15/19 De vay ?--you tink I cannot find de vay! Vy, I Mexicana, senor; I know de vay of de desert; I read de sign here, dar, everyvere, like miladi does de book. Senor Brown he show me how get down de side of de mountain, den I know de res'. Twenty mile south to de rail; I read de stars, I feel de wind, I give de pony de quirt, and it vas done--_bueno_!" Winston sat silently watching her, impressed by the earnestness of her broken English, the eloquent energy of her gesticulations. But Senor Brown he not git 'fraid; he fight hard, more as ten men. |