'There!' he said, addressing the latter, 'now can you do? If
Monsieur tries to escape or turn back, shoot him! But four
hours' riding should bring you to the Roca Blanca. You will find
the men there, and will have no more to do with it.'
Antoine did not see things quite in that light, however. He
looked at me, and then at the wild track in front of us; and he
muttered an oath and said he would die if he would.
But the landlord, who was in a frenzy of impatience, drew him
aside and talked to him, and in the end seemed to persuade him;
for in a few minutes the matter was settled.
Antoine came back, and said sullenly, 'Forward, Monsieur,' the
two others stood on one side, I shrugged my shoulders and kicked
up my horse, and in a twinkling we two were riding on together
--man to man. I turned once or twice to see what those we had
left behind were doing, and always found them standing in
apparent debate; but my guard showed so much jealousy of these
movements that I presently shrugged my shoulders again and
desisted.
I had racked my brains to bring about this state of things.
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