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If you'd clumb Tiger with that outfit you could just naturally have begun pickin' out the likely-looking she-angels." I dropped the stirrup and went over to examine the damage. Both of the quarter straps on the off side had given way. I found that they had been cut nearly through with a sharp knife. My eye strayed to Ramon's chestnut horse standing under the shed.
I thought the voice was Ramon's, but I could not turn, and the people in the carriage answered in French, I thought. A man was shouting "Cool Drinks" on the other side of them. Finally, there was a roar, an irresistible swaying, a rattle of musket ramrods, a rhythm of marching feet, and the grating of heavy iron-bound wheels.
Ramon deceived you. Now it is all right. You will be President, and I can be happy." Ramon's suspicion kindled on the instant. He turned upon the banker. "So! I begin to see! That was a trick, then, to betray my father." "But wait!" Gertrudis exclaimed, sharply. "Did you not trick us also? Did you not use the General, your father, to make me give up the man I love?
His bowed head, nodding to the pace of the pony, seemed to reiterate in grotesque assertion his spoken word. Ramon's tired body tingled as Dex strode faster. The horse nickered, and an answering nicker came from the night. His own tired pony struck into a trot. Dex stopped. Ramon slid down, and, stumbling forward, he touched a black bulk that lay on the sand.
The ponies and the redoubtable One Spot, Two Spot, and Three Spot were located at the Mesa, where they had been left in charge of Ramon's men. All were fat and in good condition, and Firewater was very glad to see his young master again. By the way, Bill Whiting is now stationed in charge at the important railroad center of El Paso.
The question came up from below, in Ramon's voice. The ruffian's accents fairly trembled with eagerness. "Don't know yet this confounded brush. What!" Harding, who had crawled in among the chapparal, started back, as Jack's voice addressed him, coming in low, tense accents from the interior of the cave: "Remember, Harding, we saved your life this morning are you going to betray us now?"
But it was Ramon's face that would come between her and the little square of looking-glass; and it was Ramon, too, who came into her mind the saints forgive her! even when she turned for a moment to her little crucifix, to say a prayer for good fortune, special good fortune, that day.
She had barely spoken of him at all, and then rather as an attractive factor in her own fascinations than a bar to a free indulgence in them. He was as little in her way as his children. With what grace she had adapted herself to his Don Ramon's life she who frankly confessed she had no sympathy with her husband's!
He hopped nimbly from Ramon's steps into the obscurity of his own door. Ramon turned his spectacles softly upon me. "There you have it," he said. "The folly; the folly! To send only little boats to attack such a nest of villains. It is inconceivable." The horseman had brought news that the boats of Rowley's squadron had been beaten off with great loss, in their attack on Rio Medio.
"I have," said Jack, gratefully accepting the proffered refreshment; and availing himself forthwith of the opening afforded by Don Ramon's remark, he proceeded to tell the whole story of the mysterious disappearance of the Montijo family, winding it up by mentioning that he had made this call at Calderon's suggestion. "I am very glad indeed that you acted upon that suggestion," said Don Ramon.
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