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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Aha, he won't get away from me! I think I see him now." "I wouldn't mistake him for any one else, even though he might look like him." Thus the two soldiers continued on their round. By the light of the lanterns we may again see two shadowy figures moving cautiously along, one behind the other. An energetic "Quién vive?" stops both, and the first answers, "España!" in a trembling voice.
He touched the burning match to the grouped tips of sulphur and his teeth gleamed white as he contemplated the little spurt of hissing flame. Then he dropped his flattened hand upon the tiny eruption and extinguished it, as his sudden grin died away to a bored smile. "There, it is over," he yawned, "and of course it may not happen. Quien sabe?"
The dogs were secured by several domestics, and we advanced. "Quien es?" inquired Don Cosme. "Papa! papa! es el capitan!" "Do not be alarmed, Senorita," said I, approaching. "Oh! you are safe you are safe! papa, he is safe!" cried both the girls at once; while Don Cosme exhibited his joy by hugging my comrade and myself alternately.
The morning was fine; there was no cloud in the sky, but as Harran's buggy drew away from the grove of trees about the ranch house, emerging into the open country on either side of the Lower Road, he caught himself looking sharply at the sky and the faint line of hills beyond the Quien Sabe ranch. There was a certain indefinite cast to the landscape that to Harran's eye was not to be mistaken.
"If I had a million, I wouldn't mind spending it to make you pay that interest." "You could spend twice that, and then not get it," snapped Mr. Leslie. "You'll soon find out I can't be driven, young man. On the other hand how big a position do you think you could fill?" "Quien sabe?" "See here. You've put me under obligations. I'd rather it had been any other man than you "
Presley arrived at Quien Sabe nearly half an hour behind the appointed time; but, as he had expected, the party were in no way ready to start. The carry-all, its horses covered with white fly-nets, stood under a tree near the house, young Vacca dozing on the seat.
Benton's eyes narrowed under drawn brows. When he spoke his voice was tense. "In God's name, Manuel," he whispered, "what is the answer?" The Spaniard met the gaze gravely. "I fancy, Señor," he said slowly, "the matches will burn." "When? Where?" "Quien sabe?" Blanco paused to light a cigarette.
"'Quién sabe? as the Spaniard would say, Major; 'Quién sabe?" he replied. "Don't be an ass, Courtney," I exclaimed. "And don't play me for one, either." A lift of the eyebrows was his answer but Courtney could say much that way. "It's not a bad sort of occupation being a King," he reflected. I ignored him. "And you could fill the place quite as well as Ferdinand of Lotzen," he went on.
"Very likely," said Antonio. We dismounted and entered what I now saw was a forest, leading the animals cautiously amongst the trees and brushwood. In about five minutes we reached a small open space, at the farther side of which, at the foot of a large cork tree, a fire was burning, and by it stood or sat two or three figures; they had heard our approach, and one of them now exclaimed Quien Vive?
In Dulumbayan various shots also resounded, from which there resulted the death of a poor old deaf man, who had not heard the sentinel's quién vive, and of a hog that had heard it and had not answered España! The old man was buried with difficulty, since there was no money to pay for the obsequies, but the hog was eaten.
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