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The officers were just getting the new companies into shape for an expedition against the bandits who were now ravaging most of the country south of the Tehachapi, when Murieta and Three-Fingered Jack waylaid General Bean one night near San Gabriel Mission, dropped the noose of a reata over his head, dragged him from his horse, and stabbed him through the heart.
Bull-throated, yet withal of a lean, rangy, muscular conformation, his every movement betokened virility and force; an experienced frontiersman would have glanced approvingly at his well-ordered equipment, the wicked blue Colts in its Mexican holster sagging at just the proper angle for quick work on a cartridge belt filled to the last becket, the pliable reata hanging in unkinked coils with chafed honda evincing long usage.
A half-breed aspire to a Cortez!" She forgot her husband's separateness with true Californian pride. "My daughter and the son of an Indian! Holy God! And she has dared! she has dared! The little imbecile! The little But," and she gave a furious laugh, "she will not forget again." She caught the greenhide reata from the nail and went up the stair.
Do not take it until I am dead. And what do you think it was? The greenhide reata." "Mother of God! But Jacoba must have felt as if she were already in purgatory." "It is said that she grew ten years older in the night." "May the saints be praised, my child can leave me no such gift. But all men are not like Dario Castañares. I would have thee marry an American.
PEDRIGAL, a lava-field. PEOS, a debt-slave; see p. 291. PITO, 1, a whistle, pipe; 2, aloe-fibre thread. POTRERO, a water-meadow. PULQUE, a drink made from the juice of the aloe; see p. 38. RANCHERO, a cottager, yeoman. RANCHO, a hut. RAYAR, to pull a horse up short at a line; see p. 163. REATA, a horse-rope; see p. 264. REBOZO, a woman's shawl; see p. 56. RECUA, a train of mules.
She could not prevent his exit, for she went back with the stone, but she had sprung to the open before he reached it himself, and was striking at him furiously with her reata. One glance satisfied Sturges that Pilar had covered the vaquero, and he devoted the next few moments to dodging the reata.
Morgan could see them plainly now, although it was too dark to trace their features. One of them dropped the noose of a rope over his head as the one who stood behind him took the flask from his lips. Morgan knew by the feel of it against his neck that it was a platted rawhide, such as the Mexicans term reata. "Granger, if you got anything to say, say it," this one directed.
From San José Murieta went northward into the Sacramento valley and took quarters with Rosita in Sonorian Camp, a Mexican settlement near Marysville. About twenty cutthroats under Valenzuela and Three-Fingered Jack began working in the neighborhood. The ambush was their favorite method three or four in a party and one of the number ready with his reata.
The train was getting under way; three of the gang laid hold of the reata and ran, dragging Morgan against his best efforts to brace his feet and hold them, the others pushing him toward the moving train. The long freight was bound westward.
Planting his feet firmly on the rock the big cowboy lashed the kinks out of his reata and coiled it carefully; then as the first broad swirl seized its plaything and swung him slowly around Creede let out a big loop and began to swing it about his head, his teeth showing in a tense grin as he fixed his eyes upon the mark.
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