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The Land of Broken Promises
A Stirring Story of the
Mexican Revolution
=By DANE COOLIDGE=
Author of
“THF. FIGHTING TOOL," "HIDDEN WATERS,"
"THE TI XICAN," Etc.
Illustrations by DON J. LAV IN
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ht. 1914. hv Frank A. Mun«r»*
A »tory of border Mexico, vivid,
Intense, such as has never before
been written, is this one of Ameri
can adventurers into the land of
manana. Texan, mining engineer,
Spanish senor and sencrita, peon,
Indian, crowd its chapters with
clear-cut word pictures of busi
ness. adventure and love, against
a somber background of wretched
armies marching and counter
marching across a land racked by
revolution and without a savior.
"Aw, that's all right," mumbled P.ud
rising and holding out his hand. “I
knowed you didn't mean nothing." He
sat down again after that and gazed
drearily out the door.
"Say, Hud,” began Phil, his eyes
sparkling with amusement, “I’ve got
something to tell you abou. that dance
last night. If I didn't ’put the crusher
on Mr. Feliz Luna and Manuel del
Key! Wow! I sure wished you were
there to see me do it!
“This Felix Luna Is the son of an
old sugar planter down in the hot coun
try somewhere. He got run out by
the revoltosos and now he’s up here
trying to make a winning with Gracia
Aragon—uniting two noble families,
and all that junk. Well, sir, of all the
conceited, swelled-up little squirts you
ever saw in your life he's the limit,
and yet the old man kind of favors
him.
“But tIris Manuel del Uey is the cap
tain of the rurales around here and a.
genuine Mexican fire-eater—all buck
skin and fierce mustachios. and smells
like chili iieppers and garlic—and the
two of ’em were having it back and
forth as to who got the next dance
w ith Gracia.
" ell. you know how It is at a Mexi
can dance—everybody is supposed to
be introduced to everybody else—and
when I saw those two young turkey
cocks talking with their hands and
eyebrows and everybody else backing
off, I stepped in close and looked at
the girl.
"And she's some girl, ton, believe
me! The biggest brown eyes you ever
raw' in your life, a complexion like
cream, and hair—well, there never
was such hair! She was fanning her
self real slow, and in the language of
the fan (hat means: ‘This don’t inter
est me a bit!' So, just to show her I
was wise, I pulled out my handker
eliief ahd dropped it on the floor, and
when she saw me she stopped and be
gan to count tlie ribs in her fan. That
was my cue—it meant she wanted to
speak with me—so I stepped up and
said:
“ ‘Excuse me, senorita, hut while
the gentlemen talk—and if the senora,
l our mother, will permit—perhaps we
can enjoy a dance?’
"And say. Hud, you should have seen
tHe way she rose to it. The girl is a
sport, believe me, and the idea of those
two novios chewing the rag while she
sat out the dance didn't appeal to her
at all. So she gave me her hand and
away we went, with all the old ladies
talking behind their fans and Manuel
del Hey blowing up like a volcano In
a hunch of caramhas or worse. Gee,
It was great, and she could dance like
a queen.
"But here’s the interesting part of
it—what do you think she asked me,
ufter we'd had our little laugh? Well,
you don't need to get so grouchy about
it—she asked about you!”
“Aw!"
"Yes, she did! So you see what you
get for throwing her down!’
“What did she ask?”
"Well, she asked”—here he stopped
and laughed—“she asked if you were a
cowboy! ”
"No!” cried Bud. pleased In spite of
himself; “what does she know about
cowboys ?"
“Oh. she’s wise!” declared Phil;
“she’s been to school twice in Bos
Angeles and seen (he wild west show.
Yes, sir, she's just like an American
girl and speaks English perfe< tly. She
fold ine she didn't like the Mexican
men—they were too stuck on them
selves—and say. Bud, when 1 told her
you were a genuine Texas cowboy,
what do you think she said?"
“W’y, 1 don't know," answered Bud.
smiling broadly In anticipation; “what
did she say?”
“Sho said she'd like to know you!"
“Site did not!" rame back Bud with
sudden spirit.
Then he laughed the thought, away,
a great burden seemed to he lifted
from ids heart, and lie found himself
happy again.
CHAPTER X.
To an American, accustomed to get
ting things done first and talking about
it afterward, there is nothing so subtly
irritating as the old-world formalism,
the polite evasiveness of the Mexi
cans; and yet, at times, they can speak
to the point with the best of us.
