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"Ah, Captain!" cried Pesita. "Another thing. Will you make it known to the other officers that the stranger from Granavenoo is a captain and that it is my wish that he be well treated, but not told so much as might injure him, or his usefulness, about our sacred work of liberating poor, bleeding unhappy Mexico." Again Rozales bowed and departed. This time he was not recalled.
If Rozales rides out with us tomorrow morning you may say good-bye to your friend forever, for you will never see him in Rio, or elsewhere. He and I will be dead before ten o'clock." "What makes you think that, bo?" demanded Billy. "I do not think, senor," replied Miguel; "I know." "Well," said Billy, "we'll wait and see." "If it is Rozales, say nothing," said Miguel.
Billy had kept either the Chinaman or Bridge constantly upon watch toward the direction in which Rozales' men lolled smoking in the dark, and it was the crack of Bridge's carbine which awoke the Americans to the fact that though the border lay but a few miles away they were still far from safety.
Harding and Barbara. "Bridge and I'll bring up the rear." Then he stopped his pony and turning took deliberate aim at the knot of horsemen to their left. A bandit tumbled from his saddle and the fight was on. Fortunately for the Americans Rozales had but a handful of men with him and Rozales himself was never keen for a fight in the open.
I have made him a captain." Rozales grinned. Already among Pesita's following of a hundred men there were fifteen captains. "Where is Granavenoo?" asked Rozales. "You mean to say, my dear captain," exclaimed Pesita, "that a man of your education does not know where Granavenoo is? I am surprised. Why, it is a German colony." "Yes, of course. I recall it well now.
"Oh," he replied, "I'm going out to see if I can't find some shooting. It's awfully dull sitting around here doing nothing." "Si, senor," agreed Rozales; "I, too, find it so. Let us go together I know where the shooting is best."
Also, my dear captain, watch his right hand and when he slips it into his shirt be careful that you do not draw on him unless you happen to be behind him." Rozales was not inclined to take his chief's view of Byrne's value to them. He argued that the man was guilty of disloyalty and therefore a menace. What he thought, but did not advance as an argument, was of a different nature.
Who, indeed, could blame you who had fought well and risked your men and yourself in the performance of your sacred duty? Rozales, should such a thing occur what could I do in token of my great pleasure other than make you a colonel?" "I shall defend them with my life, my general," cried Rozales, bowing low. "Good!" cried Pesita. "That is all." Rozales started back toward the ring of smokers.
"But wait," urged Rozales. "Let the stranger ride in command, with a half-dozen picked men who will see that nothing goes wrong. An hour before dawn I will send two men they will be our best shots on ahead.
As Billy turned and walked in the direction that the soldiers had led Bridge and Miguel, Pesita beckoned to a soldier who leaned upon his gun at a short distance from his "general" a barefooted, slovenly attempt at a headquarters orderly. "Send Captain Rozales to me," directed Pesita.
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