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altitude of the San Si- | talk it over where we shan’t be over- vlain the September nights are heard. Let’s go outside the corral.” aiwauss coeol, and in the growing chill | i rose and _ silently followed him of t} outer air our little company was from the enclocure. The full moon ? mpted to sit long before the sta- now risen in the east, bathed the | oor. First the hercers got up Plain in mellow light, in which ap- | ana \.ent to take a look about the peared as dark masses those objects | al fere turning in for the night. | upon the ground which intercepted Next Den Ramon, his mind made eas the luminous rays. n repc rt it ! ha “Keep well in tl) shadow,” Felix i mules, ired t repose pen | cautioned me. ‘“‘ There may be other vskin baceta spread on the sta people than we abroad to-night, who | t or rh W prospe rs we wculd resent our intrusien.” i to where thei luggas y From the station building a long reap cd by the askes of their campfire, , black shadow stretched westward and | I Em GORA «WU Eres Cheb teil gra g, tied them to bushes near by, ! mselves up in their | ts somewhere, not far away, in | rkness. Keeping me company, |

on-Keeper still remained seat-

the bench by the door, and the

f his pipe, reddening and sub-

Siudii.2 as we sat talking in low tones, | Was he only sign of human activity in tie scene except where a candle | burned, somewhere in the showman’s

tent, faintly illuminating the canvas | and suggesting that some life was stir- | ring within its walls.

As we talked of various matters, the Keeper's thoughts reverted to the buck- bourds, due from the East and W est, and > Was loath to abandon the idea that they might yet arrive that night. Reivc.antly he gave it up at last.

‘dso use Keeping awake any longer | rising and knock- |

for ti em,” ing the two

he said, ashes from his pipe. ‘One of things has happened—they’ve e-ther been jumped by Apaches on the tua@d, or else, to avoid the Indians, the¥Y ve delayed starting until evening, SO as to travel all the way inthe dark- ness, and in that case we may look for bcth of the stages to come rolling up to the station in the morning. In eitLer event I can't see anything bet- ter for me to do than turn in,”

“ Where'll you Spread your blankets to-niz it ?” he added. “Hadn’t you better come into the station ? There’g lets ¢f room,”

“My Pard and I have arranged to sleep in the ccrral shed,” I answered. “We'll be near the horses to help the herders out in case of any trouble dur- ing the night.”

alee ae ood idea, in case the rustle.3 should €dme prowling Poufa.

Indie~s we don’t have to look out for 80 mich at the station. That tent there is of itrelf end6ugh fo keep ’em at a disiance. No matter how big or how bad a band of Apaches may be, they're slow to come near where a big tent is set up. Some say it’s be- cause they've got a superstition against attacking anything white. They wor-

ship whit2 birds. Perhaps you've heard ? But the story that’s general- ly tcld runs in this way :—A good |

many years ago a war party of Apaches |

crept up to where a big tent Fitehed on the prairie. puiet and peaceful,

was It looked all andthey allowed

they'd give whoeyer wes in it an un- in her face pee

pleasant surprise. Well, when they got through chuckling over the fun they meant to have, they jumped it in great shape, whooping and yelling. , But the surprise didn’t come in the | way they’d counted on. ee t§ t | turned out to be full of soldiéts, iy | ing all ready for ’em with guns in hard, and the way they thinned out the

Apacl.cs that morning waS a caution to r evil-doers everywhere. Those Indians that got away and thosé that grew tp after ’em have haq a pre u-

dice ever since against jumping at any enclosure where they don‘t know what's ; and the VSty sight of white m Bg fem skittish. By the l haven’t seen your pard for a

tents

way, ; ai gcod bit of ttme. I reckon he’s visit- ing the showman’s party. They're

Still keeping it up inside the canyas.” tFror, the jnterior of the sent canmie ‘the tinkle of @ guitar, and the low- sung notes of a Spanish melody. Trese romantic sounds, doubly beauti- ful to th® Mdonlight that now flooded

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er-tered the station, leaving me wait alone for Felix. The sound of | guitar and singing ceased, but the light in the tent continued, and my comrade still did 1r.ot appear. It was wearisome to wait lorger and unad- visable to go in quest of him, so I wert to the cpen shed of the corral, where our blankets already had been carri« spread them out, and, rolling myself in mine, dropped lightly off te sie p. It was a full hour later w hen, roused by the _ restlessness of the mules and hcrses, I woke to see a tall figure crossing the corral. Hailing | him in a low voice, I was answered bv Felix.

