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He was not playing with his friend Baraja for the mere sport of the thing; for a moiety of the half ounce he had received from Don Estevan had already gone into Baraja's pockets, and Cuchillo was in hopes that the attention which he had given to the cutting of the cards might change the luck that had hitherto been running against him.
Don Augustin would have risen to accompany his guest to the gates, but the Spaniard would not permit him, and they parted without farther ceremony. When Don Estevan reached the court-yard, his attendants and domestics were found in readiness to depart. The mules had been packed, and the remuda collected in charge of the driver.
It was in the middle of the third night, as they were cantering slowly along, that they heard the tread of a horse, at full gallop, approaching from the south. "You had better withdraw from the road," Don Estevan said, "so that but one horseman will be met. I will stop the rider, and hear why he gallops so fast.
While these incidents were passing by the trappers camp-fire, Don Estevan was actively pursuing the execution of his plans. From what little he had heard and seen of Diaz he had conceived a high opinion of this person. He had observed in him a man of very different character from the crowd of adventurers who usually make up expeditions of the kind he was about to lead.
Without making answer, Don Estevan took from his purse the piece of gold he had promised, and handed it to Cuchillo. "It is the young Tiburcio Arellanos to whom you have given life," continued the outlaw. "As for me I only followed the dictates of my heart; but it may be that we have both done a very foolish action." "Why that?" asked the Spaniard.
Accordingly, on the afternoon of the day when we visited Los Reyes, we went across the valley to Panotla, Ignacio and an older brother, Jose, met us at the hotel, where excusing himself on account of the mason-work at San Estevan, which could not wait Ignacio left us, assuring us that Jose would do everything for us. This was quite true, and we found Panotla all that it had been painted.
It was evident he was not sleeping very soundly while the talk was going on. "This Don Estevan de Arechiza, of whom you speak," resumed the Canadian; "he is the same we saw at La Poza is he not the chief of the expedition?" "The same." "Ha! is that the name he goes by here?" cried Pepe, suddenly rousing himself from his apparent sleep. "You know him, then?" said Tiburcio, interrogatively.
"No, Senor, and I much fear that we have lost the guide who has conducted us till now." "And to what do you attribute this strange absence?" asked Don Estevan, with an anxious look. "Probably he has gone too far upon the track of the Apaches, and has been surprised by them.
"Are the Indians numerous?" asked Baraja. "I had not time to count them; all that I know is that they must be near." And crossing the camp he proceeded to where Don Estevan after having attended to the most important precautions stood at the door of his tent waiting for him.
He was right; and enchanted at the effect of his ruse, the outlaw lay down behind a mound of earth, ready to resume his course when his senses should warn him of the approach of danger. By regaining the camp only a few minutes before the attack, he hoped also to escape the questions of Don Estevan.
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