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The Chaplain begged the haciendado to come to him for an instant, upon some business he had to communicate to him. Don Augustin quitted the apartment, saying that he should speedily return. Gayferos and the young girl were now left alone; the former observed her some moments in silence, and with a delight he could scarcely conceal, saw that Rosarita trembled beneath the folds of her silk scarf.
"How could I be otherwise?" cried the Spaniard, holding out his hand to the noble haciendado. "Enough! I have your word, it will be necessary forme to leave you without farther delay. This young fellow may find comrades to accompany him to the Golden Valley. There is not a moment, therefore, to be lost. I must at once proceed to Tubac. Adieu, my friend, adieu!"
At length on the morning of the fourth day, we were able unawares to fall upon our sanguinary foes; and after a desperate struggle, the warlike giant succeeded in reconquering the youth, who, safe and sound, he again pressed to his heart, calling him his beloved child." "Heaven be praised!" exclaimed the haciendado, with a sigh of relief.
Had it been daylight, Cuchillo might have seen a blush suddenly redden the cheeks of the young man as he pronounced these words; for it was an affair of the heart, that in spite of all the efforts he had made to resist it, was attracting him to the hacienda de Venado. The object of his interest was no other than the daughter of the haciendado himself the young heiress already spoken of.
Although it was at that early hour when the sun sheds its most enlivening rays, everything which surrounded this habitation bore the stamp of melancholy. One might have supposed that the gloomy nature of the inmates was reflected upon its exterior. Dona Rosarita was dying of grief; and this filled the haciendado with the deepest anxiety.
At this part of the narrative, Dona Rosarita's cheek became deadly pale. "Well, and the young man," interrupted the haciendado, who was almost as much moved as the daughter, on hearing these sad events, "what became of him?"
The young girl trembled slightly, while she fixed upon the man of the red handkerchief, a deep and searching glance. "Go on, friend," said she, in her melodious voice, "we shall have courage to hear all." "What do you know of Don Estevan?" resumed the haciendado. "He is dead, Senor." A sigh of grief escaped Don Augustin, and he rested his head upon his hands. "Who killed him?" he asked.
"Before answering you, Senor Don Augustin, permit me to introduce to you the king of gambusinos and prince of musicians, the Senor Don Diego Oroche, who scents a placer of gold as a hound would a deer, and who plays upon the mandolin as only he can play." The individual presented under the name of Oroche, solemnly saluted the haciendado.
It is only because I hope through this expedition once more to carry steel and fire into their midst, that I take any part in it." "It is right," said the haciendado, who like all dwellers upon the frontiers exposed to Indian incursions, nourished in his heart a hatred for the savages almost equal to that of Diaz himself.
Still, discouragement often seized upon Fabian; he loved the daughter of the haciendado with his whole soul; and the thought of owing her love only to the treasures that he might possess, distressed him.
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