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Or so Ruiz Rios says. And I " She broke off, shuddering. And then, bewildering Jim Kendric if no one else, two big tears gathered in her eyes and spilled down to her cheeks! "Señores Kendric and West," announced Rios autocratically, "you will take all orders from me now. You will not leave the house, either of you, unless I give the word.

Only a little before this, the Quillotans had contrived to massacre all the soldiers employed at the gold mines in their country, by the following stratagem. One day a neighbouring Indian brought a pot full of gold to Gonzalo Rios, the commandant at the mines, and told him that he had found a great quantity in a certain district of the country which he offered to point out.

But their hour of triumph, their slow and hardearned triumph, had now arrived. Yet the governor, Pedro de los Rios, did not seem, even at this moment, to be possessed with a conviction of the magnitude of the discovery, or, perhaps, he was discouraged by its very magnitude.

Pico's 1845 decree warned the Indians that they must return within a month and occupy their lands, or they would be disposed of; and in 1846 Pico reported the Mission sold, though no consideration is named, to P. Rios and Wm. Reed. The purchasers took possession, but the courts later declared their title invalid. In 1848 Reed and his whole family were atrociously murdered.

The entrance was narrow and he could make a fight for it there was Betty to think of, behind him but in the path of glancing bullets there was Rios, wounded but treacherous there was Zoraida there was the treasure below and he had no mind to see it snatched from under his eyes Then the one chance presented itself to him, clear and imperative.

"Your honor," laughed Kendric, "fits well in your mouth, Ruiz Rios, but rides light in the scales." "You mean you would want proof?" Rios was imperturbable. "It may be given you in due time, but only when it is too late for you to make any stock out of it. Now, for what you know, I offer you your own safety and that of Miss Betty. Have I not marked how you look at her?" He laughed in his turn.

She wasn't just the baby he had named her and she wasn't just the little kid of sixteen he had at first taken her to be. During the interview with Ruiz Rios he had learned that she had a mind of her own. To her other possessions he now saw added an American girl's fiery temper. Then Zoraida and Rios returned. Before a word was spoken Kendric knew that he was to be treated to some more play-acting.

On the theory of a debacle, a prodigious amount of mud, without a single pebble, is supposed to have been borne over the wide surface of the Pampas, when under water: on the other hand, over the whole of Patagonia, the same or another debacle is supposed to have borne nothing but gravel, the gravel and the fine mud in the neighbourhood of the Rios Negro and Colorado having been borne to an equal distance from the Cordillera, or imagined line of disturbance: assuredly directly opposite effects ought not to be attributed to the same agency.

He could not judge their color; they were mere luminous pools. He started with an odd fancy; he caught himself wondering if those eyes could see in the dark? Again he shrugged as though to shake physically from him these strange fancies. He snatched up the little table and brought it to where Ruiz Rios waited, putting it down not three feet from the Mexican's silent companion.

If we can slip out this way and come to the horses while they're looking for us up there " "This way?" Betty for an instant wondered if he meant to follow Zoraida and Rios. "There is another way," he told her. "Come. But first, we'll not go empty handed." He began a quick rummaging among the ancient chests. "Hurry," pleaded the girl. "What do we want with treasure? They may find us at any second.