Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 17, 1914, Page 2

=S iy i ¢ The Land of Broken Promises : 3 By DANE COOLIDGE z‘ % A Stirring Story Of The Mexican Revelution Q‘ SHOMEORB RS FRHPUIEOEATOL DINEOIIPAFDVOEGIOTNGD | " He was going south, they were mov- Ing west, but it was five miles north again to the town. Speed was what was needed and Copper Bottom gave his best. They dashed into Fortuna like a whirlwind, and Hooker raised his voice In & high yell. “Insurrectos!” he shouted. nes! Pronto a Fortuna!” There was & rush, a moment's si- lence, and then heads appeared from every window and women ran ecream- ing with the news. Aragon came rush- ing from the store and confronted him angrily; then, reading conviction in his tones, he called for horses and ran | frantically into the house. A shrill screech came from the hill- | wide, where a serving-woman had scampered to view the valley, and, as she pointed her finger and screamed, | mothers laid hold of their little ones and started up the valley on foot, Still the men ran about in the horse- | pen and Aragon adjured his women- folk in the house. Burning with fm- patience, Bud spurred his way to the | corral where they were fumbling with reata and rigging and dropped a rope on the first horse he saw. Then he snatched a side-saddle from a trem- bling peon and slapped it on the brute’s back. Grabbing up the bridle, he led the horse back to the house and bridled it while he shouted for haste. Still the women tarried, and the sound of galloping came from the south. Then, as all seemed lost, the Mexicans came bumping out from the stable with the family coach, Aragon and his wife leaped in, and Gracia, neatly attired in a riding-skirt, came tripping down the steps. Even in such times as these she seemed to realize her first duty to herself, and Hooker had to gaze for a moment before he helped her up. She offered her foot and vaulted lightly 4into the saddle; the coach went pound- ing on ahead; and as the servants scattered before her she galloped off at the side of Bud. Behind them the rumble of distant hoofs rose up like the roaring of wa- ters, and the shrieks of fleeing women echoed from the roadside, but once safely in the canyon their lead was never lessened and, with coach-horses galloping and postilions lashing from both sides, the whole cavalcade swept ' into the plaza while the town of For tuna went mad. Already the great whistle was blow- ing hoarsely, its deep reverberations making the alr tremble as i1f with fear. Americans were running back and forth, distributing arme and rushing their women to cover; Don Juan, his chin quivering with excitement, was Amploring all comers to be calm; and the Aragons, coming flying up to the door, added the last touch to the panic. They with their eyes had seen the rebels; they were riding in from the south! Other men, equally excited, sawore they were coming from the morth, and a disorderly body of So- nora miners, armed as if by magic with guns which had long lain hidden, banked themselves about the store and office and clamored for more and more cartridges. Then a rip of gun-fire echoed from acrose the canyon, and the miners made a rush to the attack. The whistle, which had obscured all sound as a cloud obscures the light, stopped suddenly in its roar, and the crowd at the hotel became calm. The superintendent, a wiry, gray-haired little man, with decision in every movement, came running from his fort-like house on the hill and ordered all the women to take shelter there and take their children with them. So, while the rifles rattled and stray bullets began to knock mud from the walls, they went straggling up the hill, rich and poor, patrician and peon, while the air was rent by the wails of the half-Indian Mexican women, who held themselves as good as cap- tured by the revoltosos, concerning whose scruples they entertained no {llusions. The women of the aristocracy bore themselves with more reserve, as be- fitting their birth and station, and the Americans who gathered about them with their protecting rifled pretended that all would be well; but in the minds of every one was that same terror which found expression in the peon wall and, while scattered rebels and newly armed miners exchanged volleys on both sides of the town, the non-combatant Americans sought out every woman and rushed her up to the big house. There, if worst came to worst, they could make a last stand, or save them by a ransom. So, from the old woman who kept the candy stand in the plaza to the wives of the miners and the cherished womenfolk of the landowneys, they were all crowded ineide the broad halls of the big house; and seventy odd Americans, armed with company rifles, rvously along the broad veran- ched loopholes in the adobe “Ladro- walls t inclosed the summer garden behind. Along with the rest went Hooker end Gracia, and, though her mother bec ed and her father frowned sternly, the wilful daughter of the Ara- gons did not offer to leave him as they scampered up the hill. In fact, she rode close beside him, spurring when he spurred and, finally, when the shower of etray bullets had passed, she led on around the house. “Won't you