Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 9, 1914, Page 6

e i AR R R A The 1.and of Broken Promises A Stirring Story of the Mexican Revolution By DANE C()()],II)GE Aushor o “The Fighting Fool.' Waters,” *“The Texican, IlustrationsbyDON ]. LAVIN (Copyright, 1914, by Frank A. Munsey.) (Continueq from Page 2) fair! Come on, fellows, out in the plaza, and then listen to the old folks cuss!” | They adjourned then, after a drink for courage, to the moonlight and the | plaza; and there, beneath the shut- tered windows and vacant balconies, the guitars and violins took up “La | Paloma,” while Phil and a few brave spirits sang. A silence followed their first at- tempt, as well as their second and third, and the comisario of police, a mild creature owned and paid by the compauy, came around and made a few ineffectual protests. But inside the company’s conces- sion, where by common consent the militant rurales kept their hands off, the Americans knew they were safe, amd they soon jollled the comisario into taking a drink and departing. ‘Then De Lancey took up the burden, and the string band, hired by the hour, strummed on as if for eternity. One by one the windows opened; fretful fathers stepped out on the bal- cony and, bound by the custom and convention of the country, thanked them and bade them good night. But the two windows behind which the Semor Aragon and his family reposed did not open and, though the dwin- dling band stood directly under their balcony, and all knew that his daugh- ter was the falrest of the falr, Don Cipriano d1d not wish them good night. Perhaps he recognized the leading tenor—and the big voice of Bud Hooker, trylng to still the riot—but, however it was, he would not speak to them, and De Lancey would not quit. “Try 'em on American music!” he cried, as everyone but Bud went away in disgust, “the latest rag from Broad- wa-ay, New York. Here, gimme that gultar, hombre, and listen to this now!” He picked out a clever bit of syn- ' copation and pitched his voice to a heady twang: “Down In the garden where the red roses grow, Oh my, I long to go! Pluck me like a flower, cuddle me an hour, Lovie let me learn the Red Rose Ra-ag!" There was some swing to that, and it seemed to make an impression, for Just as he was well started on the chorus the slats of one of the shut- ters parted and a patch of white shone through the spaces. It was the ladies, then, who were getting interested! Phil wailed on: “Swee-cet honey-bee, be sweet to me! My heart 8 free, but here's the key!” And then, positively, he could see' that patch of white beat time. He took heart of grace at that and sang on to the end, and at a suggestion of clapping in dumb-show he gave an en- core and ragged it over again. “‘Ev'rybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ 1t!"" he began, as the shadow dance ceased. “‘Honey, 1 declare, it's a bear, it's a bear, it's a bear!"” he continued temptingly, and was well on his way to further extravagancies when the figure in white ewiftly vanished and a door slammed hard inside the house. Several minutes later the form of Dfln Juan appeared at the lower door, § 3 } THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JUNE 9, 1* “"EASY-OPENING Box "’ Black—Tan—White THE F. F. DALLEY CO., LTD., BUFFALO, N. Y., HAMILTON, ONT, and in no uncertain tones he requested them to cease. “The Senor Aragon informs me,” he said, “that your music annoys him.” “Well, let him come to the balcony and say his ‘buenas noches,’” an- swered Phil resentfully. “The gentleman refuses to do that!" responded Don Juan briefly. “Then let him go to bed!" replied De Lancey, strumming a few synco- pated chords; “I'm singing to his daughter.” At that Don Juan came down off the porch in his slippers and they engaged | in a protracted argument. “What, don't I get a word?”’ de- manded Phil grievously, “not a pleas- look from anybody? ant ‘Swee-eet Gracia Waved Him Good-Night. honey-bee, pleaded, be sweet to me!'” he turning pathetically to the , lady’s balcony; and then, with a sud- den flourish, a white handkerchief ap- peared through the crack of the shut- , ters and Gracia waved him good night. “Knough, Don Juan!” he cried, lay- ing down the guitar with a thump; “this ends our evening's entertain- ment!” After paying and thanking the stolid musicians Phil joined Bud and the pair