I raised myself on my. elbow. “What have you found out ?” I ask- | ed, when he had come to me. “ Did you learn what the Mexican girl’s

tentrum was all about ?”

“J found out something.” he answer- ed. Then, glancing significantiv te- werd the herders

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} | | Feliz in a whisper told the story of hés

erperiences.

| mingled with the darkness of the cac | tus and mesquite clumps off in that ; direction. Into this shadew we pass-

| ed, and in its darkness walked silent-

| tation. We continued onward until

we had got so far away from the sta- | tion that the sound of our voices, talk- ing in low tones, could not reach it. Not until then id we step. We crouched in the concealment of a meg- quite clump, and Felix in a whisper told the story of his experiences since the close of the performance.

“When I left you afid went in to the tent,” he began, “I found the Behor frinb jo, natuPally enough glad to see me, bringing the money to pay for his entertainment. The company, after the fatigues of the evening, were all taking a late supper of tortillas and chili Colorado. After I had count- ed the money out to him, and he found that it exceeded the arncunt agreed |

on, the senor, in the fulness of his | heart, insisted that I join in their re- past, an invitation that I duly accept- ed. La Lupita had so far fecovered from her recent excitement as to de- velop a very fair appetite, and as she munched away prettily at a tortilla there was only a shade of moodiness reminder of the rum- pus she nau so laiéiy reised, But it Was easy to see that the storm had only lulled, not passed away, and that it would take very little provocation to set the senorita on the warpath once more.

“nder the circumstances I did not think it advisable to try to improve my acquaintance with her; so, instead, I made myself as agreeable as I knew how to the company in general. There was a new complication in the site.

| tion when, in the coursé of a few min- utes after my arrival, whq shoud walk in but our outlaw leader, Billy

“We'd fetter

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ly down into the hiding of the Vege- )

Aidaai LO

He was Lupita’s lover, who her for another at Tucson. to kill him, but

y . “¢ deserted

She swore

| we got away without trouble, and IT hoped we had seen the | last of him, for I dislike such affairs. Now that he is here and she knows ‘, anything may happen. indeed he | used Lupita badly, and you know that a jealous Mexican woman's _resent- ment is terrible, It spoiled the finest passage in my performance, and the worst may be yet to come. As to this

warn you as a friend have no- to do with him Let him be

He is

i man, |

neither your friend nor foe.

bold, dangerous and treacherous, and | there is ill-luck where he comes.’

“Senor Trinbajo felt his tequila,

and evidently was started on a sub-

| ject where he felt a personal grievance. Hie entertained me with some stories a pretty thoroughgoing ‘no good.’ But through al! this I had not got his

|} name, which the maestro clearly hesi-

tated to pronounce. I was afraid that if I asked for it outright the maestro’s Suspicions would be aroused, and, find- ing I was trying to pump him, he would give me no more information. So at a time when he paused for ; breath I carelessly said, inventing a name for the occasion:

varro has made himself scarce and cleared out, now that Lupita has dis- covered him ?’

“* Pardon, senor,’ he said, quickly. ‘It is not of a Navarro I speak, but of Gaspar Sangrado.’

“On hearing the name the situation became __ clearer to me. Lupita’s enemy is the Mexican whom Captain Beston told you about, Carmen’s ad- mirer, who is so unacceptable to her father. I had found out all that could be learned, and as it was get- ting late and the tequila bottle was now much the worse for wear ] said good-night and came away.”

Felix paused, then added :—

“Now we know so much about the matter, have you anything to propose?”

“Carmen’s name, I am to under- stand, was not mentioned during your

conversation,” 1 said,

" Not once,”

“We are both xather bound to see the old Don and his daughter safe through on their journey,” I said, “end this desperado-lover seems to bé _Tather a bad lot. ithe matter if we knew how Carmen

eels toward him. She may fancy him and might hot thank us for inter- fering with his pursuit of her. A Mexican girl, you know, can forgive a great many insults ard even crimes in an ardent, dashing lover.”

