All that sort of stuff plays on a man's vanity when it comes from a pretty girl, and it didn't take me long to decide that I was in love with her and that, aside from humane reasons, I ought to take her with me.

So I took her.
"We reached the boat after a week of heart-breaking travel, and we hadn't got over two miles out in the bay when we saw that we hadn't left any too soon.

A hundred or so Toltecs were on the beach, doing a war dance and waving their spears at us.

We had a pretty close call of it for grub, but we made a little town on the gulf and stocked up, and then we headed for the mouth of the Rio Grande.

We camped one night a week later on United States soil, and that night while I was asleep Taggart tried to knife me.