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Having crossed the Rio Pecos bottom, and climbed up the bluffs to the higher bench of the Llano Estacado, they strike out over the sterile plain. As it is early morning, and the air is chilly, they wear their ample cavalry cloaks of bright yellow cloth.
Holding our course contrary to the needle, we crossed the Double Mountain Fork, and after a week out from the ranch the brakes which form the border between the lowlands and the Llano Estacado were sighted. Within view of the foothills which form the approach of the famous plain, the Salt and Double Mountain forks of the Brazos are not over twelve miles apart.
Hugh had been absent a couple of weeks in Montana and Wyoming, whither he was drawn by a yearning of many years' standing to engage in the cattle business. He had received some tuition as a cowboy on the Llano Estacada, and the taste there acquired of the free, wild life, supplemented, doubtless, by his experience during the war, was held in restraint for a time only by his marriage.
Captain Gilliss, of the American navy, found the sand-hills of the Peruvian desert to be in general crescent-shaped, as described by Meyen, and a similar structure is said to characterize the inland dunes of the Llano Estacado and other plateaus of the North American desert, though those latter are of greater height and other dimensions than those described by Meyen.
As this road was only a trail, often obliterated by the drifting sands of the desert, tall stakes were set up at intervals to indicate the route. Hence the name "Llano Estacado" literally, Staked Plain. In those days Spain was a strong, enterprising nation, and her Mexican colonists could travel over most parts of their vast territory without fear of being assaulted by the savages.
Sure enough, Caballeros, it was that year that the forged grants of Micheltorrena were discovered; and in our lawsuit your government, Captain, handed over ten leagues of the llano land to the Doctor West, our neighbor." "Ah, the gray-headed gentleman who lunched here the other day? You are friends, then? You bear no malice?" said Garnier.
Before their eyes looms up a line of elevated land, apparently the profile of a mountain. But no; it cannot be that. Trending horizontally, without curvature, against the sky, they know it is not a mountain, but a mesa a table-land. It is the Llano Estacado. Drawing nearer, they get under the shadow of its beetling bluffs.
But when he was some yards down, he beckoned to Jim, who quickly joined him. They conferred on the edge of a ghastly precipice. "I'm off down to tell Domecq that it's going to be done at two-thirty prompt," said Toro. "What's going to be d done?" asked Jimmy. "What I told you about. They've cut the 'phone down to the 'llano' as a start. But that's nothing.
He gave his horse just a touch of the spur that was always enough for Blizzard and they proceeded to split the wind. The horse was as sure-footed as a cat, and was not an animal to step into a prairie-dog hole, even on a black night. Blizzard had ample rest and water, and was never fresher. He ran like a greyhound. Kid Wolf never forgot that gallop across the Llano by night.
"Too late!" the tortured man almost screamed, "I'm dyin', I tell yuh!" "How long have yo' been like this?" "Three-four days. Maybe five. I lost count." "Who did this thing?" was the fierce question. "'The Terror'!" the reply came in a sobbing wail. "'The Masked Terror' and his murderin' band. I was a prospector. A wagon train was startin' across the Llano, and I tried to warn 'em.
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