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"The prairie wolf to howl in the presence of the tiger!" muttered the ex-herdsman. "Carramba! there's something strange about that." "But I have heard it said," rejoined Tiburcio, "that it is the habit of the prairie wolf to follow the jaguar when the latter is in search of prey?"
"Only that my conscience assures me it will be perfectly tranquil if if Carramba!" added he, brusquely "if I should send this young fellow to be broiled with his mother in the other world." "God forbid that!" exclaimed the Spaniard, in a lively tone. "What need? Admit that he knows all: I shall be in command of a hundred men, and he altogether alone. What harm can the fellow do us.
As already stated, the report had vaguely spread that he knew the secret of the immense riches, and cupidity supplied to Oroche and Baraja the place of enthusiasm. "Carramba!" cried Baraja, "a man possessing such a secret should be invulnerable." "Immortal!" said Oroche, "or only die after " A blow from a hatchet on his head cut short his words.
"Come, muchachos," he cries to them, soon as they have disposed of their animals, "there's something more to be done before we can call ourselves safe. A tormenta's not a thing to be trifled with. There isn't corner or cranny in this cave the dust wouldn't reach to. It could find its way into a corked bottle, I believe. Carramba! there it comes!"
"Jose, have you been paid your wages for the last six months?" The soldier gazed at Ignacio in astonishment. "Carramba! What's that to you?" "Nothing, Jose, except that you need money, don't you?" It was evident from the look that came over the Spanish soldier's face that the answer he made was sincere. "Santa Maria!" he cried. "Yes! Why?" "Would you like to make some?" "How much?"
"Why, hijos mios, what are you speaking of? Promises to me, a bribe for but doing my duty! 'Twill be a far day before Gaspar Mendez will need that for service done to either friend or relative of his dear dead master ay, to the laying down of my life. Carramba! are we not all embarked in the same boat, to swim or sink together? But we sha'n't sink yet; not one of us.
"Why didn't I think of it before? Let's do it." "But we have no weapons." "Then we must get some." "How?" "Keep your eyes open. There must be some way." The officers kept on their way until they reached the first Pullman, where they stopped for a minute. "Are the orders in here?" asked the captain. "No; the conductor has them. He wouldn't stop the train without I gave them to him." "Carramba!
"What about them?" "Why did you stop them?" "Stop them! Why they are Americans, and they were prisoners in Morro." "I know that," said the officer. "But they were released." "What!" "Yes. And I was charged with the duty of seeing them safe on board the American ships." The Spanish captain stared in amazement. "Carramba!" he muttered. "Why didn't they say so?"
The Spaniard shrugged his shoulders with stoical resignation. "Doubtless," said he, "but we must decide either to fly or to stay." "Carramba!" continued he, "if we two were alone we would gain the opposite bank in a minute; the seven who are left would catch us no doubt, but we should come out of it, as we have out of more difficult situations."
Carramba! if I find this sleepy-head," he added, holding out his long knife, the blade of which glittered through the darkness, "so much the worse or, perhaps, so much the better for him for I shall send him where he may sleep forever." "Mil diablos!" thought Pepe, "this fellow is a philosopher! By the holy virgin I am long enough here."
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