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Updated: June 22, 2025
He felt himself better off here than alone at the hacienda. This time, between two and three in the morning, he was so tense and animate that he heard the soft, swift tread of a Chinese in the hall and the faintest possible rustle of a paper thrust under his door.
When I got there and heard as how you hed crossed the mountains in a terrible storm I just hed to go on. I made straight for old Sanchez', who has a hacienda and raises grapes just this side of the river. He was drunk as usual, but his servants hedn't seen nothin' of you, and then I was seriously alarmed.
I'm most tuckered out." This reminded the others that they, too, were almost exhausted, and it was agreed by all that Pete's plan was a good one. By keeping to the road, they might find a hacienda or native hut where they could obtain refreshments without being asked embarrassing questions. As they rode along, talking thus in low tones, Coyote Pete suddenly drew rein.
"There will be no more talk of money," he commanded, tersely. John Parker had finished writing his letters and was standing, with his wife and the potato baron, in front of the hacienda when Pablo and his prisoner rode into the yard. Thin rivulets of blood were trickling from the Basque's nose and lips; his face was ashen with rage and apprehension. "Why, Loustalot, what has happened?"
The former moved apparently in a forbidden penetralia of this house of mystery. But surely he could not continue miraculously to disappear.... Bedient strolled down into the city. He sadly faced the fact that the hacienda had no call for him; little more than The Pleiad. He turned in Calle Real to look back at the great dome of the Spaniard's establishment.
Don Juan laughed, and commenced trolling forth a jovial song as we rode along, as if he did not like to be lectured by our tutor. On arriving at the hacienda, we found that Don Ricardo was out; but Dona Maria received us very kindly, and servants immediately came forward to take charge of our horses.
Twice or thrice we forded the stream, and sometimes left it, returning after having travelled a mile or so. This was to avoid the canons, where there is no path by the water. We then ascended a long hill, and after reaching its summit commenced going downwards. "I know this road well," said Raoul. "We are going down to the hacienda of Cenobio." "Pardieu!" he continued. "I ought to know this hill!"
And she unlatched the door of the tonneau and motioned him to enter. The return of Pablo Artelan to the hacienda with his employer's prisoner was a silent and dignified one up to the moment they reached the entrance to the palm avenue. Here the prisoner, apparently having gathered together his scattered wits, turned in the saddle and addressed his guard.
Black's hacienda to Moreno would take them from an altitude of over four thousand feet down to about two thousand feet above sea level, they would be sufficiently up in the mountains to make riding fairly comfortable. The route chosen took the little party first to the headquarters of the Carranza force operating in that section.
From the door of the hacienda he waved his sombrero as we disappeared around a bend in the mountain-pass; we had, perhaps, been a welcome interruption in the monotony of his lonely existence. We were led upward for many miles until we found ourselves again in the region of perpetual snow. There we set our faces to the south.
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