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artling a person of the supercivil- zed East Her sentiments and her manner of expressing them were be- coming and natural as well as thor- oughly practical and wise in this girl of the Santa Cruz valley, reared among steel blades and firearms at her fa-

rs hacienda in this Indian-haunt- ed, desperado-infested region of the Southwest. To make such words per- fectly fitting and quite the best thing that could be said by a woman of her

race unger such circumstances, it needs only the condition that she care great- ly for the man to whom she imparts her confidences.

Whether more intimate confidences might have been interchanged between the two had opportunity been given I leave to the inference of the read- er. Beyond the fact that they had reen ‘together in stress of danger where

Felix was her protector it may be taken as a principle that the average and properly-constituted man not other-

wise engrossed, when thrown into as- sociation with a beautiful Spanish gir)

willing to please him, will promptly fall in love with her. And this rule

scarcely admits an exception among

the -men of the romantic, -dventur- ous, far Southwest.

One who knows that country and its people will fully understand why Felix and Carmen, with no prelimin- ary languishments or conventional formulas of approach, with no intro- spections or analyses of medives, were in so brief an acquaintance, with so

little said between them, undeniably |

and greatly taken up with each other. Already, if appearances were to be trusted, they were on the very verge of lovemaking and had perhaps pass- ed the border. Why not? A ‘hand- some young fellow, brave and de- bonair, knowing well the country and la lengua Espanol, their acquaintance had more than once given him a chance to display before the éyesa of Carmen his address in the time of danger.

In manifesting her intesest in him so undisguisedly and in speaking her mind so promptly and frankly she was simply the spontaneous, impetuous Juliet that every one of her country- women is when by some chance the care af the duenna lapses, even if Romeo's bright sword and silken doub- let have been replaced by California jean and revalver at cartridge belt. What most of all made me suspect that the flower of love was biossom- ing by the savage prairie trail was the vehemence of Carmen’s expres- sion of feeling against Gaspar San- grado, whose desperate and .assidu- ous pursuit of her may, before she met the handsome American, secretly have pleased even though it affrighted her.

Love and hate alike begin and bloom and ripen all in a day in sunny, semi- tropical Arizona, like the riotous grow- th of verdure, fiowers and poison vines that make the valleys of that region veins of emerald, decked with festal colour as they wind amid the ground- work of bare, beetling mountains and bread arid spaces. Whether love would have burned in ardent werds between the two had Don Ramon’s nap lasted five minutes longer I will not Venture to say. But in Carmen’s face and manner and impression imparted by her pervading magnetism I read the unspoken thought of Lupita’s taunt lo Sangrado—that the senor’s daughter

looked kindly upon the young Ameri- Can caballero—and these words she knew Felix must have overheard. it Was this thought, I was sure, which Save her the pleased, hali-bashful look %f self-consciousness she wore as she Raised, with mantling cheek, after (oting so much as she did of the Mexican a ss’ words, and in that bse if ever eyes and smilie carried iNtonsciously a message it was the Message of hers to Felix that Lupita’s rning him were true.

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up his team’ for a start, and€ We ex: changed friendly words with the maestro, Whose cavalcade came up at about the same _ time, having made a short nooning on the plain a mile or two behind us. Looking back aft- er a time we could see that the Mis- sourian’s and the maestro's outfits

were now travelling together.

An hour after our start, with Stein’s |

{ and flood the arro

peak to the northward and Gabilan peak to the southward, behind us, Don |} Ramen, sitting on the froit seat of the carriage with his rifle between hig knees, pointed to a buzzar sailing in great circles high in the air, two or three miles ahead of us. Soon it wag |!

joined by amother, and several specks in the distance, growing larver as Icoked, showed that others of the car- rion birds were fiying our way.

*“* It’s a bad sign,’ ’said Don Ramon,

gravely. “It means Apaches. The

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buzzards follow them in their work, for they know they will find plenty of prey.”

Soon came another sight which caus- ed us all to rein up and pause for a | time before gzoing forward. We | watched it with weapons held ready | in hand as if to meet instant danger, although what we saw was far away. | We had passed from the Cienaga de | San Simon and now were in the high, ‘ broken eowntrv to the eastward. The mountains were about us, near at hand, although the trail for the most Part stili followed the open plain that lies between and about the ranges in this region. To the right and lieft many eminences were in view, some- times rocky and jagged, mostly round- ed hills or level-topped mesas dot- } ted with aginon trees. Long reaches of plain, on which the mesquite and cactus grew, stretched to the south-

ward, limftless seemingly, like the ocean, With solitary peaks rising lke voleanic istands from the sea. All about the southern and eastern hori-

zcn the mirage played in similitude of a vast undulating water sheet, in which rocked and floated islands with strange trees and structures and mon- sters.

Far off, to the south, where the solid earth seemed first to lift inte the mir- age, looking as unsubstantial as shad- ows or as magic-lantern pictures thrown upon-a screen, a herd of horses, mules and donkeys were galioping scuthward. ‘Behind them rode mourt- ed men, five or six in number, lashing them along and darting to left or right as if to keep them to a course. To one trained in life upon the plains the difference between a white inan and an Indian, even seen too far away to identify more than the outlines and rotion of the ‘bodv, is unmistakable, and the riders we saw were plainly Indians.

