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Didn't you never hear why they call this Hidden Water?" he asked, gazing benignly upon the young ladies. "Well, listen. "They's a big spring of water right up here, not half a mile. It's an old landmark the Mexicans call it Agua Escondida but I bet neither one of you can find it and I'll take you right by the gulch where it comes out.
"No!" exclaimed Creede incredulously, and then, addressing the Señor Moreno in his native tongue, he said: "Don Pablo, this is my friend Señor Hardy, who will live with me at Agua Escondida!" "With great pleasure, señor," said the old gentleman, removing his hat, "I make your acquaintance!"
"Ay Dios, si sera possible que he ya hallado lugar que pueda servir de escondida sepultura a la carga pesada deste cuerpo, que tan contra mi voluntad sostengo?"
Escondida, Loretta, and Muleje are all good harbours, formed by the islands in front of the main land. "The island of Carmen, lying in front of Loretta, has a large salt lake, which has a solid salt surface of several feet thickness. The salt is of good quality, is cut out like ice, and it could supply the world.
Beneath the brush ramada of the ranch house they threw off their canvas-covered beds and turned their pack horses out to roll, strapping bells and hobbles on the bad ones, and in a day the deserted valley of Agua Escondida became alive with great preparations.
'Van muerte tan escondida, Que no te sienta venir, Porque el plazer del morir, No mestorne a dar la vida. "That's Spanish from Miguel de Cervantes.
I prayed for death, and, in the agony of the moment, could not help repeating those exquisite verses of the poet Miguel De Cervantes: Vanny Buren, tan escondida Query no te senty venny Pork and pleasure, delly morry Nommy, torny, darry, widdy! But now a new horror presented itself, and one indeed sufficient to startle the strongest nerves.
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