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Meantime, realizing that the German commander did not intend to board the Ventura a second time, Jack crept from the shelter of the pilot house unobserved and stole across the deck until he was beside the rail just above the U-Boat, whose sides almost scraped the Ventura, so close were the two vessels together. Jack removed his coat and his cap, which he dropped on deck.
I fired the ingenious but sedentary assistant, discarded all the advice that had been unloaded upon me by the able bear-liars of Ventura, reduced my impedimenta to what one lone, lorn burro could pack, broke camp and struck for a better Grizzly pasture, determined to play the string out alone and in my own way.
While he walked, he practiced the strident-voiced delivery of extravagant lies he had learned so well and had so magnificently imitated from the Ventura Boulevard pitch artists. He practiced the leering insinuendo of the barker outside the gambling hall; he gave it the Calsobisidine con come-on; he sold it solid, dripping with sex, twitching with lure.
Jack looked at his officers with a slight smile on his face, then ordered: "Shape your course due east, Frank. Full speed ahead." As the Essex sped forward the radio operator from time to time picked up other messages from the Ventura. "She's headed directly toward us," Jack explained to Frank. "We should sight her within the hour." The Ventura was sighted in less, but under peculiar conditions.
We were to follow the stream to the southern lakes of the Buona Ventura, where we were to leave our Indians, and join some half-bred Wachinangoes, returning to Monterey, with the mustangs, or wild horses, which they had captured in the prairies.
The royal fifth is first separated, after which each one receives a share according to his labour. The gold from the mines of San Cristobal goes to the founderies of Bona Ventura; the amount of gold melted in these founderies exceeds 300 pounds of metal.
DOÑA MATILDE. Dichoso usted que tiene la cabeza para hipótesis ... no me sucede a mí otro tanto ... y si al cabo cedo a las instancias de usted.... DON EDUARDO. ¿Cede usted a mis instancias? ¡Oh! ¡qué ventura! DOÑA MATILDE. Sí, hombre injusto; y para ceder mejor a ellas cierro los ojos sobre todas las consecuencias ... diga usted ahora que soy tímida, o que soy....
We passed the Buona Ventura, and followed the track of our white men for upwards of 200 miles, when we not only could trace it no further, but found our small party of fifteen surrounded by about eighty of our implacable enemies, the Crows. By stratagem, we not only broke through them, but succeeded in surprising seven of their party.
We were now a gallant band, two hundred and fifty strong; and in order to find game sufficient for the subsistence of so many individuals, we were obliged to take a long range to the south, so as to fall upon the prairies bordering the Buona Ventura. Chance, however, led us into a struggle, in which I became afterwards deeply involved.
"I'm not sure about that," declared Captain Griswold. "I just heard you say you were going below after those fellows?" "Well?" questioned Jack. "Pretty risky," responded Captain Griswold, shaking his head. "How do you figure to get 'em?" "Rush 'em," said Jack briefly. Again the captain of the Ventura shook his head doubtfully. "Too risky altogether," he declared.
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