Finally The Doctor Said That If I Did Not Throw Jesusita
Overboard, He Would; Why Didn't I "Wring The Neck Of Its
Worthless Mexican Of A Mother?" And So On, Until I Really Grew
Very Nervous And Unhappy, Thinking What I Should Do After We Got
On Board The Ocean Steamer.
I, a victim of seasickness, with this
unlucky woman and her child on my hands, in addition to my own!
No; I made up my mind to go back to Ehrenberg, but I said
nothing.
I did not dare to let Doctor Clark know of my decision, for I
knew he would try to dissuade me; but when we reached the mouth
of the river, and they began to transfer the passengers to the
ocean steamer which lay in the offing, I quietly sat down upon my
trunk and told them I was going back to Ehrenberg. Captain Mellon
grinned; the others were speechless; they tried persuasion, but
saw it was useless; and then they said good-bye to me, and our
stern-wheeler headed about and started for up river.
Ehrenberg had become truly my old man of the sea; I could not get
rid of it. There I must go, and there I must stay, until
circumstances and the Fates were more propitious for my
departure.
CHAPTER XIX
SUMMER AT EHRENBERG
The week we spent going up the Colorado in June was not as
uncomfortable as the time spent on the river in August of the
previous year.
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