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00:00and beyond in the low foothills from which they could already see the church spires of the city to the south.
00:09On the 21st of July, in the year 1849, they rode into the city of Chihuahua to a hero's welcome,
00:20driving the harlequin horses before them through the dust of the streets in a pandemonium of teeth and whited eyes,
00:28small boys ran among the hooves, and the victors in their gory rags smiled through the filth and the dust and the caked blood
00:38as they bore on poles the desiccated heads of the enemy through that fantasy of music and flowers.
00:50Chapter 13
00:51At the baths, merchants, trophies of war, the banquet, trias, the ball, north, koyame, the border,
01:03the hueco tanks, massacre of the tiguas, carrizal, a desert spring, the medanos, an inquest concerning teeth,
01:13nakori, the cantina, a desperate encounter, into the mountains, a village decimated, mountain lancers,
01:23a skirmish, pursuing the survivors, the plains of Chihuahua, slaughter of the soldiers, a burial, Chihuahua, westward.
01:34Their progress was swelled by new riders, by boys on muleback, and old men in plated hats,
01:44and a deputation that took charge of the captured horses and mules,
01:48and hazed them on through the narrow streets, toward the bullring where they could be kept.
01:54The tattered campaigners surged on, some now holding loft cups that had been pressed upon them,
02:03waving to the ladies clustered on the balconies, their putrescent hats, and elevating the bobbing heads,
02:12with those strange half-lidded looks of ennui, into which the features had dried,
02:19all so hemmed about now, by the citizenry, that they seemed the vanguard of some ragged uprising,
02:29and heralded, before, by a pair of drummers, one witless and both barefoot,
02:35and by a trumpeter, who marched with one arm raised above his head, in a martial gesture, and playing the while.
02:42In this manner, they passed through the standing portals of the governor's palace,
02:48over the worn stone sills, and into the courtyard,
02:52where the broomed hooves of the mercenaries' shoeless horses subsided upon the cobbles,
02:57with a curious, turtle-like clatter.
03:01Hundreds of onlookers pressed about, as the dried scalps were counted out upon the stones.
03:07Soldiers with muskets kept back the crowds,
03:11and young girls watched the Americans with huge black eyes,
03:16and boys crept forth to touch the grisly trophies.
03:20There were one hundred and twenty-eight scalps,
03:25and eight heads,
03:27and the governor's lieutenant, and his retinue,
03:30came down into the courtyard to welcome them,
03:33and admire their work.
03:34They were promised full payment in gold at the dinner to be held in their honor that evening,
03:41at the Riddle and Stevens Hotel,
03:43and with this, the Americans sent up a cheer,
03:46and mounted their horses again.
03:48Old women in black rebozos ran forth,
03:52to kiss the hems of their reeking shirts,
03:55and hold up their dark little hands in blessing.
03:58And the riders wheeled their gaunted mounts,
04:01and pushed through the clamoring multitude,
04:03and into the street.
04:06They moved on to the public baths,
04:08where they descended one by one into the waters,
04:12each more pale than the one before.
04:15And all tattooed, branded, sutured,
04:18the great puckered scars inaugurated God knows where,
04:22by what barbarous surgeons across chests and abdomens,
04:26like the tracks of gigantic millipedes,
04:29some deformed,
04:30fingers missing,
04:32eyes,
04:33their foreheads and arms stamped with letters and numbers,
04:35as if they were articles requiring inventory.
04:39Citizens of both sexes withdrew along the walls,
04:42and watched the water turn
04:43into a thin gruel of blood and filth.
04:47And none could take their eyes from the judge,
04:51who had disrobed last of all,
04:53and now walked the perimeter of the baths
04:56with a cigar in his mouth and a regal air,
04:59testing the waters with one toe,
05:02surprisingly petite.
05:03He shunned like the moon,
05:06so pale he was,
05:07and not a hair to be seen anywhere
05:09upon that vast corpus,
05:12not in any crevice,
05:13nor in the great bores of his nose,
05:15and not upon his head,
05:16nor in his ears,
05:17nor any tuft at all,
05:18above his eyes,
05:19nor to the lids thereof.
05:21The immense and gleaming dome
05:24of his naked skull
05:25looked like a cap for bathing
05:27pulled down to the otherwise darkened skin
05:29of his face and neck.
05:31As that great bulk
05:33lowered itself into the bath,
05:36the waters rose perceptibly,
05:39and when he had submerged himself to the eyes,
05:42he looked about with considerable pleasure.
05:45The eyes, slightly crinkled,
05:47as if he were smiling under the water
05:49like some pale and bloated manatee,
05:52surfaced in a bog,
05:54while behind his small and close-set ear,
05:56the wedge cigar smoked gently
05:58just above the waterline.
06:01By now,
06:03merchants had spread their wares
06:04all along the clay tiles behind them,
06:07suits of European cloth and cut,
06:10and shirts of colored silks
06:12and close-snapped beaver hats,
06:14and fine Spanish leather boots.
06:17Silver-headed canes and riding crops,
06:20and silver-mounted saddles and carven pipes
06:22and hideout guns and a group of Toledo,
06:25swords with ivory hilts,
06:27and nicely chased blades and barbers
06:29were setting up their chairs
06:31to receive them,
06:33crying out the names of celebrated patrons
06:35upon whom they had attended.
06:38And all of these entrepreneurs,
06:41assuring the company of credit
06:43on the most generous terms.
06:45When they crossed the square,
06:48attired in their new haberdashery,
06:50some with coat sleeves barely past their elbows,
06:53the scalps were being strung about
06:55the iron fretwork of the gazebo,
06:58like decorations for some barbaric celebration.
07:00The severed heads had been raised on poles
07:04above the lampstandards,
07:06where they now contemplated with their caved and pagan eyes
07:09the dry hides of their kinsmen and forebears,
07:13strung across the stone facade of the cathedral,
07:17and clacking lightly in the wind.
07:20Later, when the lamps were lit,
07:23the heads in the soft glare of the uplight
07:25assumed the look of tragic masks,
07:28and within a few days
07:30they would become mottled white
07:32and altogether leprous
07:34with the droppings of the birds
07:36that roosted upon them.
07:38This Angel Trias,
07:41who was governor,
07:42had been sent abroad as a young man
07:43for his education,
07:45and was widely read in the classics,
07:49and was a student of languages.
07:51He was also a man among men,
07:54and the rough warriors he'd hired
07:56for the protection of the state
07:57seemed to warm something in him.
08:01When the lieutenant invited Glanton
08:03and his officers to dine,
08:05Glanton replied that he and his men
08:07did not keep separate mess.
08:10The lieutenant yielded the point with a smile,
08:13and Trias had done the same.
08:16They arrived in good order,
08:18shaved and shorn,
08:20and turned out in their new boots and finery.
08:22The Delaware's strangely austere
08:24and menacing in their morning coats.
08:27Altogether about the table set for them.
08:30Cigars were presented,
08:32and glasses of sherry poured,
08:34and the governor,
08:35standing at the head of the table,
08:36made them welcome,
08:37and issued orders to his chamberlain
08:39that every need be seen to.
08:43Soldiers attended them,
08:45fetching extra glasses,
08:47pouring the wine,
08:48lighting cigars from a wick,
08:49in a silver holder designed
08:51for just that purpose.
08:54The judge arrived last of all,
08:56dressed in a well-cut suit of unbleached linen
08:59that had been made for him
09:01that very afternoon.
09:03Whole bolts of cloth exhausted,
09:06and squads of tailors as well
09:07in that fabrication.
09:10His feet were encased
09:11in nicely polished gray kid boots,
09:13and in his hand
09:15he held a Panama hat
09:17that had been spliced together
09:19from two such lesser hats
09:21by such painstaking work
09:23that the joinery
09:25did scarcely show it all.
09:29Trias had already taken his seat
09:31when the judge made his appearance,
09:33but no sooner had the governor seen him
09:35than he rose again,
09:37and they shook hands cordially,
09:40and the governor had him seated
09:41at his right.
09:43And they at once fell into conversation.
09:46In a tongue,
09:47none other in that room spoke at all,
09:50saving for random vile epithets,
09:53drifted down from the north.
09:55The ex-priest was sat opposite the kid,
09:59and he raised his brows
10:01in motion toward the head of the table
10:02with a swing of his eyes.
10:05The kid,
10:06in the first starched collar
10:08he'd ever owned,
10:09and the first cravat,
10:10sat mute as a tailor's dummy
10:13at that board.
10:16By now,
10:17the table was fully commenced,
10:18and there was a tandem run of dishes,
10:21fish and fowl and beef
10:22and wild meats of the countryside,
10:24and a roast chote on a platter,
10:28and casseroles of savories and trifles,
10:31and glacés and bottles of wine and brandy
10:34from the vineyards at El Paso.
10:37Patriotic drinks were drunk,
10:39the governor's aides raising their glasses
10:40to Washington and Franklin,
10:42and the Americans responding
10:43with yet more of their own country's heroes,
10:46ignorant alike of diplomacy,
10:48and any name at all
10:49from the pantheon
10:50of their sister republic.
10:51They fell, too,
10:54and they continued to eat
10:55until they had exhausted
10:56first the banquet
10:57and then the larder of the hotel
10:59altogether.
11:01Couriers were sent abroad
11:02through the city
11:02to fetch more,
11:04only to have this also vanish,
11:06and more sent for,
11:07until Riddle's cook
11:08barricaded the door
11:09with his body,
11:11and the soldiers in attendance
11:12took to simply dumping
11:14great trays of pastries,
11:17fried meat skins,
11:18rounds of cheese,
11:19whatever they could find,
11:22put upon the table.
11:26The governor had tapped his glass
11:28and risen to speak
11:30in his well-phrased English,
11:32but the bloated and belching mercenaries
11:34were leering about
11:35and were calling for more drink,
11:37and some had not ceased
11:38to scream out toasts,
11:40now degenerated into obscene pledges
11:42to the whores
11:43of various southern cities.
11:46The bursar was introduced
11:47to cheers, catcalls,
11:49hoisted bumpers.
11:51Glanton took charge
11:52of the long canvas bags
11:53stamped with the state cartouche,
11:56and cutting the governor short,
11:58he rose,
11:59and dumped the gold out
12:00onto the table
12:01among the bones and rinds
12:03and pools of spilled drink,
12:06and in a brisk drumhead disbursement,
12:09divided out the pile of gold
12:10with the blade of his knife,
12:12so that each man
12:13was paid his spoken share,
12:14and no further ceremony to it.
12:18A sort of skiffle band
12:20had struck up
12:21a lugubrious air
12:22in one corner of the hall,
12:24and first up was the judge,
12:27who ushered the players
12:28and their instruments
12:29into the adjoining ballroom,
12:31where a number of ladies
12:32who had been sent for
12:34sat already about the walls
12:35on benches
12:36and found themselves
12:38without apparent alarm.
12:41The Americans debouched
12:42into the dancing hall
12:43by ones and twos
12:44and by groups.
12:46Chairs pushed back,
12:48chairs pushed over,
12:50to lie where they fell.
12:52Wall lamps
12:53and their tin reflectors
12:54had been lit
12:54all about the room,
12:56and the celebrants
12:57foregathered there
12:58cast conflicting shadows.
