.; Chama sulfurea, Reeve; Pinna Nigrina, Lam.
The 1st of March we came to a town called Moure, where we found neither boats nor people; but when about to depart there came some people to us in two canoes from another town, from whom we took 2-1/2 oz. of gold, and who told us that the inhabitants had removed from Mowre to Lagoua. . The 2d we were abreast the castle of Mina, where we saw all the five Portuguese ships at anchor, and by night we were off Shamma or Chama, where we meant to water.
We did not return on board till late in the evening, for we stayed a long time in the lagoon, examining the fields of coral and the gigantic shells of the chama, into which, if a man were to put his hand, he would not, as long as the animal lived, be able to withdraw it.
"Number two please." "That you sign a paper drawn up by a lawyer giving all your rights in the Rio Chama Valley to Señorita Valdés and promise never to go near the valley again." "Nothing doing," answered the prisoner promptly, his jaws snapping tight. "But yes most assuredly yes. I risk much to save your life. But you must go to meet me, Señor. Is a man's life not worth all to him? So?
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