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Updated: June 4, 2025
Guided by the repeated neighing and continuous tramp of their horses, the Rangers ride up, close around, and capture them. Led out into the light, the Texans see before them three men in soldier garb the uniform of Mexican lancers. It is the corporal squad sent back by Uraga to bring on the truant traitor. Of their errand the Rangers know nought, and nothing care.
So ominous, that the vultures perched upon the summit of the cliff crane out their necks to inquire the cause. The stillness is interrupted by a shout; not the signal promised by Wilder, but a cry coming from the lips of Uraga. In the last hour of anguish his craven heart has given way, and he makes a piteous appeal for mercy.
That bull of the Kshatriya race then defeated the brave Kshatriyas of Kashmira and also king Lohita along with ten minor chiefs. Then the Trigartas, the Daravas, the Kokonadas, and various other Kshatriyas, O king, advanced against the son of Pandu. That Prince of the Kuru race then took the delightful town of Avisari, and then brought under his sway Rochamana ruling in Uraga.
Those belonging to Uraga are nearer to the hand of Hamersley having been left upon the saddle which the colonel, in his hasty retreat, had been hindered from occupying. "Carajo!" exclaims Roblez, "there's but one of them after us. The others haven't had time to get mounted, and won't be up for a while. It's some rash fool who's got your horse under him. Let's turn upon him, colonel."
"He is going home first, and will then come back?" "Not home not to his home." "Where, then?" "That is the news I thought might be painful. He has resolved upon going on to our country for reasons already known to you. We suspect Uraga of having been at the head of the red robbers who have plundered him and killed his people.
Uraga breaks silence the first speech vouchsafed to his former commanding officer since making him a prisoner. "Senor Miranda," he says, "you will no doubt be wondering why I have ordered your fellow-captive to be taken apart from you. It will be explained by my saying that I have words for you I don't wish overheard by anyone not even by your dear friend, Don Prospero." "What words, Gil Uraga?"
The Indian nods an affirmative. "Take this." Here Uraga hands him the sealed paper. "See you show it to no one you may chance to meet passing out from the settlements. Give it to Barbato, or hand it to the Horned Lizard himself. He'll know who it's for. You are to ride night and day, as fast as the animals can carry you.
The adjutant obeys the first two of these directions; then, stepping out of the sala, leaves his superior officer alone. Uraga glances around to assure himself that there are weapons within reach. With a conscience like his, a soul charged with crime, no wonder. His sabre rests against the wall close to his hand, while a pair of dragoon pistols, both loaded, lie upon the table.
But for a half-score men lying dead along the earth, their warm blood welling from wounds where bullets have passed through their bodies, the gory drops here and there like dew bedecking the blades of grass, or in fuller stream settling down into the sand but for this, the too real evidence of death, one who entered the camp of Uraga as the Mexican Colonel is riding out of it might fancy himself spectator of a pantomime during the scene of transformation.
Several fell some dead, some only disabled; among the last, Colonel Miranda himself, gravely wounded. In ten minutes it was all over; and the commandant of Albuquerque, no longer commanding, lay lodged in the garrison carcel; Captain Gil Uraga, now colonel, replacing him as the supreme military officer of the district.
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