13:00The scalp hunters
13:02stood grinning
13:03at the dames,
13:03churlish-looking
13:05in their shrunken clothes,
13:07sucking their teeth,
13:09armed with knives
13:10and pistols
13:10and mad about the eyes.
13:13The judge was in close conference
13:14with the band,
13:15and soon
13:16a quadrille was struck up.
13:18A great lurching
13:19and stomping ensued,
13:21while the judge,
13:22affable,
13:23gallant,
13:23squired first one
13:25and then another
13:26of the ladies
13:27through the steps
13:28with an easy niceness.
13:31By midnight,
13:32the governor
13:33had excused himself,
13:34and members of the band
13:35had begun to slip away.
13:37A blind street harpist
13:38stood terrified
13:39upon the banquet table,
13:41among the bones
13:42and platters,
13:43and a horde
13:44of lured-looking whores
13:45had infiltrated the dance.
13:48Pistol fire
13:49soon became general,
13:51and Mr. Riddle,
13:52who was acting
13:52American counsel
13:53in the city,
13:54descended to remonstrate
13:55with the Redfellers
13:56and was warned away.
14:00Fights broke out,
14:02furniture was disassembled,
14:04men waiting chair legs,
14:06candle stands.
14:08Two whores grappled
14:09and pitched
14:09into a sideboard
14:11and went to the floor
14:12in a crash
14:13of brandy glasses.
14:15Jackson,
14:16pistols drawn,
14:17lurched into the street,
14:19vowing to shoot
14:20the ass off
14:21Jesus Christ,
14:23the long-legged
14:24white son of a bitch.
14:25At dawn,
14:28the shapes
14:29of insensate topers
14:31lay snoring
14:32about the floor
14:33among dark patches
14:34of drying blood.
14:36Bath cat
14:37and the harpist
14:38lay asleep
14:38upon the banquet table
14:40in one another's arms.
14:43A family of thieves
14:44were tiptoeing
14:45through the wreckage,
14:47turning out the pockets
14:47of the sleepers,
14:49and the remains
14:50of a bonfire
14:51that had consumed
14:51a good part
14:52of the hotel's furnishings
14:54smoldered in the street
14:55before the door.
14:57These scenes
14:58and scenes like them
14:59were repeated
14:59night after night.
15:02The citizenry
15:03made a dress
15:04to the governor,
15:05but he was much
15:06like the sorcerer's apprentice,
15:08who could indeed
15:09provoke the imp
15:10to do his will,
15:11but could in no way
15:12make him cease again.
15:15The baths
15:16had become bordellos,
15:18the attendants
15:19driven off.
15:20The white stone fountain
15:22in the plaza
15:22was filled at night
15:23with naked
15:24and drunk men.
15:26Cantinas
15:26were evacuated
15:27as if by fire
15:28with the appearance
15:30of any two
15:31of the company,
15:32and the Americans
15:33found themselves
15:34in ghost taverns
15:35with drinks
15:35on the tables
15:36and cigars
15:37still burning
15:38in the clay ashtrays.
15:40Horses were ridden
15:41indoors and out,
15:43and as the gold
15:44began to dwindle away,
15:45shopkeepers
15:46found themselves
15:46presented with debits,
15:49scrawled on butcher paper,
15:50in a foreign language
15:52for whole shelves
15:53of goods.
15:55Stores began
15:55to close.
15:57Charcoal squirrels
15:58appeared on the
15:58lime-washed walls.
16:01Mejor los indios.
16:03The evening streets
16:04stood empty,
16:06and there were
16:06no paseos,
16:08and the young girls
16:09of the city
16:09were boarded up
16:10and seen no more.
16:13On the 15th of August,
16:15they rode out.
16:16A week later,
16:18a company of drovers
16:19reported them
16:19investing the town
16:20of Koyame,
16:2280 miles
16:23to the northeast.
16:25The village of Koyame
16:27had for some years
16:28been laid under
16:29annual contribution
16:31by Gomez
16:32and his band.
16:34When Glanton
16:35and his men
16:36rode in,
16:37they were fallen upon
16:39as saints.
16:41Women ran alongside
16:42the horses
16:42to touch their boots,
16:43and presents
16:44of every kind
16:45were pressed upon them.
16:46until each man
16:47rode with an embarrassment
16:48of melons and pastries
16:50and trussed chickens
16:52gathered in the bow
16:53of his saddle.
16:54When they rode out
16:55three days later,
16:56the streets stood empty.
16:59Not even a dog
17:00followed them
17:01to the gates.
17:02They traveled northeast,
17:04as far as the town
17:06of Presidio,
17:07on the Texas border.
17:10And they crossed the horses
17:11and rode dripping
17:13through the streets.
17:14A soil where Glanton
17:16was subject to arrest.
17:19He rode out alone
17:21in the desert
17:21and sat the horse,
17:23and he and the horse
17:23and the dog
17:24looked out
17:26across the rolling
17:27scrubland
17:27and the barren
17:29peppercorn hills
17:30and the mountains
17:32and the flat brush country
17:34and running plain beyond
17:36were four hundred miles.
17:38to the east
17:39were the wife
17:40and the child
17:41that he would not
17:42see again.
17:44His shadow grew long
17:45before him
17:45on the banded
17:46wash of sand.
17:48He could not follow.
17:50He had taken off
17:51his hat for the evening
17:52wind to cool him,
17:54and at length
17:55he put it on again
17:56and turned the horse
17:58and rode back.
17:59They wandered
18:01the borderland
18:01for weeks,
18:03seeking some sign
18:04of the Apache.
18:06Deployed upon
18:07that plain,
18:08they moved
18:09in a constant elision,
18:11ordained agents
18:12of the actual
18:13dividing out
18:14the world
18:14which they encountered
18:16and leaving
18:17what had been
18:18and what would
18:19never be alike,
18:21extinguished
18:22on the ground
18:23behind them.
18:24Spectre horsemen
18:26pale with dust,
18:27anonymous in the
18:28crenellated heat.
18:30Above all else,
18:33they appeared
18:33wholly at venture,
18:36primal,
18:37provisional,
18:38devoid of order,
18:40like beings
18:41provoked
18:41out of the absolute rock
18:43and set nameless
18:44and at no remove
18:46from their own loomings
18:48to wander ravenous
18:49and doomed
18:50and mute as gorgons,
18:52shambling the brutal
18:53wastes of
18:54Gondwana land
18:56in a time before
18:57nomenclature was
18:58and each
19:00was all.
19:03They killed
19:04wild meat
19:04and they took
19:05what they required
19:06by way of commissary
19:07from the pueblos
19:09and estancias
19:10through which
19:11they passed.
19:12One evening,
19:14almost within sight
19:15of the town
19:15of El Paso,
19:17they looked off
19:19toward the north
19:20where the
19:21Gilenos wintered
19:22and they knew
19:24they would not
19:25be going there.
19:27They camped that night
19:28at the Hueco tanks,
19:30a group of natural
19:31stone cisterns
19:32in the desert.
19:34The rocks about
19:35in every sheltered place
19:37were covered
19:37with ancient paintings
19:38and the judge
19:40was soon among them,
19:42copying out
19:43those certain ones
19:44into his book
19:44to take away with him.
19:47They were of men
19:48and animals
19:49and of the chase
19:50and there were
19:51curious birds
19:52and arcane maps
19:54and there were
19:56constructions
19:56of such singular
19:58vision
19:58as to justify
20:00every fear of man
20:01and the things
20:02that are in him.
20:04Of these etchings,
20:05some bright
20:06yet with color,
20:08there were
20:09hundreds
20:10and yet
20:11the judge
20:13went among them
20:14with assurance,
20:16tracing out
20:17the very ones
20:18which he required.
20:19When he had done
20:21and while there
20:23yet was light,
20:24he returned
20:25to a certain
20:25stone ledge
20:26and sat a while
20:28and studied again
20:29the work there.
20:31Then he rose
20:32and with a piece
20:33of broken chert
20:34he scrappled away
20:35one of the designs,
20:37leaving no trace
20:38of it,
20:39only a raw place
20:40on the stone
20:41where it had been.
20:42Then
20:43he put up
20:44his book
20:45and returned
20:46to the camp.
20:47In the morning
20:49they rode out
20:50to the south.
20:52Little was said,
20:53nor were they
20:55quarrelsome
20:55among themselves.
20:57In three days
20:58they would fall
20:58upon a band
20:59of peaceful
20:59tigwas,
21:01camped on the river,
21:02and slaughter
21:03them
21:04every soul.
21:07On the eve
21:07of that day
21:08they crouched
21:09about the fire
21:10where it hissed
21:11in a soft
21:12falling rain,
21:14and they ran
21:14balls
21:15and cut patches
21:16as if the fate
21:16of the aborigines
21:17had been cast
21:19into shape
21:19by some other
21:20agency altogether,
21:22as if such
21:23destinies
21:24were prefigured
21:25in the very rock
21:26for those
21:27with eyes
21:27to read.
21:29No man
21:30stood to tender
21:30them a defense.
21:32Toadvine
21:33and the kid
21:33conferred together,
21:35and when they
21:36rode out at noon
21:36the day following,
21:38they trotted
21:38their horses
21:39alongside Bathcat.
21:41They rode
21:41in silence.
21:42Them sons
21:45of a bitches
21:46ain't bother
21:47nobody,
21:48Toadvine
21:49said.
21:50The Vandyman
21:51lander
21:51looked at him.
21:53He looked
21:53at the livid
21:54letters tattooed
21:54on his forehead
21:55and at the
21:56lank, greasy
21:57hair that hung
21:58from his
21:58earless skull.
22:00He looked
22:00at the necklace
22:01of gold teeth
22:02at his chest.
22:04They rode
22:05on.
22:06They approached
22:07those wretched
22:08pavilions
22:09in the long
22:09light of the
22:10day's failing,
22:11coming up
22:12from downwind
22:13along the
22:14south bank
22:15of the river
22:15where they
22:17could smell
22:17the wood
22:17smoke of
22:18the cook
22:18fires.
22:20When the
22:21first dogs
22:21barked,
22:22Glanton
22:23rowled his
22:24horse forward
22:24and they
22:26came out
22:26of the
22:27trees
22:27and across
22:27the dry
22:28scrub
22:28with the
22:29long necks
22:30of the
22:30horses
22:31leaning
22:31out of
22:32the dust
22:32avid as
22:33hounds
22:34and the
22:35riders
22:36cording
22:38them
22:39on
22:39into
22:40the
22:40sun
22:41where
22:42the
22:42shapes
22:42of
22:42the
22:42women
22:42rising
22:43up
22:43from
22:43their
22:43tasks
22:44stood
22:45flat
22:45and rigid
22:46in silhouette
22:47for a
22:47moment
22:48before they
22:49could quite
22:50believe in
22:50the reality
22:51of that
22:53dusty
22:53pandemoniac
22:54pounding
22:55down
22:55upon them.
22:57They
22:57stood
22:57dumb
22:58barefoot
22:59clad
23:00in the
23:01unbleached
23:02cotton
23:02of the
23:02country.
23:03They
23:04clutched
23:05cooking
23:05ladles
23:06naked
23:06children.
23:09At
23:10the
23:10first
23:10fire
23:11a
23:11dozen
23:12of
23:12them
23:12crumpled
23:13and
23:13fell.
