These gentlemen"--
Blaze waved his hand proudly at his neighbors--"constitute the
Jonesville Guards, the finest body of American men that has
invaded Mexican soil since me and Dave went after Ricardo Guzman's
remains. Blamed if I ain't sorry you sidetracked our expedition."
It was evident, from the words of the others, that the Jonesville
Guards were indeed quite as heedless of international
complications as was their commander. One and all were highly
incensed at Longorio's perfidy, and, had Alaire suggested such a
thing, it was patent that they would have ridden on to La Feria
and exacted a reckoning from him.
Such proof of friendship affected her deeply, and it was not until
they were all under way back toward Romero that she felt she had
made her appreciation fully known. When she reflected that these
men were some of the very neighbors whom she had shunned and
slighted, and whose honest interest she had so habitually
misconstrued all these years, it seemed very strange that they
should feel the least concern over her. It gave her a new
appreciation of their chivalry and their worth; it filled her with
a humble desire to know them better and to strengthen herself in
their regard.
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