But the smile faded from his lips as he read.

With blazing eyes he spurred his horse beside the Spaniard, almost unseating him, and said sternly, "What does this mean ?" "What does it mean ?" repeated Don Jose, with equally flashing eyes, "I'll tell you.

It means that your client, this man Spencer Tucker, is a Judas, a traitor! It means that he gave Los Cuervos to his mistress a year ago, and that she sold it to me--to me, you hear!--ME, Jose Santierra, the day before she left! It means that the coyote of a Spencer, the thief, who bought these lands of a thief, and gave them to a thief, has tricked you all.

Look," he said, rising in his saddle, holding the paper like a baton, and defining with a sweep of his arm the whole level plain, "all these lands were once mine, they are mine again to-day.

Do I want to purchase Los Cuervos?
you ask, for you will speak of the BUSINESS.