Oh, girl, you understand what that means; you know him well, you must realize what he is capable of doing.

I came here as fast as I could in the dark," she shuddered, glancing backward across her shoulder.

"Every step was a way of horrors, but I did n't know any one who could help me.

But you--you know the way to the 'Little Yankee,' and we--we must get there before daylight, if we have to crawl." All that was savagely animal in the other's untamed nature flamed into her face.
"He say vat?
Senor Farnham he say vat he do ?" "He said dynamite told no tales, but sometimes killed more than the one intended." Mercedes' hand went to her head as though a pain had smitten her, and she stepped back, half crouching in the glow like a tiger cat.
"He say dat?
De man say dat?
Holy Angels! he vas de bad devil, but he find me de bad devil too.

Ah, now I play him de game, an' ve see who vin! De 'Leetle Yankee,' eet tree mile, senorita, an' de road rough, mooch rough, but I know eet--si, I know eet, an' ve get dare before de day come; sure ve do eet, _bueno_." She grasped the arm of the other, now fully aroused, her slight form quivering from intense excitement.
"Come, I show you.