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Sutter was very active in the Micheltorena war, when Governor Micheltorena was defeated and put out of office by Alvarado and Castro. The last of the Mexican governors, Pio Pico, tried his best to prevent the rush of Americans into his country, but though Castro, the military commander, helped him, the Americans came and stayed.
One would have thought that this big, heavy, but extremely-active man whose clothes, notwithstanding the wear and tear of the road, were plainly cut on "'Frisco patterns," was precisely the person calculated to make an impression upon a woman like Nina Micheltoreña; and, yet, oddly enough, he was the only man in the room whose attentions seemed distasteful to her.
Whereat Manuel exploded with profanity and burnt blue with sulphurous malediction; but Miguel, the recent ecclesiastic, sat livid and thoughtful. "When was it thou didst petition for lands in the valley, friend Victor?" "Never! It is a sterile waste. Am I a fool?" "Thou didst. Of thy Governor, Micheltorena. I have seen the application." "Si! I had forgotten. Art thou sure it was in the valley?"
Never again will he boast of trifling with Nina Micheltoreña with me, a Micheltoreña in whose veins runs the best and proudest blood of California!" Ashby fairly snatched the photograph out of her hand and, after one look at it, passed it over to the Sheriff.
It may have been Fate, but I tho't you looked kind o' funny when Rance asked you if you hadn't missed the trail an' wa'n't on the road to see Nina Micheltoreña she that lives in the greaser settlement an' has the name o' shelterin' thieves." At the mention of thieves, Johnson paled frightfully and the knife which he had been toying with dropped to the floor.
Ashby needed nothing more than this. In an instant, much to the Sheriff's astonishment, and moving marvellously quick for a man of his heavy build, he was out of the room, leaving Rance to face a woman with a black mantilla thrown over her head who, presently, entered by another door. Nina Micheltoreña, for it was she, did not favour him with as much as an icy look.
" The Sheriff's sentence was left unfinished, for Nick, quickly pulling him to one side, whispered: "Say, Rance, the Girl's cut up because she vouched for 'im. Don't rub it in." Notwithstanding, Rance, to the Girl's query of "How did this Nina Micheltoreña know it?" took a keen delight in telling her: "She's his girl." "His girl?" repeated the Girl, mechanically. "Yes.
And yet, did he but know it, she was destined to play no small part in his life for the next few weeks! Nina Micheltoreña had now decided upon her future course of action: She would let him think that his desire to break off all relations with her would not be opposed. Ever a keen judge of men and their ways, she was well aware that any effort to reclaim him to-night would meet with disaster.
"And we missed the reward," frowned Ashby; at which Rance quickly turned upon the speaker with: "But Ramerrez is trapped." There was a moment's startled pause in which the Girl struggled with her passions; at last, she ventured: "Who's this woman?" The Sheriff laughed discordantly. "Why, the woman of the back trail," he sneered. "Nina Micheltoreña!
"I don't know what to think," was the Wells Fargo Agent's reply. "But it certainly is curious. This is the second warning intimation that we have had that he is somewhere in this vicinity." "And this Nina Micheltoreña you say she is coming here to-night?" Ashby nodded assent. "All the same, Rance," he maintained, "I wouldn't go. Better drop in to The Palmetto later." "What?
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