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Cabenza found it necessary to work off his excitement upon the prisoners. He stood on tiptoe, holding the window bars in his hands, and jeered at the men within. "Ho, ho, Gringos! May the devil fly away with you! Food for powder food for powder! Some fine morning the general will give orders and we shall bury you in the sand by the river. Not so?" he scoffed in his own language.
Don Luis glanced covertly at his secretary, with a look that conveyed: "If these young Gringos have all the money they want, and more, then we may find it difficult to appeal to their avarice." Dr. Tisco's return glance as much as said: "I am all the more certain that we shall find them difficult." Don Luis commented to the two young men on the country through which they were passing.
What, after all, was his mission upon earth if not to serve Longorio's interests? One might have a peaceful heart and still be a man. José was every inch a man; he was a very devil when he let himself go, and his Excellency need have no fears as to the outcome of their plan. After all, the GRINGOS were enemies, and there was no one of them who did not merit destruction.
"You are a good youth, and I shall reward you handsomely some day. You are ready to tell us how we can trap the two Gringos. How many weapons have they, and of what kind?" "Truly, I do not know, Senor Gato," Nicolas answered. "That taller Gringo taunted me with the claim that he was not armed at all," grinned Gato, ferociously. "But I am too old a man to be caught by any such lie as that.
There was a scurry of hoofs, a shout, and thirty horsemen swept around the curve and came racing up. "What's up, Cap'n Jim?" cried one. "Have we lost the fun? Gringos, eh? hooray!" The Spaniards had checked their horses. Four of them lay dead in the road, and several others were wounded.
All the rest of these cursed gringos are pigs;" and his voice growing stronger, he repeated: "Ay, pigs, hogs, swine!" The son made no reply; his father went on: "What have not these devils done to our country ever since they came here? At first we received them most hospitably; everything they wanted was gladly supplied to them. And what did they do in return for our kindness?
She had then been told that his life was threatened and that hated Gringos and suspicious compatriots, both, were thirsting for his blood.
"I like the Gringos well enough, but I hate their flag! Ay! I will pull it down with my own hands if Castro and Pico roll Stockton and Frémont in the dust!" "I am sorry for that, my mother, for I am going to marry an American to-day." Her mother laughed and glanced over the closely written page. "I am going to marry the Lieutenant Russell at Blandina's house this morning." "Ay, run, run.
There his precious herds are safe from the invader. There is danger for Valois in the Commandante's scowl when the saddest May day of his life comes. A rider on relay horses hands him a fateful despatch. "Curse the Gringos!" He strikes his table till the glasses ring. There are five huge Yankee war vessels in Monterey harbor. It is too true. This time they have come to stay.
Plainly, these gringos were a barbarous race of people, what with their rushing here and there, and with their loud, senseless laughter. God had wisely placed them beyond the Rio Grande, said the citizens of Romero.
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