Show R 01 th D I 1 arm fa m d n M AM of M P WAIT 01 01 01 01 0 ca K by fred 10 copyright by the th bobbe bobb co 0 W M N tr garlic 01 SYNOPSIS capt francois do d vlony vie serving with Maxi army in mexico tells tho the story A royster ing group ot of officers cern la Is discussing la anita who rumor says has baa lured french officers to death or desertion summoned by maximilian to make explanation oe do vigny undertakes to deliver the message to le la anita at la anitas home do da vigny vlony meet colonel lopez lope mexican officer anil and the girls cousin pablo ma drella who bears a wonderful resemblance to do de vigny except that he be wears a beard angered tbt anita should be called before the emperor madorella Ma drella forces a duel on do de vigny cleny in which the mexican Is wounded assisting madorella Ma drella to his carriage de DC vlony picks up a paper that falls from his pocket it proves to be a pass granting madorella Ma drella passage through the mexican lines linen laid before maximilian it Is of course macrellas Mad rellas death warrant since it proves him a spy questioned by maximilian la anita denies luring french officers to danger and Is given her freedom do da vigny secures securer leave ot of absence planning while madorella Ma drella Is wounded and under guard to grow a beard and impersonate him with the idea of securing information of juarez movements dressed as madorella Ma drella he enters la anitas home by stealth and overhears a conversation between madorella Ma drella and lopez which proves the latter a traitor to maximilian lopez has becu secured r ed macrellas Madr Mad ellaa rellas release and the latter Is leaving at once for juarez z camp he reaches Cuer navara about the same time as the rea lNla drella dr elli an unsuccessful attempt Is made by maddalla Ma drella dralla to kill oe de vigny CHAPTER VI continued 6 pasqual Ia squal with the silent ellent movements born of his big indian blood toot had come through the window mandrella Un Mn drella studied me a long moment then a flame of 0 understanding leaped into his eyes you have seen her then as myself of a truth we hall bad a touching scene with tears in her lovely eyes she told me that she could not kiss me and because in character I 1 must put on a face of woe she kissed roe me prettily yet it was a sisters kiss and not of love she called me poor pablo and nhen a woman speaks thus senor to a man once beloved tt it Is the end for that tie he cried a wild passion in hla his face you diet ile he raised the weapon as Iu squal leaped and the pin gun thrust suddenly upward drove a futile bullet into the ceiling cel ling Ma madorella alad drella relli shrugged clear of the indian and swung his right arm with the clubbed pistol again I 1 lifted that bandy stool and brought it down upon macrellas Madrell Mad rellas ns bead ile he went down even as manuel had done and the floor trembled with the tall of him I 1 pocketed the pistol then pasqual and I 1 climbed swiftly through the window descended the slanting root roof that led nearly to the cobbled floor of the patio and with the horse and the burro borro made oft off leaving madorella Ma drella and the fat and apoplectic manuel to wake up lip or not as they chose about live miles south of cuer net cavaca on the road that leads to blat lays laya we stopped beside an arroyo in the cool sweet waters of which I 1 bathed my bruised face for madrel las hard fist est had beat a tattoo upon IL it in two or three days senor said pasqual ra squal you will look the same as ever pasqual Pasq oal I 1 owe thee more than I 1 shall ever be able to PRY pay 1 I shall not be hard bard to pay senor now having cleared the imperial lines we changed clothing again and after paying pasqual more than I 1 had bargained for I 1 mounted the horse bere we part said L tomorrow or certainly on the day thereafter the I 1 shall return I 1 hope to find yon yoa here 1 I shall stay here senor duy day and night cunill you return and it if be should come pasqual Ia squal the bearded man senor aye it Is riot not my desire that he proceed ile he will get no farther than this cut but in what manner will you stop him the indian squared his trim about ders if the senor armed only with a stool can vanquish two men with knives and guns surely squal adelos then said 1 I I 1 have alays aldaya regretted the trick 1 I played pasqual yeti yet with my re grets grels there Is the satisfaction of knowing that to in the courageous heart of cf ie line anns indian lad ind there ts is a place enshrined for toe me before me in the head bead of a tiny amphitheater lay a town Tre treinta luta I 1 volt ink it was called A vast one dried building faced the elie road and i 11 1 approached it a sign across the V foretold its ita pur purpose post meats be durel purchased aused there and rooms aping and even feet feed for borses r mounted and a mozo led my ward W ard a barn the massive front I 1 ded and the host appeared y caller caller than 1 I bilth ith a tre trenice trecien nien ath of shoulders with shift e MM rown own eyes and a pock f ot evil ills face broke into what he doubt less deemed to be a smile buenos dias senor I 1 bade him good morril morning Dg knock ing the dust iby my lint hat the while and I 1 asked him it if food and drink be pro ared lie ile roared an on an I