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noitre the scene where their plot wag to he ena ted.

Felix touched my arm and pointed westward down the plain, where the moonbeams lighted a long vista among mesquites and cactuses. There at the end they were refiected from a bit of metal that might have been a buckle or gun plate. About it were darkly outlined the forms of a group of men

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CHAPTER ViIL

In trying to find out who the strange er Was whose appearance at the tent entrance had been the cause of Lupi- ta’s demonstration and had resulied in i scialanee up the show, Felix and I had gained far more information than we had expecied. Our principal con- cern in making the quest had been the safety of our horses. We now not only knew that Sangrado, the unde- sirable suitor of Don Ramon’s daught- er, Was lurking, with his followers, about the station, but also the pur- pose of his visit and the details of the plot he was about to put into execu- tion for carrying off Carmen. than this, his conversation with his lieutenant, Miguel, had informed us of What was very important that we should know—that Carmen was ignor- ant of his presence and that she would not willingly go away with him or so much as consent to see him. It also made us aware of the part Dolores

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They passed onward along the vista at the end of which we had seen the men and horses. They did not travel directly in the path of the light, but the shadows.

Behind them, almost where they had heen standing, a figure rose from be- bunch of tall sand grass. Tt was the form of a woman, clad in a mantle that came to her feet. Above the tops of the high grass her head was lifted as she gazed after the men retreating from view. Her at- titude was that of a panther raising his head above a bush at a water hole to scan th2 movements of an antelope too far away to be within compass of his spring. Moationless as a statue, save for the slight movements of the

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timental attachment for Miguel, Was acting unwittingly as an accom- plice in the scheme to abduct her mis- tress.

There was no tie of kindred or long friendship to impel my comrade and ine6U tu: entangle ourselves in the hazards of interference with a Mexi- can love affair. But in the light of what we knew us that we should not permit Carmen to be carried off against her will by a bandit. So far our duty was clear. As to our course of action, we had

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were until Sangrado and his compan- ion returned. The meaning of their present excursion to the station was only to spy out the ground, and it was almost a certainty that they would come back the same way that they had

gone. The time they would have te consume in getting their men and horses in readiness and in bringing

them up to their stations would give us time to return to the corral and there take such measures to balk them as the situation secmed to require.

In about 20 minutes Sangrado and his lieutenant came back, moving stealthily and swiftly down the long shadow from the station. AS soon as they had gained the shelter of the

mesquites they began to talk in low

tones. Saegrado -was the first te Speak.

‘We must do it to-night, Miguel. Tf We wait to waylay them on the trail, the thine is doubly dangerous. In that case we must ‘kill ail but Car- men, and then, an outlaw, of what use will the old Don’s ‘hacienda on the Santa Cruz ever be to me ? But here no watch is kept, for her father be- lieves her safe ae are nearer our str holds, too. If once I get Carmen safe away from the station, we shall be in the morning where no pursuers can fi | is.”

“It is well, senor. Shall I bring the Men and horses up at once ?’’

“Stay a moment. I wish to think.”

MM: 1, with instinctive caution, crouched. as he waited, a little behind his leader, who, shielded from view from the tati , stood erect and in- different to observatien in the moon- light. His clear cut, handsome face, showing in profile beneath his bread fombrero, was dark and sinister. His right and rested upon the butt of the Pistol at his hip as if it were grasp- Ing d } With his haugnty at- titu and the picturesqueness Ci his “charro”’ costume, he might well have Served as the model of a Spanisn ca- Valier of the sixteenth century as he Btood about to embark in an adven- ture s lesperate and so unserupulous in purpose that it would have been deemed not unworthy of the chivalry Of that enoch.

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keep in sight the disappearing firures, she stood until they must have passed from view. Slowly she raised her right arm above her head and pointing in the direction they had taken with a gesture of menace, dramatic, and ter- rible. For several seconds she stood thus, motionless, a threatening shade, then turred and glided into the long shadow of the tent, with which her form instantly merged indistinguish- ably.

In the Instant that she turned and pessed us we caught a ‘full view of her face. The rounded contours of cheek and chin and the handsome fea- tures could not be mistaken. But the look of fixed resolve and deadly ‘kate, the still gleam of eyse sombre black and venegeful, had transformed her usual gay, devil-may-care expression to one infinitely more menacing anda dangerous even than that she had ex- hibited in her frantic outburst of pas- tion in the amphitheatre three hours before.

