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Updated: June 13, 2025
"As I live, Senor Don Estevan, 'tis the truth!" "There is a real danger, then?" "Certain there is, my master!" "Very well, in that case I shall remain where I am." "Are you in earnest?" asked the frightened Tragaduros. "Quite so the duty of a leader is to protect his followers," said the Spaniard, proudly, "and that is what I mean to do.
Fabian said to himself, that the daughter of Don Augustin doubtless only yielded obedience to the ambitious views of her father, and that it might yet be easy for him, noble and rich, to win the day against such a rival as Tragaduros.
"Are there many men of your size and strength where you come from?" inquired the Senator, addressing himself to the largest of the two hunters. "In Canada," answered the latter, "I should not be remarked among others; ask my comrade there!" "He speaks true," grumbled the other. "But you are not both from the same country?" said Tragaduros. "No my comrade is a native of "
Another source of anxiety to the haciendado, was the absence of all news from the Duke de Armada; and to this anxiety was added impatience. The projected marriage between Rosarita and the Senator had been devised by Don Estevan. Tragaduros had urged its fulfilment. Don Augustin had laid the proposal before his daughter, but she replied only by tears; and her father still hesitated.
I am not one of those who sell the skin of the bear before the animal is caught. It is enough for you to know, Don Vicente Tragaduros y Despilfarro, that I have a hundred thousand dollars at your disposal the moment you say the word it only remains for you to hear my conditions, and subscribe to them."
As to Tiburcio, he had not the same motives for acting thus, and therefore entered along with Don Estevan and Tragaduros, his face pale and his heart beating audibly. The room into which they had been shown was the grand sala already described, and in which certain preparations had been made for a magnificent banquet. But Tiburcio saw nothing of all this.
"To-morrow I shall tell you all, my father." The good haciendado did indeed require the explanation of this mystery, when he was left in ignorance of the chief fact concerning it. "We have another duty to fulfil," continued he; "the last wish expressed by Don Antonio, on parting from me, was that you should be united to the Senator Tragaduros.
Tragaduros entered like a man who feels that the announcement of his arrival is always welcome. His manner was that of a future kinsman, for he had obtained the father's promise and the daughter's consent, although that consent was only tacitly given.
Tragaduros had yet to learn that it might have been better for him had Don Estevan lived. We will leave him with the haciendado, and follow Gayferos for perhaps the reader will be glad to hear from him again. The adventurer had saddled his horse, and unseen by anybody had crossed the plain and again taken the road which led to the Presidio of Tubac.
"Upon my word, Don Estevan," replied Despilfarro, "you are cruel to mystify one in this manner. I I Carramba! it is very embarrassing." Don Estevan interrupted him. This hesitation on the part of Despilfarro told the Spaniard what he wished to know. An ironical smile played upon his lips, and laying aside his pleasantry, he resumed in a serious tone: "Listen to me, Tragaduros!
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