After sailing away over the plain, like a ship going out to sea, until it was a mere speck on the horizon, Pizarro's horse thought it time to reduce its pace; but here Pizarro did not agree with it. He applied whip and spur until his steed was quite exhausted. Then he turned homewards, and galloped back to the corral, into which he turned the animal in a very broken and humble state of mind. There it found several young friends who had just been subdued in a similar manner, and it is not altogether improbable that they spent the remainder of that evening in comparing notes! "A roughish method, but--aw--effective," remarked the sportsman to his friend. This was true. Perhaps Quashy's remark to Lawrence was equally true:-- "Dat dood it pritty slick, massa; but I've seed it as well dood, p'r'aps better, by kindness." There is this, at all events, to be said in regard to the rough system, that no man but an athlete could endure the fatigue of the process, while any man--or even woman--has physical strength sufficient to conquer by love, if only he, or she, possess the requisite patience and milk of human kindness. CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT. TREATS OF A GAUCHO YOUTH. From these Gauchos Colonel Marchbanks learned that his troops had been seen searching for him by the eldest son, Pizarro, and that handsome youth professed himself willing to guide the party to the place where the soldiers were likely to be found. Without delay, therefore, they resumed their journey after supper, and that night encamped on the open plain. While the party was busy making arrangements for the night, Pedro sauntered to the top of a neighbouring knoll to have what he styled a look round. It was a clear moonlight night, and Lawrence, recognising the figure of the guide, followed him. "Pedro," he said, on overtaking him, "how is it possible that Pizarro can guide us to where the troops are, seeing that it is some time since he saw them, and he did not know in what direction they meant to travel? Besides, they may have changed their intentions and their route several times." "You forget, senhor, that troops leave a broad trail, and you do not yet, I see, fully appreciate the wonderful powers of some Gauchos in tracking out men. This Pizarro, although so young, is already celebrated in that way." "You know him, then? Why, you seem to know everybody!"