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As a matter of fact, Ramerrez not only bore the imprint of his mother's race in features and in speech, but the more he made war upon them, the more he realised that it was without any real feeling of hostility. In spite of his early training and in spite of his oath, he could not share his father's bitterness.
In former times the old Spaniard had possessed these in profusion, but little was left now. Indeed, whatever property he had at the present time was wholly in cattle and horses, and even these were comparatively few. There had been a period, not so very long ago at that, when old Ramerrez was a power in the land.
"No, I don't believe it yet!" rapped out the Girl, laying great stress upon the last word. "I know he isn't." "Well, he is Ramerrez, and he did come to The Polka to rob it," retorted the Sheriff. All at once the note of resentment in the Girl's voice became positive; she flared back at him, though she flushed in spite of herself. "But he didn't rob it!" "That's what gits me," fretted Sonora.
"Well, the boys had better look to their watches. I met that lady once." Ashby shot him a look of inquiry. "She's looking to that five thousand reward for Ramerrez," he told him. Rance's interest was growing by leaps and bounds though he continued to riffle the cards. "What? She's after that?" "Sure thing.
At that moment Ashby, the Wells Fargo Agent, was nearer than ever before to the most brilliant capture of all his career. Late the following afternoon, some five miles from the Mexican settlement, on a small tableland high above a black ravine which was thickly timbered with the giant trees of the Sierras, Ramerrez' band was awaiting the coming of the Maestro.
"Well, boys, how d'you like bein' snowed in for a week?" asked The Pony Express, warming himself by the stove; and then without waiting for an answer he rattled on: "There's a rumour at The Ridge that you all let Ramerrez freeze an' missed a hangin'. Say, they're roarin' at you, chaps!" And with a "So long, boys!" he strode out of the room.
Quick as lightning Ramerrez stepped in and caught Nina's up-raised arm. For one instant her eyes flashed fire at him; another, and submissive to his will, she slipped the knife somewhere in the folds of her dress and the attention that she had succeeded in attracting was diverted elsewhere. Those who had rushed up expecting a tragedy returned, once more, to their dancing.
The young bandit, for he had kept his oath to his father, flattered himself that he had done much. In all the mining camps of the Sierras the mere mention of the name of Ramerrez brought forth execrations. Not a stage started out with its precious golden freight without its passengers having misgivings that they would be held up before reaching Sacramento.
All in all, it was scarcely to be wondered at that her charms stirred to the very depths the fierce passion of the desperate characters about her. That Ramerrez dreaded the interview which he had determined to have with his confederate can easily be understood by anyone who has ever tried to sever his relations with an enamoured woman.
Git!" the men made for the intruder and bodily threw him out of the room. When quiet was restored Rance motioned to the prisoner to proceed. "Ramerrez can be taken too well taken," declared the Mexican, gaining confidence as he went on, "if many men come with me in forty minutes there back." Rance turned to Ashby and asked him what he thought about it.
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