“It may not be Carmen's feelings so much as Don Rarfion’s safety—and our own, for the matter—that we have te consider. Sangrado, by all we hear, wouldn't hesitate to make short work of any one standing in his way. Jn any case, he is probably out for plund- er as well as love.”

“One thing I think you must agree with me on,’’ I said. “That is, to Say nothing to Don Ramon at present

the Kid. He swung in, with his dare devil air and pistols displayed, **i-

dence that he was a personage iv ‘ye respectfully treated. He m&de him- self entirely at home, picket up a guitar, strummed a tuve ahd sang a Mexican tove-sona, then taiked in | Spanish to Lupita in @ fashion decided- ; ly free and easy.

| “Seeing that there was nothing to be done with Lupita, I fell to talk- ing with the maestro. I had some cigarette tobacco that hit his taste, and, after I had made him a present

| on to talk, and after he had aired his { own merits and the excellencies of his ' show I brought into the conversation ) the topic of the charming Lupita, who } IT took good care should be well out t of earshot. He expatiated upon her attractions as a performer and actress, then, to bring him to the point TI was after, I complimented her beauty and acting, and asked him if her rush from the ring with the dag- ger upraised was part of the play. ‘‘He shrugged his shoulders. ‘Na senor, I regret to say it was not. It was a pity to waste such superb pas- sion on reality instead of in the ac- tress’ art, but such is her nature. The reason for her strange behaviour to- night I do not fully understand, but from words she let fall it appears that she thought she saw some one in the i eudience whom she regards as a dead- | ly enemy. It is ever so with these | gifted children of genius and beauty. The emotional nature predominates, and their tempers are not under con-

wath 1 cannot deny that she has given way to her anger before, but never has she behaved so violently.’

‘““*Do you suspect who the person may be so honoured as to have moved the lovely senorita to such a magnifi- cent outburst of passion ?’ I asked.

“*Quien sabe! Suspect I'may, but I did not see him.’

“*Tl saw him. He was peering in at the entrance to the tent Can you

and

' kind, 1 can assure you.

about what we have discovered,”

“Most certainly f €o,” returned Felix, “It would only serve to har: row him up and might brihge on the yery disaster we shail try to ayer. Thére is fothing for us to Ye bit Keep a good lookout and kinni feady ta meet emergencies a& the¥ arise.”

We had ended our Colluquy upon the subject that had drawn us from the

Station when @nother question oc- curred to m&, “Aout hupita 2" I asked. “You

sid that Billy the Kid was devoting himse€ to ber. How did he succeed? © he wersuade her into a_ kinder Wibod

‘*“Well, yes. But it’s not any too She seemed flattered and pleased by the attention of so dashing a caballero. There was a dangerous devil in her eye, though, and I’ll wager she was thing more of revenge than of Ilcvemaking. He said rood night to her before I left. Then he sauntered out to where the maestre and I were sitting, helped himself to

a glass of tequila, sized me up from head to foot while he drank it, said buenos noches end went away. I

shouldn’t be surprised if he had a part to play in the drama that we are all enacting around ihis well in the de- sert.”

My limbs were cramped and weary

with crouchirg “at attention ’”’ while I listened.

“If everything’s been said, I sup- pose we may as well go back to the

I began and started to rise to my feet. But Felix’s hand was sud- i upon my mouth and

denly pressed back among mesquite

corral,”

forced me the roots. ‘S-s-s-t !”

he

cautioned “ Dens

z22¢, move

ma 7 a ~ fan Jow whisper. oF Mit,

but listen.’’ Lucky for us that the night breeze,

lightly rustling the leaves, the grass and weeds, had merged in its sound Our Whispered voices. To the wind- ward, not twenty yards away. two persons were talking together in low tones, and the breeze brought their words to’us with perfect distinctness. From their accent they were clearly Mexicans, and the language they used, their native tongue, was well under-

stood by Felix and myself. Peering intently into the darkness, we present- ly could discern the figures of the speakers as they stood in the shadow of a ‘branching cactus that screened them from observation from the direc- tion of the station.

