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She stood for a little examining a blue-print tacked on the wall. "That's like the one Mr. Gretzinger sometimes carries," she remarked. "I suppose he'll be returning one of these days. Not that it matters; he was tiresome at times, like Charlie Menocal." She studied the lines of the map attentively. "He appeared anxious to get to New York. Said something about a sweetheart there.
"You're not selfish yourself and will never arrive at a time when you'll believe what you said." "But there are selfish people, many of them." "Yes. Of course." "And one can't change them, and they cause infinite anxiety in others " "Yes; that, too. Has Mr. Menocal been troubling you in some new way?" Lee rose hastily.
No use to go to court Menocal owns everything and everybody around here. So I'm quitting." "The sheep business isn't all roses, that's certain," Lee Bryant remarked. "It's hard luck that your band ran down just when the price of mutton and wool is going up. So you're letting the ranch slide?" "Yes, I can't pay the mortgage; Menocal would foreclose at once if I tried to stay.
A renewal of internal disorders, a quarrel among leaders, and much discontent with their administrative methods, resulted in the defeat of the Liberals in the campaign of 1912 and in the election of General Mario Menocal, the head of the Conservative ticket, and the present incumbent.
When Bryant got a good look at the other visitor he gave vent to an ejaculation in which was blended surprise and contempt. "That magpie! Of all damn impudence!" For the cavalier so debonairly entertaining the young ladies was none other than the olive-skinned Charlie Menocal. A sense of pique was Bryant's succeeding feeling.
Steam in sharp jets came from the nostrils of his pair of bays, as from those of the horses straining at the plows and scrapers in the stretch of partially excavated canal near by. Lee went forward to the buggy, slapping his gloved hands together to quicken their circulation. "What do you want of me, Mr. Menocal?" he asked. "You're picking a frosty day to look at the scenery."
Menocal when he proposed the expedition that I doubted if I should go." "Too bad not to come, Miss Martin," that worthy remarked, without enthusiasm. Clearly his interest in what company he should have did not point toward her. "I'm going, at any rate," Ruth Gardner said. And then, "Oh, dear! I overlooked altogether introducing you you two gentlemen."
Menocal probably would not instigate open lawlessness, but his hirelings might break into the house on their own initiative. And this was not unlikely since a bitter feeling was systematically being aroused against Bryant and his project among the preponderate Mexican inhabitants.
She was delighted to go with Lee and Louise. Ruth had driven with Charlie Menocal to Kennard earlier in the afternoon, she briefly stated. Then she remarked: "Aren't you dissipating frightfully to-night, Lee?" "Like a regular devil," was the response. Imogene had been startled by a note in Lee's answer to her bantering question that she never before had heard him use.
"Winship, the sheriff, appears to be one man in Bartolo who's all right," Lee stated. "Yes, he's a good man," Graham replied. "Can't be influenced or bought; and is perfectly square and impartial in the execution of the duties of his office. He has served twenty years, with exception of one term when he and Menocal had a disagreement.
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