eleven o'clock
and I discharged my double barreled shotgun and a brace of six shooters in lightning-like succession . Surely this was pious devotion , properly emphasized , and it kept San Augustin from falling asleep . I used up a pound of gunpowder that night , and this was said to have been the grandest , most successful velorio ever held in that part of the world . At eleven o'clock I announced that my battery was overheated and too dangerous to reload , which stopped the praying and the grand baile began . There were several hundred dancing couples , who enjoyed themselves to the utmost until sunrise , and nobody thought of leaving for home until everything eatable and liquid was disposed of . Now the date of our departure had arrived , and very sad , indeed , was I to leave these people who had done their very best to make me feel at home with them and who seemed to be really fond of me . I consoled Dona Josefita somewhat with the promise that I would return some day and find her the treasure of La Gran Quivira .