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Stephen was considering this when the two Mexicans approached. The proprietor of the store started to explain, when the little woman draped in a black mantilla interrupted him with further sobbing and a pointing finger pointing back across the settlement. "Caballeros," she began, "you coom please wit' me, I I haf show you soomt'ing." Then again she burst into weeping.
Yet here was a chance, as Franke had generously indicated, for him to win some money. But, against this chance for him to win some money was the chance also, as conveyed inversely by Franke, of his losing some money money he could ill afford to lose. "You afraid?" suddenly cut in Franke, nastily, upon these reflections. "I don' see you do soomt'ing!" Which decided Felipe for all time.
But thees mornin' I'm seein' thot hombre in town, and so I haf go gettin' you to coom help me. But you haf steal seex dolars. I'm forgettin' thot not! And if you say soomt'ing to soombody soomtime, I'm havin' you arrested, Franke, for a t'ief and a robber same as I ought to arrest thot Pedro Garcia oop in the canyon." Franke maintained discreet silence. But not for long.
"We go gettin' soomt'ing," he invited. "I have munch good luck to tell you." Inside the establishment Felipe became loquacious and boasting. He now was a man of comfortable wealth, he gravely informed his friend a wizened individual with piercing eyes. Besides winning a bet of fifteen dollars in money, he explained, he also held a note against Franke Gamboa for fifty dollars more on his property.
"Wait!" he snapped, rising. "You wait! You in too mooch hurry! You coom back I have soomt'ing!" Felipe turned back, wondering. The other nervously produced material for a cigarette. Then he cleared his throat with needless protraction. "Felipe," he began, evidently laboring under excitement, "I mek eet a bet now!
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