"Because," said she, with a coaxing smile, "you seem to have forgotten the story of Delilah."
"What!" he exclaimed, more astonished than ever; "Do you intend to cut off his hair?"
"¿Quién sabe?" she answered, shaking her head knowingly, and with a delicious assumption of bravado; while at the same time she put one of her fingers on her rosy lips.
Don Pedro gave the shrug of a man who is utterly at a loss to understand, and who gives up an inexplicable enigma.
[1] A fact. An identical occurrence took place at the Carmen of Patagonia, daring an attack by the Indians.
[CHAPTER XIII.]
PALEFACE VERSUS REDSKIN.
The redskins in general, and the Apaches in particular, exhibit a surprising degree of craftiness when on the warpath, or preparing for a hazardous expedition. The best troops of the civilized world cannot compete with them in subtlety and wariness, such pains do they take to conceal and dissemble their movements.