Otherwise no human legs could accomplish it."
"Bah! Who can argue with a woman?" sneered Jose.
Alaire, who had listened smilingly, now intervened to avert a
serious quarrel.
"When the train arrives," she told her horse-breaker, "I want you
to find General Longorio and ask him to come here."
"But, senora!" Jose was dumfounded, shocked. "He is a great
general--"
"Give him this note." Quickly writing a few lines on a page from
her note-book, she gave him the scrap of paper, which he carefully
placed in his hat; then, shaking his head doubtfully, he left the
car.
Flushed with triumph, Dolores took the first occasion to enlarge
upon her theme.
"You will see what a monster this Longorio is," she declared. "It
was like him to steal your beautiful cattle; he would steal a
crucifix. Once there was a fine ranch owned by a man who had two
lovely daughters--girls of great respectability and refinement.
But the man was a Candelerista. Longorio killed him--he and his
men killed everybody on the hacienda except the daughters, and
those he captured. He took them with him, and for no good purpose,
either, as you can imagine. Naturally the poor creatures were
nearly dead with fright, but as they rode along the elder one
began talking with Longorio's soldiers.
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