For sixty days Bon (’tpriano Aragon
had smiled and smiled and then, sud
denly. as the last day of their mining
permit passed by und there was no
.record of a denouncement bv Cruj
Mendez. he appeared at the Eagle Tail
mine with a pistol in his belt and a
triumphant sneer on his lips.
Peldnd him rode four Mexicans,
t'ui'.y armed, and they made no reply
to De Lanrey’s polite "i.m-nos dins!"
"Take your poor things," hurst out
Aragon, pointing contemptuously at
•heir tent and beds, "and your low,
pelado Mexican—and go! This mine
no longer stands in the name of Cruz
Mendez, and 1 want it for myself! N’o,
not a word!” he cried, as De Lancey
opened his mouth to explain. "Noth
ing! Only go!"
"No, senor.” said Hooker, dropping
his hand to his six-shooter which hung
low by his leg and stepping forward,
"we will not go!"
“What?” stormed Aragon, “you—”
“Be careful there!” warned Bud,
suddenly fixing h:s eyes on one of the
four retainers. "If you touch that gun
I'!l kill you!”
There was a pause, in which the
Mexicans sat frozen to their saddles
and then De Lancey broke th« silence
“You must not think, Senor Ara
gon." he began, speaking with a cer
tain bitterness, "that you can carry
your point like this. My friend here i
a Texan, and if your men stir lie will
kill them. But there is a law in this
country for every man—what is it tha'
you want?”
‘I want this mining claim.” shouted
\rngon, "that you have so unjustly tu
cen from me through that scoundrel
'lendr,z' And I want you to stc
side, so that 1 can set up mv monn
ucuts and take possession of it."
“The Senor Asm- vc<s not been K
ee agente minor: 1 today," suggest cu
De Lancey suavely "If ho had taken
the trouble he would not—”
"Enough!" cried Aragon, still trying
to carry it off cavalierly; "1 sent my
servant to the mining agent yesterday
and lie reported that the permit had
i laps' d "
“If he had taken the pains to in
' quire for new permits, however," re
turned De Lancey, he would have
found that one lias been issued to me.
I am now a Mexican citizen, like your
i self.”
"You!" screamed Aragon, his eyes
bulging with astonishment; and then,
finding himself tricked, tie turned sud
I denly upon one of his retainers and
j struck h'm with his whip,
i “Son of a goat!" he stormed. “Pfg!
Ts this the way you obey my orders?"
But though lie raved and scolded, he
I had gone too far, and there was no
I putting tlte blame on his servant. In
his desire to humiliate (lie hated grin
(
1
“No, Senor,” Said Hooker, Dropping
His Hand to His Six-Shooter.
ges he had thrown down all his guards,
and even De Laneey saw all too clear
ly what his intentions in the matter
had been.
“Spare your cursing, Senor Aragon,”
he said, “and alter this,” he added,
“you can save jour pretty words, too
—for sonx body else. We shall re
main here and hold our property.”
"Ha! You Americans!” exclaimed
Aragon, as he chewed bitterly on bis
defeat. "You will rob us of every
thing—even our government. So you
are a Mexican citizen, eh'.' You must
value this barren mine very highly to
give up the protection of your govern
ment. Hut perhaps you are acquainted
with a man named Kruger?” he
sneered.
“fie would sell his honor any time
to defraud a Mexican of his rights,
and I doubt not it was lie who scut
you here. Yes, 1 have known it from
the first—but 1 will loci him yet!
“So you are a Mexican citizen, Senor
De Laneey? Bien. then you shall pay
the full price of your citizenship. Be
fore our law you are now no more than
that poor pelado, Mendez. You cannot
appeal now to your consul at Gads
den you are only a Mexican! Very
well!” ' *
He shrugged his sliouldets and
smiled signiih antly.
“So,” retorted De Laneey angrily; I
"you are right—1 cannot appeal to n;y ’
government! But let me tail you some
thing, Senor Alexieanof An American
needs no government to protect him—
he has his gun, and that is enough!"
“Yes,’ added Bud, who had caught
the drift of the last, "and he has his
■ riends, too; don't forget that!” He
strode over toward Aragon and men
seed him with a thrt ateiiu*g Unger.
"If anything happens to my friend."
lie hissc-d, "you will have me to whip!
And now, senor,” he added, speaking
m the idiom of the country, go with
Uod—and do not come back!"
