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No girl in all the valley rode better than the Señorita Teresa Picardo, and Diego knew it well and boasted of it to the peons of other hacendados; but for all that he was ill-at-ease, and when, ten minutes later, he came upon Valencia at the stable, he told him of the madness of the señorita. "Tejon she would ride, and none other; and to-day he is a devil.
These were all taken in the bullock carts to a spot distant nearly half a mile from the house. Here, by the united labor of the peons, a large grave was dug, six feet wide, as much deep, and twelve yards long. In this they were laid side by side, two deep; the earth was filled in, and the turf replaced.
We'll forget profits for a year or so, lay off the men, and just keep the engineer force on and the pumping going." "I threw that into Arranzo," Jeremy Braxton's voice boomed. "And what was his comeback? That if we laid off the peons, he'd see to it that the engineers laid off, too, and the mine could flood and be damned to us. No, he didn't say that last.
Down the middle of the arena thus formed easily with definite boundaries, peons were stretching, upon forked stakes, a rope spliced to reach the whole six hundred feet save that a space of fifty feet was left open at each end so that the combatants might, upon occasion, change sides easily. Twice Dade paced the width of the area to make sure that the dividing line marked the exact center.
We have a muddy walk for a few hundred yards before we strike a dry trail, and simultaneously the white walls of Altascar's appear like a snow-bank before us. Lights are moving in the courtyard; but otherwise the old tomb-like repose characterizes the building. One of the peons recognized me as I entered the court, and Altascar met me on the corridor.
At last, when very nearly famished, and when my doubts as to the wisdom of this novel and impromptu expedition had become very serious indeed, a European boat appeared, moving with the long steady stroke of a man-of-war's boat, rowed by six native policemen, with a frank-looking bearded countryman steering, and two peons in white, with scarlet-and-gold hats and sashes, in the bow, and as it swept up to the Rainbow's side the man in white stepped on board, and introduced himself to me as Mr.
There he saw a farmhouse of a better class than usual. Three peons were just starting for work, and an elderly man with a long beard was standing at the door. Then he went in, and after a few minutes reappeared with a long staff in his hands, and went out into the fields. He did not, however, follow the direction which the peons had taken, but took a line parallel with the edge of the wood.
He had gathered his mob of peons to surround the castle and make a demonstration in his favor. Then, with the king dead and the queen and her little son held by him and his men their lives as forfeits he hoped to be able to treat with the men of science who controlled the light-ray, and who, I did not doubt, represented the better element among the people.
"If we stop the peons from going back and forth they would be sure to know the trap that was set around them." "Exactly so, Comandante. That would never do." "Have you considered any other plan?" "Partly I have." "Let us hear it!" "It is this. Some of those peons regularly visit the fellow in his lair. I feel certain of it.
In a few days all were reconciled to the process, and ere long would come in night and morning to be milked, with as much regularity as English cows would have done. The wives of the peons were now taught to milk; and more and more cows were gradually added to the number, until in six months there were fifty cows in full milk. Maud and Ethel had now no longer anything to do with the house, Mrs.
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