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"Froze, you mean," was Lee's smiling reply. "I thought so myself for a while. We've hammered along, however. To-night the last dirt goes out." "That was an idea now powder." "It was Carrigan's, not mine. It saved us. The old man has forgotten more than I ever knew. Here's the banker now." The door swung open, admitting Menocal, blinking from the snow's sheen.
Indeed, if the interloper had been someone else, some other man, at least, he would have experienced a turn of disappointment but that the individual should be this tricky, coddled, egotistical Charlie Menocal! Well, he should align the girls' irrigating ditch and then go about his business.
He would stay at home and attend to business then," Lee offered. "But it would shame him. He isn't a little boy any longer; he's thirty years old. The trouble is that he isn't like me, particular and careful; he's wild and impatient and reckless. His mother wasn't that way, I am not that way I don't know where he got that nature." Menocal senior drove off and Bryant turned back to his work.
Go see Mr. Menocal and he will set you right." "I saw Charlie Menocal, who said to drive strangers off." "Well, Charlie had best keep his fingers out of this dish, or he may find it full of pepper, and you tell him so next time you talk with him." Bryant folded his map and restored it to his pocket, while the Mexican went away to his house. That day the engineer worked until darkness shut down.
My equity of three thousand isn't worth, to be sure, anything like what you paid Menocal for this ranch, but it's something and all that I can afford to give." The rancher stared at Lee as if he could not credit his ears. "Are you in earnest?" he demanded, at last. "Why I've just told you there's no water here. A man can't make a living on the place, and the mortgage is due next week."
Thereafter, frequent as were Lee's calls at Sarita Creek of evenings, he seldom had Ruth to himself and on more than one occasion had to share her company with Charlie Menocal, much to his impatience. When Imogene sometimes succeeded in detaining the fellow at her side, Bryant silently gave her unutterable thanks. And Ruth seemed day by day more receptive to his passion.
"It's only because you know father is out caring for stock that you dare stay here to insult me." Then looking past Menocal, she exclaimed, "Who is that?" "I, Bryant," said Lee. "With Imogene. She's ill, she needs to be put to bed. There was no time to ask your permission to bring her, but I knew " "Of course! If this beast will stop making a scene and go!"
"They grow large in the new country to the north that they call Kaintock, but I, Alonzo Menocal of Santo Domingo, am the stronger. Stand up, thou youth of Kaintock, by the side of me!" Henry promptly stood up again, and the young giant towered above Alonzo Menocal of Santo Domingo, tall though the West Indian was. Moreover he had greater breadth of shoulder and a deeper chest.
Bryant leaned forward and tapped the banker's desk with a finger-tip. "Mr. Menocal, don't try to start any trouble with me," he said, with jaw a little outthrust. "Dios! You dare talk that way to me?" "I repeat it, don't attempt to keep something that doesn't belong to you. You may want to but don't try it.
So I could go ahead! A law is so damned immaterial that one has nothing to work against. It leaves a man nowhere, helpless. It lifts him off the ground and holds him kicking futilely in the air. Just that. By God, I'm desperate enough to try anything to try building the ditch try whipping Menocal even under this moth-eaten law he's dug up!" Pat shut one eye against the smoke curling into it.
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