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Updated: June 11, 2025
While they rode together up the valley, Jack told the details of the encounter with José, and declared that he was doing all that even Dade could demand of him by resisting the desire to ride down to Santa Clara and make José swallow his words. "I'd have done it anyway, as soon as I brought Teresita home," he added, with a hint of apology for his seeming weakness.
Whereupon Teresita bethought her of her last night's lesson, and replied slowly and solemnly: "My dear Mrs. Seem'son, how do you do?" "Mrs. Seem'son," realizing the underlying friendliness of the carefully enunciated greeting, flushed with pleasure and for a minute forgot all about the patch problem. "Why, honey, you've been learnin' English jest so's you can talk to me!"
"Why don't you wear it just the way it is, honey?" Mrs. Jerry had suggested and very sensibly, too. "I wouldn't go and twist it all up and stick pins through it, if I was you. It's prettier just that way." Teresita had understood enough of that, thanks to the teachings of her blue-eyed one, to know that the pretty señora did not mean to keep her promise.
During one day of his stay in town he had seen Teresita, who had at first stared half frightened by the change she saw in him, and then had told him truths he could have wrung her neck for putting into words. "You look an old man," she said, with the foreign accent he had once found deliciously amusing, but which now seemed to add a sting. "And somesing is eating you op.
"Aha!" she cheerily exclaimed, as she placed the tray and its contents upon the table by the side of the bed, "it is easy to see that the Senor is better; his eyes are brighter; the long sleep has done him good. And now he needs only plenty of nourishing food and careful nursing to set him again upon his feet. Teresita tells me that you are hungry, Senor which is another good sign.
"Tell the señora I am sorry, and she shall stay; and my mother will give her hens and a bottle of her very good medicine, which Manuel drinks so greedily," Teresita cried, when Dade told her what the woman said, and leaned impulsively and held out her hand. "I would do as the Americanos do, and shake the hands for a new friendship," she explained, blushing a little. "We shall be friends.
His nostrils widened again when he looked casually at Jack; for Jack's sombrero was swept down to his knees in salute though it was not that; it was the look in his face that sent Dade's glance seeking Teresita's eyes for answer. But Teresita only showed him how effectively black lashes contrast with the faint flush of cheeks just hinting at dimples, and he got no answer there.
Teresita was stubborn and would not turn and run; but she happened to be riding Tejon, who knew something about bulls and was capable of acting upon his knowledge. He whirled with hind feet for a pivot and ducked away from the horns coming at him, and it was not one second too soon. The bull swept by, so close that a slaver of foam was flung against Teresita's skirt as he passed.
Again the twist of her pretty, pouting lips, blood-red and tempting. Her José! For just a minute the face of Teresita showed vague to him before his wrathful eyes. "When you tell your beads again, Señorita," he advised her crisply, "say a prayer or two for your José also.
Jerry went back to the problem of the small patch and the large hole. Hampered thus by having no common language between them, Teresita failed absolutely to accomplish her mission. Mrs.
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