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Sherry and I, to reassure him, put a few reals into his hand not without an object, for I asked Sherry to make him talk on. A policeman sauntered near with his large lantern a superior sort of Dogberry, but very young, as are most of the policemen in Mexico, save the Rurales, that splendid company of highwaymen whom Diaz bought over from being bandits to be the guardians of the peace.
A revolution is a bad time for rurales; one pays old reckonings then." Kit smiled. "I imagine it would have been bad for any Galdarero who had tried to steal away down the road. But I expect you know me?" "We have orders about you, señor; you see a servant of yours," the rural answered with a bow. "But it might be better if you told us your plans."
"Ah, senor, he who so writes is Bernal I am his compadre. He has his mother now, but no father, no father." He smiled. "You have never seen so bold and enterprising, never so handsome a boy. He can throw the lasso and use the lariat, and ride sabe Dios, he can ride! His cousin Gerado the Rurales taught him. I do well by him as I may, who have other things to think on. But I do well by him."
If a man thinks his guard sleeps, and makes a run for it, they do not chase they fire; and if he escapes unhurt, good; he is not troubled. But the Rurales are fine shots!" "You mean," said Sherry, "that the Rurales your Gerado, for one pretended to sleep to be careless. The fellows made a rush for it and were dropped? Eh, Becodar, of the Little Red Peg?" Becodar shrugged a shoulder gently.
Figueroa's men, though they had to cover three times the distance, struck the main body of the rebels first and got badly mussed up in the battle that followed. General Huerta's column did not get away from Cuernavaca until the second day of the fight, and did not reach the battlefield in the extinct crater of Mount Herradura until Figueroa's rurales had been all but routed.
Leaning against the lintel, he lighted a cigar and smoked, gazing at Waring's horse with an appreciative eye. The captain of rurales, seated opposite Waring, rolled a cigarette carefully; too carefully, thought Waring, for a Mexican who had been daring enough to ride across the line with armed men. Outside in the fading sunlight, the horses of the rurales stamped and fretted.
I came over to say that them rurales got their hoss. But one of 'em let it slip, in Mexican, that they weren't through yet." "So?" said Pat. "Well, you go ahead and feed the stock. We'll be over to the house poco tiempo." Waring and the collector entered the cantina. For a long time they sat in silence, gazing at the peculiar half-lights as the sun drew down.
"Your friends that bought the rustled stock didn't get away with the goods. Seems they stumbled into a bunch of rurales unexpected and had to pull their freight sudden. The boys from the ranch happened along about then, claimed ownership and got possession." "If the men bought the stock why didn't they stop and explain?" asked Buck. "That game of buying stolen cattle is worn threadbare.
Some students were fired upon by troops while they were carrying wreaths to the monument of the boy heroes of Chapultepec; a young lawyer was arrested for making a speech beneath the statue of Juarez; and in Tlaxcala a procession of unarmed working men was fired upon and ridden down by rurales, several men and a woman being killed.
I'll be a bandit, and when I'm old, and if Diaz doesn't put me against the wall and prod holes in me like Gonzales, they'll take me in the Rurales, same as Gerado." "Who is it writes on the wall, Becodar?" asked Sherry of our host, as, on his knees, he poured out pulque for us. The old man turned musingly, and made motions of writing, a pleased look in his face.
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