Crossword-Solution: TEJANOS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

They were in fear that the Tejanos would pursue them to their town; and were making preparations to flee from it when Pedrillo and myself came away.

Himself, with the best of his braves, has gone to the happy hunting grounds; not voluntarily, but sent thither by a party of Tejanos who fell foul of them on a foray." "That's a strange tale," rejoins Roblez, adding, "And Barbato?" "Dead, too--gone with his red-skinned associates." "Certainly a singular occurrence--quite a coincidence." "A coincidence that leaves me in an awkward predicament, without my expected executioners.

Neither has a knowledge of the enemy that has made such havoc among their men; only an instinct or intuition that the blow has been struck by those terrible _Tejanos_, for the shots heard were the cracks of rifles, and the shouts, still continued, are not Indian yells nor Mexican vivas, but the rough hurrahs of the Anglo-Saxon.

Remember whom you are talking to." "_Tejanos! ladrones_!" hissed Don Ramon, with an earnest application of the latter phrase that would certainly have brought Wheatley's revolver from his belt, had I not, at the moment, whispered a word in the lieutenant's ear.

They would have murdered him outright; but that some of them, more prudent than their fellows, had counselled the mob to let him go--alleging that the Tejanos were yet "too near, and might come back." Again I had strife with my men: they would have returned and fired the place, had I permitted them.