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"Where are you taking me?" asked Tiburcio, after an interval of silence. "To La Poza, where I have some companions who are to pass the night there. To-morrow, if you like, on to the hacienda of Venado." "To the hacienda of Venado! that is just where I was going."
The three horsemen set off at full speed; the horse of the unknown equalled in strength and mettle those of Don Augustin's envoys. The journey was rapidly accomplished; and at dawn of the third day, they could trace in the distance the clock-tower of the Hacienda del Venado, and an hour afterwards they dismounted in the court-yard.
"Can any of you tell us," continued he, without thinking further about his wound, "if there is a hacienda in this neighbourhood where one might sell these two beautiful jaguar skins, as well as the hide of a panther we've got?" "Certainly," replied Benito, "there is the Hacienda del Venado, where we are going.
"Don Augustin Pena proprietor of the Hacienda del Venado." A ray of joy lit up the countenance of the unknown. "I am able," he said, "to furnish Don Augustin with all the information he may desire. How many days' journey is it from hence to the hacienda?" "Three days' journey, with a good horse."
Diaz could offer no assistance, for he had himself to defend against the attacks of Fabian. Fabian scarcely knew the Indian fighter; he had seen him only for a few hours at the Hacienda del Venado; but the generosity of his conduct had awakened in the heart of the young man a warm sympathy, and he wished to spare his life.
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