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But Ignacio learned from another Indian in Lang's service that Pete and seven of his best shots had started for Agua Fria about the same time as Jack, while the rest of the gang that had been left behind were making it their business to cover the leader's absence. Distrusting Ignacio, they locked him in a closet off the bar.
The wire, too, was undisturbed, but an atmosphere of alarm and dread clung about the scattered ranches even as far as the Agua Fria to the west, and the few officials left at Prescott found it impossible to reassure the settlers, who, quitting their new homes, had either clustered about some favored ranch for general defense or, "packing" to Fort Whipple, were clamoring there for protection with which to return to and occupy their abandoned roofs.
The water of Agua Fria flowed into the Atlantic; the springs on the other side of the ridge flowed into the Pacific. The wagons of the Arnold family travelled between the rear-guard and the government wagons.
We left Santa Fé within an hour, and struck out toward the unknown land where Beverly Clarenden, in the midst of uncertain friends, was being hunted down by an Apache band. As our little company passed out on the trail toward Agua Fria, I recalled the day when we had gone with Rex Krane to this little village beside the Santa Fé River.
There was said to be a big underground run at Agua Fria that could be pumped at little expense. "All I can make out of Prather's taking a straight line, which really is slower, as you know, on account of the heavy sand in places, is to look over the soil," said Galway. "He may be preparing to get a concession in Mexico at the same time as on this side, so as to secure control of the whole valley.
SALA, a hall, dining-room. SERAPE, a Mexican blanket; see p. 169. SOMBRERO, a hat. TACUMENILES, pine-shingles for roofing. TEMAZCALLI, Indian vapour-bath; see p. 301. TEFONAZTLI, Indian wooden drum. TETZONTLI, porous amygdaloid lava, a stone much used for building in Mexico. TIENDA, a shop; see p. 82. TIERRA CALIENTE, the hot region. TIERRA FRÍA, the cold region.
It was then a little after ten o'clock. The wire to Prescott was still unresponsive. Nothing had been heard from the linesmen and their escort, indicating that the break was probably far over as the Agua Fria. Not a sign, except Stout's signal blazes at the picacho, had been gathered from the front.
An Indian boy lay on it, looking straight at me. I stared back at him and neither of us spoke. His head was bandaged and his cheek was swollen, but with my memory for faces, even Indian faces, I knew him at once for the boy who had followed us into Agua Fria and out of it again. Just then the frolickers came to the door and peered in at me. "Are you awake?" Eloise asked.
"Well, something may turn up to enable us to serve his mother. Let us go to bed." Next morning we were again on the road by starlight. A march of sixteen miles brought us to Agua Fria cold water. Less than a hundred yards west of the spring was a ridge which did not rise fifty feet above it, and that was the "backbone" of the continent.
"Yonder is your terminal," Rex replied, pointing to a little settlement of mud huts huddling together along the trail. "They call that little metropolis Agua Fria 'pure water' because there ain't no water there. It's the last place to look for anybody. That's why we look there. You will go in like gentlemen, though and don't be surprised nor make any great noise over anything you see there.
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