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It must be remembered that, while a doorway of the Casa was five feet in depth, it was only four feet wide at the base and less than thirty inches at the top, so that it was something in the way of a defile and easily defensible. The moment Thurstane was inside, he placed himself behind one of the solid jambs of the opening, and presented both sabre and revolver.
He was a "poor white" by birth; he remembered still the "high-toned gentlemen" who used to overawe his childhood; he recognized in Thurstane that unforgotten air of domination, and he was thoroughly daunted by it.
With a smile which was almost a boast, she answered, "And I was not very frightened." At this, Aunt Maria struggled from between two rolls of bedding into a sitting posture and ejaculated, "Of course not!" "Did they hit you?" asked Clara, looking eagerly at Thurstane. "How brave you are!" he replied, admiring her so much that he did not notice her question.
All along the base the dampness of the earth had eaten away the clay, so that in many places the structure was tottering to its fall. Filing to the left a few yards, the emigrants found a deep fissure through which the animals stumbled one by one over mounds of crumbled adobes. Thurstane, entering last, looked around him in wonder.
He had no starts of humanity nor of real chivalry, but he had family pride and personal vanity, and he was capable of the fighting fury. When Thurstane had given the word to advance, Coronado had put himself forward gallantly. "Stay here," he said to the officer; "guard the train with your infantry. I am a caballero, and I will do a caballero's work," he added, rising proudly in his stirrups.
"No, no," answered several voices. "You would only be in the way." "Give me my horse," continued Thurstane. "Where are Meyer and Kelly?" He was told how they had gone on to Fort Yuma with Major Robinson, taking his horse, the government mules, stores, etc. "Ah! unfortunate," he said. "However, that was right.
It was undoubtedly a monument of that partially civilized race, Aztec, Toltec, or Moqui, which centuries ago dotted the American desert with cities, and passed away without leaving other record. With his field-glass Thurstane discovered what he judged to be another similar structure crowning a distant butte. They had no time to visit these remains, and they resumed their voyage.
Shortly after Thurstane had received what he called his cashiering, his company was ordered from Fort Yuma to San Francisco. It had garrisoned the Alcatraz fort only two days, and he had not yet had a chance to visit the city, when he was sent on this expedition to San Diego to hunt down a deserting quartermaster-sergeant.
The fact is that he had taken a fancy to Thurstane since he had learned his fighting qualities, and would rather have done him a favor than murder him. At all events his hatred to "Injuns" was such that he wanted the lieutenant to kill a great many of them before his own turn came. "So you think we'll have a tough job of it?" inferred Ralph. "Cap, we ain't so many as we was.
"I remember," said Clara, who had not recollected him at first because she was looking solely for Thurstane. "You passed us in the desert." "Yes, I took your soldiers away from you, and you declined my escort. I was anxious about you afterwards. Well, it has ended right in spite of me. Of course you have heard of Thurstane's escape."
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