Perhaps Wagalexa Conka had suspected that she was going with Ramon; Wagalexa
Conka was very keen, and his anger blazed hot as pitch-pine flame. Perhaps
Ramon feared Wagalexa Conka--as she, too, feared him. She was not afraid--she
would go to Ramon.
She stepped away from the rock and took the black horse by its dropped
bridle-reins and followed Luis Rojas up the dim path that wound through trees
and rocks until it dropped into a little ravine that was chocked with brush,
so that Annie-Many-Ponies had to put the stiff branches aside with her hand
lest they scratch her face as she passed.
Luis went swiftly along the path, as though his haste was great; but he went
stealthily as well, and she knew that he had some unknown cause for secrecy.
She wondered a little at this. Had Wagalexa Conka discovered where she and
Ramon were to meet? But how could he discover that which had been spoken but
once, and then in the quiet loneliness of that place far back on the mesa?
Wagalexa Conka bad not been within three miles of that place, as
Annie-Many-Ponies knew well. How then did he know? For he must have followed,
since Ramon dared not come to the place he had named for their meeting.
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