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The rap had been faltering and feeble. Jalisco's hand sought the knife he always carried. "Who is it?" he demanded. The reply to this question was a repetition of the hesitating knocking. "Who are you? and what do you want?" sharply cried the Mexican lad. "I am very sorry to disturb you," said a cracked, unsteady voice. "I have the next room. You can do me a favor." Now Felipe was lonesome.
Leave it to us to take care of everything, Frank. There will be no delays." "Unless Bantry Hagan and Felipe Jalisco cause them." "But you were absolutely confident that Jalisco's document was a forgery." "Absolutely confident, Mr. Hatch.
He sprang away with the soft step of a cat, and darted out at the door. In a twinkling Merry slipped from beneath the cord, leaped from the bed, and made the house echo with the shout he uttered. Unmindful of Jalisco's threat, he was out of that room and after the fellow in an amazing hurry. It must have been amazing for Jalisco, for the fellow was overtaken by Merry at the head of the stairs.
It happens that chance has thrown me in with Colonel Jalisco's only surviving heir, his great grandson, and this, gentlemen, is the boy." Hagan waved one of his square hands toward his dark-eyed companion. He had thrown a bomb into the meeting, and he smiled to see the havoc it created.
"How would you get hold of this land and obtain a railroad land grant from the Mexican government?" "The grant is already in existence." Hagan then explained to Jerome as clearly as possible Felipe Jalisco's claim to a great area of land in Sonora. "The boy is without influence with the government," confessed Hagan, "else he would make application for his rights.
That after his death certain parties did attempt to get possession of valuable territory in Sonora by producing a forged land grant; but that the rascals were soon forced to take to cover to save their lives, after which nothing more was heard of 'Colonel' Jalisco's claim to Sonora land." Frank spoke slowly, in order that the boy might understand every word.
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