“Pah!” spat br.ek Amgen, his hate
tor ihe purhing foreigner showing in
gvery glance; "1 will beat you yet!
And i pray God the revcltosos come
his way, if they take the full half of
my cattle—so long as they get you
two!"
Very well," n dded Bud as Aragon
and tils na n turned away, "hut be
careful you do net send any:”
"Good!" he continued, entiling grim
ly at the pallid i-hil; "now we,got him
• here we want him—out in the op n.
And i'll just remember item four pai
r.ancs he had with him—they're his
bandy men, the buys with nerve—and
dr n’t never let one of ’em catch you
out alter dark.”
lie Ganeey sat down on a rock and
wiped his lace.
“Heavens, Pud." lie groaned, “I
never would hu e believed it of him—
thought he was oil the si|tiare, But
it just goes to prove the old saying—
■•very Mexican has got a streak of yel
i jw in him somewhere. All you've
; ot to do is to trust htm long enough
and you’ll lind it out. Well, we’re hep
to Mr. Aragon, all right!"
“I never seen one of there polite,
I palavering Mexicans yet." observed
Bud sagely, “that wasn!' crooked. And
this feller Aragon is mean, to boot.
But that's a game," he added, “that
two can play at. I don't knew how you
I :eel, Phil, but wre been kinder creeping
| t.nd slipping around so long that I n
ill cramped up inside. Never suffered
more in my life than the last sixtj
days—being polite to that damn Mexi
can. Now it’s our turn. Ate you
tame?"
“Count me in!” cried T)e T.,ancey
lU-B’.g from his rock. “What's thv
play?"
“Well, we'll go into town pretty
soon." grinned Bud, “and if I run
across old Aragon, or any one of them
four bad Mexicans, I'm going to make
' a show. And as for that big brindle
i dog of liis—well, he's sore going to get
roped and drug if he don t mend
his ways Come on. let's ketch up our
horses and go in for a little time!"
."I'll go you!” agreed Phil with en
thusiasm, and half an hour later, eaeh
on his tavorite horse, they were clat
tering down the canyon. At the turn
of the trail, where it swung into the
Aragon lane. Bud took down this ropo
and smiled in anticipation.
"You go on ahead," he said, shaking
out his loop, “and i'll try to put the
catgut on Brindle." *
“Off like a flash!” answered I)e
Lancey, and, putting the spurs to his
fiery bay, he went dashiug down the
street, scattering chickens and hogs
in all directions. Behind came Bud,
lolling jovially in his saddle, and as
die dogs rushed out after his pardner
he twirled his loop once and laid it
skilfully across the big brindle's back.
But roping dogs is a difficult” task at
best, and Bud was out of practise. The
sudden blow struck Brindle to the
ground and the loop came away uu
lilled. The Texan laughed, shifting in
his saddle.
"Come again!” commented Bud.
leaning sidewise as he coiled his rope,
and as the womenfolk and idlers came
rushing to see what had happened he
turned Copper Bottom in his tracks
and came back like a streak of light.
“Look out, you ugly man’s dog!” he
shouted, whirling hie rope as he rode;
and then, amid a chorus of indignant
protests, he chased the yelping Brindle
down the lane and through a hole in
the fence. Then, with no harm done,
he rode back up the street, smiling
amiably and looking for more dogs to
rope.
In the doo of the store stood Ara
gon. pale with fury, but Bud appeared
not to see him. His eyes were turned
rather toward the house v. here, on the
edge of the veranda, Gracia Aragon
and her mother'stood staring at his
antics.
"Good morning to you, ladies!" he
saluted, taking off his sombrero with
a flourish; "lovely \v<*atber, ain't it'.1''
And with his longue in his cheek and
a roguish glance at Aragon, who was
s’rui k dumb by this last effrontery, he
went rollicking after his pardner, send
ing back a scries of Joyous yips.
"Now that sure does me good,” he
confided to Phil, as they rode down
between cottonwoods and struck into
the mudd> creek. "No sense in it, but
It ^etg something out of my system
flat, has kept me from feeling glad.
Hid you see me bowing to the ladies?
tome class to that bow no? You
want to look out—1 got my eye on that
gal, and 1 m sure a hard one to head.
Only thing is, 1 wouldn’t like, the old
man for a father in law th$. way mat
urs stand between as new."
