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pushed him back vigorously.<br />

"What the hell is the matter with you What the hell<br />

are you trying to do" he demanded, furious.<br />

War Paint put her leg between his, twisted it suddenly,<br />

and Demetrio fell to the ground outside of the bedroom.<br />

He rose, raging.<br />

"Help! Help! He's going to kill me!" she cried, seizing<br />

Demetrio's wrist and turning the gun aside. The bullet<br />

hit the floor. War Paint continued to shriek. Anastasio disarmed<br />

Demetrio from behind.<br />

Demetrio, standing like a furious bull in the middle of<br />

the arena, cast fierce glances at all the bystanders, Luis<br />

Cervantes, Anastasio, Manteca, and the others.<br />

"Goddamn you! You've taken my gun away! Christ!<br />

As if I needed any gun to beat the hell out of you."<br />

Flinging out his arms, beating and pummeling, he felled<br />

everyone within reach. Down they rolled like tenpins.<br />

Then, after that, Luis Cervantes could remember nothing<br />

more. Perhaps his bride, terrified by all these brutes, had<br />

wisely vanished and hidden herself.<br />

"Perhaps this bedroom communicates with the living<br />

room and I can go in through there," he thought, standing<br />

at the threshold. At the sound of his footsteps, War<br />

Paint woke up. She lay on the rug close to Demetrio at<br />

the foot of a couch filled with alfalfa and corn where the<br />

black horse had fed.<br />

"What are you looking for Oh, hell, I know what you<br />

want! Shame on you! Why, I had to lock up your sweetheart<br />

because I couldn't struggle any more against this<br />

damned Demetrio. Take the key, it's lying on that table,<br />

there!"<br />

Luis Cervantes searched in vain all over the house.<br />

"Come on, tell me all about your girl."<br />

Nervously, Luis Cervantes continued to look for the key.<br />

"Come on, don't be in such a hurry, I'll give it to you.<br />

Come along, tell me; I like to hear about these things,

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