Biff Norris and the Clue of the Worn Saddle. John Runyan
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Название: Biff Norris and the Clue of the Worn Saddle
Автор: John Runyan
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Детские детективы
isbn: 9781479436330
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“We’re reading from the Bible,” the Norris boy explained, holding up the well-worn leather-covered book. “It’s our custom to read the Bible and pray together every night before we go to bed.”
Hippy took the Bible and looked at it, thumbing through the pages, carefully. “Why?” he asked simply, as though he had never heard of anyone doing that.
“We want to read the Bible so we’ll know how God wants us to live,” Chip added. “At least that’s one of the main reasons. We’re Christians and a Christian should live the way Christ wants him to and not the way he wants to live himself.”
“And we read the Bible so we’ll know how He wants us to live,” Biff repeated.
Hippolito Uriburu went over and sat down across from them. “It is all right I should stay?” he asked.
They finished their Bible reading, prayed, and spent half an hour or so talking with Hippy about what it meant to be a Christian. He seemed interested in a general way.
“If you’ll bring your Bible over tomorrow some time,” Biff said, “I’ll mark some verses for you so you can read some of those things for yourself in Spanish. It would probably be a little easier for you to understand in your language.”
“My Bible?” he echoed. “I don’t have a Bible.”
That evening after he left, Chip suggested that they get a Spanish Bible for Hippy.
“But where?” Biff asked. “I don’t even know where we could borrow a Spanish Bible for him, let alone buy one.”
“Didn’t they mention a little town around here somewhere?” Chip asked. “Surely they’d have a Bible for sale if we got to town.” The next morning he asked Señor Huerta about it and he told him how to get to Maxima.
“But it is only a small village,” he said. “I don’t know whether you would be able to buy a Spanish Bible there or not.”
There was a question in his voice that revealed his curiosity as to what the American boys wanted with a Spanish Bible, but he did not put it into words.
They both had hoped that they would be able to ride in to Maxima that afternoon, but Mr. Griffen unexpectedly decided that the ponies and men had rested enough and called for a practice match with a team of Gauchos. Chip and Biff had to help with the horses, saddling them before the game and cooling them when the players changed horses between chukkers. It was two or three days later before they had time to do anything on their own.
At their first opportunity to get away, Biff borrowed one of the relief mounts, and Chip put the western type saddle he had brought from Aunt Caroline’s ranch on Ebony, and they rode off toward Maxima. It was only six or seven miles into town, but they went from one store to another before finding a Bible, and it was almost dinner time when they got out on the trail once more.
“We’re going to have to hurry or we’ll miss out on something to eat,” Biff said, touching his pony in the flanks with his heels.
They saw a rider approaching but paid little attention to him until they were almost face to face with him. The boys reined up in surprise.
“You!” Biff Norris exclaimed.
Sebastian Alonzo smiled politely. “Esta V. siempre bueno?” he asked blandly. “Do you continue in good health?”
“What are you doing up here?” Chip blurted.
“What would you say should I tell you it is to enjoy the beautiful ride in the pampas?”
“It would seem funny to me that you’d come away out here to go horseback riding,” Chip commented.
“And so it is. Buenos noches, amigos.” He touched the rim of his hat lightly in an informal little salute and rode on.
The boys turned and stared at him.
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