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Drew pulled rein for the tenth time, his exasperation growing. "I might do just that." Shawnee had been worth fifty of this temperamental blooded hunter. "You take Tejano heah. He's a rough-coated ol' snorter nothin' to make an hombre's eyes bug out but he takes you way over yonder, an' then he brings you back ... nothin' more you can ask." Drew agreed.
The tall man favored Johnson with a confidential wink. "Bill, he allows he can shoot right peart. Bill's from California." Bill, the short man, produced a gray-and-yellow tobacco sack and extracted a greasy ten-dollar greenback, which he placed on the box table at Johnson's elbow. "Cover that, durn you! You hold stakes, stranger. I'll show him California. Humph! Dam' wall-eyed Tejano!"
"He may refuse, and very likely will, on the plea of your being a stranger only a barbarian, a Tejano or gringo, as he has put it." "I am alone here what am I to do?" The Kentuckian spoke half in soliloquy, his countenance expressing extreme chagrin. "Fuez, senor!" responded the Mexican colonel, "if you're determined on a desafio I think I might arrange it.
A Tejano, was his reflection what should he know of the sword? And swords were the weapons chosen. Had the captain of Zacatecas Lancers been told that his intended adversary had spent a portion of his life among the Creoles of New Orleans, he would have been less reliant on the chances likely to turn up in his favour.
Rivas surveyed Anse none too amicably, his gaze going from man to horse and its gear, then back to the Texan once more. "You are Tejano," he said flatly. "From the Neusca——" Anse showed no surpise at being so accurately identified. "Been bush poppin’," he agreed, smiling. "Not much cattle here," Rivas returned. "Run hosses in th’ San Sabe ’fore th’ war."
The half-ice, half-rain struck under water-logged hat brims, found the neck opening where the body covering, improvised from a square of appropriated Yankee oilcloth, lay about the shoulders. "I'm thinkin' we sure have struck a stream lengthwise." Kirby's Tejano crowded up beside Hannibal. "Can't otherwise be so many bog holes in any stretch of country.
Notwithstanding her knowledge that this man is madly in love with her for she now also knows how much he has been a traitor her thoughts, as her eyes, are upon one more true on her grand, gallant Tejano! She is proud to observe the distinguished part he plays among his compaisanos. For, in truth, Walt is doing this.
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