The keen grey eyes of the claimant of the "Red-Rock Rancho" were always on the lookout for friend or enemy.
Garcia comes next.

That gentleman's inborn talent for historic misrepresentation culminated unpleasantly through a defective memory; a year or two after he had sworn in his application for the "Rancho," being engaged in another case, some trifling inconsistency was discovered in his statements, which had the effect of throwing the weight of evidence to the party who had paid him most, but was instantly detected by the weaker party.

Garcia's preeminence as a witness, an expert and general historian began to decline.

He was obliged to be corroborated, and this required a liberal outlay of his fee.

With the loss of his credibility as a witness bad habits supervened.