23:15The
23:15others
23:15had
23:15begun
23:16to
23:16run
23:16old
23:17people
23:18flinging
23:18up
23:18their
23:18hands
23:19children
23:19tottering
23:20and
23:20blinking
23:20in the
23:21pistol
23:21fire.
23:22A
23:23few
23:23young
23:23men
23:24ran
23:24out
23:24with
23:24drawn
23:25bows
23:25and
23:25were
23:25shot
23:25down
23:26and
23:27then
23:27the
23:27riders
23:28were
23:28all
23:28through
23:29the
23:29village
23:29trampling
23:30down
23:30the
23:31grass
23:31wickiups
23:32and
23:33bludgeoning
23:33the
23:34shrieking
23:34householders.
23:36Long
23:37past
23:37dark
23:38when the
23:39moon
23:39was
23:39already
23:39up
23:40a
23:41party
23:41of
23:41women
23:41that
23:42had
23:42been
23:42upriver
23:43drying
23:44fish
23:44returned
23:46to the
23:46village
23:46and
23:47wandered
23:47howling
23:48through
23:49the
23:49ruins.
23:50A
23:51few
23:51fires
23:51still
23:52smoldered
23:52on the
23:53ground
23:53and
23:54dogs
23:55slank
23:55off
23:55among
23:56the
23:56corpses.
23:58An
23:59old
23:59woman
23:59knelt
24:00at the
24:00blackened
24:00stones
24:01before
24:01her
24:01door
24:02and
24:03poked
24:03brush
24:04into
24:04the
24:04coals
24:05and
24:05blew
24:06back
24:06a
24:06flame
24:07from
24:07the
24:07ashes
24:08and
24:09began
24:09to
24:09write
24:10the
24:10overturned
24:10parts.
24:12All
24:12about
24:13her
24:13the
24:13dead
24:14lay
24:14with
24:15their
24:15peeled
24:16skulls
24:17like
24:17polyps
24:18bluely
24:19wet
24:19or
24:20luminescent
24:21melons
24:22cooling
24:23on some
24:23messa
24:24of the
24:24moon.
24:26In
24:26the
24:26days
24:26to
24:26come
24:27the
24:27frail
24:28black
24:28rebuses
24:29of
24:30blood
24:30in
24:30those
24:30sands
24:31would
24:31crack
24:32and
24:32break
24:33and
24:34drift
24:34away
24:34so
24:35that
24:36in
24:36the
24:36circuit
24:36of
24:36few
24:37suns
24:38all
24:38trace
24:39of
24:39the
24:39destruction
24:40of
24:41these
24:41people
24:41would
24:42be
24:43erased.
24:44The
24:44desert
24:45wind
24:45would
24:45salt
24:46their
24:46ruins
24:46and
24:47there
24:47would
24:48be
24:48nothing
24:48nor
24:49ghost
24:50nor
24:51scribe
24:51to
24:53tell
24:53to
24:54any
24:54pilgrim
24:54in
24:55his
24:55passing
24:55how
24:56it
24:57was
24:57that
24:57people
24:57had
24:58lived
24:58in
24:58this
24:58place
24:59and
25:00in
25:00this
25:00place
25:01died.
25:03The
25:04Americans
25:04entered
25:04the
25:05town
25:05of
25:05Carrizal
25:06late
25:07in the
25:07afternoon
25:08of
25:08the
25:08second
25:08day
25:09following.
25:11Their
25:11horses
25:11festooned
25:12with the
25:12reeking
25:13scalps
25:13of
25:13the
25:13tiguas.
25:15This
25:15town
25:16had
25:16fallen
25:16almost
25:17to
25:17ruin.
25:18Many
25:18of the
25:19houses
25:19stood
25:19empty
25:19and the
25:20presidio
25:21was
25:21collapsing
25:22back
25:22into
25:22the
25:23earth
25:23out
25:24of
25:24which
25:24it
25:24had
25:24been
25:24raised
25:25and
25:25the
25:26inhabitants
25:26seemed
25:26themselves
25:27made
25:27vacant
25:28by
25:28old
25:28terrors.
25:30They
25:30watched
25:30the
25:31passing
25:31of
25:31that
25:31blood
25:32stained
25:32argosy
25:33through
25:33their
25:33streets
25:33with
25:34dark
25:34and
25:35solemn
25:35eyes.
25:37Those
25:37riders
25:37seemed
25:38journeyed
25:38from a
25:39legendary
25:39world
25:40and
25:41they
25:41left
25:41behind
25:42a
25:42strange
25:43tainture
25:44like
25:45an
25:45after
25:46image
25:46on
25:46the
25:46eye
25:47and
25:48the
25:48air
25:48they
25:48disturbed
25:49was
25:49altered
25:50and
25:50electric.
25:52They
25:53passed
25:53along
25:53the
25:53ruinous
25:54walls
25:54of
25:54the
25:54cemetery
25:55where
25:56the
25:56dead
25:56were
25:56trestled
25:57up
25:57in
25:57niches
25:58and
25:59the
25:59ground
26:00strewn
26:00with
26:00bones
26:01and
26:01skulls
26:02and
26:02broken
26:02pots
26:03like
26:04some
26:04more
26:04ancient
26:05ossuary.
26:06other
26:08ragged
26:09folk
26:09appeared
26:10in
26:10the
26:10dusty
26:10streets
26:11behind
26:11behind
26:11them
26:11and
26:12stood
26:13looking
26:14after.
26:16That
26:16night
26:16they
26:17camped
26:18at a
26:18warm
26:18spring
26:19atop
26:19a
26:19hill
26:19amid
26:19old
26:20traces
26:20of
26:20Spanish
26:21masonry
26:21and
26:23they
26:23stripped
26:23and
26:24descended
26:24like
26:24acolytes
26:25into
26:25the
26:25water
26:26while
26:26huge
26:27white
26:27leeches
26:28willowed
26:28away
26:29over
26:30the
26:30sands.
26:31When
26:32they
26:32rode
26:32out
26:32into
26:33the
26:33morning
26:33it
26:34was
26:34still
26:34dark.
26:37Lightning
26:37stood
26:37in ragged
26:38chains
26:38far to
26:39the
26:39south
26:39silent
26:41the
26:42staccato
26:43mountains
26:43bespoken
26:44blue
26:44and
26:45barren
26:46out
26:46of
26:46the
26:46void.
26:48Day
26:49broke
26:49upon
26:50a
26:50smoking
26:51reach
26:51of
26:51desert
26:52darkly
26:52clouded
26:53where
26:54the
26:54riders
26:54could
26:54count
26:55five
26:55separate
26:56storms
26:56spaced
26:57upon
26:58the
26:58shores
26:58of
26:58the
26:59round
26:59earth.
27:01They
27:01were
27:01riding
27:02in
27:02pure
27:02sand
27:03and
27:04the
27:04horses
27:04labored
27:04so
27:05hugely
27:05that
27:06the
27:06men
27:07were
27:07obliged
27:07to
27:07dismount
27:08and
27:08lead
27:08them
27:09toiling
27:10up
27:10steep
27:10escars
27:11where
27:12the
27:12wind
27:12blew
27:13the
27:13white
27:13pumice
27:13from
27:14the
27:14crests
27:15like
27:15the
27:16spume
27:16from
27:16sea
27:17swells
27:18and
27:19the
27:19sand
27:19was
27:20scalloped
27:20and
27:20freely
27:21shaped
27:21and
27:22nothing
27:22else
27:23was
27:23there
27:23save
27:24random
27:25polished
27:25bones.
27:28They
27:28were
27:28all
27:29day
27:29among
27:29the
27:30dunes
27:30and
27:31in
27:31the
27:31evening
27:31coming
27:32down
27:32from
27:33the
27:33last
27:33low
27:33sand
27:34hills
27:34to
27:34the
27:34plain
27:34below
27:35among
27:36cat
27:36claw
27:36and
27:37crucifixion
27:37thorn
27:38they
27:39were
27:39a
27:39parched
27:40and
27:40haggard
27:41lot
27:41man
27:42and
27:43beast
27:43harpy
27:44eagles
27:45flew up
27:45screaming
27:46from a
27:46dead
27:46mule
27:47and wheeled
27:48off
27:48westward
27:48into the
27:49sun
27:49as they
27:50led the
27:50horses
27:51out
27:51onto
27:52the
27:52plain
27:53two
27:54two
27:54two
27:57and
27:58they
27:58crouched
28:01along
28:02a
28:02shale
28:02ridge
28:03in
28:03the
28:03leeward
28:04wall
28:04of
28:04the
28:04gap
28:05while
28:06the
28:06fire
28:07sawed
28:07in
28:07the
28:07wind
28:08and
28:09they
28:09watched
28:10the
28:10lamps
28:11winking
28:11in
28:12the
28:12blue
28:12floor
28:12of
28:13the
28:13night
28:14thirty
28:14miles
28:15away
28:15the
28:17judge
28:17crossed
28:17before
28:18them
28:18in
28:18the
28:18dark
28:19sparks
28:20from
28:20the
28:20fire
28:20ran
28:21down
28:21the
28:21wind
28:22he
28:23took
28:23his
28:23seat
28:23among
28:23the
28:24scrabbled
28:24plates
28:24of
28:24shale
28:25out
28:25there
28:25and
28:26so
28:26they
28:27sat
28:27like
28:28beings
28:28from
28:28an
28:28older
28:29age
28:29watching
28:31the
28:31distant
28:31lamps
28:32dim
28:32out
28:33one
28:34by
28:34one
28:34until
28:35the
28:35city
28:36on
28:36the
28:36plain
28:36had
28:36shrunk
28:37to
28:37a
28:38small
28:38core
28:39of
28:39light
28:39that
28:40might
28:40have
28:40been
28:40a
28:40burning
28:41tree
28:41or
28:42some
28:42solitary
28:43encampment
28:43of
28:43travelers
28:44or
28:45perhaps
28:45no
28:46ponderable
28:47fire
28:47at
28:47all
28:48as
28:50they
28:50rode
28:50out
28:50through
28:50the
28:51tall
28:51wooden
28:51gates
28:51of
28:52the
28:52governor's
28:52palace
28:53two
28:53soldiers
28:54who had
28:54been
28:54standing
28:54there
28:55counting
28:55them
28:55pass
28:56stepped
28:56forward
28:57and took
28:58Toadvine's
28:58horse by
28:59the
28:59headstall
28:59Glanton
29:00passed
29:01him
29:01on
29:01the
29:01right
29:01and
29:02rode
29:02on
29:02Toadvine
29:04stood
29:05in the
29:05saddle
29:05Glanton
29:07the riders
29:09clattered
29:10into the
29:10street
29:11Glanton
29:12just
29:12beyond
29:13the
29:13gates
29:13looked
29:14back
29:14the
29:15soldiers
29:16were
29:16speaking
29:16to
29:16Toadvine
29:17in
29:17Spanish
29:18and
29:19one
29:19held
29:20an
29:20escopeta
29:20on
29:21him
29:21I
29:24ain't
29:24got
29:24nobody's
29:25teeth
29:25Glanton
29:27said
29:27I'll
29:30shoot
29:30these
29:31two
29:31fools
29:31where
29:32they
29:32stand
29:32Glanton
29:34spat
29:35he
29:36looked
29:36down
29:37the
29:37street
