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"Rather," said the engineer, smiling. "The appropriation was secured from the state by Mr. Menocal thirty years ago; it's never been cancelled, and is good to-day. He, however, has been using the water on ranches he owns down the river.
"Really, Mexicans are of different blood and race, you know, and I feel the gulf. That probably sounds foolish and ridiculous, still I can't help the feeling. When I look at a man like Charlie Menocal, I see the Mexican strain uppermost even if his mother was white; and I think what strange, savage, unguessed traits may lurk in his blood from a long time back; and I shiver.
Menocal, the water is mine," he continued, "and to-night some time it will be mine beyond all dispute, for then the ditch will be finished. So much for that. Some days ago we had a talk that, I believe, led us each to a better opinion of the other.
"Let him keep away from my machine! And drop my wrist!" Charlie Menocal snarled. "And you leave him alone hereafter, in any case," Lee warned, shoving the speaker away in disgust. Then he helped Dave to rise. Charlie straightened his disarranged tie and coat with trembling fingers.
Lee declared that he would drink a glass with very great pleasure. He was thirsty, he said, and in addition was fond of buttermilk. Menocal listened and watched him dismount and ground his teeth. Louise knew the thief, after all. Where the devil had they become acquainted? It was but one more instance of the engineer's pushing in where he wasn't wanted.
The man's endeavour to fire our camp, had it been successful, would perhaps have resulted in the death of scores of men, as the storm broke shortly after and they would have been without shelter." Charlie Menocal sprang to his feet. "Before God, I didn't know he would choose that night!" he cried, passionately. "I meant only to stop their work!" His father shook his head sadly.
"Six hundred dollars to Lee Bryant, Isidro. Mr. Bryant will give you his signature." Again facing his visitor, he said, "Do you know that that ranch has no water to speak of? I'm afraid you may not find the property what you expect." "It has a good appropriation from the Pinas River here." "Ah, but it can't be used," Menocal exclaimed, with a bland smile. "I propose to use it." "What!"
The Mexican had separated the sheep and we were a hundred short, gone with his, and he would pay no attention to Billy, swearing he had only his own band. And he drove them away. I went to Menocal, who was very polite, but he said I must be mistaken as his herders were all honest men; and I've not got my sheep back, and I'm not likely to. For that band is now thirty miles away somewhere.
Of course, the loss of this water that he fancied he had hits him where it hurts, but from what I can gather Mr. Menocal isn't a man to resort to illegal methods. He's wily, that's about all. So that's the situation." The banker regarded Bryant for a time with a noncommittal face. "State your proposition now," said he. "This is it," Bryant went on.
He could not help doing so. That naïve avowal from the one whom he considered his chief enemy tickled his fancy. And presently Menocal, catching the humour of it, himself began to smile. "I shouldn't be surprised if we have had a misconception of each other," Lee stated. "Ah, cielos! That is nothing less than the truth.
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