I don't like to think of that fall.
"Taggart objected to Ezela going with us, but I couldn't think of
letting her stay to be punished by her tribe for what she'd
done--they'd have burned her, sure, she said. Besides, I may as well
tell the truth, I'd got to liking Ezela a good bit by this time. She
was good to look at, and she'd been hanging around me, telling me that
she wanted to go with us, and that she'd done what she had for my sake,
because she liked me. All that sort of stuff plays on a man's vanity
when it comes from a pretty girl, and it didn't take me long to decide
that I was in love with her and that, aside from humane reasons, I
ought to take her with me. So I took her.
"We reached the boat after a week of heart-breaking travel, and we
hadn't got over two miles out in the bay when we saw that we hadn't
left any too soon. A hundred or so Toltecs were on the beach, doing a
war dance and waving their spears at us. We had a pretty close call of
it for grub, but we made a little town on the gulf and stocked up, and
then we headed for the mouth of the Rio Grande. We camped one night a
week later on United States soil, and that night while I was asleep
Taggart tried to knife me. I'd showed Taggart the diamond image one
day while Ezela was asleep in the boat, and he'd got greedy for it.
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