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Updated: May 10, 2025
Down with all the foes of the poor." Again the shouts rang out, this time louder and clearer. Already these simple, childlike peons were answering the call of their new master. Old Pasquale, who for years had held their lives in the hollow of his hand, lay crumpled on the ground almost forgotten. A new star was shining in their firmament.
But our peons skipped over the trunks with as much firmness as if they had been walking on level ground. Now on one side, now on the other, were tremendous precipices, down which the traveller, by a slip of the foot, might be hurled, and dashed to pieces. We had cloaks and blankets, which we required during the night, for as we ascended the atmosphere became very cold.
The people presented all the picturesque characteristics of the land in profusion peons, with huge Spanish spurs, mounted on gaily caparisoned mules; Gauchos, on active horses of the Pampas; market-women, in varied costumes more or less becoming, and dark-eyed senhoras on balconies and verandas sporting the graceful mantilla and the indispensable fan.
"It is you who have killed him," cried the woman who had summoned her. The rest of Rubia's escort, vaqueros, peons, and the old alcalde of her native village, stood about with bared heads. "That is true. That is true," they murmured. The old alcalde stepped forward. "Who dishonours my friend dishonours me," he said. "From this day, Senorita Ytuerate, you and I are strangers."
The peons come out less for their salaries than for good and plenty of food, which is very difficult to find in these scarce times.... "The plants are here one by one, and we have got but one tree with three plants. They are on the highest and biggest trees, and these must be cut down with axes. Below are all shrubs, full of climbers and lianas about a finger thick.
Every one was thinking of the same subject, and his abrupt exclamation needed no explanation. 'If he could trust his hands he might, said the commissario in halting, broken English; 'but I doubt if they or the peons have been paid lately. 'Besides, on the steamer, said Toffy, 'he could be easily caught. 'Yes, said Dunbar, 'if he knows that we want to catch him, which he doesn't.
The first conclusion at which he arrived was that the peons who had accompanied his chief, accustomed as they had been from their earliest childhood to make their way about the country, were so little likely to have lost their way that that theory might be unhesitatingly abandoned; the second was that Butler would certainly not have absented himself purposely from the camp for a whole night and a day, and that therefore this was the third conclusion something had gone very seriously wrong.
It was supposed to be for his horse, but it was used with equal facility when any of his peons incurred his wrath. "I strike because I can," he would say to pacify himself. One day, the man receiving the blow, took a step backward, hunting for the knife in his belt. "You are not going to beat me, Patron. I was not born in these parts. . . . I come from Corrientes."
If I am not captured by the other side I shall make it easily, and," he added, "I am sure I shall not be captured, for I can lick any squad of peons that I'm likely to meet." "You are a brave boy," said Josie, a bit of praise which brought the color to Adrian's cheeks and was an added incentive for bravery. "But why shouldn't I go?" insisted Billie. "You may be needed here.
But Felipe gave him but an instant's thought. Dobe huts once more abruptly ranged up on either side the roadway, staggering and dim under the night. Then a wine shop noisy with carousing peons darted by. Pavements again. A shop-front or two. A pig snoring in the gutter, a dog howling in a yard, a cat lamenting on a rooftop. Then the smell of fields again. Then darkness again.
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