Whether the horsemen were far away or comparatively near could not be es- timated with any certainty, nor was it necessary that it shoula be. They widenirg the distance between and so far as we were concern- there was no danger to be antici- But the sight of like that of the buzzards, was of what might come, and

we had not felt before our party. Den Ramon

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tem of the cerriage, and laid the weap- on across Lis knees. Carmen, realiz- ing the premonition of danger, rather from the feeling that pervaded cur party than from anything she saw or understood, turned to Felix if to gather from his expression what might

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be the matter, ard if there were cause for alarm. Her bright face ‘ook on a questioning, anxious look at -the stade of seriousness upen his brow, and ste bent her gaze fixeciv upon ‘ him as if to command an answer to the mute enquiry in her eyes. At

| ence the signs of sombre thought teft

his face, and he smiled. Instantly the lcck of anxiety vanished from her face,

but her eyes still asked : |

“Is there anything wrong ?” : afraid the rain was about ll and give us a wetting,” he said, had spoken to him. He to the mountains beyond Stein’s peak, whose tops were dimmed as if with haze, stood against the background of a darkened sky. Carmen sank back in her seat, reassured and satisfied.

Presently Felix fell back a little be- hind the carriage, signalling me to do likewise. We still could see the dis- Indians as they receded, becom - ing more and more a part of the mir- age beyond the plain.

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renegades woule do—that they would break up into littie bands and take the bsck track. for itlexica. =ant

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CHAPTER XIII.

That th Was a prospect of heavy rains te ¢ us that day would be me re evi nt to < who knew the country well than to a tenderfoot. Off to the sout t] nirage phantoms danced and floated as lightly as they had done at any time before during the day, and from the clear sky the Sun shene in the south-west as bright-

| ly as he had beamed throughout the mérning. It was in the north an@ north-west that the thickening sky boded rainclouds, which might linger in the mountains to discharge their contentS among the peaks or might | drive forth above the plain to fall in heavy showers of rain, characteristic of this region. At this time of the year, after weeks of clear weather, the rainy season might be suppesed to have enced, but it often hapvens in New Mexico and Arizona that such days of brightness prove only the pre-

mean thict te ey‘are thavie to be crose- ing the stage irail between here and Silver Citv anywhere and at any time, ali headings for the Sierra Madre across the line. li we running into Some of their parties we shall do well, Our salvation is in the fact that the eccuts and soldiers are probably press- ing them too closely to give them time

miss

to lie round in wait for us.”

“Well, whatever is to happen will happen. We can do no better than keep on and get out of the way of Ganger as fast as we can,” I replied.

“Of course, and meantime we must keep in readiness against trouble if it ris i 6.tpae thunderstorm that Seems tc be athering in the Pelon- cillo mountains cCoesn’t break on us

Vos, we'd better make Silver City. I think Ramon’s idea,’’

a@ night ride that will be

into Don

luce to @ terrific ruinsterm which gives the grand

finale to the rainy season in true melodramatic fashion, with ahe accompaniments of wind, hail, lightning, crashing thunder, and inun- dation.

The rainstorms of this arid region ccme from off the mountains, as in the coast regions they come from off the sea. So the increasing haziness about the Peloncillos and the Burro

range, though far away, indicated pos- Sible trouble later for us out upon the Plain. The pleasant southern breeze that had blown throughout the morn-

ing had fallen, and there was a bod- ing stillness and mysterious electrical

quality in the half sultry air that op- pressed the spirits and filled the minds oT all our party with vague uneasiness. So we travelled silently forward over the trail, and when one of our num- ber spoke, what he had to say was said briefly and in monosyllables. Without the appearance of great watchfulness, our eyes closely scan- med the country far and near, from the distant mountains from which Apache smoke spires rose fitfully here "and there to the rocks and eminences and hollows, the yuccas, cactuses, and mesquite clumps closer at hand. Whenever our party drew near a@ pomt where the trail descended an arroyo, as the dry water courses of the coun- try are called, or turned the base of a foothill, Felix or I rode forwaré in advance of the carriage to explore the ground ahead and see that it shelter- ed no Indian ambuscade. Not less we watched well to the rear lest Apaches, lying unseen as we passed, should ‘dash upon us from behind, their chosen method of attacking a travel- ling outfit.

One thing which surprised us was that we had seen nothing of the two prospectors. They had started from the station much earlier than we, and we knew how astonishingly far the long, swinging pace of men like these, accustomed to cover long distances on

foot, will carry them in the day’s round. Still it seemed that we ought by this time to have sighte@ them

somewhere in the distance before us. That they were yet ahead of ws we could tell by their tracks and the hoof prints of their horses upon the

trail. The buzzards that we had Seen gathering in the air were now ‘circling above a point we were ap-

proaching near at hand. It was evi- ‘dent that they were only waiting for someone to go away and leave them a «lear field before settling dowm upon m prey that they had discovered.

Ah, here were signs that might ac- count for the presence of the buz-

wards! The tracks of the prespectors and their horses were lost in a con- fusion of hoof prints ef horses and

mules which recently had erossed the

trail. A little farther along a dead burro, which we recognized as one of those driven by the prospectors, lay dead, shot with a bullet, beside the trail. Cautiously we went on, scruti-

nizing every object to left and that might conceal an enemy. ter Of a mile farther along, a recky slope grown up oak, our mules suddenly shied away to the right, swerving so much that it was with difficulty that Manuel held them te the road.

(To be Continued. )

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