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The boat was not injured, but he shot Martella's brother, who was the pilot. Martella, therefore, hates him." "No more than I do. Had I known what you have told me when talking with him this forenoon, I should have put a bullet through his carcass." "There are better ways than that; let us go to the home of General Yozarro in the mountains and bring away the Señorita; Martella will go with us."
Laurel yielded a halting round of feeble social distractions comportable with Martella's ambitions, and was not entirely without recommendation to Pike, its contiguity to the mountains presenting advantages for sudden retreat in case fashionable society should make it advisable.
Half the distance was traversed, when the pony stepped around a projecting bend of the trail, which sloped abruptly along the face of the mountain wall. Major Starland paused and with a gentle pressure of the bridle rein checked the animal. "Some distance must be passed before the path broadens," he said; "I hope we shall not hear Martella's signal when half-way thither."
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