Whether one of us said it, or whether it was a thought that came simultane- ously to Felix and me, [ could not tell then, nor can I to-day. But it seem- ed that the whisper passed between us:

“It is Lupita—or the devil walking in her form. And she has overheard Don Gasper Sangrado’s plot.”

A new element had entered into the situation, and its effect neither Felix nor I could compute. Would the dis- covery Lupita had made intensify her resentment against her recreant lover. or would it turn the volume of her wrath upon the innocent head of Car- men, whom she might now regard as her rival and supplanter? She was a Mexican woman, wounded in her af- fections, and there was no foreseeing the direction in which her jealous pas- sion might lead her.

ter form had vanished like a wraith into the obscurity, and the way was open for us to go back unobserved to the station. But still we stood looking in the direction she had taken, and then at each other, trying to estimate the bearing of this new complication uvon Don Gasper Sangrado’s design. From these meditations our attention was attracted by another apparition, the form of a man, stealing up from the direction of the stage trail toward

the tent. Dimly we could. discern him, for his clothes were of a neutral tint, difficult to distinguish in the night. gut as he came nearer, where the moon rays fell upon him so that we could see him more distinctly. we couid tell that he wes slight of build and wore

a light-coloured som)

‘It’s the Kid, whisper Felix. ‘We must try to gather what abroad for in the moonlight. Tf “s after Lupita, as I suspect, I wish joy of his courtship in the mood in to-night. If she doesn’t bring shooting match between him Sangrado, it won’t be for want trying on her part.’’

The advancing figure came near the tent and passed into the shadow it threw down the slope. Following his motions, which we still dimly could ‘tn against the canvas, we saw 1im pause. Then from where he stood ame the low note of a bird call, given tone singularly natural, fresh and After he had several times re- peated the cail its note was succeeded by the words, sung uncer his breath, Pres

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sioned apneal that his true love, his beautiful senorita, would come forth to her impatient and sorrowing lover.

His song, a mingling of terse and

idiomatic frontier words and phrases, with the extravagant metaphor and singer, all

hyperbole of an Orient! rendered in the liquid Spanish tongue to attractive melody, was strangely poetical and musical. Standing as we in concealment not fifty yards

were > away from the singer, Felix and I, knowing that we were on the very

verge of a hostile encounter with a bandit gang, whose desperate purpose we meant to thwart at all hazards, listened entranced to the song of this romantic desperado. Coldly murderous

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ve refitted a s ory of the Arahian . ( Vt, ta) + } t bd. ‘ ‘ { eh Tram her re- . I oN { } His so Ww ro Ira’ lik From here in t ca s thin OF | Ww \ fa E..16 r Va } ite nn re of Phen! nad re 2 rr Huld see steal- j ) i oute meet ct ft can- Yas ' a i si t mantled fig¢- re vNNle und on of move j 4 1 nA 3} | t ~! Ca ( io m™m t } } hae bittls ory pera i Re Wis 1 have an pr a 1 he} 1%t she held him at a N« no, no I lt Her week low a a \ so resonant hat s 2 listeni t} stillines ! t} of delica’ t n > ? ft ~~ vow do Loy i i il M i swear that I adore Y a f l “Stay with me, ‘ ‘ . .

‘No, no,” she said again. “i can love no one to t Mv heart is torn with grief and rancour for « rongs unavenyed, There can be no peree, dal le » wae o Ey VeUray=- er lives.”’ ;

Quien es?” (Who is it?) he de manded. ' Ard what do you wish— that I should kill him ?” gz

* Bill. dim tf” she reneated. * Yes kill him! But you would not do s0 much for me! \Why should you take my qua Tei up? [am nothing to you.

‘D—n him, I'd kill him for being such a fool as ever to leave you, if for

nothing else.” He was sneaking now With that slow,. measured tone, almost a drawl, which, to one familiar With the accents of men of his kind in the far south-west, sounds as ominous of danger as the rattle of a snake. “There's no trouble about doing that if _you ‘ll tell me who and where he is.” And vou would do this for me ?” She advanced and embraced him ten- derly, then drew back and surveyed him from the same distance as before. “Sut no ! You must not venture it. He is alert and skilled in the use of weapons. A dangerous man, se nor— a man ! <And you are but a bey.’ ‘Who is he ?” he asked again, Same measured tone as before. “This man—no, not man; he is a base hound and traitor—he is Gaspar Sangrado.”

