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The Red Mustang

Chapter 9 THE HACIENDA OF SANTA LUCIA.

Word Count: 1040    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

a, the ranch wore a very peaceful appearance. No cavalry were camped near it. There was not now any American flag floati

n without first explaining himself. There was reason in it, for Santa Lucia now contained only one man to strengthen the brave female garrison which had held it against t

the veranda, and there were two or three c

f these curtains stood Mrs. Evans, with her arms around her daughter. If anything were troubling Vic's mind, the face she was looking into must have had comfort in it. Mrs. Evans was one of those women who are remarkable, and have no need of proving it to make people believe it. She was of medium height and not at all robust in appearance, although in excellent health. There was hardly a tinge of gray in her auburn hair, h

such a building could be made. Colonel Evans had refused to count up how many head of ca

ed table, and her kitchen garden in one corner of the stockade, with her hen-coops, provided somethin

declared it "good medicine," not understanding that his own race was

ta Lucia, remarking of Cal's mother: "Very uncommon woman

r, and had decided that no melon or bean or hill of corn or other ve

lady, with all her refinement and cultivation, should say that she pr

her, but for a tinge of red in her hair and something saucy about her nose and mout

ung. The Indians, mother, and there may be fighting. I almost

l never c

hem from the roof. Some of them co

ched anything of ours. If everybody had dealt with the

y angry enou

Indian without necessity. If

e could kill anybody, or be

maller mark than your father, and not half so likely to g

n, mother. Were you ever

get our soldier scarecrows ready before the Apaches came. Then, too, they might have met your fat

rue that Colonel Evans and Cal and a dozen cowboys had gone with Captain Moore and the cavalry to trail the thieving Mescal

en," said Mrs. Evans; but Victoria did

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1 Chapter 1 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER.2 Chapter 2 HOW CAL EVANS RODE FOR HELP.3 Chapter 3 THE BAND OF KAH-GO-MISH.4 Chapter 4 THE GARRISON OF SANTA LUCIA.5 Chapter 5 CAL AND THE CAVALRY AND THE RED MUSTANG.6 Chapter 6 THE PERIL OF SANTA LUCIA.7 Chapter 7 BOUND FOR THE BORDER.8 Chapter 8 GETTING READY TO CHASE KAH-GO-MISH.9 Chapter 9 THE HACIENDA OF SANTA LUCIA.10 Chapter 10 THE TARGET ON THE ROCK.11 Chapter 11 THE STORY OF A LOG12 Chapter 12 PING AND THE COUGAR.13 Chapter 13 THE RETURN OF KAH-GO-MISH.14 Chapter 14 THE FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERT.15 Chapter 15 LOST IN THE CHAPARRAL.16 Chapter 16 AN INVASION OF TWO REPUBLICS.17 Chapter 17 HOW PING AND TAH-NU-NU GOT TO THE SPRING.18 Chapter 18 HOW DICK PLAYED SENTINEL.19 Chapter 19 BAD NEWS FOR WAH-WAH-O-BE.20 Chapter 20 HOW CAL STARTED FOR MEXICO.21 Chapter 21 THE MANITOU OF COLD SPRING.22 Chapter 22 ACROSS THE DESERT BY NIGHT.23 Chapter 23 AT THE RANCH AND IN THE CHAPARRAL.24 Chapter 24 CAL'S NIGHT UNDER A TREE.25 Chapter 25 A STRANGE LETTER FROM MEXICO.26 Chapter 26 CAL'S VISITORS AND HIS BREAKFAST.27 Chapter 27 THE POST-BOY THAT GOT AWAY.28 Chapter 28 THE MYSTERY OF THE STICKS.29 Chapter 29 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE FIRE 30 Chapter 30 THE MANITOU WATER.31 Chapter 31 PULL STICK AND THE HURRICANE.32 Chapter 32 UNDER A FALLEN TREE.33 Chapter 33 LEAVING THE BAD-MEDICINE CAMP.34 Chapter 34 TAH-NU-NU'S DISAPPOINTMENT.35 Chapter 35 HAND TO HAND BY FIRELIGHT.36 Chapter 36 HOW CAL WAS LEFT ALL ALONE.37 Chapter 37 RESCUED BY THE RED MUSTANG.38 Chapter 38 HOW THEY ALL REACHED SANTA LUCIA.