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"What money is that?" asked the man behind the window shortly. "Our money for work on railroad. Senor Worth was to pay. El Superintendente say pay to-day sure. He no come. You sabe?" "I sabe that Worth won't pay." "No?" "No. He has no money here." The Mexicans exchanged glances. "No money? You are quite sure, Senor?" "Sure." "Gracias, Senor. Adios!"
The Manager was glad! "Si, Senor." "Gracias, Senor!" "Buenos noches!" "Good night." When Abe Lee, after twenty-six hard hours in the saddle, dismounted in front of the San Felipe hotel and entered the lobby his usually perfect nerves were strained almost to the breaking point. For weeks the surveyor had carried the burden of Jefferson Worth's financial condition as if it were his own.
"Mil gracias, amigos," he said, with a polite inclination of his head, in apology like for shaking himself free from us. "Estoy major!" Captain Applegarth stepped up to him. "I am sorry I can't speak Spanish, sir, though I understand you to say you're better. We're Englishmen all on board this ship, sir, and I'm glad we've been able to pick you up."
Señor, permit me to warn you that José is a demon in the saddle. Not for nothing does he hold the medalla oro." "Gracias, Don Andres. I shall remember," said Jack, and walked away to the stables. He felt that the heart of Don Andres Picardo was warring with his intelligence.
But if anything should happen, you can make a complaint to him." "Bueno. You have not the power; I have. I make not the complaint to Fiddletown. I make the complaint to Jose Perez, to Manuel, to Antonio, to Sanchicha she is a strong one! I say 'Chook him out. They chook him out! they remove him! He does not r-r-remain. Enough. Bueno. Gracias, senor, good-a-by!" She was gone.
Throughout most of the savage tribes, there appears to have been great veneration for the dead, and an anxiety to preserve their remains undisturbed. When about to sail, Columbus seized seven of the people, two of whom, apparently the most intelligent, he selected to serve as guides; the rest he suffered to depart. His late guide he had dismissed with presents at Cape Gracias a Dios.
And what got me she was ez white ez you or me, with blue eyes, and a lot o' dark reddish hair in a long braid down her back. Why, only for her purty sing-song voice and her 'Gracias, senor, you'd hev reckoned she was a Blue Grass girl jest fresh from across the plains." A little amused at his foreman's enthusiasm, Mr. Grey gave an ostentatious whistle and said, "Come, now, Richards, look here!
Guatemala being a Central American state, this constituted a distinct advance of British dominion in Central America, contrary to the terms of our treaty. A more important claim of Great Britain was to the protectorate of the Mosquito Coast, a strip understood by her to extend from Cape Gracias á Dios south to the San Juan River.
"Same here," he said. "I've got to make San Bonito in time for that Eastbound. You have the sheep in the stockyards by Saturday, will you? If I'm not there myself, I'll leave the money with Johnson at the express office. Soon as the sheep's inspected, you can go there and get it. Addios. Mucho gracias, Señora."
Dale engaged one of the Mexicans in conversation, and passed something to him, then pointed northward and down along the trail. The Mexican grinned from ear to ear, and Helen caught the quick "SI, SENOR! GRACIAS, SENOR!" It was a pretty sight, that flock of sheep, as it rolled along like a rounded woolly stream of grays and browns and here and there a black.
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