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From the port of El Pinal, frozen with cold, the twenty-third of December, ninety-eight. If my brother should come before I return, I beseech your Grace, since it is so natural in your Grace to do good to all especially to those of that land to show him the goodness which your Grace has always shown me.
The stifling summer heat fetched up wind from the south and thundercaps crowned the high peaks; then the rain came slashing and struck up the dust before it lifted and went scurrying away. The lizards gasped for breath, Drusilla ceased to sing, all Pinal seemed to palpitate with heat; but through heat and rain one song kept on Denver's song of steel on steel.
Denver clutched it to his breast and started out across the desert with his eyes on distant Pinal. It lay in the shadow of Apache Leap, that blue wall that loomed to the east, and he hardly stopped to shake hands with the Warden in his haste to get out on the road.
On October 1st Santa Anna raised the siege of Puebla and marched toward El Pinal to intercept a train of wagons with supplies and re-enforcements, leaving General Rea with sufficient force to continue operations against the Americans.
"That's all right," he answered, "I guess you're hep they say it runs forty per cent copper." "How'd you hear about it?" inquired Denver, fishing cautiously for information. "Where you going over to Pinal?" "You're whistling," returned the man, quite off his guard. "Say, stake me a claim when you get there, if old Bible-Back hasn't jumped them all."
Its different portions have been named by the people living below as distinct mountains, as Shiwits Mountains, Mogollon Mountains, Pinal Mountains, Sierra Calitro, etc., but they all rise to the summit of the same great plateau region. The upper region, extending to the headwaters of the Grand and Green Rivers, constitutes the great Plateau Province.
"Say, what are you talking about?" demanded Denver, suddenly reining in his horse. "Is Murray jumping claims?" "Never mind!" replied the man, shutting up like a clam, and Denver spurred on and left him. There was a strike then in Pinal, Old Murray had tapped the vein and it ran up to forty per cent copper!
Thereupon Don Joan de Camudio, entered El Pinal with his ship and there he was furnished with everything needful by the Chinese at a moderate price while the Spaniards went to and fro on the river upon their business to Canton in lorchas and champans. While the Spaniards were detained, in the said port they were always well received in the city and lodged in houses within its walls.
Rustlers and bad men were coming in from Texas and the Strip. Slim's election for another term was by no means certain. He did not know this, but if he had, it would not have made any difference to him. He was after Jack, and, at any cost, would bring him back to face trial. The rogues of Pinal County seized upon the flight of Jack as a good excuse to down Slim.
He went back to work, determined to forget it all, but that evening he drew his time. It came to ninety dollars, for seven shifts and over-time, and they offered him double to stay; but the desire to see Drusilla had taken possession of him and he turned his face towards Pinal.
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