29:38and
29:38he
29:38looked
29:38at
29:39Toadvine
29:39then
29:40he
29:40dismounted
29:41and
29:42led
29:42his
29:42horse
29:42back
29:43into
29:43the
29:43courtyard
29:43Vamonos
29:46he
29:47said
29:47he
29:48looked
29:48up
29:48at
29:48Toadvine
29:49get
29:50off
29:51your
29:51horse
29:51they
29:53rode
29:54out
29:54of
29:54town
29:54under
29:55escort
29:56two
29:56days
29:56later
29:57upward
29:58of a
29:58hundred
29:58soldiers
29:59herding
29:59them
29:59along
30:00the
30:00road
30:00uneasy
30:02in
30:02their
30:02varied
30:02dress
30:03and
30:03arms
30:03wrenching
30:04their
30:05horses
30:05about
30:05and
30:06booting
30:06them
30:06through
30:06the
30:07fort
30:07where
30:08the
30:08American
30:08horses
30:09had
30:09stopped
30:09to
30:10drink
30:10in
30:11the
30:11foothills
30:12above
30:12the
30:12aqueduct
30:13they
30:14reined
30:14to
30:14one
30:15side
30:15and
30:15the
30:15Americans
30:16filed
30:16past
30:17and
30:17wound
30:17up
30:18through
30:18the
30:18rocks
30:18and
30:19nopal
30:20and
30:21diminished
30:21among
30:21the
30:22shadows
30:22and
30:23were
30:23gone
30:24they
30:25rode
30:26west
30:26into
30:26the
30:27mountains
30:27they
30:28passed
30:29through
30:29small
30:29villages
30:30doffing
30:30their
30:30hats
30:31to
30:31folk
30:31whom
30:31they
30:32would
30:32murder
30:32before
30:33the
30:33month
30:33was
30:33out
30:34mud
30:35pueblos
30:36that
30:36lay
30:36like
30:37plague
30:37towns
30:38with
30:38the
30:38crops
30:38rotting
30:39in
30:39the
30:39fields
30:39and
30:40what
30:41stock
30:41not
30:41driven
30:41off
30:42by
30:42the
30:42Indians
30:42wandering
30:43at
30:43will
30:43and
30:44none
30:44to
30:45herd
30:45or
30:45tend
30:45it
30:46and
30:46many
30:47villages
30:47almost
30:47wholly
30:48depopulated
30:49of male
30:50inhabitants
30:50where
30:52the
30:52women
30:52and
30:52children
30:52crouched
30:53in
30:53terror
30:54in
30:54their
30:55hovels
30:55listening
30:56until
30:57the
30:57last
30:58hoof
30:58clop
30:59died
30:59in
30:59the
30:59distance
31:00at
31:01the
31:02town
31:02of
31:02Nakori
31:02there
31:03was
31:03a
31:03cantina
31:04and
31:05here
31:05the
31:05company
31:05dismounted
31:06and
31:06crowded
31:06through
31:07the
31:07doorway
31:07and
31:07took
31:08tables
31:08Tobin
31:09volunteered
31:10to
31:10guard
31:10the
31:11horses
31:11he
31:12stood
31:12watching
31:13up and
31:13down
31:13the
31:13street
31:14no
31:15one
31:15paid
31:15him
31:15any
31:16mind
31:16these
31:17people
31:17had
31:18seen
31:18Americans
31:19in
31:19plenty
31:20dusty
31:21laggard
31:22trains
31:23of them
31:23months
31:24out of
31:25their
31:25own
31:25country
31:25and
31:26half
31:26crazed
31:27with
31:27the
31:28enormity
31:28of
31:28their
31:28own
31:28presence
31:29in
31:29that
31:29immense
31:30and
31:30blood
31:31slaked
31:31waste
31:32commandeering
31:33meal
31:34and
31:34meat
31:34or
31:35indulging
31:36a
31:36latent
31:36taste
31:37for
31:37rape
31:37among
31:38the
31:38slow
31:39eyed
31:39girls
31:39of
31:39that
31:40country
31:40now
31:41it
31:42was
31:42something
31:42near
31:43to
31:43an
31:43hour
31:43past
31:44noon
31:44and
31:45a
31:45number
31:46of
31:46workers
31:46and
31:46tradesmen
31:47were
31:47crossing
31:47the
31:48street
31:48toward
31:49the
31:49cantina
31:50as
31:51they
31:51passed
31:51Glanton's
31:52horse
31:53Glanton's
31:53dog
31:54rose
31:54up
31:55bristling
31:56they
31:57veered
31:58slightly
31:58and
31:59went
31:59on
31:59at
32:00the
32:00same
32:01moment
32:01a deputation
32:02of dogs
32:03of the
32:03village
32:03had
32:04sorted
32:04across
32:05the
32:05plaza
32:05five
32:06six
32:06of them
32:07their eyes
32:08on
32:08Glanton's
32:09dog
32:09as they
32:10did so
32:11a juggler
32:13leading a
32:13funeral
32:14rounded the
32:14corner
32:14into the
32:15street
32:15and taking
32:17a rocket
32:17from among
32:18several
32:19under his
32:19arm
32:19he held
32:21it to
32:21the
32:21cigarillo
32:22in his
32:22mouth
32:23and tossed
32:24it into
32:25the plaza
32:25where it
32:26exploded
32:27the
32:28pack
32:28of
32:29dogs
32:29shied
32:29and
32:29scrambled
32:30back
32:30save
32:31for
32:31two
32:31who
32:32continued
32:32into
32:32the
32:33street
32:33among
32:34the
32:34Mexican
32:35horses
32:35tethered
32:36at the
32:36bar
32:36before
32:37the
32:37cantina
32:38several
32:38shot
32:39out
32:39a
32:39hind
32:40leg
32:40and
32:41the
32:41rest
32:41stepped
32:42about
32:42nervously
32:42Glanton's
32:44dog
32:44did not
32:45take
32:45his
32:45eyes
32:45from
32:46the
32:46men
32:46moving
32:46toward
32:47the
32:47door
32:47none
32:49of the
32:49American
32:49horses
32:50even
32:50raised
32:51an
32:51ear
32:51the
32:52pair
32:53of
32:53dogs
32:53that
32:53had
32:53crossed
32:54in
32:54front
32:54of
32:54the
32:54funeral
32:55procession
32:55veered
32:56off
32:57from
32:58the
32:58kicking
32:58horses
32:59and
33:00came
33:00on
33:00toward
33:00the
33:01cantina
33:01two
33:02more
33:03rockets
33:03exploded
33:04in
33:04the
33:04street
33:04and
33:05now
33:06the
33:06rest
33:06of
33:06the
33:06procession
33:07had
33:07swung
33:07into
33:07view
33:08a
33:09fiddler
33:09and a
33:10cornet
33:10player
33:10leading
33:10with a
33:11quick
33:11and
33:11lively
33:11tune
33:12the
33:13dogs
33:14were
33:14trapped
33:14between
33:14the
33:15funeral
33:15and
33:15the
33:15animals
33:16of
33:16the
33:16mercenaries
33:17and
33:18they
33:18halted
33:18and
33:19flattened
33:19their
33:20ears
33:20and
33:21began
33:21to
33:22sidle
33:22and
33:24trot
33:24finally
33:25they
33:26bolted
33:26across
33:27the
33:27street
33:27behind
33:27the
33:28pallbearers
33:28these
33:29details
33:30should
33:30have
33:31stood
33:31the
33:31workers
33:31entering
33:32the
33:32cantina
33:32in
33:33better
33:33stead
33:33they
33:35had
33:35turned
33:35and
33:36they
33:36stood
33:36now
33:36with
33:36their
33:36backs
33:37to
33:37the
33:37door
33:37holding
33:38their
33:39hats
33:39to
33:39their
33:39chests
33:40the
33:41pallbearers
33:42passing
33:42carrying
33:43on their
33:43shoulders
33:44a
33:44beer
33:45and
33:45the
33:45watchers
33:46could
33:46see
33:46her
33:46in
33:47her
33:47burial
33:47dress
33:48among
33:49the
33:49flowers
33:49in
33:50the
33:50grey
33:50looking
33:50face
33:51of
33:51a
33:51young
33:51woman
33:51jostling
33:53along
33:53woodenly
33:54behind
33:57came
33:57her
33:57coffin
33:58made
33:59from
33:59rawhide
33:59blacked
34:00with
34:00lamp
34:01black
34:01carried
34:02by
34:03dark
34:03clad
34:03porters
34:04and
34:05looking
34:05much
34:06like
34:06a
34:06rude
34:06hide
34:07boat
34:07at
34:08the
34:08rear
34:09advanced
34:09a
34:09company
34:10of
34:10mourners
34:10some
34:11of
34:11the
34:11men
34:12drinking
34:12the
34:13old
34:13women
34:14in
34:14their
34:14dusty
34:15black
34:15shoals
34:15helped
34:16weeping
34:17over
34:17the
34:17potholes
34:18and
34:21children
34:21bearing
34:22flowers
34:23who
34:23looked
34:24shyly
34:24at the
34:25spectators
34:25in the
34:26street
34:26as they
34:27passed
34:28within the
34:30cantina
34:31the Americans
34:32had no more
34:33than seated
34:33themselves before
34:34a muttered
34:35insult from a
34:36nearby table
34:36brought three
34:38or four of them
34:39to their feet
34:39the
34:41the
34:41the
34:42kid
34:42had
34:42the
34:42table
34:42in his
34:43wretched
34:43Spanish
34:44and
34:45demanded
34:45which
34:46among
34:46those
34:46sullen
34:46inebriates
34:47had
34:47spoken
34:48before
34:49any
34:49could
34:49own
34:50it
34:50the
34:50first
34:50of the
34:51funeral
34:51rockets
34:51exploded
34:52in the
34:52street
34:52as told
34:53and the
34:54entire
34:54company
34:55of
34:55Americans
34:56made
34:56for the
34:56door
34:57a
34:58drunk
34:58at the
34:58table
34:59rose
34:59to his
34:59feet
35:00with a
35:00knife
35:00and
35:01lurched
35:02after
35:02them
35:02his
35:03friends
35:03called
35:04after him
35:04but
35:05he
35:05waved
35:06them
35:06away
35:06John
35:09Dorsey
35:09and
35:09Henderson
35:10Smith
35:10two
35:11boys
35:11from
35:11Missouri
35:12were
35:13the
35:13first
35:13into
35:13the
35:14street
35:14they
35:15were
35:15followed
35:15by
35:16Charlie
35:16Brown
35:16and
35:16the
35:17judge
35:17the
35:18judge
35:18could
35:18see
35:19over
35:19their
35:19heads
35:20and
35:20he
35:20raised
35:20one
35:21hand
35:21to
35:21those
35:21behind
35:22him
35:22the
35:23beer
35:23was
35:23just
35:23passing
35:24the
35:25fiddler
35:25and
35:25the
35:25cornetist
35:26were
35:26making
35:26little
35:27bows
35:28to
35:28each
35:28other
35:28and
35:29their