He laughed boisterously at tit is wit
ticism, and the little .Mexican chil
dren, playing among the willows,
crouched iind lay quiet like rabbits.
Along the sides of the rocky hills,
where the peons had their mud-and
roek bouses, mothers came anxiously
to open deers; and as they jogged
along up the river the Chinese gar
deners. working in cat h separate nook
and eddy of the storm-washed creek
bed, stopped grubbing to ga:;e at them
inquiringly.
"Wonder whr.'.'s tin matter with
them chinks?" ob-erred Cud. when Ins
happiness had ceased to effervesce;
"they sit uj) like a village of prairie
dogs! Whole Co * .r> te ms to be on
tlie rubber neck. Must be somethin.?
doing.”
" j hat's right." agreed Phil; "did you
notice how these peons: scattered when
] rode down the s ret t? Maybe there's
been some insurrectos through. Hut'
tay—listen!”
He stopped Ills ! orse. and In 11.a
silence a bugle-call came down u.a
wind from the direction ol Fortuna.
"Soldiers!’’ he s..id. "Now where
did they ct me from? 1 was in Fortuna
May before yesterday, and—well, looX
at that!”
Ficrn the point of the hill just ahead
of them a line of s '.diet's came into
view, mantling two abreast, with a
mounted officer in the lead.
“Aha!" exclaimed Hud with convic
tion: "they’ve started something down
below, ’ibis is that bunch of ft derals.
Hint we saw drilling up at Agua \o
gra.”
"Yep." admitted He I.anocv regret
fully; "1 guess you're right, for once —
tiie open season for rein In has begun."
They drew out of the road and let
them pass- a long, double line of
shabby infantrymen, still wearing their
last year’s straw hat- and summer uni
forms and trudging sil mg in flapping
sandals.
In front worn two men bearing lan
terns, to search out the way by night;
slatternly women. the in< vital lc camp*
followers, trotted along at the sides
| with their bundles and babies; and as
the little brown men from Zacatecas,
each burdened with his heavy gun and
a job lot of belts and packs, shuffled
patiently past the Americana they
flashed the whites of their eyes and
rumbled a chorus of "Adios!"
“Adloe. America nos!” they railed,
| patting enviously at their fine horses,
and Phil in his turn touched lus hat
and wished thorn all Godspeed.
•‘Poor devils!" be murmured, as the
last tottering camp-followers, laden
with then burdens, brought up the
rear and s while-skinned Spanish offi
cer saluted from his horse; • whrtr do
those little pclont s know about lib
erty and justice, or the game tha» is
being played? Wearing the same uni
forms tbal they had when they fought
'or Diaz. and now they arc lighting /v,r
Madero. Next year they may ott work
ing for Orozto or Huerta or Salazar."
■’Sure." muttered Hud; "but that
ain't the question. If t bey's rebels in
the hills, where do we get off?''
CONTINUED IN NFX T I St (JE.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS |
A magicians’ club of 200 persons has
been recently formed in London.
The oldest account of a chimney
plage Is in Venice in 1347.
An ostrich feather which cost $50
a few years ago is now worth $75.
The value (if imports into Chile by
parcel post during 1012 amounted to
$1,992,334.
Oleomargarine imports into Ccr
many during thp iirst five m on the this
year totaled 22,800,000 pounds.
Japanese soldiers are nearly nil
gymnasts, and every barracks has a
gymnasium. So well trained are they
that in Ipss than half a minute they
can scale a wall I t feet high by simply
leaping on each otherV shoulders, one
map rustaining two or three others.
The educational buildings in the
Vnited States are valued at $225,000,
000.
Cigarettes imported into China at
Tientsin increased 82 per cent in 1912.
A $3,000,000 telephone cab!" is in lie
laid between England and Holland.
It. has been estimated that British
Columbia has an area of about 253,noo,.
000 acres, of which about I U00,0u(>
is composed of Irises in the interior.
There are 100,000,000 cores of timber
land of no value for farming other
than tor stock purposes, and whit*
it Is estimated that 3,000,000 acres 13
either under cultivation or partly -..j,
statistics show that Hie actual yield
ing average, other than for grazing
purposes, is not more than 250,000
acres.
Higher Tasks.
Vv e require higher tasks because wo
do not recognize the height of those
\\i have. Trying to be kind and hon
est seems an affair too* sun pie and u;o
inconsequential for gentlemen of inuf
heroic mold.—Slev< nton.