Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-07-08
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to nave IL. :, i
The deep eyes Shone. She shrugged !
h,r shoulders. YES. would be glad
:, have if. And could have 1t for a
Thousand dollars-perhaps less.
AT that cost you must be content 10
90 without it. What advice shall l
give to Don GartaS:
How should know: Let nm see
70 his own troubles. and be glad that
your sister is not so beautiful that you
have. no ppacc because of her.
II was long after dark when horse
stopped at WEARS adobe. NeJar hau
been asleep. He jumped up ana went
to the door. He had his finger on the
trigger of his revolver man stood
under the brokrn-down ramada. be
fore he spoke the Mexican had seen by
the moonlight that he was Gringo.
They talked together in low tones until
sofia joined them, rubbing her eyes ana
moving nolSelp>>ly. with her bare rect.
across the dirt floor.
This man" said her brother. lis an
American. He says he has ridden all
day to get into Los Angeles before
night but his horse went lame. 1t Is
So bad now that he can go no farther.
| and he wishes to stay here until morn
ing
Let him stay" said Sola. not too
| crariously. He can have my bed. l
cannot sleep
| Nejar gruntcd in much contempt
| "NaSrnytl does not lie awake for yOu,"
he said.
| Sofa made no answer. She accepted
the fact She put the American upon
the blanket covered willow boughs that
she called her bed. Her brother tied
the horse beside his own In the roof
less adobe clubhouse. and fed 1t some
hay. He did nothing for its lame foot.
The suffering of a dumb brute Is
matter of utter Indifference to Next
can. when it is not cause for laughtr.
The American was Il mere youth.
Soda saw that when the patch Of moon
light finally worked around to where
he lay. He was so still that she began
to think he might be dead. So she rose
from where she sat upon the floor. lean
| lily dkdIuSl luc Nttlls anu WCAt ACAI ~
see if he We're breathing. 1t seemed
that he slept very lightly. for he start
ed up with his left hand upon his belt
and his right hand upon his revolver.
You were so still l thought you
might be dead" said Sofa. in her deep.
ness Of sound. He took his hand from
the weapon and lay back shamefaced-
ly. 1t was only a woman, thick-set.
lazy. good hearted Mexican. He had
not been able to see her face. and he
did not know that the comfOrtless pal
let was her bed. He turned on it and
fell asleep again. But Sofa was think
ing. Long after her brother was
. dreaming in the next room she crouch
ell. looking into the darkness with her
great, wide eyes-seeing nothing. And
in her brain ran the clink of the coins
as the young Gringo had put his hand
to his belt. There was a purpose in her
, unflinching mind. That she debated 1t
therein was due only to her uncertain
ty as to how many coins had clinked,
+ as to whether there were enough to
buy Antonio Mascavel Five hundred
t dollars would do it-for time. After
that he might kill her: or he might let
> her live and go away with RefugiO-
which would be worse. He was a
gambler through and through, and
o none the less so because Of being luck
+ less. A few hundred dollars in actual
cash would present to him unlimited
g possibilities Of the wealth that it NIGH,
win. And there is always the pool
t chance. in a woman's mind. that the
l. man may learn to love as she loves
J.. He might forget Refugio; or she nigh,
marry some one else.
J. She went slipping across the earther
r floor and CROPPED in a corner behind 8
< string of chiles. Her hand came ou
e from the shadow holding a knife tina
d cleaned as she moved back through
j. the strip OF moonlight and toward tn,
willow-bough pallet where the incau
II tious youth lay, sleeping heavily now
e Fifteen minutes later she went int,
e the room where her brother Law upo,
p bed like her own. She reused hin
z with her bare foot. He turned with :
.. sleepy grunt.
II Get up and come here" she said
r She was not capricious creature. l
j. was her way to do little, but that II
logged earnest. So Vejar sprang u,
3 and went with her She STONED liz
4. side the bed and pointed down to til
" body.
- II have killed him." she said.
er Vejar made no answer. He did no
r. understand.
he Il have killed him." she repeated
you take him away and bury him.
IN 1t flashed upon Vejar that what hi
W sister said was true. He was frieh,
T. ened. He dropped down beside tn
III body and dragged 1t into the streak q
"a moonlight.
ut Take care" Sofa warned him: 81,
he there Is blood on the floor 1t can h
t seen. l can burn the blanket that
ce on the bed; and no one saw him come,
Netar let the body fall. and stood :,