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It puzzled her that he was forbidden to write but once in thirty days, by an under lieutenant of the Zapatist chief, Juan Dicampa, who was Mr. Day's friend or supposed to be, and yet the letters came to her readdressed in Juan Dicampa's hand.
"I shall stay to watch the property, however, and meanwhile the Zapatist chief in power here watches me. He takes pleasure in nagging and interfering with me in every possible way; so issues this last decree limiting the number of letters to one a month. "He would do more, but he dare not. I happen to be on friendly terms with a chief who is this fellow's superior.
Janice or Marty always found time to scan each page of that paper for Mexican news especially for news of the brigand chief, Juan Dicampa. She went to the reading desk after closing and returning the encyclopaedia to its proper shelf, and spread the New York paper before her. This day she had not to search for mention of her father's friend, the Zapatist chief.
In the letter from her father which she immediately opened, there was no mention of Juan Dicampa. Mr. Day did say, however, that he seemed to have incurred the particular enmity of the Zapatist chief then at the head of the district because he was not prepared to bribe him personally and engage his ragged and barefoot soldiery to work in the mine.
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