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Updated: June 27, 2025
These regard his splendid uniform with astonishment, which he, fancying himself "Don Juan Tenorio," mistakes for admiration, and repays with a bland smile. There, too, is the third officer there are but the three the teniente, Garcia by name. He is better looking, and consequently more of a favourite with both poblanas and rich senoritas, than either of his superiors.
That would keep you clear from all suspicion of over-haste, which may attach to you if you take the thing into your own hands here." "Bah! you talk like a child, teniente! The security of a prison in New Mexico, or the chances of a prisoner being condemned, far less executed, are things merely imaginary. All the more now that there's some probability of a change in the political sky.
He feared that, disdainful of his caution, they had driven straight into ambush. Ought not the Teniente Blake to push forward at once with his whole force and ascertain their fate? Blake bade him hold his peace.
He had gone but half an hour, and I was dressing after first bugle-call for reveille, when I was startled by the rapid approach of some one running towards my door. Presently the guide tumbled into the cabin, gasping: "Muchos Navajos, teniente, muchos Navajos!" "Where are they, and how many?" I asked. "About half a league over the ridge," pointing to the south.
In these sunny climes the bud blossoms and the young fruit ripens in a single day. With my companions, however, the case was different. The Teniente could never cease being surprised that the commercial and naval facilities of the splendid bay before us had been so long overlooked.
"Who were the two men who followed me?" he calmly asked, and his eyes, though red-rimmed and inflamed by the dust of the desert, looked straight into the dark face of the aggrieved Sancho. "Surely I know not, Señor Teniente" he had dropped the "capitan" as too transparent flattery. "Don't lie, Sancho. There's ten more dollars," and Loring tossed an eagle into the ready palm.
Sir, I may speake; my tongue's unshackled yet, And, were my hands and feete so, on free ground I would mayntayne the honour of this Lady Against an Hoast of such ignoble husbands. Jo. You are condemnd allready by the Law I make no doubt; and therefore speake your pleasure. And here come those fore whom my rage is silent. Enter Ferdinando, Teniente, Guard. Fer.
At the second door of the mud-and-straw building he paused to add in an awe-struck whisper: "Take off your hat and wait until he calls you in." Instead I stepped toward the entrance, but the teniente snatched at the slack of my shirt with a gasp of terror: "Por Dios! Take off your revolver! If the colonel sees it...."
Under the lead of Dolores, by judicious zig-zagging, and by glow and painful advances, we finally reached the vigia, the mules thoroughly blown, but the Teniente and the instruments safe. The latter were speedily set up, and the observations, which were to exercise so important an influence as a basis for our future operations, satisfactorily made.
The next at Utrera; met about a league short, by order of the Conde de Molina, Assistente de Sevilla, with a troop of horse, and by Don Lope de Mendoza, Alguazil, mayor of the city, as Teniente del Duque de Alcal, proprietor by inheritance of that office, the said Don Lope being, by the same order, to conduct me as far as Cordova.
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