adjourned to their room, where, in the intervals of undressing, Phil favored the occupants of the adjoining apartments with an aria from “Beau- tiful Doll.” But for all such nights of romance and musie there is always a morning afterward; and a fine tenor voice set to ragtime never helped much in the development of a mine. Though Bud had remained loyally by his friend in his evening serenade e, for one, never t for & moment that they were in Fortuna to work the Eagle Tail and not to win the hearts of Spanish- Mexican senoritas, no matter how at- tractive they might be. Bud was a practical man who, if he ever made love, would doubtless do {1t in a perfectly businesslike way, without hiring uny string bands. But at the same time he was willlng to make some concessions. “Weil, go eqead and get your sleep, then,” he growled, after trying three times In the morning to get his pard- ner up; “I'm going out to the mine!” Then, with a saddle-gun under his knee and b's six-shooter hung at his hip, he rode rapidly down the road, turning out from time to time to let long cavalcades of mules string by. The dead-eyed arrieros, each with his combined mule-blind and whiplash swinging free, seemed to have very little on their minds but their pack- lashings, and yet they must be three days out from Moctezuma. Their mules, too, were well loaded with the products of the hot country —fanegas of corn in red leather sacks, oranges and fruits in hand-made crates, panoches of sugar in balanced frames, long joints of sugar-cane for the dulce pedlers, and nothing to indi- cate either haste or flight. Three times he let long pack-trains 8o by without a word, and then at last, overcome by curiosity, he inquired about the revoltosos. “What revoltosos?” queried the old man to whom he spoke. “Why, the men of Bernardo Bravo,” answered Bud; “the men who are marching to take Moctezuma.” “When I left Moctezuma,” returned the old man politely, “all was quiet— there were no revoltosos. Since then, I cannot say.” “But the soldiers!” cried Bud. “Surely you saw them! They were marching to fight the rebels.” “Perhaps 80,” shrugged the arriero, | laying the lash of his topojo across ! the rump of a mule; “but I know noth- ing about it.” “No,” muttered Bud, as he continued on his way; does.” Inquiry showed that in this, too, he was correct. From those who traveled ast and from those who traveled slow lie received the same wondering an- swer—the country might be filled with | { revoltosos; but, as for them, knew nothing about it. Not until he got back to Fortuna and the busy federal telegraph wire did he hear any niore news of and bloo d, and the light which dawned upon him then was gradually dawning upon the whole It was a false alarm, given out for purposes of state and the “higher poli tics™ with which Mexico is curced, and the most that was ever seen of Rer nardo Bravo and his lawless men w: twenty miserable creatures, half- starved, but with guns in their hands, who had come down out of the moun- tains east of Moctezuma and killed a few cows for beet, Thoroughly disgusted, and yet vaguely rmed at this bit of opera bouffe warfare, Bud set himself reso- lutely to work to hunt up men for their mine, and, as many poor people were out of emplcyment the general stagnation of business, he soon had ten Mexicans at his call, Then, as Phil had dropped out of sight, he ordered pplies at the store they town, aud engaged Crus Slendez—who had spent his fortun u three days—to pack the goods out on his mules Th were ready to stari the next morning if De Lancer ¢ould be found to order the | ( and tools, and as the afternoon wore on and no Phil appeared, Bud went long hunt which (inally discovered him in the batcony of their window, making sizns in the lang > of the “be S a man who fiirts th & woman in Mex- ico is called ‘Say, PLil” he hailed. disregardin his pardner s preocen| There are many ways to acquire thirst-- There’s but one best way to quench it- Chero-Cola— Cools — Refreshes — Stimulates IN ICED BOTTLES ANYWHERE Chero-Cola LOOK FOR THE 5c ity LABEL Bottled by CHERO-COLA BOTTLING €O, LAKELAND, FLORIDA “and I'll bet nobody else , rapine ! because of | BLOOD POISON | oo oeee9y ally millions ullions of germs that grow from one or two that @t under the skin and into the blood. 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