José — page 85: what you’re looking at

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78 JOSE. She seemed intent on avoiding the look that was on Green’s face, and turning her head she spied the two horses quietly grazing a short distance away. Quickly she was at their side and began coaxing the animals into her presence. Not until then did the thought of the caravan and the urgent necessity of regaining the trail without a moment’s delay, occur to Green’s mind. He followed Jose, forcibly con- trolling his many strange emotions, called his horse which joyfully came up to his side at the sound of the well-known voice, and soon Jose had captured the second. “What motive had you in following me and how did you find the direction I had taken?” Green asked, as side by side they were riding back toward the trail. | “T heard the crack of your pistol, sir, and felt satisfied that the buffalo would not give you time to reload your weapon,” Jose answered, looking straight ahead. “I followed the sound and the third report guided me to where I supposed I should find you. On seeing the buffalo, I had only to leap off my horse and place the muzzle of my gun squarely below his left shoulder blade.” “But supposing the animal had turned upon you” “J hadn’t time, sir, to think of that, and then Uncle Bill said one had only to guard against being seen by the animal.” Green did not reply. He scanned the small, slender form at his side and wondered whv he had never surmised the truth until now. What the. nature of the strange sensations which suddenly coursed through his veins were, he did not know, nor what his discovery would finally lead to. It was with a feeling of pleasant relief, therefore, that Eomichooks Go ~