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I know the Indian trail, and I can take you to a place in the forest where there is grass and water and game, and we shall be safe from pursuit as long as we like to stay." "How far off?" "About two leagues." "Good. Lead on in heaven's name. You are a treasure, Gahra Dahra. In rescuing you from those ruffianly Spaniards we did ourselves, as well as you, a good turn."
They have that hill to descend, this to mount; and our horses are better than theirs." "Are you going far, señor?" inquired Gahra. "To the llanos." "By Los Teycos?" "Yes. We shall easily steal through Los Teycos, and I know of a place in the forest beyond, where we can hide during the day."
The roar of the storm in the gully is louder than ever; the drift, now higher than the tallest man, grows even as we look. Fifteen men buried alive within a few yards of us, yet beyond the possibility of help! Poor Gahra! If he had loved me less and himself more, he would still be enjoying the dolce far niente of Happy Valley, instead of lying there, stark and stiff in his frozen winding-sheet.
"It did not sound so just now. We were fast asleep." "Pizarro!" I exclaimed, greatly delighted by the sight of my old favorite. "You have brought Pizarro! How did you manage that, Gahra?" "He came to the camp last night. But mount at once, señor. We got away without difficulty stole off while the men were at supper.
Gahra, albeit willing to go with me, knew no more of the country than I did, and there was not a man in it who could have been induced even by a bribe either to act as my guide or otherwise connive at my escape; and I had no inducement to offer.
It was very simple; I proposed to turn one of the most likely houses in the village into a small fortress which might serve as a refuge for the children and which Gahra and I would undertake to defend. We had two muskets and a pair of double-barrelled pistols, and the priest possessed an old blunderbuss, which I thought I could convert into a serviceable weapon.
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