“Oh; some vaqueros have seen it?”
“Si, señores; three of them will swear to having witnessed the spectacle.”
Isidora is a little surprised at the moderate excitement which such a strange story causes among the “Tejanos.” There is an exhibition of interest, but no astonishment. A voice explains:
“We’ve seen it too—that headless horseman—at a distance. Did your vaqueros get close enough to know what it was?”
“Santissima! no.”
“Can you tell us, miss?”
“I? Not I. I only heard of it, as I’ve said. What it may be, quien sabe?”
There is an interval of silence, during which all appear to reflect on what they have heard.
The planter interrupts it, by a recurrence to his original interrogatory.
“Have you met, or seen, any one, miss—out here, I mean?”