Сердца трех / Hearts of three. Уровень 3

When they came to the plantation, they bought horses and food from a haciendado. So the cavalcade started.

Soon the haciendado observed the group of men, with Alvarez Torres in the lead.

“Senor,” Torres said. “We are in search of Senor Enrico Solano, his daughter, his sons, and two tall Gringos with them. It is the Gringos we want. Have they passed this way, Senor?”

“Yes, they have passed. Have they committed some crime? But I must not ask. Senor Enrico Solano is a honorable man…”

“Which way did they go?” the Jefe demanded.

The haciendado indicated an entirely different direction. Torres noted one of the peons[53 - peon – пеон, батрак в Латинской Америке], who was leaning on his spade. Torres showed a silver dollar to the peon. The peon nodded his head in the right direction and caught the coin.

“We will go the other way,” Torres said. “A little bird has told me that our friend here is mistaken and that they have gone the other way.

The haciendado and his helper looked at each other in amazement. That peon was working furiously, but another peon indicated him to the haciendado.

“There’s the little bird,” the haciendado cried. “Beat him, beat him, the beast who betrayed my dearest friends!”

The Solano party was crossing a shallow stream. Next, Alvarez Torres in the lead like a hound, the gendarmes at his back, and the Jefe in the rear, the pursuit arrived at the stream.

Chapter IX

In the meantime the Solanos Henry told Francis:

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