35:29steps
35:30suggested
35:31the
35:31martial
35:31style
35:32of the
35:32air
35:32they
35:32played
35:33it's
35:35a
35:35funeral
35:36said
35:37the
35:37judge
35:37as
35:38he
35:38spoke
35:39the
35:39drunk
35:39with
35:40the
35:40knife
35:40now
35:40reeling
35:41in
35:41the
35:41doorway
35:41sank
35:42the
35:42blade
35:43deep
35:43into
35:43the
35:44back
35:44of
35:44a
35:44man
35:44named
35:45grimly
35:45none
35:46saw it
35:47but
35:47the
35:47judge
35:47grimly
35:49put
35:49a
35:49hand
35:50on
35:50the
35:50rough
35:50wood
35:50frame
35:51of
35:51the
35:51door
35:51I'm
35:53killed
35:54he
35:55said
35:55the
35:56judge
35:57drew
35:57his
35:57belt
35:57pistol
35:58and
35:59leveled
35:59it
35:59above
36:00the
36:00heads
36:00of
36:00the
36:00men
36:01and
36:01shot
36:02the
36:02drunk
36:02through
36:03the
36:03middle
36:03of
36:06the
36:06door
36:07were
36:07all
36:07but
36:08looking
36:08down
36:08the
36:08barrel
36:09of
36:09the
36:09judge's
36:09pistol
36:10when
36:11he
36:11fired
36:11and
36:12most
36:12of
36:13them
36:13dove
36:13to
36:13the
36:13ground
36:14Dorsey
36:15rolled
36:15clear
36:16and
36:16got
36:16to
36:16his
36:16feet
36:16and
36:17collided
36:17with
36:17the
36:17workers
36:18who'd
36:18been
36:18paying
36:18their
36:18respects
36:19to
36:20the
36:20passing
36:20cortege
36:21they
36:22were
36:23putting
36:23their
36:23hats
36:23on
36:24when
36:24the
36:24judge
36:24fired
36:25the
36:25dead
36:26man
36:26fell
36:26backward
36:27into
36:27the
36:27cantina
36:28blood
36:29spouting
36:30from
36:30his
36:31head
36:31when
36:32grimly
36:32turned
36:33they
36:33could
36:33see
36:33the
36:34wooden
36:34handle
36:34of
36:34the
36:34knife
36:35protruding
36:36from
36:36his
36:36bloody
36:37shirt
36:37other
36:38knives
36:39were
36:39already
36:39in
36:40play
36:40Dorsey
36:41was
36:41grappling
36:42with
36:42the
36:42Mexicans
36:43and
36:43Henderson
36:43Smith
36:44had
36:44drawn
36:44his
36:44bowie
36:45and
36:45half
36:46severed
36:46a
36:46man's
36:46arm
36:47with
36:47it
36:47and
36:48the
36:48man
36:48was
36:48standing
36:49with
36:49dark
36:49arterial
36:50blood
36:50spraying
36:51between
36:51his
36:51fingers
36:52where
36:52he
36:52tried
36:53to
36:53hold
36:53the
36:53wound
36:53shot
36:54the
36:55judge
36:55got
36:55Dorsey
36:56to
36:56his
36:56feet
36:56and
36:57they
36:57backed
36:57toward
36:58the
36:58cantina
36:58with
36:58the
36:59Mexicans
36:59fainting
37:00and jabbing
37:00at them
37:00with their
37:01knives
37:01from
37:02inside
37:03came
37:03the
37:04uninterrupted
37:05sound
37:05of
37:05gunfire
37:06and
37:07the
37:07door
37:08frame
37:08was
37:08filling
37:08up
37:09with
37:09smoke
37:09the
37:10judge
37:11turned
37:11at
37:11the
37:11door
37:12stepped
37:12over
37:12several
37:13corpses
37:13sprawled
37:14there
37:14inside
37:16the
37:17huge
37:17pistols
37:18roared
37:18without
37:19intermission
37:19and
37:21the
37:21twenty
37:21or so
37:22Mexicans
37:23who'd
37:23been
37:23in
37:24the
37:24room
37:24were
37:24strewn
37:24about
37:25in
37:25every
37:25position
37:26shot
37:27to
37:27pieces
37:27among
37:28the
37:28overturned
37:29chairs
37:29and
37:30the
37:30tables
37:30with
37:31the
37:31fresh
37:31splinters
37:31blown
37:32out
37:32of
37:32the
37:32wood
37:33and
37:33the
37:34mud
37:34walls
37:34parked
37:34everywhere
37:35by the
37:36big
37:36conical
37:37bullets
37:38the
37:39survivors
37:40were
37:40making
37:40for the
37:41daylight
37:41in
37:41the
37:41doorway
37:42and
37:43the
37:43first
37:43of
37:43these
37:43encountered
37:44the
37:44judge
37:44there
37:45and
37:45cut
37:45at
37:45him
37:45with
37:46his
37:46knife
37:46but
37:47the
37:47judge
37:48was
37:48like
37:48a
37:48cat
37:49and
37:49he
37:49sidestepped
37:50the
37:50man
37:50and
37:51seized
37:51his
37:51arm
37:51and
37:52broke
37:52it
37:52and
37:53picked
37:53the
37:53man
37:54up
37:54by
37:54his
37:54head
37:54he
37:55put
37:55him
37:56against
37:56the
37:56wall
37:56and
37:57smiled
37:57at
37:58him
37:58but
37:59the
37:59man
37:59had
37:59begun
38:00to
38:00bleed
38:00from
38:00the
38:00ears
38:01and
38:02the
38:02blood
38:02was
38:02running
38:02down
38:03between
38:03the
38:03judge's
38:03fingers
38:04and
38:04over
38:04his
38:04hands
38:05and
38:06when
38:06the
38:06judge
38:07turned
38:07him
38:07loose
38:07there
38:08was
38:08something
38:08wrong
38:08with
38:08his
38:09head
38:09and
38:10he
38:10slid
38:10to
38:10the
38:11floor
38:11and
38:12did
38:12not
38:12get
38:13up
38:13those
38:14behind
38:14him
38:15had
38:15meanwhile
38:15met
38:16with
38:16a
38:16great
38:17battery
38:17of
38:17gunfire
38:18and
38:19the
38:19doorway
38:19was
38:20jammed
38:20with
38:20the
38:20dead
38:21and
38:21dying
38:21when
38:22there
38:22was
38:23suddenly
38:23a
38:23great
38:23ringing
38:24silence
38:25in
38:25the
38:25room
38:25the
38:27judge
38:28stood
38:29with
38:29his
38:29back
38:29to
38:29the
38:29wall
38:30the
38:31smoke
38:31drifted
38:32through
38:32like
38:32fog
38:32and
38:33the
38:33shrouded
38:34figure
38:34stood
38:34frozen
38:35in
38:36the
38:36center
38:36of
38:36the
38:36room
38:37to
38:38the
38:38kid
38:39were
38:39standing
38:39back
38:39to
38:40back
38:40with
38:41their
38:41pistols
38:42at
38:42port
38:42like
38:43duelists
38:43the
38:44judge
38:45and
38:46shouted
38:46across
38:46the
38:46stacked
38:47bodies
38:47to
38:47the
38:47ex-priest
38:48where
38:49he
38:49stood
38:50among
38:50the
38:50horses
38:51with
38:51his
38:51pistol
38:52drawn
38:52the
38:55laggards
38:56priest
38:56the
38:57laggards
38:58they'd
39:00not have
39:00shot men
39:00in public
39:01in a
39:01town
39:01so
39:01large
39:02but
39:02there
39:02was
39:02no
39:02help
39:02for
39:03it
39:03three
39:04men
39:04were
39:04running
39:04down
39:05the
39:05street
39:05and
39:05two
39:06others
39:06were
39:06legging
39:06it
39:07across
39:07the
39:07square
39:07of
39:08other
39:08souls
39:09abroad
39:09there
39:09were
39:09none
39:10Tobin
39:11stepped
39:11from
39:11between
39:12the
39:12horses
39:12and
39:12leveled
39:13the
39:13big
39:13pistol
39:13in
39:14both
39:14hands
39:14and
39:14began
39:15to
39:15fire
39:15the
39:16pistol
39:17bucking
39:17and
39:17dropping
39:18back
39:18and
39:19the
39:19runners
39:20wobbling
39:20and
39:21pitching
39:21headlong
39:22he
39:23shot
39:23the
39:23two
39:24in
39:24the
39:24plaza
39:25and
39:26swung
39:26and
39:26shot
39:27down
39:27the
39:27runners
39:27in
39:28the
39:28street
39:28the
39:29last
39:30one
39:30fell
39:30in
39:30a
39:30doorway
39:31and
39:31Tobin
39:32turned
39:32and
39:32drew
39:33the
39:33other
39:33pistol
39:33from
39:33his
39:34belt
39:34and
39:35stepped
39:35to
39:35the
39:35other
39:36side
39:36of
39:36the
39:36horse
39:36looked
39:37up
39:37the
39:38street
39:38and
39:38across
39:39the
39:39square
39:39for
39:39any
39:40sign
39:40of
39:40movement
39:40there
39:41or
39:41among
39:42the
39:42buildings
39:42the
39:43judge
39:43stepped
39:44back
39:44from
39:44the
39:44doorway
39:44into
39:45the
39:45cantina
39:45where
39:47the
39:47Americans
39:47stood
39:48looking
39:48at
39:48each
39:48other
39:48and
39:49at
39:49the
39:49bodies
39:49in
39:49a
39:50sort
39:50of
39:50wonder
39:50they
39:51looked
39:51at
39:52Glanton
39:52his
39:53eyes
39:53cut
39:53across
39:54the
39:54smoking
39:54room
39:55his
39:55hat
39:55lying
39:56on
39:56a
39:56table
39:57he
39:58stepped
39:58over
39:58and
39:59got
39:59it
39:59and
39:59set
39:59it
40:00on
40:00his
40:00head
40:00and
40:00squared
40:00it
40:01he
40:02looked
40:02about
40:02the
40:03men
40:03were
40:03reloading
40:04the
40:04empty
40:04chambers
40:05and
40:05their
40:05pistols
40:06hail
40:09boys
40:10he
40:10said
40:11this
40:12string
40:12ain't
40:12run
40:12on
40:12this
40:13trade
40:13yet
40:13when
40:16they
40:16left
40:16the
40:17cantina
40:17ten
40:17minutes
40:18later
40:18the
40:19streets
40:19were
40:20deserted
40:20they
40:21had
40:21scalped
40:21the
40:21entire
40:22body
40:22of
40:22the
40:23dead
40:23sliding
40:24about
40:24on
40:24a
40:24floor
40:25that
40:25had
40:25been
40:25packed
40:25clay
40:26and
40:27was
40:27now
40:27a
40:28wine
40:28colored
40:29mud
40:29there
40:31were
40:31twenty
40:32eight
40:32mexicans
40:33inside
40:33the
40:34tavern
40:34and
40:35eight
40:35more
40:35in
40:35the
40:36street
40:36including
40:37the
40:37five
40:37the
40:38ex-priest
40:38had
40:38shot
40:39they
40:40mounted
40:40up
40:41grimly
40:42sat
40:42slumped
40:43sideways
40:43against
40:44the
40:44mud
40:44wall
40:44of
40:44the
40:45building
40:45he
40:46did
40:46not
