Gordon Young

Name: Days of '49 — Chapter 6
Author: Gordon Young

Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

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“Days of '49 — Chapter 6”, published in 1925, is a work by Gordon Young. It explores elements such as Elvira, Don José and Don Esteban.

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ Gringos, gringos! The devil take them off! To lie at such a time. What liars they are, señor! And the country fills so fast with gringos that Don Esteban curses them all, for their very shadows, like grass in springtime, hide whom he seeks. But if he asked for my words, as he does for no man's, and has wool in his ears when you talk, I would tell him that one devil is so like another that the good angels dance when any one is flayed. Now I have been on the way to you since——"
"Enough. Enough," said Don José impatiently. "Your tongue, as ever, rattles like a leaf in the wind." ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ God is the best friend! I find you before I am off my horse! My tongue it was saying, 'The devil take such a town that has more people in it than one can speak with in an hour!' I was telling myself, ‘I will never find Don José—' then I hear his voice. I bring good, good news and the love of Don Esteban, who gnaws his knuckles and looks in anger upon the ground. ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ I wanted to see you."
"Why are you so good?" asked Anna.
"I think it terrible that a woman such as you should have had such luck."
Anna stared. She said, "Oh, oh, oh!" in broken sounds of pain; then with a rush arose and dropped at Elvira's feet, seizing the silk of Elvira's skirt, burying her face in it . "I will be good—take me out of hell. I swear to! Whisky—I won't touch it—I swear—oh, you—are an angel—Oh!" ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ Ho, a merry fellow, full of song and wit. He makes gringos laugh when they fear death and give up their gold. It is better than a fandango to watch him rob them!"
"Name of the devil!" cried Don José. "What have you to do with robbers?"
"God punish the wicked!" said Benito in pious alarm, cringing before José's glance. ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ But Don Esteban cries, 'No!'"
"I came up here as Don Esteban sent word for me to do," said José. "I have looked at every horse in this city. I have talked with every dealer of horses. No one has seen the horse we search for. So it must be those men did not come to the city. As you have found one at the mines, the others must be there. I have long been tired of waiting for you to come and show me where my brother waits. Let us go, now!"
"Oh, but, señor! Let Benito breathe. ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ Life's funny, ain't it? An' I got a head on me—ow, what a head! You've never been tight? Don't you like the stuff?"
"Not much, no. A little wine."
"Bah, wine! I want something you can taste. An' you'll get to whisky yet. Oh, yes, you will. Wait till you have to make up to ever' lousy tramp that wants a kiss—then's when you've got to get drunk an' stay there. Uh-huh. Where's that nigger wench with my drink?"
Tota came with bottle and whisky glass and, as she was placing them on the table, the woman who called herself Raggy-tail Mag snatched bottle and glass and began trying to fill the glass. ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ That a woman, any woman, should go so low was beyond Elvira's understanding. But then Elvira had been schooled in sin and its arts from youth; this woman had been plunged into it, falling from a good home. ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ That's better," she said, putting down the bottle, and eyeing with satisfaction what was left.
"What is your real name?" asked Elvira.
"Who wants to know?"
"I shall help you if I can."
"Help me? Help me! You're a liar. You're up to something. I know women. I'm a woman—used to be one, anyhow. Pretty, too. Ask your colonel."
"My colonel?"
The woman laughed derisively.
"Don't play innocence with me. Everybody knows you and him. You're after something. The colonel's not a bad fellow. Hones'. Just a man. Don't want a woman 'round him longer than she stays pretty. You'll learn that sometime. ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ Can't blame a man for that. He's born that way—man is. Of course he'll lie to you, an' play hell with you. But us women do the same. It's a game. Woman loses. I don't blame the colonel. Not any more. He's no good, but I was bad. Lord, how I loved that man—once. Not any more. You've got me here to learn things about him. But if you think I'm goin' to tell lies about him so you can throw 'em up to him, you're crazy. I'm not. Bah!"
She drank again. The whisky had warmed her tongue.
Elvira peered at her closely, searching her as one woman searches another ”

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Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 6 (1925)

“ The Army has received word from the East that so many emigrant trains are starting late, and so badly equipped that a lot of them are going to be caught this fall in the mountains. Scouts are going into the mountains to meet these trains and help them through. ”

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