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Not daring to follow the one with the gun for fear of ambuscade, the Indians gave chase to the vaquero on horseback, whom they easily captured. After stripping him of all his clothing, they tied his hands with thongs, and pinned the poor devil to a tree with spear thrusts through the back. "The other Mexican made his escape in the chaparral, and got back to the ranch.
These torn calzoneras and well-worn jacket are all that are left me since I have now no longer my poor horse. Better turn vaquero than be a beggar!" "He knows nothing of the secret then," reflected Cuchillo, "since he is meditating on an employment of this nature."
And the to-morrows have come and gone as did those Spanish lovers, riding up through the sunshine on their silver-bitted pinto ponies and riding out at dusk with tinkling spur-chains into that long to-morrow that has shrouded the ancient plaza in listless dreams. Mexicans in black sombreros and blue overalls still prowl from cantina to cantina, but the gay vaquero and his señorita are no more.
"Is yore paw missin'? I'm right sorry to hear that," the cowpuncher countered with suave irony. He was eager to be gone. His glance followed Doble, who was moving slowly down the street. The girl's face, white and shining in the moonlight, leaned out of the buggy toward the retreating vaquero. "Don't you dare hurt my father! Don't you dare!" she warned. The words choked in her tense throat.
At last, he reflected, he had mastered the art of sitting a horse. He had already mastered the art of mounting and of descending under various conditions and at seemingly impossible angles. As Hi Wingle had once remarked Sundown was the most durable rider on the range. His length of limb had no apparent relation to his shortcomings as a vaquero. Curiosity, as well as pride, may precede a fall.
The country road, white with alkaline dust, crossed the ranch at right angles. Far away, to the left, was a faint blur upon the pink hills. "It's no wagon," said Ajax idly, "and a vaquero would never ride in the dust. It must be a buggy." Five minutes later we could distinguish a quaint figure sitting upright in an ancient buckboard whose wheels wobbled and creaked with almost human infirmity.
The mode of capturing them is by snares made of horse-hair, which are set in front of their caves just as we snare rabbits in a warren, except that for the rabbits we make use of light elastic wire, instead of the horse-hair. Leon was delighted with the excursion, as the vaquero showed him how to set the snares, and told him a great many curious stories of Puna life and habits.
But here she was mistaken! Instead of clinging tightly to her flanks with the inner side of his calves, after the old vaquero fashion to which she was accustomed, he dropped his spurred heels into her sides and allowed his body to rise with her spring, and the cruel spur to cut its track upward from her belly almost to her back.
I have ridden like the wind, and coliared a bull with the best vaquero in the Californias, but I am afraid my mind has had fifteen years of siesta. Now well, I shall be governor of the Californias one day, and then I shall send all the Indians back to the mountains."
"Marcos Arellanos!" he stammered out in a weak voice, "who told you that? I did not kill him!" Fabian smiled bitterly. "Who tells the shepherd," he cried, "where the den of the jaguar is to be found that devours his sheep? "Who tells the vaquero where the horse that he pursues has taken refuge? "To the Indian, the enemy he seeks? "To the gold-seeker the ore, concealed by God?
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