40:46look
40:47up
40:47he
40:48was
40:48holding
40:48his
40:48pistol
40:49in
40:49his
40:49lap
40:49and
40:50looking
40:50off
40:51down
40:51the
40:51street
40:51and
40:52they
40:52turned
40:53and
40:53rode
40:53out
40:54along
40:55the
40:55north
40:55side
40:55of
40:55the
40:55plaza
40:56and
40:57disappeared
40:58it
40:59was
41:00thirty
41:00minutes
41:00before
41:01anyone
41:02appeared
41:02in
41:03the
41:03street
41:03they
41:04spoke
41:04in
41:05whispers
41:05as
41:07they
41:07approached
41:07the
41:07cantina
41:08one
41:09of
41:09the
41:09men
41:09from
41:10inside
41:10appeared
41:10in
41:10the
41:11doorway
41:11like
41:12a
41:12bloody
41:12apparition
41:13he
41:14had
41:14been
41:14scalped
41:15and
41:16the
41:16blood
41:16was
41:16all
41:17run
41:17down
41:17into
41:17his
41:18eyes
41:18and
41:19he
41:19was
41:19holding
41:19shut
41:20a
41:20huge
41:20hole
41:21in
41:21his
41:21chest
41:21where
41:22a
41:22pink
41:23froth
41:23breathed
41:24in
41:24and
41:24out
41:25one
41:26of
41:26the
41:26citizens
41:27laid
41:27a
41:27hand
41:28on
41:28his
41:28shoulder
41:28adonde
41:30vas
41:30he
41:31said
41:32a
41:34casa
41:35said
41:36the
41:36man
41:36the
41:38next
41:38town
41:38they
41:38entered
41:39was
41:39two
41:39days
41:40deeper
41:40into
41:40the
41:40Sierras
41:41they
41:42never
41:42knew
41:43what
41:43it
41:43was
41:43called
41:44a
41:44collection
41:45of
41:45mud
41:45huts
41:45pitched
41:46on
41:46the
41:46naked
41:46plateau
41:47as
41:48they
41:48rode
41:49in
41:49the
41:49people
41:49ran
41:50before
41:50them
41:50like
41:50harried
41:51game
41:51their
41:52cries
41:52to
41:52one
41:52another
41:53or
41:53perhaps
41:53the
41:54visible
41:54frailty
41:55of
41:55them
41:55seemed
41:56to
41:56incite
41:57something
41:58in
41:58Glanton
41:58Brown
42:00watched
42:00him
42:00he
42:01nudged
42:01forth
42:02his
42:02horse
42:02and
42:03drew
42:03his
42:04pistol
42:04and
42:05this
42:05Samnil
42:06Pueblo
42:06was
42:07forthwith
42:08dragooned
42:09into
42:10a
42:11weltering
42:11shambles
42:12many
42:14of the
42:15people
42:15had been
42:15running
42:15toward
42:15the
42:16church
42:16where
42:17they
42:17knelt
42:17clutching
42:18the
42:18altar
42:18and
42:19from
42:19this
42:20refuge
42:20they
42:20were
42:21dragged
42:21howling
42:22one
42:23by
42:23one
42:24and
42:25one
42:25by
42:25one
42:26they
42:26were
42:26slain
42:26and
42:26scalped
42:27in
42:27the
42:27chancel
42:27floor
42:28when
42:30the
42:30riders
42:30passed
42:31through
42:31the
42:31same
42:31village
42:32four
42:32days
42:32later
42:32the
42:33dead
42:33were
42:33still
42:33in
42:34the
42:34streets
42:34and
42:35buzzards
42:36and
42:36pigs
42:36were
42:37feeding
42:37on
42:37them
42:37the
42:38scavengers
42:39watched
42:41while the
42:41company
42:42picked
42:42their
42:42way
42:42past
42:43like
42:43super
42:43numerus
42:44in
42:45a
42:45dream
42:45when
42:46the
42:47last
42:47of
42:47them
42:47was
42:47gone
42:48they
42:49commenced
42:49the
42:49feed
42:49again
42:50they
42:51went
42:51on
42:52through
42:52the
42:52mountains
42:52without
42:53resting
42:53they
42:54trod
42:54a
42:54narrow
42:54trail
42:55through
42:55a
42:55black
42:56pine
42:56wood
42:56by
42:57day
42:57and
42:58by
42:58dark
42:59and
42:59in
42:59silence
43:00save
43:01for
43:02the
43:02creaking
43:02of
43:03tack
43:03and
43:04the
43:04breathing
43:04of
43:04the
43:04horses
43:05a
43:06thin
43:06shell
43:07of
43:07a
43:07moon
43:07lay
43:07capsized
43:08over
43:08the
43:11they
43:11rode
43:11down
43:11into
43:12a
43:12mountain
43:12town
43:12just
43:13before
43:13day
43:14where
43:14there
43:14was
43:15no
43:15lamp
43:15nor
43:15watchman
43:16nor
43:17dog
43:17in
43:18the
43:18gray
43:19dawn
43:19they
43:20sat
43:20along
43:20a
43:20wall
43:21waiting
43:22for
43:22daylight
43:22a
43:23rooster
43:24called
43:24a
43:25door
43:25slammed
43:26an
43:27old
43:27woman
43:27came
43:27down
43:28the
43:28lane
43:28past
43:28the
43:29stye
43:30walls
43:30through
43:31the
43:31mist
43:31carrying
43:32a
43:33yoke
43:33of
43:33jars
43:33they
43:35rose
43:35up
43:35it
43:36was
43:36cold
43:37and
43:37their
43:38breath
43:38plumed
43:38about
43:39them
43:39they
43:40took
43:40down
43:41the
43:41poles
43:41in
43:41the
43:41corral
43:42and
43:43led
43:43the
43:43horses
43:43out
43:44they
43:45rode
43:46up
43:46the
43:46street
43:47they
43:47halted
43:48the
43:49animals
43:50sidled
43:50and
43:51stamped
43:51in
43:52the
43:52cold
43:52glanton
43:54had
43:54reined
43:54up
43:55and
43:56drawn
43:56his
43:56pistol
43:57a
43:59company
43:59of
43:59mounted
43:59troops
44:00passed
44:00out
44:01from
44:01behind
44:01a
44:01wall
44:02at
44:02the
44:02north
44:03end
44:03of
44:03the
44:03village
44:03and
44:04turned
44:04into
44:05the
44:05street
44:05they
44:06wore
44:06tall
44:07shackles
44:07faced
44:08with
44:08metal
44:09plates
44:09and
44:10horsehair
44:10plumes
44:11and
44:12they
44:12wore
44:12green
44:12coats
44:13trimmed
44:13with
44:13scarlet
44:14and
44:14scarlet
44:14sashes
44:15and
44:16they
44:16were
44:16armed
44:16with
44:17lances
44:17and
44:17muskets
44:18and
44:19their
44:19mounts
44:19were
44:19nicely
44:20caparisoned
44:21and
44:23they
44:24entered
44:24the
44:24street
44:25sidling
44:25and
44:26prancing
44:26horsemen
44:28riding
44:28upon
44:29horses
44:29all
44:31of
44:31them
44:31desirable
44:31young
44:32men
44:32the
44:33company
44:33looked
44:34to
44:34glanton
44:34he
44:35holstered
44:36the
44:36pistol
44:36and
44:37drew
44:37his
44:37rifle
44:37the
44:39captain
44:39of the
44:40lancers
44:40had
44:40raised
44:41his
44:41sabre
44:41to
44:41hold
44:41the
44:42column
44:42the
44:43next
44:43instant
44:44the
44:45narrow
44:45street
44:45was
44:45filled
44:46with
44:46rifle
44:46smoke
44:47and
44:47a
44:47dozen
44:48of
44:48the
44:48soldiers
44:48lay
44:49dead
44:49or
44:49dying
44:50on
44:50the
44:50ground
44:51the
44:52horses
44:52reared
44:53and
44:53screamed
44:53and fell
44:54back
44:54upon
44:55each
44:55other
44:55and
44:56men
44:57were
44:57unhorsed
44:58and rose
44:58up
44:58struggling
44:59to hold
45:00their
45:00mounts
45:01a
45:02second
45:02fire
45:02tore
45:03through
45:03their
45:03ranks
45:04they
45:05fell
45:05away
45:05in
45:05confusion
45:06the
45:07Americans
45:07drew
45:08their
45:08pistols
45:08and booted
45:09their
45:09horses
45:09forward
45:10up the
45:11street
45:11the
45:12Mexican
45:13captain
45:13was
45:14bleeding
45:14from a
45:14gunshot wound
45:15in the
45:15chest
45:16and he
45:17stood in the
45:17stirrups to
45:18receive the
45:18charge with
45:19his saber
45:19glanton
45:21glanton
45:21shot
45:21shot him
45:22through
45:22the
45:22head
45:22and
45:23shoved
45:23him
45:23from
45:24his
45:24horse
45:24with
45:24his
45:24foot
45:25and
45:25shot
45:25down
45:26in
45:26succession
45:26three
45:27men
45:28behind
45:28him
45:28a
45:30soldier
45:30on the
45:30ground
45:31had
45:31picked
45:31up a
45:31lance
45:32and ran
45:32at him
45:33with
45:33it
45:33and
45:34one
45:34of
45:34the
45:34riders
45:35leaned
45:35down
45:35out of
45:36that
45:36wild
45:36melee
45:37and
45:37cut
45:38his
45:38throat
45:38and
45:38passed
45:39on
45:39in
45:40the
45:40morning
45:40dampness
45:41the
45:41sulfurous
45:42smoke
45:42hung
45:43over
45:43the
45:43street
45:43in a
45:44grey
45:44shroud
45:45and
45:46the
45:46colorful
45:46lancers
45:47fell
45:47under
45:48the
45:48horses
45:48in
45:48that
45:48perilous
45:49mist
45:49like
45:51soldiers
45:51slaughtered
45:52in a
45:52dream
45:53wide-eyed
45:54and
45:55wooden
45:55and
45:56mute
45:57some
45:58among
46:00the
46:00rear
46:00guard
46:00had
46:00managed
46:01to
46:01turn
46:01their
46:01mounts
46:01and
46:02start
46:02back
46:02up
46:02the
46:03street
46:03and
46:04the
46:04Americans
46:04were
46:05clouding
46:05back
46:05with
46:06pistol
46:06barrels
46:07the
46:08riderless
46:08horses
46:09and
46:10the
46:10horses
46:10surged
46:11and
46:11milled
46:12with
46:12the
46:12stirrups
46:12kicking
46:13out
46:13and
46:14they
46:14trumpeted
46:15with
46:15their
46:15long
46:15mouths
46:16and
46:17trampled
46:17underfoot
46:18the
46:18dead
46:19they
46:20beat
46:20them
46:20back
46:21and
46:21urged
46:21their
46:21horses
46:22through
46:22and
46:23up
46:23the
46:24street
46:24to where
46:25it
46:25narrowed
46:25and
46:26turned
46:26up
46:26the
46:27mountain
46:27and
46:28they
46:28fired
46:28after
46:28the
46:29fleeing
46:29lancers
46:30as
46:30they
46:30skiltured
46:31up
46:31the
46:31trail
46:32in
46:32a
46:32rattle
46:33of
46:33small
46:33stones
