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"If," exclaimed Zuroaga, fiercely, "they do not overtake us until after the middle of our second day out, I believe they would be unlucky to try to arrest us. I hope they will be wise, and not tire out their horses with too much haste. I feel as if I could shoot pretty straight if I should see them coming within range." "So could I," replied Tassara.
"Your hands are not steady enough. I will tell you how it is." "Oh, do!" she whispered, hoarsely, as she handed it to him. "They are lancers in uniform. Oh, me! This is dreadful! And they may follow us, too." Colonel Tassara took the glass with apparently perfect coolness, and Ned took note that it did not tremble at all, as he aimed it at the distant skirmish.
"Not for to-day nor to-morrow, perhaps, but down goes the Paredes monarchy! Ah, me! There is a terrible time coming for poor Mexico. Who shall tell what the end of it all will be!" "Nobody!" said Señora Tassara, sadly, but Felicia whispered to Ned: "Señor Carfora, the gringos could not do us much harm if their army had a revolution springing up behind it at home. I wish they had one."
"He may be of more importance than I had any idea of," said Ned to himself, "and I wish I knew what was coming next." He was not to find out immediately, for Zuroaga motioned him to go on into the house, while he himself and Tassara remained to talk with Pablo and the other machete-bearers.
It seemed, in fact, to be getting worse every minute, and Ned was thinking of the Goshhawk and the state of her cable, even while he was being introduced to the pretty Señorita Felicia Tassara, and then to her mother, a stately woman, who came to meet her husband without condescending to say how badly she had been alarmed on his account.
It was a four-oared boat, and Colonel Tassara, at the stern, beckoned to him without speaking, as if he might have reasons for silence as well as haste. "In with you, Ned," said Captain Kemp. "I'll try to see you within a day or two. Take good care of yourself. Good day, colonel."
Señor Zuroaga must not come to the ship again. I will be here to-morrow evening. May I be assured that you will then be ready to come to my house?" "Tell him of course you will!" said a voice behind Ned, peremptorily, and it was Captain Kemp who had come over for a few words with Tassara.
I wish I were a man to go and fight." Her eyes were flashing and she looked very warlike, but the only thing that poor Ned could think of to say just then was: "Señora Tassara, if you are not careful, somebody will get in some day and steal your beautiful coffee-urn." "Ah me!" sighed the señora. "This has been attempted, my young friend.
Ned was now aware that he had entered a broad hall-like passageway, which appeared to run through the house, and to have several doors on each side. One of these doors had opened to let the new light in, and through it also came Señor Zuroaga, two other men, and a young girl, who at once threw her arms around the neck of Colonel Tassara. "O father!" she exclaimed, "I am so glad!
There was a loud rap at his door just then, and in a moment more he was almost repeating that speech to Señor Zuroaga. "Please say very little to Colonel Tassara or anybody else in this house," replied the senor, emphatically. "Get used, as soon as you can, to being called Carfora. We must make you look like a young Mexican right away. I've bought a rig which will fit you.
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