What's the real reason why you want to leave ?" The real reason came again to the doorway sixty feet away and looked out impatiently to where the senors were talking so earnestly and privately; but Dade would have died several different and unpleasant deaths before he would name that reason.

Instead: "It will be mighty disagreeable for Don Andres, trying to keep things smooth," he said.

"And it isn't as if he were stuck for a majordomo.
Manuel has turned against me from pure jealousy.

He opened his heart, one night when we were alone together, and told me that when Carlos Pacorra went--and Manuel said the patron would not keep him long, for his insolence--he, Manuel, would be majordomo.

He's mad as the deuce, and I don't blame him; and he's a good man for the place; the vaqueros like him." "You say he's quit ?" "Yes.