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Updated: May 2, 2025
"You're workin' for me, now," half blustered, half whined the old quack. "Whatche goin' to do next?" "Pack for the night train." "Where to?" "Yuma or Calexico. Don't know which till I get a reply to two telegrams. I'll need five hundred dollars expense money." "Say, you don't want much, do ye?" snarled the quack, his avaricious soul in revolt at the prospect of immediate outlay.
All along the border from Juarez to Calexico he had seen just such soft, skilled fingers fleecing those who toiled. He knew the bloodless, impassive face of the professional gambler as well as he knew the anxious, reckless ones of his victims. His knowledge had told him little good of this breed of parasites who preyed upon a credulous public.
With the papers to show for it, they go out by Calexico and cash the checks in Los Angeles. They could put up the bluff that their partner was guarding the mine while they bought machinery and outfitted. That'd be good enough to cash certified checks by." "Yes; that's about the way I figure it out. You spoke of Richford's being able to get rid of young Hoff effectually, without actual murder."
Here were boiling, sputtering mud pots and steam vents building up and exhausting through mud pipe-stems, rising a foot or two above the springs. Here was a shelter or two of sun-warped boards constructed by those who come here crippled with rheumatism and are supposed to depart, cured. Here we saw signs of a wagon track driven toward Calexico, the border town directly north of the lake.
Without a word from any one we brought the boat back to the landing. Al was the first to speak. "Well, what are you going to do?" he asked. "Me? I'm going to take my boat and start for the Gulf in ten minutes. I'll take nothing that I cannot carry. If I have to leave the river I will travel light across the desert to Calexico. I think that I can get through.
Can be reached by water from Yuma, or pack train from Calexico. White, who has hunted there, says Captain Funcke, Calexico, best guide. Average Jones tossed this over to the father. "As I figure it," he said, "your son's two friends had this all mapped out beforehand for him. One went west direct.
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