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Updated: May 14, 2025
"That is indeed so," replied the cibolero in a reflective mood. "Something strange, I confess." "But, master," continued the half-blood, "did you notice nothing else strange during the stampede?" "No," answered Carlos; "I was so annoyed so put out by the loss I scarce noticed anything. What else, Antonio?"
No more did the little half-blood despise his own unusually tinted skin, no more did he hate that dash of grey in his brown eyes that bespoke "white blood," no more did he deplore the lack of proper coloring that would have meant the heritage of pure Indian blood.
What would your father think of your breaking your word throwing me off for a man no better than a half-blood Indian? Is that your honor?" Then he was suddenly fearful that he had said too much and hurt his case, and he dropped to a wild pleading: "Oh, Susan, you can't, you can't. You haven't got the heart to treat me so."
The improved herd was the pride of the Double Mountain ranch, now increased by over seven hundred half-blood heifers, while the young males were annually claimed for the improvement of the main ranch stock.
He was mounted on an American horse, a half-blood gray, large-boned and powerful, who could probably have traversed the half-mile in a minute had there been no impediment, and who was able to floor with a single shock two or three of the little animals of the Apaches.
But there were several cattle-paths through the thicket, by which it might be traversed; and these were known to Antonio the half-blood, who had formerly lived in this neighbourhood. By one of those a party of mounted men might approach within half-a-mile of the Presidio without attracting the observation of the sentries upon the walls.
Since it mattered to her that she was a half-blood, he would rejoice, too, if she could prove the contrary. Or, if she could trace her own father's family, he would try to be glad for her. With his rough forefinger he touched gently the tender curve of the girl's cheek. "I'm thinkin' that gin ye find relatives across the line, auld Angus McRae will be losin' his dawtie."
"Half-blood; only half Tom and the rest, whole. Sir Reginald, no nullius young Tom, a nullius." "A nullius, Mr. Rotherham! You understand Latin, sir; what can a nullius, mean? No such rope in the ship, hey! Atwood?"
Such were my reflections at the moment, partly suggested by my own experience. "But you have not yet told me who this sweetheart was? You say it is not the Indian damsel you've just parted with?" "No, stranger, nothin' o' the kind: though there are some Injun in her too. 'Twar o' her the girl spoke when ye heerd her talk o' a half-blood.
When it was transplanted to England, the English judges, who had no clue to its principle, interpreted it as a general prohibition against the succession of the half-blood, and extended it to consanguineous brothers, that is to sons of the same father by different wives.
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