order and almost instantly a 8 chinaman liin ninan whose every move seemed to 0 o have tile lie sure swiftness of a panther brought brou ht two bottles of wine opened abe them placed them with two glasses upon a small table and disappeared as swiftly find and as silently nod and as mysteriously ns as he bad come we ve drew up chairs tile the wine wits was us smooth as tiny eliat illat the tafe mira nion inon possessed and mine host noting the toot look of surprise and satisfaction on tuy toy face fm spoke did not the senor empet good elnel ine one never expects good nine in mexico bold bald L how simple a thing for roe me to say yet it betrayed me foe as a foreigner a thing I 1 hall bad hoped shove above all filings lings ti to avoid for I 1 was in ili an area controlled by the revolutionists of benito juarez and must perforce ol alsere sere exceeding care ue lie smiled you hove have come from the north Is it not at so senor I 1 noid nodded ded for tile the thing could not be denied I 1 was in the ile country and circumspection therefore was a vital tiling filing yet I 1 was pablo Ma ll adrella drella and so ton long us as I 1 remained madorella Ma drella this has as nry my own I 1 had I 1 knew kaev some hours lead over the worthy cousin with pasqual a man of resource and courage between us from froin the lity alty he continued condoned ayt aye fruin from the city how far de dc the lines of the empire extend to tile lie east and north and west est said I 1 I 1 1 I 1 do not know but southward they r reah db some miles allies tills this side of t to travel the roads senor said Alons monsieur leur Evil face Is a dangerous thing these days anys eien een tor for a native it la Is as a natlie nathe that I 1 have traveled A loaded burro a dragging step a bent back slid and a beard all gray with alkali aud and I 1 walk b the alie french lines as though they ze were not I 1 besides asides es ides manuel of the botel montezuma Is my friend yet the wine ot of frame mine host soothed thy pal palate lite and caused thee to speak til III of mexico does such talk belli a patriot patr lol ile ie had halt half risen tind passion flurried flamed in his big eyes I 1 slipped one hand into my pocket where lay dy tile the gun of Mail madzella Ma drella rella und and waited 1 I 1 have stopped for food senor and drink said 1 I and having sat isfried my hunger and my I 1 desire to pry you and be again upon my way I 1 got slowly to toy my feet and your way senor Is where there was no attempt to disguise the doubt or hostility la in his voice to the camp of general juarez and that is where senor said L L tor for so la anita had told me lie he laughed harshly tlatlaya I 1 he roared tred th thrusting ruslIng the table forward with great suddenness but antlee paling just such a mine I 1 had leaped clear as like hie tuble table all slid across the room and crushed crashed against the wall now ile he swung his great body with that peculiar gliding gilding motion of a 8 coritta lits lils dark fare face working his breath hissing through heavy teeth and cast himself upon me even as his bis hairy balry hands clutched at me ate be stopped gruleR grotesquely quely midway in a gesture for he fount found my pistol point ing at his big heart 1 I cannot miss you I 1 said for us as a target his hulk bulk was a serious hand cap for him Vel believe leve nie me senor a gun Is not an unaccustomed thing in ili 11 my ay iy band I 1 think in tat I 1 owe you yon a 8 bullet yet you yoo will ili nevet tiny pay that debt senor wily why not 1 lecause I lec aube said he be between you and safety safely lie ile many miles of hostile country arid and men will spring up of like spirits out of the alie earth across your path tile the will know you no more you are french lr ench senor donor it Is evident despite the smooth perfection of the spanish you use and the artis try of lout our disguise six soldiers sol diera ot of benito juarez will stand you up against a wall ile he laughed freely loudly aud in the noise of if that tough laugh lie chinaman approached swiftly and leaped upon me from behind ile he struts strut 1 my iny elbow and the gun clattered to tile the floor then tile glant giant mexican swung a 8 wits mus cular color arm I 1 tried to in vain to dodge the force ol of that pile driver blow there was tin an earth shaling shaking jar a brilliant constellation of varl varicolored colored lights before my ens slid and a taste of sulphur in my month the huge buge ug tle ure that towered lowered menacingly over me faded away lu ili a crimson haze the I 1 lie laze haze melted slowly to darkness und and I 1 fell rind and fell when I 1 ache the was standing oer me tin an empty barket lo in its his hand arid and a look of anxiety on his yellow fave fare nine mine host hosl laughed lau glied search him tal slog sing and lice it 11 lie he hns another gun or a knife the orientals orient als deft fingers went ocr we me swiftly finding ending only a wallet from which the mexican drew a sheaf of bills money aloney he be said gaily two hundred pesos apesos and over a deal even in the state of morelos Mor clos tie no transferred the bills to his own pocket you will have no further use for or them tor for before the day Is gone your body tie he slid a so ang 9 cestive finger across hla his thick neck tal sing will