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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Manuel came back this morning, and the whole camp is talking nothing but duelo. I thought you said " "Señor, the saints would not permit that I should arrive first," Valencia explained virtuously. "A stick tripped Noches and he fell, and broke his neck in the fall. The señor knows well the saints had a hand in that, for hundreds of horses fall every day thus without hurt.
And through the night they would talk of the duelo riata between two men who loved one little señorita who laughed much and cared little, said certain wise señoras, and nodded their heads while they said it. What if some hearts were bitter over the prospect? From Santa Barbara, even, were they coming to the fiesta!
He had seen Manuel ride away in the white light of the moon, and he had wondered a little and then had forgotten all about it in the spell of utter loneliness which the moon brings to those who are cheated by Fate from holding what they most desire. "Sure, me." Valencia's tone was convincingly positive. "Manuel, she's go lak hell for tella Señor Jack, José, she's lak for fight duelo. Sure.
When José was not present, or Dade, or the more outspoken of the Picardo vaqueros, always they spoke of it as the duelo riata, and took it for granted that it would be fought to the death. Thus are secrets kept from men who can read from their own natures the truth!
A fiesta, with the duelo fought openly under the guise of a contest for the medal and a prize which was well worth any man's best efforts surely, Don Andres was wily, as Valencia said. But with all the people of the valley there to see, their partisanship inflamed by the wine of festivity and the excitement of the sports themselves what then?
Let me recommend our purists to adopt the expression baiting instead of duel, which probably comes to us, not from the Latin duellum, but from the Spanish duelo, meaning suffering, nuisance, annoyance. In any case, we may well laugh at the pedantic excess to which this foolish system has been carried.
The patron himself has proclaimed the grand fiesta, such as they have in Monterey, only this will be greater; and then those two will fight their duelo with riatas, yes; but not to the death, Señor. The patron himself has declared it. For the medalla oro and also for a prize will they fight; and the prize what think you, Señor?"
"Yet I know that there will be a duelo," he comforted himself with thinking, as he limped wearily across the patio. Never have I seen them so dark: like the bay when a storm is riding upon the wind. And it will be riatas for so Manuel told me. Me, I will wager my saddle upon the Señor Jack, even though riatas be the weapons.
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