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Suppose I tell the jury that there were three of us in that pasture of yours, instead of two? What then? I would be lonely in prison without a good compadre to bear me company." Urbina grinned in evil triumph. "This is the damnedest outrage I ever heard of," gasped "Young Ed." "It's a fairy story " "Prove it," chuckled Lewis. "The prosecuting attorney'd eat it up, Ed.
Formerly a cowboy, he had by the exercise of some natural ability acquired a good property and a bad reputation. Just how or why he had prospered was a mystery which his neighbors never tired of discussing. Tad, it seemed, resented any interruption of his rest, and showed the fact plainly. Yes, he employed a fellow named Urbina. What was wanted of him? Law explained briefly.
Pedro's witness would swear to it. Their distance from Las Palmas at the time when they had been seen together proved, beyond question, that unless Urbina had flown he could not have arrived at the place in question by noon, the hour Ed Austin had fixed. This significant bit of information, however, Dave advised the Guzmans not to make public for the time being.
Dave remembered that it had been about seven when he left Las Palmas, and ascertained, indirectly, that Tad had a telephone. On his way from Austin's Law had stopped at a rancho for a bite to eat, but he could forgive himself for the delay if, as he surmised, Urbina had been warned by wire of his coming. "That's too bad, ain't it?" Lewis said.
They stopped at various goat-ranches to inquire about Adolfo Urbina, and at noon halted beside a watercourse for lunch. Dave was refilling the radiator when he overheard José in conversation with Mrs. Austin. "Nowhere a trace!" the horse-breaker was saying. "No one has seen him. Poor Rosa Morales will die of a broken heart."
I let Pino go, 'bout a week back; but he's been hangin' around, aimin' to visit some of his relatives up in the brush country. It was probably one of them old Guzman saw. Anyhow, it couldn't of been Adolfo Urbina; he was over to Las Palmas all the afternoon." "Did you send him there?" "Sure. Ed Austin can tell you." "Where is Urbina now?" "I reckon he's asleep somewhere.
When Pedro de Puelles, the governor of Quito, became acquainted with these proceedings of D'Olmos, and that the fleet and army at Panama had declared for the president, he became exceedingly anxious as to the measures proper for him to pursue. At this time D'Olmos sent Diego de Urbina to Quito to endeavour to prevail on Puelles to declare for the royal party.
Toward midday Tad Lewis and three of his men arrived with the news that Urbina had left for Pueblo before they could intercept him. "He's got a girl up there, and he's gone to get married," Tad explained. "I'm sure sorry we missed him." Dave smiled grimly at the speaker. "Are you sure he didn't cross to the other side?" he asked.
My car is over by Morales's house." "Señor Austin is in a great hurry," sneered some one in Spanish. "Once more he leaves all of the fighting to his friends." "That's Adolfo Urbina," panted Paloma. "I know him." Stung by this open charge of cowardice, Austin began a voluble defense, but in the midst of it General Longorio addressed him, sharply: "You will stay here, señor.
I changed my plans, joined him, served under him in the campaigns he made, was present at the deaths of the Counts Egmont and Horn, and was promoted to be ensign under a famous captain of Guadalajara, Diego de Urbina by name.
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