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While we rested and waited for breakfast, I called upon the jefe politico, who had received several communications from me, and had become interested in my work. Our luggage was all at his office, and he promptly made arrangements for its further transportation. At breakfast, we received the cheerful news that Mr. Lang's horse had the lockjaw and showed signs of dying.
But, though we remained in Coixtlahuaca several days, no beds were forthcoming, though we referred to them often enough; nor did the private boarding-house materialize. We, however, found a little place in the village where we got plenty of good food cheaply. Nor did the ride on horseback through the neighboring villages, which had been so pleasantly suggested by the jefe, materialize.
Then the Jefe Municipal that's the Mayor fell into his warmest temper, and sent a company of pink soldiery of the City Guard in the morning, packed close in a tugboat.
The jefe himself did not know who they were, nor what crime they had committed; nor did he know how long they would remain in his custody; they had come a weary journey, as he put it, "along the Cordillera;" they had been passed from hand to hand, from one jefe to another; when the order came, he was to start them on their journey to the jefe of the next district.
The ceremony was performed by the Jefe Politico of Ameca, my natal town, though not solemnized by the church. There was a witness, but he is dead now. It was Pedro Rodriguez, the man you killed the night he and Señor Matlock burned the hay on your rancho." In the tense silence which followed, the ticking of Douglass's watch was distinctly audible.
Going to the office of the governor's private secretary, we insisted on his telling the chief executive that we were losing time, that no one was assisting us, that subjects were obdurate and stubborn, and that something must be promptly done. We waited but a few minutes. The fiat went forth; the jefe politico appeared, puffing and blowing, and wildly excited.
As they drew near they recognized him as one of the peons who had served as Mr. Black's mozo. "Why, hello, José!" exclaimed Donald. "What brings you here?" The mozo drew a letter from beneath his poncho and handed it to Donald. "For me?" asked Donald. "I thought it must be for Adrian. I didn't think the " "It is from the jefe," interrupted the mozo. "Oh, it's from Mr.
This was a capital beginning, but the next two days our work fell flat. It was necessary to keep constantly at the jefe, and it soon became plain that he was making no great effort to secure subjects for us, on the assumption that we had better wait until Sunday, when there would be plenty of people without trouble to the police.
Notwithstanding the poor way in which they had done their work, the policemen struck, declaring that they would not bring others until they had been paid. It was plain the town needed a lesson. We promptly paid the demand made upon us, and, then, calling the presidente and the secretario, we told them that we must have a receipt for the payment to show the jefe.
Sanchez had organized a searching party, of which Tony proved to be the advance guard. A few minutes later, several horsemen dashed up and the boys were given a rousing reception. "The Jefe politico is waiting to greet you," Tony told the boys. The jefe politico is the mayor. Billie smiled broadly and once more rubbed his stomach. "This begins to look encouraging," he remarked to Pedro.
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