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Billy gave a low whistle. “It's he, is it ?” he said. “I know Mim. He plays for a bad man himeelf. and

comes pretty near being the real thing. But that’s all rizht. Where is he ?”

‘He is here. He will come to the Station within an hour as a robber. There is your quarrel, already made. I will take you to where you will meet him.”’

“Has he a bard of followers with him 7

‘Four men. But you will meet him first alone. When you have killed him the other she pointed to the westward,

‘But what are you to give me for all this risk ? You are asking much of me, my beautiful senorita.”

‘I will give you much. Everything! Myself! But hear me in one thing. I will be with you and guide you where you will meet him. Promise me that you will obey me and not act un- til I give the word.”

“TIT promise. And now "—

He moved toward her, but with one hand she checked his advance: with the other she pointed to the westw ard, as if designating our hiding-place. At the same time the sound of horses’ hcofs, carefully stepping, came faintly to my ears, moving toward us from be- hind. We turned and could detect, at not a great distance away, the dark forms of men and horses advancing among the mesquites and yuccas. It Was not at us, but at them, that Lupi- ta had pointed. The two dusky fig- ures standing together by the tent raused a moment in an attitude of at- tention, then meited away in the shad- ows.

For Felix and me there was no time to lose in getting back to the station. Crouching low and moving noiselessly

we crept, in the shadow of the build- ing, up to the corral, passed round to the farther side of the wall, scaled it, and tcok cur position in the darkness of the shed. There, with rifles in hand, We awaited the development of affairs.

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Shed at the corner. and, climbing into that, we could easily look over’ the corral well so as to view the easterly end of the house and its one window. Thus we fully commended the two enirances to the roem occupied by Cermen. We had spread our blank- ets upon the waggon bottom so that in moving ahout we might make as little ncise as possible, and, standing im the darkness, hehind the driver’s Seat, we were completely hidden from the observation of anyone outside tine shed.

Scarcely had we taken our places when, coming round the easterly cor- ner, along the cuter face of the wall,

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gure, which we recognized as called Miguel, stole swiftly window and tapped thrice on So still was everything about that we could hear—perhaps rather feel—that someone was moving within the room. The moon shone full tron the window, and, directly from the inner darkness, there appeared

against a pane the dusky face, the plack eyes of Dolores, gleaming re- cognition as she nodded with finger on rer lips. The visitor outside the win- “oW vanished, returning the same way =2 had come. Slowly and noiselessly Re back door of the house opened, and -".€ mulled form of Dolores emerged anto the corral and flittted to the gate. fhe lifted the great wooden bar, push- ed the gate partly open, slipped through the opening, shut the gate lightly behind her, and passed quickly from sight round the corner of the wall. Some of the horses and mules lying about the corral lifted their heads she went past them, but none arcse or showed signs of disturbance.

Silently we clutched our weapons, waiting for what was to come. But there was no occasion to use them as yet. It was not Sangrado, but the black shrouded figure of a woman, that next appeared, coming from the front of the house. She glided along the wall to the gate, which stood ajar,

opened it, and entered the corral. Then, turning, she closed and barred the gate. She went no farther, but

waited by the entrance, silent and mo- tionless, her form pressed like a black shadow against the wall.

The minutes seemed long to Felix and me as we watched with breath- less interest for the outcome of this strange, pantomime. But. the time we had to wait was short. Along the outer wall the slender figure of San- grado, wrapped in a long cloak, came with swift strides. At the sound of his lieht footfalls the woman started,

then hent listening at the crevice of the gateway. At the gate Sangrado stopped, tried with nervous haste to pull it open, and muttered a curse when he found that it resisted his ef- forts. Foiled in the attempt, and finding that the gate was fastened

within, he stepped back and measured the wall with his eve as if he would try to scale it, then turned to the strongly-bharred window as if estimat- ing his chances of being able to force his way into the house by that open-

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