Jose Amarillo, their
last hope, a recent convert, who had promised money, had been apprehended at his hacienda in Chihuahua and shot against his own stable wall.
To look down upon myself, and even upon my stars: that only would I call my SUMMIT, that hath remained for me as my
LAST summit!--
'You have heard of what I saw
last night?' she said faintly.
"The long, quiet, rainy evening out-of-doors -- our
last evening at Combe-Raven -- was a sad trial to us.
When she went to bed
last night, after preparing her father's supper, there had been a dresser at the window: what had become of the salt-bucket, the meal-tub, the hams that should be hanging from the rafters?
But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at
last slipped into an old mouse-hole.
He was inured to suffering and to the sight of blood and to cruel death; but the desire to live was no less strong within him, and until the
last spark of life should flicker and go out, his whole being would remain quick with hope and determination.
They buried him where his
last arrow had fallen, and they set a stone to mark the spot.
He turned on his heel, and at subsequent intervals I saw him making the most of his
last afternoon with the inevitable Miss Werner.
"Look here, I'm thinking of this, I'M THINKING OF WHAT I MIGHT THINK if, like
last time, after my spending the evening alone with you, you brought me home and if, at the moment of parting, I perceived that twenty-thousand francs had disappeared from my coat-pocket...like
last time."
Many trips were required, but at
last all stood safely together again at the beginning of the end of our quest.
"I have sent for you, Captain Granet," the former began, "to ask you certain questions with reference to the events of
last night."