Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 9, 1914, Page 2

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MidSummer SALE COMMENCING THURSDAY MAY 2ist we will cut all our Suits, Pants and Straw Hats down 20 per cent off of our prices. This is for CASH ONLY as we have got to have the money. Hart Shaffner & Marx clothing included in this sale. ST ——————— e S —— e em—— Tie Huis o The Hoine of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing BoeBradnd B B HBBOED T e & @ @ & | l l . i “Moctezuma,” answered the Indian | gravely. Then, as Bud offered him the [ | | “You Live Here?” Inquired the Yaqul. makings, he, too, rolled a cigarette and they smoked for a minute in | sllence. { “You live here?” inquired the Yaqui | at last. i “Come here,” corrected Bud, “I| have mine—ten miles—over there.” He pointed with the flat of his hand, Indian fashion, and Amigo nodded un- | derstandingly. | He was a fine figure of a man, stand- ing six feet or better in his well-cut sandals and handling his heavy Mau- ser as a child would swing a stick. Across his broad chest he wore a full cartridge belt, and around his walst he had two more, filled to the last hole with cartridges and loaded clips. At his feet lay his blanket, bound into a tight roll, and a canteen and coffee cup completed his outfit, which, so far as impedimenta were concerned, was simplicity {tself, But instead of the cheap linen uni- form of the federals he was dressed in good American clothes—a striped shirt, overalls, and & sombrero banded with a bright ribbon—and in place of the beaten, hunted look of those poor conscripts he had the steady gaze of a free man. They stood and smoked for a few moments, talking briefly, and then, as the Yaquis closed up their ranks and marched off to make camp for the night, Bud presented his strange triend with the sack of tobacoo and went back to join his pardner. That evening the plaza was filled with the wildest rumors, and another train arrived during the night, but through it all Bud and Phil remained unimpressed. In the morning the sol- diers went marching off down the trail, leaving & great silence where all had been buglecalls and excitement, and then the first fugitive came in from down below, He was an old Mexican, with trem- bling beard and staring eyes, and he told a tale of outrage that made thelr blood run cold. The red-flaggers had come to his house at night; they had killed his wife and son, left him upon the ground for dead, and carried oft his daughter, a prisoner. But later, when the comisario ques- tioned him sharply, it developed that he lived not far away, had no daugh- ter to lose, and was, in fact, only a crazed old man who told for truth that which he feared would happen. Notwithstanding the denouement, his story stirred the Mexican popula- tion to the depths, and when Bud and Phil trled to hire men to push the work on the mine, they realized that their troubdes had begun. Not only was it impossible to engage laborers at any price, but on the following day Cruz Mendez, with his wife and chil- dren and all his earthly possessions on his burros, came hurrying in from the camp and told them he could serve them no more. “It {8 my woman!" he explained; “my Maria! Ah, if those revoltosos should see Maria they would steal her. before my eyes!” So he was given his pay and the fifty dollars he had earned and, afleri THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JUNE 9, 1914. upon her lady mother. Perhaps, after a year or more of rumors and alarms, § ghe had come to look upon impending revolutionary conflicts as convenient excuses for a trip to town, a long stop at the hotel, and even & dash to gay Gadsden in case the rebels pressed close. However that may be, while Don Juan exerted himself to procure them a good room she endured the gaze of the American guests with becoming placidity and, as that took some time, she even ventured to look the Ameri- cans over and make some comments to her mother. And then—or o0 it seemed to Bud— | the mother glanced up quickly and fixed her eyes upon him. After that he was in less of a hurry to return to and Phil said they would the plaza that hursday viol and guitars feet seemed to ion, and the fear of beat the meas turn in that di the raiders Around and d the band stand i and in and out beneath the trees the idens from down corously with their mothers; a little band of For- tuna Americe to whom life for some months had been a trifle burdensome, awoke suddenly to the beauty of the evening. And among the rest of the maidens, but far more ravishing and high-bred, walked Gracia Aragon, at whom Bud in particular stole many secret glances from beneath the broad brim of his hat, hoping that by some luck the in- surrectos would come upon the town, and he could defend her—he alone. For he felt that he could do it against’ any hundred Mexicans that ever breathed. pleasure loving m below wal CHAPTER XII. In its inception the Fortuna hotel had not been intended for the use of Mexicans—in fact, its rates were prac- tically prohibitive for anyone not be- ing paid in gold—but, since most of the Americans had left, and seven dol- lars a day Mex was no deterrent to the rich refugee land owners, it became of a sudden international, with a fine mixture of purse-proud Spaniards and race-proud American adventurers. Not & very pleasing combination for the parents of romantic damsele des- tined for some prearranged marriage of state, but very exciting for the dam- sels and most provocative to the Amer- fcans, After the promenade in the plaea the mothers by common consent pre- empted the upstairs reception-room, gathering their preclous charges in close; while the Americans, after their custom, foregathered in the lobby, convenlent to the bar. Hot argu- ments about the revolution, and pre- dictions of events to come served to pass the early evening, with many scornful glances at the Mexican dan- dles who went 8o insolently up the stairs. And then, as the refugees re- tired to their apartments and the spirit of adventure rose uppermost, Phil De Lancey made a dash out into the darknese and came back with a Mexi- can string band. “A serenade, boys!" he announced, as the musiclans filed sheepishly into the hotel. “Our guests, the fair seno- ritas, you know! We'll make those young Mexican dudes look like two- | s spots before the war is over. Who's game now for a song beneath the win- dows? You know the old stand-bys— ‘La Paloma’ and ‘Teresita Mia’—and you want to listen to me sing ‘Me Gus- tan Todas' to Gracia, thg fairest of the (Continued on Page 6.) g the customary “Muchas gracias, and | with the faithful Maria by his side, he | went hurrying off to the store ! And now in crowded vehicles, with | & 3 armed men riding in front and behind, ctezuma and tt r into t came dr wife an ing icia If she had been in any fear of cap- ture by bold marauders, Gracia Ara- gon did not show it now, as she sprang lightly from_ the carriage and walited i v you S BOdD of the| led with “La | Low Round Trip Ry FROM JACKSONVILLE Salt Lake City - Yellowstone - - 78.! Portland - - - 106. 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