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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 10: brigand life. (search)
his revenge. A mail passes through Tres Pinos every night. The place consists of a post office, a tavern, a stable, a drinking bar, a smithy, and a barn. Leandro Davidson kept the hotel, Andrew Snyder owned a store. Snyder was rich. If all went well with him, Vasquez could reckon on adding the profit of money and horses, to the cover from his face. Vasquez had shot one man named Hill, a second man named Radford. They were strangers, but the colour of their skin was an offence. Davidson was trying to close the door of his hotel, when Vasquez, noticing his movement, raised his gun, and brought the poor innkeeper to the ground. Davidson never spoDavidson never spoke again. Then turning to the teamster Haley, Vasquez said to him, Lie down! What for? asked Haley. Vasquez kicked him in the ribs, and knocked him on the skull. Lie still, he snarled, while tying him in a rope, emptying his pockets, and pitching him under the horses' feet. All done there? the Capitan now cried to
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 11: love and death. (search)
Coyote Creek; converting a camp of troops and squaws, with their unruly progeny, into a paradise of villas, colleges, and schools. These new comers are enrolled as vigilants, and are masters of the town. While waiting trial, Vasquez is behaving like a true half-breed, lying in the faces of his friends, boasting of his noble deeds, and acting basely towards the woman who has wrecked her soul for him. He tells all those who go to see him, that he never killed a man in his life — not even Davidson. Leiva, he says, shot all the three men who were butchered at Tres Pinos. Having won Rosalia's love, in fair rivalry against her husband, he asserts that Leiva, like a jealous cur, betrayed him to the sheriffs out of envy at the preference of his wife. Sometimes he prattles of a second mistress, but he never breathes her name, and does not mark this woman, as either the mother of his child or the female of his cherished lock. When ladies come to see him in his cell, he takes a tone