15/24 I didn't come to make trouble, and I won't stay to make any. We've been friends; let's stay that way. I'm a gringo, all right, but I've lived more with your people than my own, and if you want the truth, I don't know but what I feel more at home with them. We've eaten and slept with Spaniards and worked with them and played with them, half our lives." "Still it is as Jose says," reiterated Manuel stubbornly. |