"Let me see him." The vacquero became still more deprecatory.
"Ah! He had driven on with his team towards San Antonio.

He would not stop to be thanked.

But that was the whole truth.

He, Incarnacion, could swear to it as to the Creed.

There was nothing more." "Take those beasts around the back way to the corral," said Peyton, thoroughly enraged, "and not a word of this to any one at the casa, do you hear?
Not a word to Mrs.Peyton or the servants, or, by Heaven, I'll clear the rancho of the whole lazy crew of you at once.