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The page withdrew, and Don Ferdinand, hastily cutting the silk, was speedily so engrossed in his despatches, as to forget for the time even the presence of his wife; and well it was so; for it enabled her with a strong effort to conquer the deadly sickness Morale's careless words had caused the pang of dread accompanying every thought of Arthur's return to Spain to still the throbbing pulse and quivering lip, and, outwardly unmoved, meet his joyous glance once more.
You've got your finger on the pulse of their morale not that it's jumpier than yours; it isn't and their knowing that they haven't got to stand anything that you haven't stood gives you no end of a pull. Honestly, I don't believe I could have faced them if it wasn't for that. So that your morale's the better for it as well as theirs. You know, if you're shot down this minute it won't matter.
The stranger eyed us suspiciously, and then, after a moment's hesitation, said that he had heard that Mejia was "on the war-path." "Where?" asked Carmen. "They say he was at Tres Cruces three days ago; and there has been fighting." "And are any of Morale's people also on the war-path?" "That is more than I can tell you, señores.
But hope is not certainty, and until we can make sure we had better hedge away toward the north, so as to be nearer the hills in case we have to run for it." "You think we had better make for the hills in that case?" I asked. "Decidedly. Mejia is sure to return thither, and Morale's men are much less likely to follow us far in that direction than south or east."
He hangs every patriot who falls into his hands, and I have made up my mind to hang him!" After this there was nothing more to be said, and I held my peace. We bivouacked in a valley on the verge of the llanos, and the next few days were spent in raiding cattle and preparing tasajo. We had also another successful encounter with a party of Morale's guerillas.
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