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I am glad to hear all this." "But your friend no?" said the contrabandista. "That's because he cannot understand what you say; but I shall tell him all that you have said when we are alone, and then he will be as much your friend as I am, and quite as ready to fight in your cause, though he is a boy." "Good!" said the Spaniard. "And some day I shall put you both to the proof."
They're well enough ashore, but on soundin's and blue water they beat old Nick. And aboard a contrabandista, too! It's enough to make a Quaker kick his grandmother. Howsomdever, Morris is just soft-headed fool enough to like it, and think it all fine fun. I shouldn't wonder if he was ass enough to get spliced one of these days, and take his wife to sea.
At length, after a stay of ten or eleven days, despairing of any improvement in the state of the country, he continued his journey in the company of a contrabandista, temporarily retired from the smuggling trade, from whom he hired two horses for the sum of forty-two dollars.
He is acquainted with all the short cuts, all the atajos, Don Jorge, and is much respected in all the ventas and posadas on the way; so now give me your hand upon the bargain, and I will forthwith repair to my wife's brother to tell him to get ready to set out with your worship the day after to-morrow." Departure from Cordova The Contrabandista Jewish Cunning Arrival at Madrid.
"Urrrrrrr!" growled the guide; and then, "Hist! hist!" for there was a whispering behind, and directly after the contrabandista captain joined them, to ask a low question in Spanish. "The enemy are in front. They are before us," said the smuggler in French to Pen.
"They're gone down to the Bridge. The band has had a fandango with your people and lost some men. They say they have killed a good many stragglers along the road." "So he was in the rinconada, you say? and this morning, too?" inquired Raoul, in a half-soliloquy, and without heeding the last remark of the contrabandista. "We've got to look sharp, then," he added, after a pause.
"I believe that is the case," said the officer coldly. "Ha!" ejaculated the contrabandista. "I have as good a right to blame his Majesty for the meagreness of the help his followers have afforded me." "I have done my best," said the officer gravely, "and so have the rest. But this is no time for recriminations.
We should find refreshment there; and, if not a bed, "at least", said Raoul, "a roof and a petate." We should not be likely to meet anyone, as it was ten miles off, and it would be late when we reached it. It was late near midnight when we dropped in upon the contrabandista, for such was the friend of Raoul; but he and his family were still astir, under the light of a very dull wax candle.
They made no particular noise, but, on the other hand, they did not observe any exact silence. Moreover their costume was not that ordinarily worn by the regular contrabandista. "Who the devil can they be?" asked Pepe of himself. The coast-guard lay concealed behind some tufts of withered grass that formed a border along the crest of the slope.
Nothing in this volume is more amusing and at the same time more poetic and romantic than the story of "Governor Manco and the Soldier," in which this legend is used to cover the exploit of a dare-devil contrabandista. But it is too long to quote.
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