CHAPTER XIPINCH NO. 1
I don’t drive up to the hacienda. When I get to within a quarter of a mile of it I pull off the road an’ start drivin’ round over the scrub. I make a wide circle, drivin’ the car slow an’ keepin’ in top gear so as I don’t make too much noise, an’ I come up two-three hundred yards behind the house.
I stick the car behind a cactus clump an’ I start workin’ towards the house keepin’ well under cover. I work right round the house in a circle but I can’t see anybody or hear anythin’ at all.
Then I get a hunch. Keepin’ well in the scrub, I start workin’ along the side of the road that leads from the hacienda to the State road intersection, an’ I keep my eyes well skinned. After about five minutes I hear a horse neigh. I work up towards this sound an’ I find a black horse
