The Overland Monthly Volume 56 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...is more deserving of blame, --you, who in your strength, rob the weaker of their all, or I, who take from your countless herds a paltry few you never miss? Answer me that, lordly Spaniard." Don Escandear's eyes struck fire. Wild words rushed to his tongue, but the choking T8.se within forbade all utterance for the moment. Five score desperadoes, fierce as timber wolves, were back of El Capitan, their sworn leader. Let him give the sign and they would fall on and rend Escandear and his fighting peons. These peons, trained in the martial spirit of their valiant master, looked on the bandits with eager, hungry gaze. At his word they would spring forward like unleashed hounds, ready and savage for the fray. Senorita Dolores struggled to her feet and threw herself into Escandear's arms. "Oh, uncle, uncle " she said. "He saved me from that terrible man, and we must thank him." "I thank you for reminding me," he replied to the girl. Then with perfect courtesy he spoke to El Capitan: "'May 1 have the honor of knowing your name?" "Coach O'Donnell is my name, though I am seldom called so here," was the re "Senor O'Donnell, I, Don Jesus Maria y Jose Escandear, thank you in Senorita Dolores's name and in mine for your brave defense and rescue of her." Every sombrero was doffed in deference to the names of the Holy Family in Nazareth of Galilee. El Capitan's great bay stallion was standing near him, watching his every move with almost human intelligence. The moving sombreros seemed to inner it. It gave the loud, unearthly neigh, and, with eyes flashing, ears laid back against its head, and its teeth bared, rushed at Don Escandear. "Peace, peace, Drumlummon " said the outlaw in his words of South I...