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Updated: May 25, 2025
There was one person who had been hungry for the treasure who did not get a dollar of it. That was the young Mexican, Juan Sivello, Lobarto's nephew. As Mr. Hammond said, chuckling: "All that chap took away from Rose Ranch was a flea in his ear!"
"And what were you hanging about that place over there in the hills for?" demanded Mr. Hammond. "Come, now! Didn't you give your friends the slip because you wanted to hunt for that old hidden treasure?" "Senor!" "Never mind denying it," said the ranchman sternly. "And I reckon I can make another guess. You are Lobarto's nephew. Your name is Juan Sivello.
I should not wonder if there were an English school down in Honoragas." "Is she home again, then?" demanded Nan. "So it seems. Listen, I say," and Rhoda began to read: "'Miss R. HAMMOND, "'Dear Miss: "'I have arrived to my mother at Honoragas, and I take this pen in hand to let you know that Juan Sivello, Lobarto's nephew, who has come from the South he is one of those who lisp "
Nan and Grace chorused. "That Juan Sivello that Mexican girl wrote to Rhoda about." "I had thought of that," said Rhoda, nodding. "It may be." "And if it is," whispered Bess, thrilling at the thought, "he's got the diagram of the hiding place where his uncle put all that treasure." "Goodness me!" sighed Grace, "how rich we should all be if we found it."
This nephew of the old bandit chief, Juan Sivello, seemed eager to find the hidden treasure; and if he was really supplied with a diagram indicating the location of the cache, Juan would probably make a serious attempt to uncover it.
Is it not possible that the Senor Hammond, thy father, should get soldiers of the Americano army, and round up those bad Mexicanos and Juan Sivello, take from him the map and find the treasure? My mother will pay much dinero for reward. "'Believe me, Senorita R. Hammond, your much good friend,
If what this Mexican girl friend of yours, Rhoda, says is so, that Sivello and his party made a clean-up of the Long Bow horses, and the bulk of them started back for the Border. Maybe their leader and his personal friends came up this way, thinking to make another search for old Lobarto's plunder. "I swanny! I wish they'd find the stuff and get away with it.
This news comes to my mother's ears by round-about. We do not know for sure. But Juan Sivello is one bad man like his uncle, Lobarto. It is the truth I write with this pen. Juan has collected together, it is said round-about, some men who once rode the ranges with Lobarto, and they go up into your country. For what? It is too easy, Miss. It is " "Oh! Oh!" giggled Bess. "What delicious slang!"
"Do you suppose, girls," said Rhoda thoughtfully, "that those men we saw coming through the gap in the Blue Buttes were this Sivello and his gang?" "Are they horse thieves?" cried Bess. "Why not?" "And how about that fellow you were going to shoot over at the bears' den?" asked Grace suddenly. "Why, Rhoda, that fellow lisped. He said 'Theniorita. I heard him."
We've got Tom and Mr. Kane with us, besides Frank, the other cowboy. I am not afraid of the Mexicans not much, that is whether they are Juan Sivello and his gang or not." "Hear! Hear!" agreed Nan. "And having done so much harm in this neighborhood, perhaps they have run away a good many miles to escape pursuit. Let us go and take a look in the bears' den, anyway." And so it was agreed.
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