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Steve laughed. "I don't reckon he would think, it a terrible burden, ma'am. And about the Mal Pais this is how it is. Fort Lincoln is all of sixty miles from here as the crow flies. The mines are about seventeen. My notion was you could get there and take the stage to-morrow to your town." "What shall I do for a horse?" "I expect Mr. Neill will let you ride his. He can walk beside the hawss."
The best of feeling did not exist between the owners of the Jackrabbit and those of the Mal Pais. Dunke was suspected of boldly crossing into the territory of his neighbor where his veins did not lead. But there had been no open rupture. For the very reason that an undertow of feeling existed Nellie consented to join the party.
I replied that the light of my countenance would shine upon my faithful servant to the extent of several coins, both rupees and pais, but that the peculiar customs of my caste forbid me to touch food cooked by any one but myself.
"What's that I hear about Struve and Dunke?" asked Neill at once. "Oh, you've heard it. Well, it's true. I judge Dunke was arranging to get him out of the country. Anyhow, Johnson says he took the fellow out to his surrey from the shaft-house of the Mal Pais under his gun. A moment later the engineer heard a shot and ran out. Dunke lay in the road dead, with a knife through his heart.
Collins, whose brother also was among the missing, and she was delighted to accept his invitation to go through the Mal Pais workings with him. "That is, if Mrs. Collins will go, too," she added as an afterthought. That young woman hesitated. Though this man had led his miners against her brother, she was ready to believe the attack not caused by personal enmity.
Richelieu came and shackled the nation, and Mazarin and Lewis the Fourteenth riveted the shackles. There still subsist in some provinces in France, which are called 'pais d etats', an humble local imitation, or rather mimicry, of the great 'etats', as in Languedoc, Bretagne, etc. They meet, they speak, they grumble, and finally submit to whatever the King orders.
DON EDUARDO. Apenas lo sé yo todavía ... cualquiera país me es indiferente con tal que sea bien agreste y selvático. DON EDUARDO. He titubeado algún tiempo entre Californias y la Nueva Holanda; pero al cabo puede ser que me decida por la Isla de Francia. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Allí nacieron Pablo y Virginia! DON EDUARDO. Y el negro Domingo también.
"That's the right sensible way to look at it. In this little old world we got to do a heap we don't want to do. For instance, I'd rather see you to the Mal Pais than hike over the hills after this fellow," he concluded gallantly. Neill, who had been packing the coffee-pot and the frying-pan, now sauntered forward with his horse. "Well, what's the program?" he wanted to know.
But the other was on its feet, a revolver in each hand, a smile of reckless daring on the boyish countenance that just now stood for law and order in Mal Pais. The man beside the girl read the situation at a glance. The handcuffed figure groveling on the steps belonged to the murderer Struve, and over him stood lightly the young ranger Steve Fraser.
"I'm right glad to find you are going to the Mal Pais mines with me, lieutenant. I wasn't expecting company on the way." "I'll bet a dollar Mex against two plunks gold that you're wondering whyfor I'm going." Larry laughed. "You're right. I was wondering." "Well, then, it's this way. What with all these boys on Kinney's trail he's as good as rounded up. Fact is, Kinney's only a weak sister anyhow.
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