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The expedition was difficult, but well-conducted; it extended far south of the frontier and provoked the protests of Carranza. At the moment when Pershing's advance guard seemed to have its hands on the bandit, orders were given to cease the pursuit. The opponents of the Administration had some excuse for laughing at the "inglorious and ineffectual war" thus waged.
"The soldiers came," she said slowly. "They had already killed the others. They would have killed me." "The soldiers?" "Yes. They were looking for my husband. They said he was hidden in the house; but he was not. He is with Gen. Carranza." "When was this?" "Yesterday. I have been in the mountains all night. There was a fight a few minutes ago and I saw them pass.
Meanwhile President Carranza had grown restless and suspicious of American interferences, and demanded that the United States troops should be withdrawn from Mexican soil. Indeed he became so threatening that Mr. Wilson called out the militia, and ordered a squadron of war vessels to Mexican waters.
"Followers of the bandit leader, Emilio Zapata." "Which side does he belong to?" asked Adrian. "Huerta or Carranza?" "Neither. He is simply a bandit, and his followers prey upon any whom they find unprotected." "And do you really think they are going to hold up and rob the train from Pachuca?" "Sin duda!" meaning without doubt. "Then we must prevent them," declared Donald emphatically.
"As sure as there's a God in heaven," Natera said, "this mess hasn't blown over yet. Now it's Villa fighting Carranza." Without answering him, his eyes fixed in a stare, Demetrio demanded a further explanation. "It means," Natera said, "that the Convention won't recognize Carranza as First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army. It's going to elect a Provisional President of the Republic.
Ain't you gettin' pretty thick with Pesita's enemies?" "Jose good friends everybody," and the old man grinned. "Grayson have a job he want good men for. Jose furnish men. Grayson pay well. Job got nothin' do Pesita, Villa, Carranza, revolution just private job. Grayson want senorita. He pay to get her. That all." "Oh," said Billy, and yawned. He was not interested in Mr. Grayson's amours.
He had come up from across the line, where he had been first with Carranza, and then with Zapata in his black troop, and then with Pancho Villa. He already had considerable reputation in the low Mexican quarter of the town: he had participated in many fights and raids "down there"; he was fearless; he could use a gun; he had many killings to his credit.
"What would you take them to be?" was Billie's next question. "Give it up," replied Donald. "I'll bet I can make a good guess," said Adrian. "They are a flying column of Huerta cavalry, sent out to test the Carranza lines. They have paid their respects to Tierra Blanca and now they are headed for Cordoba." "They'll never get there," said Billie. "They'll run into General Dorante's men."
Madero and his vice president Pino Suarez were killed, it was believed by order of Huerta, and on the 27th of February, in the City of Mexico, Huerta was proclaimed President. Don Venustiano Carranza, Governor of the State of Coahuila, straightway denied the constitutionality of the new Government and led a new revolution under the banner of the Constitution.
Carranza and his associate, Villa, fell to quarreling. Bands of ruffians made raids across the border, and Mexico became more than before a desolate waste peopled with fighting factions. At President Wilson's suggestion six Latin-American powers met in Washington in 1915 for conference, and decided to recognize Carranza as the head of a de facto government.
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