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Whike I t nm Was in conversation with Felix, They hed strolled over to the Missou- rian’s Waggon, where she stood by the wheel with the children clustered about he gazing with wonder and adinira- tion Upon her ¢c i beauty, and appare ntly entranced | rtmanner that nade Ker appear to them to he a di- vinely s ‘rior beine, Here. y hile ca- ressing the youngest chile ana smiling vracious!y unon them = all she was talking in Nanish with Felix, a lan- ’ that these ty of al! that com- rosed the oup, alone could under- a Upon ¢ ion’s face came certain (ranstormations of expression charac- feristic of the young girl of her race when confronted by strangers, She ‘coked upwontedly serious, then a lit- tle puzzled and perplexed, gazed full tt Felix for an instant, and then ked down. She had the unusual i I g? l confidentialiv with this yogi Inman who two days before lad been an utter stranger to her, and Now she was at a less how to open the conver ion aes eéece,”’ she said at last, with Ll side elanr Over toward where her father sat s if to assure herself that h Was not listening, ‘“ you will par- don m please, for asking you a ques- tion, Last night, you know, I came to

| the door of my room that onened into

the

corral while the men were firing.

But before | stood upon the step J

had heard in my room some things

that were said and knew some things

that were done outside the house. The

| Vwice came to me of Lupita, and she

Was talking with a man outside the

corral. Do you know the name of

the man with whom she talked ?”

Felix answered her :—

“It was a man that I never saw

{ or heard of before that night. She

, called him Gaspar Sangrado.”

Again Carmen spoke :— “Did you hear and do you recall what Lupita said to him—that I care

| for him no more than I do for the dust

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yniess they should spring a surprise em you, you ought te be able to stand eff a good sized band of Apaches. J hove we'll get news that the rene- gades have been overtaken by the troops anc wiped omt before this time.” Senor Trinbajo would have liked to 4gin our company for the trip to Sil- yer City, but our horses and mules, with their light equipment, could tra- vel so much faster than his outfit that

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it would have meant the loss of more ,

time than we could afford to spare to slow our Movements to keep pace with hiss The senor’s carriage was rolling of up the trail, with Felix and me riding behind, ifke outriders, as the showman’s outfit started away trom the station, a mie behind us. We vere all the time widening our dis- tance from the meestro’s equipage as we travelled onward during the mern- ing, but for the most part it was still insight across the broad spaces of the plain as it came crawling on after us, like a white sail following in a ‘hepe- astern. The people who tad started ahead of us from the sta-

s ton that morning had made such pro-

gess in their journey that we did not wertake the Missourian’s waggon un- fl noontime was almost arrived.

That the two prospectors were still wmewhere ahead of us was plainly indicated by their tracks imprinted on the dusty trail as they had footed it iene, following their pack anirnals. They had set so good a pace that we

Biad not as yet gained upon them suf-

feiently to bring them into our view. There were other signs interesting to ts, and which were important enough

ttcauss Felix and me to watch about

is with unusual care. Tanese were

athe hoofprints of several horses which

ttsome time in the carly morning had cme into the trail two or three miles yond the stage station, followed it a mile or two, and then turred off again won the prairie, headirg to the seuth- east. That the tracks rearked the progress Sangrado’s party or that of the Kid énd his companions we felt reasonably fire, and they indicated that it was . Mtunlikely that we might encounter ™e agrain the undesirable’ visitors th had figured in the disturbances of te night before. A torn bit of red tk which Felix, swinging from his Sidle. took from the thorny branch of

m *Mesquite tree, past which the strange

‘se tracks led, was of the tint of the skirt Lupita had worn in the per- Brmance of the night before, and it ered a hint oc te where that —” ———

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At noon our little processisn halted |

for luncheon and to give the horses | and mules an hour or two in which to rest ‘and feed. The Missourian’s |

waggon overtook us, and he likewise Stopped for a nooning, and ‘his family Swarmed out of the waggor, glad to stretch ‘their limbs and get a «hance to look about them and breathe the open air. He took a tin pail from the wag- g0n and proposed to sel! us milk fresh from the cow that morning, a

under my father’s carriage wheels; that I despise him; that I look upon his pretensions with amazement —with amazement at his pre- Sumptuousness ? What she said is true. He is not of any kind or station. But he is dangerous— | dangerous like the rattlesnake, the

| tarantula--to my father, te myself, to

you.”

She lowered her eyes a second, then lifted them to meet his, and there came a warmth to her cheek and brow like the sunset glows behind the darkened tints of a clouded April twi-

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out haezling over terms. So it hap- pened that our luncheon ‘this day had an agreeable element unusual to the camper on the plains im the seven- ties.

The fralt gave us an apportunity to learn two things of interest to Felix and me. As Don Ramon smoked his cigarette in company with me. a lit- tle apart from -the «thers, he said something of the discovery that so evi- dently had disturbed him when he looked n the face of the mar found slain at the corral.

“He was a bandit,-a robb< and deserved his fate,” he said. “ Gewas a follower of Gaspar Sangrado, andin Saying that I say all that is vile of a man. I knew his father when the young man was respectable and pro- mising, tut this was before he fell un- der the itmfluence of that scoundrel. sut let that pass. It was this which disturbed me. T» see him there meant thet Sangrado’s outlaw hand had crept to the corral, had sneaked there like prowling coyotes, with what purpose-of violence and robbery, who can tell? If it had been fhe leader tnat was killed instead of His follow- er, it would have been the rtddance to the world of the worst villain unhang- ed. But se long as he lives to plot night and day, who knows what mis- chief may still be on fuot ?”

