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Santa Anna, who was deceived at the point of attack, on hearing the guns of Steptoe, moved at once to Candelaria and San Antonio Garita, where he expected the attack. At noon he repaired to Chapultepec, and, taking charge of a battalion, moved to re-enforce a work which was being attacked. The Americans opened fire on this force and compelled it to withdraw.
It wasn't no bigger than one of these chunks; but Jiminy! you oughter have seed them gals grip and heave on it, and then hev to give it up! "Dry up!" said Steptoe roughly. Then turning to Stacy he said abruptly, "But where's the rest of it? You've got more than that." "We sent it to Boomville this morning.
Then, on the morning of that day, Steptoe Service, grinning and important, came to the Stronghold and served on Ellen a summons in suit for divorce. She met him at the door and invited him in, timidly and shyly, but he stood on the stone and made known his business. At first she did not understand, was like a child told something too deep for its intellect to grasp, bewildered.
I reported to Steptoe, and related what had occurred during the past thirty-six hours, gave him a description of the festivities that were going on at the lower Cascades, and also communicated the intelligence that the Yakimas had been joined by the Cascade Indians when the place was first attacked.
The boy's eyes glittered quickly, like a steel that pierced the father's heart. "Oh," he said simply, "then it was the padre told you?" "How did he know you were here?" asked Steptoe. "I don't know," said the boy quietly. "I think he said something, but I've forgotten it.
"One?" repeated Steptoe. "Who was it?" "Oh, quite an hidalgo an old friend of the child's most polite, most accomplished, fluent in Spanish, perfect in deportment. The Senor Horncastle surely could find nothing to object to. Father Pedro was charmed with him. A man of affairs, and yet a good Catholic, too.
"Which is the richest chunk?" asked Steptoe in a thickening voice. Stacy pointed it out. "Why, it's smaller than the others." "Heft it in your hand," said Barker, with boyish enthusiasm. The short, thick fingers of Steptoe grasped it with a certain aquiline suggestion; his whole arm strained over it until his face grew purple, but he could not lift it.
And by the time that expert and Marshall return they'll find us in peaceful possession, unless we're such blasted fools as to stay talking about it here!" "But what's to prevent Marshall from getting a gang of his own to drive us off?" "Now your talkin' and not yelpin'," said Steptoe, with slow insolence. "D d if I didn't begin to think you kalkilated I was goin' to employ you as lawyers!
The toast was drunk with acclamation, followed by another and yet another. Steptoe and Van Loo, who had kept their heads cool, were both wondering if Hamlin's intention were to intoxicate and incapacitate the crowd at the crucial moment, and Steptoe smiled grimly over his superior knowledge of their alcoholic capacity.
"Then," said Van Loo, with another desperate idea, "could you not let us have saddle-horses instead of the buggy? We could travel faster, and in the event of pursuit and anything happening to ME," he added loftily, "SHE at least could escape her pursuer's vengeance." This suited Steptoe equally well, as long as the guilty couple fled TOGETHER, and in the presence of witnesses.
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