46:34glanton
46:35sent
46:36a
46:36detachment
46:36of
46:37five
46:37men
46:37to
46:37follow
46:38and
46:38he
46:39and
46:39the
46:39judge
46:40and
46:40bath
46:40cat
46:40turned
46:41back
46:41they
46:42met
46:42the
46:42rest
46:43of
46:43the
46:43company
46:43riding
46:43up
46:44and
46:44they
46:45turned
46:45back
46:45and
46:45they
46:46went
46:46down
46:46and
46:46looted
46:47the
46:47bodies
46:47where
46:47they
46:47lay
46:48in
46:48the
46:48street
46:48like
46:49dead
46:49bandsmen
46:50and
46:51they
46:51smashed
46:51their
46:52muskets
46:52against
46:52the
46:53walls
46:53of
46:53the
46:53houses
46:54and
46:54broke
46:55their
46:55swords
46:55and
46:55lances
46:56as
46:57they
46:57rode
46:57out
46:57they
46:58met
46:58the
46:58five
46:58scouts
46:59returning
46:59the
47:00lancers
47:01had
47:01quit
47:01the
47:01trail
47:02and
47:02scattered
47:02through
47:03the
47:03woods
47:03two
47:04nights
47:04later
47:05camped
47:05on
47:12reflection
47:13of
47:13a
47:13single
47:13star
47:14in
47:15a
47:15lake
47:15of
47:15utter
47:16blackness
47:16they
47:17took
47:17counsel
47:18on
47:19that
47:19wrought
47:19table
47:20stone
47:20the
47:20flames
47:20of
47:21their
47:21bale
47:21fire
47:21swirled
47:22and
47:22circled
47:23and
47:24they
47:24studied
47:24the
47:24arrant
47:25blackness
47:26under
47:26them
47:27where
47:27it
47:28fell
47:28away
47:28like
47:29the
47:29sheer
47:29cloven
47:30face
47:30of
47:31the
47:31world
47:31how
47:34far
47:34do
47:34you
47:34make
47:34them
47:34said
47:36Glanton
47:36Holden
47:38shook
47:38his
47:38head
47:38they
47:40made
47:40a
47:41half
47:41day
47:41on
47:42us
47:42they
47:42number
47:43no
47:43more
47:43than
47:43twelve
47:44fourteen
47:44they
47:45won't
47:46send
47:46men
47:46ahead
47:46how
47:48far
47:49are we
47:49from
47:49chihuahua
47:50city
47:50four
47:52days
47:53three
47:53where's
47:54davy
47:54glanton
47:56turned
47:56how
47:58far
47:59to
47:59chihuahua
47:59david
48:00brown
48:01stood
48:02with his
48:02back
48:03to the
48:03fire
48:03he
48:04nodded
48:04if
48:05that's
48:06them
48:06they
48:06could
48:07be
48:07there
48:07in
48:07three
48:08days
48:09you
48:11reckon
48:11we
48:11can
48:11overhaul
48:12them
48:12i
48:14don't
48:14know
48:14might
48:15depend
48:15on
48:15whether
48:15they
48:16figure
48:16us
48:16to
48:16be
48:16after
48:17them
48:17glanton
48:19turned
48:20and
48:20spat
48:20into
48:21the
48:21fire
48:21the
48:23judge
48:23raised
48:24one
48:24pale
48:25and
48:25naked
48:25arm
48:25and
48:26pursued
48:27something
48:27in the
48:27pit
48:27of it
48:28with
48:28his
48:28fingers
48:29if
48:32if
48:32we
48:32can
48:32be
48:32off
48:32of
48:33this
48:33mountain
48:33by
48:33daylight
48:34he
48:35said
48:35i
48:36believe
48:36we
48:36can
48:37overtake
48:37them
48:37otherwise
48:38we
48:38better
48:38make
48:39for
48:39sonora
48:39they
48:41may be
48:42from
48:42sonora
48:43then
48:44we
48:44better
48:45go
48:45get
48:45them
48:46we
48:47could
48:48take
48:48these
48:48scabs
48:49to
48:49urus
48:50the
48:51fire
48:52swept
48:52along
48:53the
48:53ground
48:53it
48:54rose
48:54again
48:54we
48:55better
48:56go
48:56get
48:56them
48:57said
48:58the
48:58judge
48:58they
48:59rode
49:00onto
49:00the
49:00plane
49:00at
49:00dawn
49:01as
49:02the
49:02judge
49:03had
49:03said
49:03and
49:04that
49:04night
49:04they
49:05could
49:05see
49:05the
49:05fire
49:06of
49:06the
49:06Mexicans
49:07reflected
49:07in
49:07the
49:07sky
49:08to
49:08the
49:08east
49:08beyond
49:09the
49:10curve
49:10of
49:10the
49:10earth
49:11all
49:12the
49:12day
49:12following
49:13they
49:13rode
49:14and
49:14all
49:15that
49:15night
49:15jerking
49:16and
49:17lurching
49:17like
49:17a
49:17deputation
49:18of
49:18spastics
49:19as
49:20they
49:20slept
49:20in
49:21their
49:21saddles
49:21on
49:23the
49:23morning
49:23of
49:23the
49:23third
49:23day
49:24they
49:25could
49:25see
49:25the
49:25riders
49:25before
49:26them
49:26on
49:27the
49:27plane
49:27in
49:28silhouette
49:28against
49:29the
49:30sun
49:30and
49:31in
49:31the
49:31evening
49:31they
49:32could
49:33count
49:33their
49:33numbers
49:33struggling
49:34upon
49:34that
49:34desolate
49:35mineral
49:35waste
49:36when
49:37the
49:38sun
49:38rose
49:38the
49:39walls
49:39of
49:39the
49:39city
49:40stood
49:40pale
49:40and
49:41thin
49:41in
49:42the
49:42rising
49:42light
49:43twenty
49:43miles
49:44to
49:44the
49:44east
49:45they
49:46sat
49:46their
49:47horses
49:47the
49:49lancers
49:49were
49:49strung
49:50out
49:50along
49:51the
49:51road
49:51several
49:51miles
49:52to
49:52the
49:52south
49:53of
49:53them
49:53there
49:55was
49:55no
49:55reason
49:55for
49:55them
49:56to
49:56stop
49:56and
49:57no
49:57hope
49:57in
49:57it
49:57any
49:58more
49:58than
49:58there
49:58was
49:59in
49:59the
50:00riding
50:00but
50:01as
50:02they
50:02were
50:02riding
50:02they
50:03rode
50:03and
50:04the
50:05Americans
50:05put
50:05their
50:05horses
50:06forward
50:06once
50:07again
50:08for
50:09for
50:09for
50:09a
50:09while
50:10they
50:10rode
50:10almost
50:10parallel
50:11toward
50:12the
50:12gates
50:12of
50:12the
50:12city
50:13the
50:14two
50:14parties
50:15bloody
50:15and ragged
50:16the
50:16horses
50:17stumbling
50:18glanton
50:19called out
50:20to them
50:20to surrender
50:21but they
50:21rode
50:22on
50:22he
50:23drew
50:23his
50:24rifle
50:24they
50:25were
50:25shambling
50:25along
50:26the
50:26road
50:26like
50:26dumb
50:27things
50:27he
50:28pulled
50:28up
50:28his
50:29horse
50:29and
50:30it
50:30stood
50:30with
50:30its
50:30legs
50:31spread
50:31and
50:32its
50:32flanks
50:32heaving
50:33and
50:34he
50:34leveled
50:34the
50:34rifle
50:35and
50:36fired
50:37they
50:38were
50:38for
50:38the
50:39most
50:39part
50:39no
50:40longer
50:40even
50:40armed
50:41there
50:41were
50:42nine
50:42of
50:42them
50:42and
50:43they
50:43halted
50:43and
50:44turned
50:44and
50:45then
50:45they
50:46charged
50:46across
50:47that
50:47intermittent
50:48ground
50:49of
50:49rock
50:50and
50:50scrub
50:51and
50:52were
50:52shot
50:52down
50:53in
50:53the
50:54space
50:54of
50:54a
50:54minute
50:54the
50:56horses
50:56were
50:57caught
50:57and
50:57herded
50:58back
50:58to
50:58the
50:58road
50:58and
51:00the
51:00saddles
51:00and
51:00trappings
51:01cut
51:01away
51:01the
51:02bodies
51:03of
51:03the
51:03dead
51:03were
51:03stripped
51:04and
51:04their
51:05uniforms
51:05and
51:05weapons
51:06burnt
51:06along
51:07with
51:07the
51:08saddles
51:08and
51:08other
51:09gear
51:09and
51:10the
51:10Americans
51:11dug
51:11a pit
51:11in the
51:12road
51:12and
51:12buried
51:12them
51:13in
51:13a
51:13common
51:13grave
51:14the
51:15naked
51:15bodies
51:16with
51:16their
51:16wounds
51:16like
51:17the
51:17victims
51:17of
51:17surgical
51:18experimentation
51:19lying
51:20in
51:20the
51:20pit
51:21gaping
51:22sightlessly
51:23at
51:24the
51:24desert
51:24sky
51:25as
51:26the
51:26dirt
51:27was
51:27pushed
51:27over
51:27them
51:28they
51:29trampled
51:30the
51:30spot
51:30with
51:30their
51:31horses
51:31until
51:31it
51:31looked
51:32like
51:33the
51:33road
51:33again
51:34and
51:34the
51:35smoking
51:35gun
51:35locks
51:36and
51:36saber
51:36blades
51:37and
51:37girth
51:37rings
51:38were
51:39dragged
51:39from
51:39the
51:40ashes
51:40of
51:40the
51:40fire
51:41and
51:41carried
51:41away
51:41and
51:42buried
51:43in
51:43a
51:43separate
51:43place
51:44and
51:45the
51:45riderless
51:45horses
51:46hazed
51:46off
51:46into
51:47the
51:47desert
51:47and
51:48in
51:49the
51:49evening
51:49the
51:50wind
51:51carried
51:51away
51:51the
51:51ashes
51:52and
51:53the
51:53wind
51:54blew
51:54in
51:54the
51:54night
51:54and
51:55fanned
51:56the
51:56last
51:57smoldering
51:57billets
51:58and
51:59drove
51:59forth
52:00the
52:00last
52:00fragile
52:01race
52:01of
52:01sparks
52:02fugitive
52:03as
52:04flint
52:04strikings
52:04in the
52:05unanimous
52:05dark
52:06of the
52:06world
52:07they
52:09entered
52:09the
52:09city
52:09haggard
52:11and
52:12filthy
52:12and
52:13reeking
52:14with the
52:14blood
52:14of the
52:15citizenry
52:15for whose
52:16protection
52:17they had
52:17contracted
52:18the
52:19scalps
52:20of the
52:20slain
52:20villagers
52:21were
52:21strung
52:21from the
52:22windows
52:22of the
52:23governor's
52:23house
52:23and the
52:25partisans
52:25were
52:25paid
52:26out
52:26of the
52:28old
52:28but
52:29exhausted
52:30coffers
52:30and the
52:32sociedad
52:32was
52:33disbanded
52:34and the
52:35bounty
52:36rescinded
52:37within a
52:38week of
52:39their quitting
52:39the city