The old Weon’s voice, intense in its feeling and intonation, expressed all that a voice « suld express of represe- ed .vindictiveness. Upon his fase was

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a look of hatred, deep and intense, in utter contrast with its customary kindness of expression. He dig not suspect that I’ .could trace his fierce iook and resentment to its true eaiuse —~the pretensions of Sangrado to the hand of his beloved daughter and the menace it meant to her safety. This

I could perceive—that the father, wivh- out exciting her fears by impartinz +o her his anxieties im the matter, was keeping watch and ward over her with solicitous eare, which had been trans- formed into fierce anger by the evi- dence presented when he saw that the dead man had been a follower of the ted Sangrado. Ptnaes a introducing the subject he meant more to relieve his mind by denouncing his enemy to me. It might be that he desired to find out how much I had seen or suspected of the true object that had brought the ban- dit and his following to the ste ge sta- tion. and if I had divined Sansracos : in entering the corral. If such were the case, he was disap pointed, for, adhering to my purpese of keening ¢lear of the matter, eX- cept when emergency rose to rend en the Don or his daughter, I gay ae sign that 4 believed the. bandits’ sist

“ His revenge will continued. ‘‘ You have roused his re- sentment. You have left free to harm you a foe that once yeu had at your mercy. Don Feleece, you are a man and caballero, and I but a girl with all te learn, but here let me tell you that wou acted unwisely. You foiled the revenge of a desperate man, and yet left him alive to sting you, and you took that risk for such a creature as Lupita. It was for her sake that you interfered with him, and then you made the mistake that you struck down his arm merely when you should have let him alone or have killed him. Why did you not fire when your rifie held his life at its muzzle, and waited only your touch upon the trigger to dismiss it ?

net sleep,’’ she

yourself and others perhaps dear te you in safety.”’ “Senorita Dona Carmen Velasquez

Bustamante,” said Felix, gravely, giv- ' ing the girl her formal Spanish title, | “I had Sangrado’s life in my hand, '

as you say, and I aeant to kil) him as truly as l now speak to you.

bexond him, and the shot that killed him would have taken your life at the Same moment. Far that reason, and for that only, I .bdid my hand Te same Lupita’s life, my own life, a hun- dred lives, to destroy a villain such as we knew Sangrado to be, I could not have fired that shot. Are you

Then you would have rid | the world of a villain and have left.

Lt | was not that I wished to spare him, | but because you stood upon the step’

satisfied, Dona Carmen, that in acting .

as I did I acted right ?’’

“Right ? Yes, that may be!

a time.

And | one should have acted wrong at such! You saould have thought no °

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mere of me than if I had been a thov- :

sand miles away,

a stick or stone, and killed him, then: let the bullet find its way where it ‘ would. I believe & could not have °

struck me, aimed it where you might.

than if I had been):

There was more appointed for my days!

ef life than for that to happen—so sovun at least. And if it had, what would you have cared, senor ?”

She looked at him full in the face, ;

and again a glow mantled her cheek. Was Carmen, child and schoolgirl and

Spanish, in coquetry or in earnest, practising her charms upon my com-

rade, who might find the happiness or,

the bane of his life in the impressive and even sudden and unpre- pared-for moment ? What Felix might have said or done in answer to this question had time been al- lowed him for the pmrpose is net a part of this story. He had had the good fertune of an interview, remark- ably protracted and canfidential, with the beasitiful senorita. And it was on

the plain of San Simon where, with a travelling party, such an episode would seem unlikely. The close of this one was at hand.

‘Carmen, Carmen !” cafled Don Ra- mon, whase cigarette and five minute siesta both were finished. Now he had recalled the circumstance that hours and minutes are precious when a lit- tle travelling party has before it the iong night and day push from the San Simon stage station to Silver City, and the Apaches are on the war- path. Manuel was leading the mules to the carriage, and Felix and Carmen passed from the group of little tow- heads who stood listening with un- failing admiration and wonder to the two handsome young strangers talk- ing interestedly together in an un- known tongue.

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This grandest of ibe seasou’s teas will be held at Alberton, the thriving metropolis of the West, on

Thursday, August 5th.

The feast of -Our Lady oithe Snows.”

The time—A feast rendered celebrated recently by Rsidvard Kipling—the place, Alberton, is certainly charmingly situated and the centre of western commerce; the experience: Alberton teas have been uum erous in the past and always up to the level of the occasion—the determination: to make this in point of numbers, at- tractions and excellent refreshments ahead of the best. All these circumstan- ces warrant us in inviting the whole Prov ince to come to Alberion and assist at a tea worth attending. Let neither haying There will be lots of time haymaking when you are dead. You require a day off. You'll be sure to meet everybody and see everything at Alberton. On such occasions the old renew long made acquaintances, and the young make new ones which often ripen into happy alliances. And an arrange ment of relief to tbe bashfa! bachelor will be affected. Come one and ali to Albert- on onthe 5th then, and see the country, enjoy the siglts and hospitality of the people, bear beautiful music discoursed, and be made supremely happy yourself.

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Returning will leave Alberton at 5 o’clock, p. m., the evening of the tea

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