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"They told me yesterday in Conejo that Obregon had been put under arrest in Mexico City. If that's true it may put a cog in the revolutionary machinery," said Hard. "I wish we'd managed to keep our hands on that automobile," remarked Scott, wistfully. "I don't half fancy trying to make the border in a wagon, and no one knows how the railroads will be."
"There ain't any except that greaser over at Conejo," said Adams, gloomily. "Morgan says he's so dirty he won't let him touch his kids. I don't want blood poisoning, you bet. Did they blow up the track?" Scott nodded. "There's Johnson," he exclaimed, looking out of the window. "He's got the horses but not the girl.
"Hullo, Jimmy," he said, with a grin. "Do you know whether Johnson's gone yet? Well, go over and tell him to drop in at Mrs. Morgan's and tell her that the young lady got here safely; I can't get Conejo on the wire." "Oh, yes, Mr. Adams, please do!" said the girl, eagerly. "She meant to be awfully kind but she was worried to death about those children.
I'd look nice opening the boss's mail, wouldn't I? Now you've read the worst of it you might as well dip into it far enough to find out just when she's coming. Somebody'll have to drive over to Conejo for her as long as the machine's busted." "I've read all I'm going to," said Scott, doggedly. "You can do the finding out." Mrs.
I'd have asked him to look in on my girl," said Jimmy, folding up his letter. "I don't like the way she writes all jazz and picture shows. Some cuss is trying to cut me out with her." "More likely she's heard about you and the little Mexican over to Conejo," remarked the fireman, unsympathetically. "If you'd had her address she sure would have," replied Adams, promptly. "That Mexican girl "
"Johnson left Athens yesterday before Scott and Polly got there," he said, reassuringly. "He walked to Conejo." "Walked to Conejo!" "You see, Tom, Mrs. Conrad and I walked here from Soria's and we've both been crippled ever since. A walk to Conejo fills us with excited admiration." Tom chuckled. "Well, I always could walk," he replied.
Li will return and you shall send him first to Conejo to buy provisions. When things settle down, my men will come back and we shall go to work again." "You're going to stick by the ranch?" demanded Scott. "It is my home. What else have I?" The little man's voice was sad. "Well, maybe you're right," said Scott, after a moment. "The best way to hang on to property just now is to sit down on it.
El Conejo, after repeating the Preface several times took up the melody of the rogations and sang some strains in a high soprano, others in a basso profundo: "The high silk-hat" ... and instead of saying Liberanos domine, he went on: "I'll buy for spot cash.... Your old vest ... will fetch a five-peseta piece...." Then he had to stop to let Justa laugh.
"I was afraid something like this would happen," said Hard. "They told me over in Conejo that there was trouble on. They had an all-night session at Hermosillo and the state seceded." "That's what Pachuca says." "Morgan's taken his family up to Douglas." "Any news from Bob?" "Just a letter for Miss Polly."
"Directors would be a heap more uneasy if they knew what we know," remarked Williams, sententiously. "Hear anything more about the Chihuahua troops bein' ordered in, Johnson?" "Nope," replied the engineer, his mouth full of pie. "Everybody crawled into their holes in Conejo. Didn't you never see a sand-storm, Jack?" "I wish I'd known he was going to Chicago.
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