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"
A
mustanger
!
"
scornfully
muttered
Calhoun
,
but
only
loud
enough
to
be
heard
by
Louise
.
"
Only
a
mustanger
!
"
reflected
the
aristocratic
Poindexter
,
the
fervour
of
his
gratitude
becoming
sensibly
chilled
.
"
For
guide
,
you
will
no
longer
need
either
myself
,
or
my
lazo
,
"
said
the
hunter
of
wild
horses
.
"
The
cypress
is
in
sight
:
keep
straight
towards
it
.
After
crossing
,
you
will
see
the
flag
over
the
Fort
.
You
may
yet
reach
your
journey
's
end
before
night
.
I
have
no
time
to
tarry
;
and
must
say
adieu
.
"
Satan
himself
,
astride
a
Tartarean
steed
,
could
not
have
looked
more
like
the
devil
than
did
Maurice
the
Mustanger
,
as
he
separated
for
the
second
time
from
the
planter
and
his
party
.
But
neither
his
ashy
envelope
,
nor
the
announcement
of
his
humble
calling
,
did
aught
to
damage
him
in
the
estimation
of
one
,
whose
thoughts
were
already
predisposed
in
his
favour
--
Louise
Poindexter
On
hearing
him
declare
his
name
--
by
presumption
already
known
to
her
--
she
but
more
tenderly
cherished
the
bit
of
cardboard
,
chafing
against
her
snow-white
bosom
;
at
the
same
time
muttering
in
soft
pensive
soliloquy
,
heard
only
by
herself
:
--
"
Maurice
the
mustanger
!
despite
your
sooty
covering
--
despite
your
modest
pretence
--
you
have
touched
the
heart
of
a
Creole
maiden
.
Mon
Dieu
--
mon
Dieu
!
He
is
too
like
Lucifer
for
me
to
despise
him
!
"
Where
the
Rio
de
Nueces
(
River
of
Nuts
)
collects
its
waters
from
a
hundred
tributary
streams
--
lining
the
map
like
the
limbs
of
a
grand
genealogical
tree
--
you
may
look
upon
a
land
of
surpassing
fairness
.
Its
surface
is
"
rolling
prairie
,
"
interspersed
with
clumps
of
post-oak
and
pecân
,
here
and
there
along
the
banks
of
the
watercourses
uniting
into
continuous
groves
.
In
some
places
these
timbered
tracts
assume
the
aspect
of
the
true
chapparal
--
a
thicket
,
rather
than
a
forest
--
its
principal
growth
being
various
kinds
of
acacia
,
associated
with
copaiva
and
creosote
trees
,
with
wild
aloes
,
with
eccentric
shapes
of
cereus
,
cactus
,
and
arborescent
yucca
.
These
spinous
forms
of
vegetation
,
though
repulsive
to
the
eye
of
the
agriculturist
--
as
proving
the
utter
sterility
of
the
soil
--
present
an
attractive
aspect
to
the
botanist
,
or
the
lover
of
Nature
;
especially
when
the
cereus
unfolds
its
huge
wax-like
blossoms
,
or
the
Fouquiera
splendens
overtops
the
surrounding
shrubbery
with
its
spike
of
resplendent
flowers
,
like
a
red
flag
hanging
unfolded
along
its
staff
.
The
whole
region
,
however
,
is
not
of
this
character
.
There
are
stretches
of
greater
fertility
;
where
a
black
calcareous
earth
gives
nourishment
to
trees
of
taller
growth
,
and
more
luxuriant
foliage
.
