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The Lone Ranche

CHAPTER THIRTY
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Others squat around fires, roasting collops from cattle they have killed, or eating them half raw.
A few stand or saunter by the side of the captives, upon these casting covetous glances, as if they only waited for the opportunity to appropriate them.

The women are all young; some of them scarce grown girls, and some very beautiful.
A heart-harrowing sight it would be for their fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts, could they but witness it.

These may not be far off.
Some suspicion of this has carried the Horned Lizard and El Barbato up to the crest of the cliff.

They have been summoned thither by a sign, which the traveller on the prairies of Texas or the table plains of Mexico never sees without stopping to scrutinise and shape conjecture about its cause.

Before entering the canon through which runs Pecan Creek, the Tenawa chief had observed a flock of turkey-buzzards circling about in the air.


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