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Ned's tone was courteous and apologetic, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred Urrea would have contented himself with an impatient word or two. But he was in a most vicious temper. Perhaps he had been rebuked by Santa Anna for allowing the rescue of Roylston. "Why don't you speak up?" he exclaimed. "Why do you mumble your words, and why do you stand in such a slouching manner.
"In what way did they show it?" "Urrea said that all of us could go if we would give up you." "And your answer?" The Panther leaned forward a little on his horse. "You know something about the Texans, don't you, Mr. Roylston?" "I have had much opportunity to observe and study them."
Ned was uncommonly strong and agile, and he threw off two of the men, but the others pressed him to the ground, until, at Urrea's command, his arms were bound and he was allowed to rise. Ned was in despair, not so much for himself but because there was no longer a chance that he could get through to Roylston. It was a deep mortification, moreover, to be taken by Urrea.
"Why, on this frontier it's one man's business to help another out of a scrape. If we didn't do that we couldn't live." "Nevertheless, I shall try to pay it," said Roylston, in significant tones. "For the moment we'll think of that hut we're lookin' for," said the Panther. "It will be more than a hut," said Will, who was of a singularly cheerful nature. "I can see it now.
"That is so," said the Panther, who had approached as he was speaking. "It's the one place that we've got to watch most, an' Ned an' me are goin' to sit there on the banks, always lookin'. I see that you've got the eye of a general, Mr. Roylston." The merchant smiled. "I'm afraid I don't count for much in battle," he said, "and least of all hampered as I am now.
Roylston which we don't dream of doin' you'd be after us as hot an' strong as ever." Urrea's swarthy cheeks flushed again. "I shall not notice your insults," he said. "They are beneath me. I am a Mexican officer and gentleman, and you are mere riders of the plains." "All the same," said the Panther grimly, "if you are goin' to talk you have to talk with us."
All the natural brown had returned to his cheeks, and his eyes sparkled with the fire of confidence. "Mr. Roylston," he said, "the hosts of our foe have come an' they have devoured our people as the locusts ate up Egypt in the Bible, but I think our worst days have passed. We'll come back, an' we'll win." "Yes," said Ned.
He did not believe that the Texans and Mexicans could ever get along together, and he was quite sure that Texas could never return to its original position as part of a Mexican state. "You can do much for Texas there with me in New Orleans," said Roylston, as if he were making a final appeal to one whom he looked upon almost as a son. "Perhaps you could do more than you can here in Texas."
After the horses had eaten Obed, the Panther and Ned rode away in search of game, leaving Mr. Roylston in command at the cabin. The snow was no longer falling, and that which lay on the ground was melting rapidly. "I know this country," said the Panther, "an' we've got four chances for game. It may be buffalo, it may be deer, it may be antelope, and it may be wild turkeys.
Ned shook his head a little sadly. He did not like to disappoint this man, but he could not leave the field. Young Allen also said that he would remain. "Be it so," said Roylston. "It is young blood. Never was there a truer saying than 'Young men for war, old men for counsel. But the time may come when you will need me. When it does come send the word."
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