Whether Charlie understood or intended the destruction of all the lives and property there is no excuse; it was a deed that would have carried terrible results in its train.

I don't even let my mind conceive them.

All this has followed, Mr.Menocal, from the single fact that your son disliked me in the beginning.

To that may be added an idea that I was depriving you of something to which I had no right, namely, the title to the Perro Creek canal appropriation.
And there, I think, responsibility for his course touches you." He paused to gaze at the Mexican, whose face had become drained of colour.
"Mr.Menocal, the water is mine," he continued, "and to-night some time it will be mine beyond all dispute, for then the ditch will be finished.

So much for that.