carve a man as read ily fly as lie does a helpless chavn and the spy senor while I 1 lifted myself painfully to my feet lie he achl the gun upon me you were misinformed senor about benito juarez you would have sought ulm him nt at tlatlaya while in ili fact he Is I 1 encamped even now at puente de axt la ia scarce ten miles mile from here had you come to see him in the name of 0 tile the you would hove have known that perhaps senor you will III tell nie me now that your race Is run lust just who you are now my head was clearing from the terrible blow that he had given nie me ond and my brain was beginning to function again 1 I 1 am madorella Mii Ma drella said 1 bablo bin ll adrella drella and my bust bus ness Is iab with the president it if you take upon yourself the responsibility of halting balling vie me you will doubtless hear bear from blin and ills his lin hand till as you must know Is heavy I 1 bring him news ot of grove grave portent tile giant laughed 1 I 1 have beard of Mad maurelia relia what patriot has ha not 0 6 the giant laughed 1 I have heard of madorella Ma drella yet pablo madorella Ma drella would never have drawn a gun for protection and stood ith it in the middle of a strange room tie he would first have bore put his hack back against a wall verily I 1 had much to learn 1 your homemade home made wisdom senor suld said 1 may seem sufficient unto your self yet I 1 find end much in it to ques eton had you gone more deeply into that wallet of nine mine you might not have made so grievous a blunder A few easy pesos apesos senor seem to ob your vision I 1 pray you seek further now ills his trembling angers tumbled fumbled in tire the wallet bringing at last to light the past pass of 0 benito juarez the elie folded paper inper that bad dropped from madrel we las cost coat the night of our du duel el ile he opened it and his big eyes devoured its brief contents the parchment with its potent message fluttered lutt ered to the floor door the gun fell from bis big hand band struck his booted toot foot and bounded across the room arid and tal slug sing wondering picked it up reading heading aright the evident fear in his bis masters face he proffered the die weapon to me and I 1 put it bark back into toy my pocket mine host searched my face an eager hunger r in ills his eyes dlos he gasped now how can I 1 bo forgive nj the 1 I general 1 laughed Lle benato juarez will do to you just s what bat I 1 ask him to do yet surely senor I 1 was only ile he returned the money looney to my wallet picked up the pass and pressed them into my hands 1 I was only seeking to serve the republic general juarez has ninny many enemies thy service Is an uncertain thing yet ali ah senor I 1 will to do anything I 1 he cried anticipating a conces concession slon then get my horse for I 1 must be agnan upon my anny ay benito juarez waits for me 1 I hate haie another horse senor a line fine blak one and mure more befitting your station will sou lou ilu do me ine the honor to ride hl hf ii alle your own rests in my stable on your return a change may he be made or in ili case you do not return I 1 bes beg to present him to aou ou in the name of the republic I 1 nodded for speech was beyond me and he continued may I 1 ride with thee tire country Is filled with bandits they would never attack thee while I 1 am along I 1 soon discovered that don fells perez for such was his name nam ewas was despite all appearance to the contrary a man of vast accomplishment and education and the hour lint we rode before we readied reached the lican lives lines was full of profit to me for lie he lot told me ine many things of value the aler which passes the village of puente de fills was less than a mile away when sentries beside tile the rund road barred our progress do aou ou dare halt the great real ma ala drella roared my companion and fells perez we would wool see tile general take us to him quick quickly lyl 1 1 I could not have approached benito juarez under conditions more favorable for my success As ve ne rode up the general standing before the mas sive give adnie building that was his headquarters came toward us lie put tin an arm over the wide shoulders ol of dun don fells perez and they had a word or two of friendly greeting ali ah pablo iahlo still said the giant mexican heartily we tire are here at last truly the wrin was striving for a favorable report now benito juarez took foot both of 0 my hands and smiled at me and I 1 looked into the dark inscrutable eyes of mericos Alexi cos greatest patriot the man we had fought three years and as I 1 looked a great fear possessed me for though my head reached higher thin hii big and my shoulders were broader he radiated a sort of vibrant ener energy gy that left me weak rind and helpless although past sixty he had the poise and the physical appearance of early middle age ills face was beardless ills his eyes were steady and unchanging his head was large and round and he possessed the ponderous jaw the big close shut mouth and the massive nose of the man of action of determination danger left him cold he never forgot a friend or an energy ond and his native ability and genius for organization made flinde him film president of mexico more that than once this much must 1 I a F french 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