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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Where can he have come from? In the name of all the saints, where has the fellow " "Roblado, I must go below! I must go in, I will not stay to meet him! I cannot!" "Nay, colonel, better let him speak with us. He has seen and recognised you already. If you appear to shun him, it will arouse suspicion. He has come to ask our help to pursue the Indians; and that's his errand, I warrant you!"
Roblado emptied the goblet at a draught, and then, leaning nearer to the Comandante, he detailed what he had conceived in a low and confidential tone. It seemed to satisfy his listener, who, when the other had finished, uttered the word "Bravo!" and sprang to his feet like one who had received some joyful news.
An eye had been bent all the time upon that ray of light escaping through the curtained glass, the eye of the girl Vicenza. During the early part of the evening the maid had asked leave to go out for a while. It had been granted. She had been gone for nearly an hour. Conducted by the soldier Jose, she had had an interview with Roblado. At that interview all had been arranged between them.
True, to have reached the upper plain, without going through the ravine itself and that, as we have seen would have defeated such a plan would have cost a journey to the troop to be stationed above. But neither Vizcarra nor Roblado would have grudged either the time or the men to have rendered success thus sure.
"He is here now my own attendant will do. He is below in the court you need lose no time." "No. Roblado," added the Comandante, "your horse is ready you cannot do better than go at once." "Then go I shall: your guide, padre?" "Esteban! Hola! Esteban!" cried the padre, leaning over the wall. "Aqui, Senor," answered a voice. "Sube! sube! anda!"
His dress partook of the character of his tribe wide trousers of coarse cotton stuff, with a sleeveless shirt of the same material, a waist scarf, and coarse serape. Half the upper part of his body was nude, and his thick copper-coloured arms were quite bare. Roblado arrived just in time to witness the finale of an incident that would serve to illustrate the character of the zambo.
"In your own quarters; or elsewhere, as you might have arranged it." "Impossible! she would never have consented to come." "Not by your sending for her direct; I know that." "And how, then?" "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Roblado; "are you so innocent as never to have heard of such a thing as an `alcahuete'?" "Oh! true but by my faith I never found use for one."
The cunning spy was now sure that the place of meeting was to be the grove itself, and might have returned with that information; but Roblado had distinctly ordered her not to leave until she saw the meeting itself, and was certain of the spot. She therefore remained where she was, and awaited the further proceedings of the lovers.
"Oh! you could, indeed?" said Vizcarra, exchanging a significant glance with Roblado, while both exhibited evident symptoms of uneasiness. "Yes, your excellency, anywhere." "It would be impossible," said Roblado. "It is now two days old; besides, we followed it beyond the Pecos, and we have no doubt the robbers are by this time far out of reach, of any pursuit.
She was then blinded by a leathern "tapado," and in that state carried to the Presidio, and within its walls utterly ignorant of the distance she had travelled, and the place where she was finally permitted to rest. Every act in the diabolical drama was conceived with astuteness, and enacted with a precision which must do credit to the head of Captain Roblado, if not to his heart.
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