52:40there would
52:40be a
52:41price of
52:41eight
52:41thousand
52:42pesos
52:43posted
52:44for
52:44Glanton's
52:45head
52:45they rode
52:46out on
52:47the
52:47north
52:47road
52:48as would
52:48parties
52:49bound
52:49for
52:49El Paso
52:50but
52:51before
52:51they were
52:52even
52:52quite
52:53out of
52:53sight
52:54of the
52:54city
52:54they had
52:55turned
52:55their
52:56tragic
52:56mounts
52:56to
52:57the
52:57west
52:57and
52:58they
52:58rode
52:59infatuate
53:00and
53:01half
53:01fond
53:02toward
53:02the
53:02red
53:02demise
53:03of
53:03that
53:03day
53:03toward
53:05the
53:06evening
53:06lands
53:07and
53:08the
53:08distant
53:09pandemonium
53:11of
53:11the
53:12sun
53:12chapter
53:15fourteen
53:15mountain
53:17storms
53:17tierras
53:19quemadas
53:20tierras
53:22despobladas
53:23jesu
53:25maria
53:25the
53:26inn
53:27shopkeepers
53:28a
53:29bodega
53:30the
53:31fiddler
53:31the
53:32priest
53:32las
53:33animas
53:33the
53:34procession
53:35cazando
53:36las
53:36almas
53:37clanton
53:38takes
53:39a
53:39fit
53:39dogs
53:40for
53:41sale
53:41the
53:42judge
53:42prestidigitant
53:44the
53:45flag
53:46a
53:46shootout
53:47an
53:48exodus
53:48the
53:49conducta
53:50blood
53:51and
53:51mercury
53:52at
53:53the
53:53ford
53:53jackson
53:54restored
53:55the
53:56jungle
53:56an
53:57herbalist
53:58the
53:59judge
53:59collects
54:00specimens
54:00the
54:01point
54:01of
54:01view
54:01for
54:02his
54:02work
54:02as
54:02a
54:02scientist
54:03ures
54:04the
54:05populace
54:06los
54:07por
54:08diosieros
54:09a
54:10fandango
54:11pariah
54:12dogs
54:13clanton
54:15and
54:15judge
54:16all
54:19to
54:19the
54:19north
54:19the
54:20rain
54:20had
54:21dragged
54:21black
54:21tendrils
54:22down
54:22from
54:22the
54:22thunderclouds
54:23like
54:24tracings
54:25of
54:25lamp
54:26black
54:26fallen
54:26in
54:27a
54:27beaker
54:27and
54:28in
54:28the
54:28night
54:29they
54:29could
54:30hear
54:30the
54:30drum
54:30of
54:30rain
54:31miles
54:31away
54:32on
54:32the
54:32prairie
54:32they
54:34ascended
54:34through
54:34a
54:35rocky
54:35pass
54:35and
54:36lightning
54:37shaped
54:37out
54:37the
54:38distant
54:38shivering
54:39mountains
54:39and
54:40lightning
54:41rang
54:41the
54:41stones
54:42about
54:42and
54:43the
54:43tufts
54:43of
54:44blue
54:44fire
54:44clung
54:45to
54:45the
54:45horses
54:45like
54:46incandescent
54:47elementals
54:47that
54:49would
54:49not
54:49be
54:49driven
54:50off
54:50soft
54:51smelter
54:52lights
54:53advanced
54:53upon
54:53the
54:53metal
54:54of
54:54the
54:54harness
54:54lights
54:56ran
54:56blue
54:57and
54:57liquid
54:57on
54:58the
54:58barrels
54:59of
54:59the
54:59guns
54:59mad
55:01jack
55:01hair
55:01started
55:02and
55:02checked
55:02in
55:03the
55:03blue
55:03glare
55:03and
55:04high
55:05among
55:05the
55:05clanging
55:05crags
55:06joke
55:07and
55:07row
55:07hawks
55:08crouched
55:08in
55:09their
55:09feathers
55:09or
55:10cracked
55:11a
55:11yellow
55:11eye
55:11at
55:12the
55:12thunder
55:12underfoot
55:13they
55:16rode
55:16for days
55:16through
55:17the
55:17rain
55:17and
55:17they
55:18rode
55:18through
55:18the
55:18rain
55:18and
55:19hail
55:19and
55:19rain
55:19again
55:20in
55:21that
55:21grey
55:21storm
55:22light
55:22they
55:23crossed
55:23a
55:23flooded
55:24plain
55:24with
55:24the
55:25footed
55:25shapes
55:25of
55:25the
55:25horses
55:26reflected
55:26in
55:27the
55:27water
55:27among
55:28clouds
55:28and
55:29mountains
55:29and
55:30the
55:30riders
55:30slumped
55:31forward
55:31and
55:33shimmering
55:34cities
55:34on
55:34the
55:34distant
55:35shore
55:35of
55:35that
55:35sea
55:36whereon
55:37they
55:38trod
55:38miraculous
55:40they
55:41climbed
55:42up
55:42through
55:42rolling
55:42grasslands
55:43where
55:44small
55:45birds
55:46shied
55:46away
55:46chittering
55:47down
55:47the
55:47wind
55:48and
55:49a
55:49buzzard
55:49labored
55:50up
55:51from
55:52among
55:52bones
55:52with
55:53wings
55:53that
55:53went
55:54whoop
55:54whoop
55:55whoop
55:56like
55:57a
55:57child's
55:58toy
55:58swung
55:58on
55:58a
55:59string
55:59and
56:00in
56:00the
56:00long
56:00red
56:01sunset
56:01the
56:02sheets
56:02of
56:03water
56:03on
56:03the
56:03plain
56:03below
56:04them
56:04they
56:05like
56:05tide
56:05pools
56:06of
56:06primal
56:06blood
56:07they
56:08pass
56:09through
56:09a
56:09highland
56:10meadow
56:10carpeted
56:11with
56:11wild
56:12flowers
56:12acres
56:13of
56:14yellow
56:14ground
56:15soul
56:15and
56:15zinnia
56:16and
56:16deep
56:17ground
56:17gentian
56:18and
56:18wild
56:19vines
56:19of
56:20blue
56:20morning
56:20glory
56:21and
56:22a
56:22vast
56:22plain
56:23of
56:23varied
56:23small
56:23blooms
56:24reaching
56:25onward
56:25like a
56:26gingham
56:26print
56:27to
56:27the
56:27far
56:27the
56:28serried
56:28rimlands
56:28blue
56:29with
56:30haze
56:30and
56:31the
56:31adamantine
56:32ranges
56:33rising
56:33out of
56:33nothing
56:34like the
56:36backs
56:36of
56:36sea
56:36beasts
56:37in a
56:38devonian
56:38dawn
56:39it was
56:41raining
56:41again
56:42and they
56:42rode slouched
56:43under
56:43slickers
56:44hacked
56:44from
56:45greasy
56:45half-cured
56:46hides
56:46and
56:48so
56:48cowled
56:48in
56:48these
56:48primitive
56:49skins
56:49before
56:50the
56:50grey
56:50and
56:50driving
56:50rain
56:51they
56:52looked
56:52like
56:52wardens
56:53of
56:53some
56:53dim
56:54sect
56:54sent
56:55forth
56:56to
56:57proselytize
56:57among
56:58the
56:58very
56:58beasts
56:59of
56:59the
56:59land
56:59the
57:00country
57:01before
57:01them
57:01lay
57:02clouded
57:02and
57:03dark
57:03they
57:04rode
57:04through
57:04the
57:05long
57:05twilight
57:05and
57:06the
57:06sun
57:06set
57:07and
57:07no
57:08moon
57:08rose
57:09and
57:10to
57:10the
57:10west
57:10the
57:11mountains
57:11shuddered
57:12again
57:12and
57:13again
57:13in
57:14clattering
57:15frames
57:16and
57:16burned
57:17to
57:17final
57:17darkness
57:18and
57:19the
57:19rain
57:20hissed
57:21in
57:21the
57:21blind
57:21night
57:22land
57:22they
57:24went
57:24up
57:25through
57:25the
57:25foothills
57:25among
57:26pine
57:27trees
57:27and
57:28barren
57:28rock
57:29and
57:30they
57:30went
57:30up
57:31through
57:31juniper
57:32and
57:32spruce
57:33and
57:33the
57:34rare
57:34great
57:34aloes
57:35and
57:36the
57:36rising
57:36stalks
57:37of
57:37the
57:37yucas
57:38with
57:38their
57:38pale
57:39bloom
57:39silent
57:40and
57:41unearthly
57:42among
57:43the
57:43evergreens
57:44in
57:45the
57:46night
57:46they
57:46followed
57:47a
57:47mountain
57:47torrent
57:48in
57:49a
57:49wild
57:49gorge
57:50choked
57:51with
57:51mossy
57:51rocks
57:52and
57:53they
57:53rode
57:53under
57:53dark
57:54grottoes
57:55where
57:55the
57:55water
57:56dripped
57:56and
57:57spattered
57:57and
57:58tasted
57:58of
57:59iron
57:59and
58:00they
58:00saw
58:00the
58:01silver
58:01filaments
58:01of
58:02cascades
58:02divided
58:04upon
58:04the
58:04faces
58:04of
58:05distant
58:05buttes
58:06that
58:06appeared
58:07as
58:07signs
58:07and
58:08wonders
58:08in
58:08the
58:09heavens
58:09themselves
58:10so
58:11dark
58:12was
58:12the
58:12ground
58:13of
58:13their
58:13origins
58:14they
58:15crossed
58:16the
58:16blackened
58:16wood
58:17of
58:17a
58:17burn
58:17and
58:18they
58:18rode
58:18through
58:18a
58:19region
58:19of
58:19cloven
58:19rock
58:20where
58:21great
58:21boulders
58:22lay
58:22halved
58:23with
58:23smooth
58:24uncentered
58:25faces
58:25and
58:26on
58:27the
58:27slopes
58:27of
58:27those
58:27ferric
58:28grounds
58:28old
58:29paths
58:30of
58:30fire
58:31and
58:32the
58:32blackened
58:32bones
58:33of
58:33trees
58:33assassinated
58:35in
58:35the
58:35mountain
58:35storms
58:36on
58:38on
58:38the
58:38day
58:38following
58:39they
58:40began
58:40to
58:40encounter
58:41holly
58:42and
58:43oak
58:43hardwood
58:45forests
58:46much
58:46like
58:46those
58:46they
58:46had
58:47quit
58:47in
58:47their
58:47youth
58:48in
58:49pockets
58:49on
58:50the
58:50north
58:50slopes
58:50hail
58:51lay
58:51nested
58:52like
58:52tektites
58:53among
58:54the leaves
58:55and the
58:55nights
58:55were
58:55cool
58:56they
58:57traveled
58:57through
58:58the
58:58high
58:58country
58:59deeper
59:00into
59:00the
59:01mountains
59:01where
59:02the
59:02storms
59:03had
59:03their
59:03lairs
59:04a
59:05fiery
59:05clangorous
59:06region
59:07where
59:07white
59:08flames
59:08ran
59:09on
59:09the
59:09peaks
59:09and
59:10the
59:11ground
59:11bore
59:11the
59:11burnt
59:12smell
59:12of
59:12broken
59:13flint
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