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"Perfectly." "I am going to the Mision Perdida now," said Captain Carroll, quietly. "To-morrow I will bring you the answer Peace or War." He walked to the door, lifted his hand to his cap, with a brief military salutation, and disappeared.
Que se tomen la molestia de recorrer los pueblos y pedir limosna y se resarcirán de esa pérdida.
At other times a perfect stillness reigned, so that he could distinctly hear the tiny hum of the mosquito; and then, all at once, would fall upon his ear the melancholy wailing of the night-hawk the "alma perdida," or "lost soul" for such is the poetical and fanciful name given by the Spanish Americans to this nocturnal bird. While thus engaged Leon began to feel very drowsy.
To any but Guest, who had made the topography of La Mision Perdida a practical study, and who had known the habitual circuit of the mayordomo in his efforts to avoid him, the search would have been hopeless.
It was the husband of La Pérdida, and his little brown face looked like an old walnut. "Take me with thee!" he cried. "I will give thee the old man's blessing," and, clinging like a crab to the neck of the galloping mustang, he drove a knife toward the heart of La Pérdida. The blade turned upon itself as lightning sometimes does, and went through stringy tissues instead of fresh young blood.
When the sun began to cast long shadows along the veranda, not only the outer shell of La Mision Perdida, but the dark inner heart of the old casa, stirred with awakened life.
It was the same by which Carlos had ascended to perform his great feat on the day of the fiesta. At the top of the descent Carlos ordered the party to halt, and with Don Juan rode forward to the edge of the projecting cliff at the very spot where he had exhibited his skill the cliff of Nina Perdida. Both drew up when near the edge. They commanded a full view of the valley and the town.
"YOU ought to know that," she returned, looking down. "I? why?" "You were rude to me twice." "Twice!" "Yes once at the Mision of La Perdida; once in the road at San Antonio." His eyes became downcast and gloomy. "At the Mision that morning, I, a wretched outcast, only saw in you a beautiful girl intent on overriding me with her merciless beauty.
Guest will not allow his envy of your good fortune in coming so gallantly to my rescue to prevent his appreciating its full value. I am only sorry that on your return to La Mision Perdida you should have fallen into the arms of a madman before extending your hands to your friends." Their eyes met. She saw that he hated her and felt relieved.
Breakfast, usually a movable feast at La Mision Perdida, had been prolonged until past midday; the last of the dance guests had flown, and the home party with the exception of Captain Carroll, who had returned to duty at his distant post were dispersing; some as riding cavalcades to neighboring points of interest; some to visit certain notable mansions which the wealth of a rapid civilization had erected in that fertile valley.
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