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Updated: May 10, 2025
He was jerking a saddle on the back of Gray Peter, and in sixty seconds he would be tearing out of Los Toros. In the same space Andrew was in his own saddle with a flying leap and spurring out of the trees. By one thing he knew the utter desperation of Hal Dozier. For the man had fired while Andrew's back was turned.
Miguel envied him, but cupidity outgeneraled Cupid, and presently the conversation flagged, until a convenient recollection of Victor's that himself and comrade were due at the Posada del Toros at 10 o'clock gave them the opportunity to retire. But not without a chance shot from Carmen. "Tell to me," she said, half to Victor and half to Miguel, "what has chanced with Concho?
She put her hand up and shaded her working eyes as she looked at the blue sky, but she said nothing. "Do you go to-day to the Plaza de Toros?" he asked. "You shall have good places the best. They are good bulls to-day, black Andalusians, fierce and hard to manage. There will be fine sport. You will go?"
And to disarm suspicion entirely he would leave his cartridge belt and his revolver with Sally in the woods. For what human being, no matter how imaginative, would possibly dream of Andrew Lanning going unarmed into a town and sitting calmly at a table to order a meal? Retrospection made Andrew Lanning's coming to Los Toros a mad freak, whereas it was in reality a very clever stroke.
We finished our luncheon and then, in a hired carriage, drove to the Plaza de Toros. I, with a feeling of cold depression, Suzee, gaily dressed and in the highest spirits. All the city was streaming out in splendid carriage or miserable shay. Rich and cultured, poor and illiterate, human beings are all alike in their love of butchery and blood.
Sally would stay where he left her unless someone else tried to get to her head, and then she would fight like a wildcat. He knew that, and he therefore started for Los Toros with his line of communications sufficiently guarded.
Among other things, the great difficulty my Lord hath been in all this summer for lack of good and full orders from the King; and I doubt our Lords of the Councell do not mind things as the late powers did, but their pleasures or profit more. That the Juego de Toros is a simple sport, yet the greatest in Spain.
For he had determined to eat once again, at least, at a table covered with a white cloth, food prepared by the hand of another. Sally was known; he would leave her in the grove beside the Little Silver River. For himself, weeks had passed since any man had seen him, and certainly no one in Los Toros had met him face to face. He would be unknown except for a general description.
The ground upon which the fight takes place occupies about an acre, and is situated on the Regla side of the harbor, in the Plaza de Toros. The seats are raised one above another, in a complete circle, at a secure height from the dangerous struggle.
"Sometimes in the Plaza de Toros, Señor," he went on, speaking rapidly and tensely, "the throngs cry, 'Bravo, matador! and toss coins into the ring. Yet in a moment the same throngs may shout until their throats are hoarse: 'Bravo, toro! A King is like a bull in the ring, Señor he has a fickle fate. To me he is nothing if it pleases them it is their King let them do as they wish."
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