He wheeled about violently and strode away, fuming.
Lawrence went to his chamber, wondering at such a display of wrath in one so genial.
He glanced at the looking-glass in passing through the chief room of the estancia. The glance revealed to him the fact that there was a large rich brown patch in the region of his mouth and nose!
Chapter Twenty Three.
Treats of Savages, Captives, Chases, Accidents, Incidents, and Perplexities.
Not unfrequently, in human affairs, evil consequences are happily averted by unforeseen circumstances. It was so on the present occasion.
What Colonel Marchbanks’s wrath might have led to no one can tell, for, a little before dawn on the following morning, there came a messenger in hot haste from Pedro stating that one of the scouts had come in with the news that the Indians were encamped with their captives and booty not half a day’s ride in advance of them.
The result was an immediate order to advance and to close up.