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tions,
and eventually he even began
meanwhile, eager to
know
the solution
mystery, pressed Gregorio to solve
man was
that this
to smile.
It
it.
We,
of the
appeared
who had escaped
a convict,
from Sandy Point two days before, and having " requisitioned "
on
his
way
side of
When
two Government horses, was now
to the
Santa Cruz
on the other
river,
which he would be
free
from pursuit.
he saw us coming towards him
at a gallop,
he had been seized with a sudden panic, thinking
we might want off,
and had galloped
with the results known.
Of
course
visions as he
we
to capture him,
should
him,
we
;
left
we
could not ask for any of his pro-
would require them much more than
so, after
exchanging a few words with
him, and proceeded to rejoin Storer,
who had remained behind
with the horses whilst
we had been engaged on our
The
incident
furnished
conversation for a time, but
novel hunt. us
it
with
matter for
was not long before
we came back to the more important topic of food, for we were now all of us really faint with hunger, and our prospects of getting anything for the next thirty-six hours were faint indeed.
Our
goal that evening was the
''
Cabeza
del
Mar," an arm of the sea which runs for some distance inland, and which, at a certain point,
is