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He might be in league with the revolutionists and in this way hoped to prevent the government from eventually securing possession of the machine which would put the insurrectos out of the running. But Frank had conceived another idea.
So long as the cities were overcrowded with pacificos and their streets were putrid with disease, so long did the Spanish garrisons sicken and die, as flies perish upon poisoned carrion. Out on the cool, clean hills and the windy savannas where the Insurrectos dwelt there was health.
Had they not known that the insurrectos were out there somewhere, they would have deemed the hillside barren of life. Suddenly, however, as Coyote Pete's keen eye was sweeping the open space before the stockade, the grass quite near at hand parted, and a wiry little Mexican stepped out.
From camp gossip, they knew that the regulars were devoting most of their attention to guarding the railroad line, inasmuch as the insurrectos had hitherto concentrated most of their attacks on the bridges, tracks and telegraph lines. For half an hour or more they shoved steadily forward without exchanging more than an occasional word.
Indeed, as you know, I have already declined, without Mexican consent, to order a troop of Cavalry to protect the breakwater we are constructing just across the border in Mexico at the mouth of the Colorado River to save the Imperial Valley, although the insurrectos had scattered the Mexican troops and were taking our horses and supplies and frightening our workmen away.
The Igorot befriended the Americans; they brought them food and guided them faithfully along the bewildering mountain trails when the insurrectos split and scattered anywhere, everywhere, fleeing eastward, northward, southward, in the mountains.
Those insurrectos down there, planning we don't know what, perhaps to rush the house any moment The River of Death has brimmed his banks; And England's far, and Honor's a name That means to us that L. A. is far, and South Figueroa Street ... all the safe happy things that didn't seem wonderful then...." "'Honor's a name," said Jimsy under his breath.
At the same moment that the occupants of the car sighted them, the pursuing insurrectos made out the automobile. Yelling at the top of their voices, they swept down upon it. "Let 'er out, and don't bother ter hit nuthin' but ther high places," Buck admonished Ralph, who now held the wheel. "If only I was certain that my boy and his friends were safe, Geisler, I wouldn't feel so much anxiety." Mr.
As his head topped the summit, he gave a shout and rapidly ducked. At the same instant a sound, like the hum of an angry bee, buzzed above their heads. "A bullet!" gasped Buck Bradley. "That's wot, pod'ner," rejoined Pete, "and it's the first of a whole flock of such like. The country off to the southwest is jest alive with insurrectos!"
Evidently Bob Harding was a soldier of fortune fighting with the insurrectos against the troops of Diaz, while they themselves were supposed to be more of the same brand. Evidently they had been expected by Ramon's subterranean river, and in taking the boat they must have forestalled the real Con Divver, Jim Hickey, and Ted Rafter.
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