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PART II--IN THE FLOOD
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I make one more effort: "Joseph Tryan, don't you know me?
the surveyor who surveyed your ranch--the Espiritu Santo?
Look up, old man!" He shuddered and wrapped himself closer in his blanket.

Presently he repeated to himself "The surveyor who surveyed your ranch--Espiritu Santo" over and over again, as though it were a lesson he was trying to fix in his memory.
I was turning sadly to the boatmen when he suddenly caught me fearfully by the hand and said: "Hush!" We were silent.
"Listen!" He puts his arm around my neck and whispers in my ear, "I'm a MOVING OFF!" "Moving off ?" "Hush! Don't speak so loud.

Moving off.

Ah! wot's that?
Don't you hear ?--there! listen!" We listen, and hear the water gurgle and click beneath the floor.
"It's them wot he sent!--Old Altascar sent.

They've been here all night.
I heard 'em first in the creek, when they came to tell the old man to move farther off.


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