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The aridity and excessive heat of the mesas do not depend solely on the nature of their surface and the local reverberation of the soil; their climate is modified by the adjacent regions; by the whole of the Llano of which they form a part.
It rose in shrill crescendo, to die away in a sobbing wail that lifted the hair on the listener's head. Again and again it came a moan born of the frightful torture of mortal agony. Giving his mount a touch of spur, the horseman turned the animal westward toward the Llano Estacado. So horrible were the sounds that he had paled under his tan.
Long before night the troopers returned with their usual report, "los barbaros no pudimos alcanzar." They said that they had followed the trail to the Pecos, where the Indians had crossed, and that the savages had continued on towards the Llano Estacado. This piece of news gave some relief, for it was conjectured, if the marauders had gone in that direction, their plundering would end.
But even at this age a New Mexican maiden is deemed old enough for matrimony; and Manuel, to do justice to him, has eyes upon her with this honest intent. For months he had made up his mind to have her for his wife long before their forced flight into the Llano Estacado.
Getting a jury at Llano was no easy task. Often the country for miles around might be scoured without producing a full panel. Llano being the county seat, and this the only house in town, it somewhat naturally from time to time enjoyed temporary distinction as a court house, when at long intervals the Llano County court met.
His even teeth showed white against the deep sunburn of his face. "Reckon we-all bettah cut south, Blizzahd," he murmured to his horse. "We haven't got any business on the Llano." He spoke in the soft accents of the old South, and yet his speech was colored with just a trace of Spanish a musical drawl seldom heard far from that portion of Texas bordering the Rio Bravo del Norte.
Dim in the distance was the Llano itself a mesa with a floor as even as a table; a treeless plain without even a weed or shrub for a landmark; a plateau of peril without end. The rider was doing well to avoid the Llano Estacado. Outlaw Indian bands roamed over its desolate expanse the only human beings who could live there.
At the south the Llano Estacado tapers to a point, declining into the mezquite plains and valleys of numerous small streams that debouch into the Lower Rio Grande.
I intend taking departure from the frontier town of Van Buren, in the State of Arkansas, and shall go by a new route lately discovered by one of our prairie traders, that leads part way along the Canadian river, by you called `Rio de la Canada, and skirting the great plain of the Llano Estacado at its upper end.
The incident had little effect on the irrepressible Parent, who seemed born to blunder, yet gifted with a sunny disposition which atoned for his numerous mistakes. With the Blue Mountains as our guiding star, we kept to the westward of that landmark, crossing the Llano River opposite some Indian mounds.
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