Again that full-throated cheer came from the Texans
and they quickened their pace, but Captain Castenada came down from the
mound and a soldier came with him bearing a white flag.
"Now, what in thunder can he want?" growled the Ring Tailed Panther to
Ned and Obed. "Shorely he ain't goin' to surrender. He's jest goin' to
waste our time in talk."
Deep disgust showed on his face.
"By waiting we will see," quoth Obed oracularly. "Now, Panther, don't
you be too impatient. Remember that the tortoise beat the hare in the
great Greek horse race."
Moore waved his hand and the Texans halted. Castenada on foot came on.
Moore also dismounted, and, calling to Ned and Obed to accompany him,
went forward to meet him. Ned and Obed, delighted, sprang from their
horses, and walked by his side. The Ring Tailed Panther growled between
his teeth that he was glad to stay, that he would have no truck with
Mexicans.
Castenada, with the soldier beside him, came forward. He was rather a
handsome young man of the dark type. As the two little parties met midway
between the lines, the forces on the hill and on the plain were alike
silent. Every trace of the fog was now gone, and the sun shone with full
splendor upon brown faces, upon rifles and lances.
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