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Grey's curiosity was not wholly appeased. What were the relations of the colonel with the Ramierez family? From what he himself had said, the theory of the foreman as to the motives of the attack might have been possible, and the assault itself committed while the colonel was unconscious. Mr.
When you bedeviled me about gettin' that news, and allowed I might try my hand at reportin', I was fool enough to take up the challenge. So once or twice, when I was off duty here, I hung around the Ramierez shanty.
It was singular, too, that Richards's description of the girl was that of a different and superior type the hidalgo, or fair-skinned Spanish settler. If this was true, what was she doing there and what were her relations to the Ramierez? The next afternoon he went to the fonda.
"They feared that you might have been ill used by some evilly disposed person during your unconsciousness," explained the editor diplomatically; "but as you say THAT was only for a moment, and that you were aware of everything that happened" He paused. "Perfectly, sir! Perfectly! As plain as I see this julep before me. I had just left the Ramierez rancho.
The opposite wing was utilized as a tienda, or general shop, a magazine for such goods as were used by the Mexican inhabitants, and belonged also to Ramierez. Ramierez himself round-whiskered and Sancho Panza-like in build welcomed the editor with fat, perfunctory urbanity. The fonda and all it contained was at his disposicion.
A slight white figure on horseback was careering in the distance. At a signal from Senora Ramierez it wheeled and came down rapidly towards them. But when within a hundred yards the horse was suddenly pulled up vaquero fashion, and the little figure leaped off and advanced toward them on foot, leading the horse. To his surprise, Mr.
But," he added, in laughing recognition of the half reproachful, half humorous discontent on the foreman's face, "what dreadful theory have YOU and the boys got about it and what do YOU expect to expose?" "Well," said the foreman very seriously, "it's jest this: You see, the colonel is mighty sweet on that Spanish woman Ramierez up on the hill yonder.
I've ridden Morgan stock and Blue Grass thoroughbreds bareback, sir, but I've never thrown my leg over such a blanked Chinese cracker before. After he bolted I held my own fairly, but he buck-jumped before I could lock my spurs under him, and the second jump landed me!" "How far from the Ramierez fonda were you when you were thrown?" "A matter of four or five hundred yards, sir."
Ramierez kept a fonda or hostelry on a small estate, the last of many leagues formerly owned by the Spanish grantee, his landlord, and had a wife of some small coquetries and redundant charms. Gambling took place at the fonda, and it was said the common prejudice against the Mexican did not, however, prevent the American from trying to win his money.
That leetle angel of a Cota is, without doubt, the daughter of the adorable Senora Ramierez, but not of the admirable senor her husband. Ah! what would you? We are a simple, patriarchal race; thees Ramierez, he was the Mexican tenant of the old Spanish landlord such as my father and we are ever the fathers of the poor, and sometimes of their children.
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