"I will tell it you. It is the Zarate family, one of the most influential in New Mexico."
At this answer a vivid flush ran over the girl's face, and she displayed marks of profound emotion.
"I also propose," the bandit continued, whose notice this flush had not escaped, "to finish with that demon, Bloodson, on whom we have so many insults to avenge."
"Good!" she said with increasing emotion.
The astounded brigands gazed anxiously on the girl. At length, by a violent effort, the Gazelle succeeded in reassuming an air of coolness; and, addressing the Pirates, said to them, in a voice whose accent revealed a great internal agitation—
"That entirely changes the question. Bloodson is our most cruel enemy. If I had known that at first, I should not have opposed the enterprise as I did."
"Then—?" Sandoval ventured to interrupt. "I consider the idea excellent; and the sooner we put it in execution, the better."
"Very good," Red Cedar exclaimed. "I felt sure that the niña would support me."
The Gazelle smiled on him.
"Whoever could understand women?" Sandoval muttered in his moustache.