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"Señors, señoras!" he announced, in fascinating broken English, "you are all my preesoner!" "Put all ze men outside," Lopez ordered. Venustiano and Pedro, his chief lieutenants, obeyed at once, forcing them to march ahead of them, and standing guard over them near a great cactus bush a few feet from the adobe. "Leave ze women with me," the bandit continued. "But first, Alvarada, you find ze cook.
"Si," he whispered. Lopez indicated Pell's body, and took out a cigarette nonchalantly. "Take 'im away. Ees no use for nobody no more." Pedro started to lift the heavy form. "Save ze clothes and ze boots," he reminded his faithful man. "Si," the latter said, meekly. Venustiano appeared from the outer darkness, as if by magic, and rushed to Pedro's aid.
"Well, what do you know about that!" young Jones shouted. He was as surprised and happy as the bandit himself. This man, whom he never thought to see again in his whole life was standing here, in his own adobe. "Now you know me!" Pancho went on. "Ah! my frand! 'Ow glad I am for to see you some more! Pedro! Venustiano! Ees my friend! Sabbe! Orders like my own! Serve 'im as you would me!"
"But who does it belong to?" the Mexican wanted to know. "My nevyer," the invalid said. "And which is 'e?" "He's down in the shed fixin'," the old man informed him. Lopez turned to Pedro. "Venustiano shall find him. Before he make trouble you," turning to "Red," "shall show 'im where." Pedro had raised his revolver; and one look at it was enough for "Red."
When, on the 1st of May, Venustiano Carranza was chosen President, Mexico had its first constitutional executive in four years. After a cruel and obstinately intolerant struggle that had occasioned indescribable suffering from disease and starvation, as well as the usual slaughter and destruction incident to war, the country began to enjoy once more a measure of peace.
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