This was the part of their conversa- tion important to our story :—

“It was the devil's own doing, Mi- guel, that I should meet Lupita here. Of course, as soon as she saw me, the painted hell-cat came for me. knife in hand, and made a great scene. I slipped away, but the discovery has been made that [ am here, and no doubt Don Ramon will be put on his

wees wii te you ?

“* Yes, senor, if he is the man I thing he is What was he like ?’

“IT described the face vou had seen

at the entrance. The maestro listen- ed intently.

“*Did he have a scar upon his face on the left of the forenead ” he asked

“T had not speken ef that. theugh you have mentioned this characteristic of the face. ‘Ves,’ I answered. "Re Was directly over the left evebrow.’

“The maestro’s shoulders lifted, and

he gave a short nod fie seemed sud- denly inspired with caution and re- serve, *I think I know him,’ he said, ard then was silent. 1 said nothing. but waited. I looked toward the bot- tle, and he filled our glasses. We emptied them. Then he svoke:

““*I feared, senor, who it might he,

’

,| of Lupita’s ex-lover, who seems to be !

“* Don’t you suppose that this Na-

to block my plans.”

“Truly, senor, the affair was unfor- tunate, but it is only one more ob- etacle to surmount. After all is said there are only her father and Manuel

to be reckoned with, and we are five in number. And the little Indian, Dolores—she, you know, is my dear friend. She is loyal to her mistress

and will not help us to do anything against the senorita’s § inclinations.

Gut she will serve her in anything she desires to do and will take a message to her if I request it. She has talked verv freelv with me about how, thines go on at thé station, and all the peo- ble that are there.”

“ Fiow did you manage to get an in- terview with hex ?”

“There wasno trouble in the mat- ter, senor. I introduced myself to the showman’s people as a compadre,

end Was welcomed to their hospital- ity J] stcod by t.he entrance when Don Ramon’s party came into the tent. No one at the station except Dolores Knows my face, and those who entered supposed that I belonged

with the show. A whispered word to Dolores as she passed me was enough, and as soon as she safely could she stole from the tent to join me for a few minutes. In that time I found out all that was to be learned from her.”’

“What had she to say of the Senor- ita Carmen ? Will she grant me an interview

“T am sorry to say it, Don Gasnar, but she feels positive the senorita will not consent to speak with you unless

| in her father’s presence and with his comsent.

“Then it 1s needless to waste time in waiting longer. We must carry

awey this scornful senorita

Phe speaker

to-night.”* suddenly to have

reerged

become aware

that he was speaking too loudiv, and continued in a lower tone, “ You tell me there are a door and a Window to their room ?’”’

“Yes, senor, a door opening upen the corral and a window that louks upon the plain.”

“And her father and Manuel, where Co they sleep ?”

“In the front room, where the sta-

tion-keeper and his herders stay. But the herders will sleep in the corral to- night.”’

“It is well to know have our horses tn readiness and force the door that upon the corral. It will lie in the shadow almost until

that. We must

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the dawn.” “It will be unnecessary to break the door in, senor. At my signal Dolores Will open it to come to meet me. It is all arranged between us.”

"Good. Have the men in readiness and let them understand that they are

to make short work of anyone who sets in the way,” “One wird more, senor. There are

two caballeros, Americanos, who have travelled with Don Ramon’s party from the Apaches’ pass and intend to accompany him so far as Silver City.

ey are well armed, and in carrying away the senorita we may have to reckon with them.”

“Where do thése cursed gringos - ee “That Dolores could not tell me, but she thinks they spread their blankets in the front room of the station, with Don Ramen and Manyel.”

“ Pity it is not upon the prairie, where we might anticipate all trouble from them by quietly cutting their throats. But we will deal with them quite as effectually if they presume to interfere.”

“It is well, senor. inform the men _ to horses ?”

“Wait a little, Miguel. We will re- connoitre the station to see that all is clear. The moon is too bright to be the best for our undertaking. Would it weve darker,”

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