help me take my horse inside the walls?” she asked. Bud - [ ettt alatnlPut st ul et el but i abtnlutultu bl ul tut Jed tut u st us Sul dvd THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JUNE 17, 1914, followed after her, oircling the fortress whose blank adobe walls gave shelter | to the screaming women, and she smiled upon him with the most en- gaging confldence. “I know you will have to go soon,” she said, “and I suppose I've got to be shut in with those creatures, but we must be sure to save our horses. Some bullets might hit them, you know, and then we could not run away! “You remember your promise!"” she reminded, as Bud gazed at her in as- tonishment. “Ah, yes, I knew you did —otherwise you would not have picked such a good horse for me. This roan s my father's best riding horee. You must put yours inside the wall with him, and when the time is right we will get them and ride for the line.” “What?” cried Hooker incredulous- | ly, “with the country full of rebels? They're liable to take the town in half | an hour!” i “No, indeed they will not!” respond- | ed Gracla with spirft. “You do not! understand the spirit of us Sonorans! A N\ 2 / r‘ « 0 Ny ¢ \Ml S N = | | | i | | Women and Chlldren Took Shelter There. Can't you see how the firing has slack- ened? The miners have driven your | rebels back already, and they will do more—theg will follow them up and kill them! Then, when the rebels are in flight and Del Rey and his rurales ' are away, that will be a good time for us to slip off and make our dash for the line!” *“Nothing doing!" announced Hooker, as he dismounted at the corral. “You, don’t know what you're talking about! ' But I will leave my horse here,” he added; “I sure don't want him to get hurt.” “But you promieed!” protested Gra- cia weakly. “Promised nothing!” retorted Bud ungraclously. “I promised to take care of you, didn’t I? Well, what's the use of talking, then? You better stay right here, where you're safe. Come on, let's go to the house!” “No!" crled Gracla, her dark eyes turning misty with imminent tears. “Oh, Mr. Hooker!" she burst out,' “didn't I keep them all walting while 1 put on this riding-skirt? I thought you : had come to take me away! What do I care to be safe? 1 want to be free! ’} 1 want to run away—and go across the | Iine to dear Phil!l” she faltered. Then ! she looked up at him sharply and her volce took on an accusing tone, “Aha!” she said, as if making some | expected discovery, “so that is it! I thought perhaps you were afraid!” “What?" demanded Bud, put sud- | denly upon the defensive, | “I might have known it,” soliloquized Gracia with conviction. “Ynu are jealous of dear Phil!” : “Who? Me?” cried Hooker, smiling down at her grimly. “Well, let it go at that,” he said, as she regarded him | with an arch smile. “I'd certainly be a fool to take all those chances for nothing. Let him steal his own girl— that's what I say!” “Now that, Mr. Hooker,” burst out Gracia in a passion, “is very unkind— and rude! Am I a woman of the town, to be stolen by one man or cnother? Am 1 “That's what you would be,” put in Bud, with brutal directness, “if these rebels got hold of you. No, ma‘am, I The L] T — ORIGINAL GENUINE HOR Avoid Imitations—Take No Substitute Rich Milk, malted grain, in powder form. Forinfants,invalids and growing children. Purenutrition,upbuilding the whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers and the aged. | open was best. e — —— e wouldnt take you out of this town for a hundred thousand dollars. You don’t know what you're talking about, that’s | all! Wait till the fighting is over— gee! Did you hear that? Come, on, let’s get into the house!” He ducked suddenly as a bullet went | spang against the corrugated iron roof above them and, seizing her by the hand, he half dragged her through a side door and into the summer garden. Here a sudden outery of women's voices assailed their ears like a rush of wind and they beheld peon mothers running to and fro with their scream- ing children clasped to their breasts or dragging at their skirts. A few help- lese men were trying to keep them quiet, but as the bullets began to thud against the adobe walls the garden be- came a bedlam. Gracia stood and surveyed the scene for a moment, ignoring the hulking Bud with disdainful eyes. Then she snatched her hand indignantly away and ran to pick up a child. That was all, but Hooker knew what she thought of him. He passed through the house, ho- ping to discover where she had gone, but all he heard was her commanding voice as she silenced the wailing wom- en, and, feeling somehow very much | out of place, he stepped forth into the open. After all, for a man of his build, the Let the white-handed boys stay with the ladies—they under- stood their ways. CHAPTER XXII. The superintendent’s house stood on a low bench above the town, looking tens and twenties, closing In with & vastly superior force upon the now defenseless town. In the depths of ll'lf; canyon below the miners were stil | chasing the elusive cavalry, their fir- ing becoming faint as they clambered | on toward the summit and the rebel lR' | B arters at Chular. hl’l;'llll?‘\:' Ill;ad, in fact, been handled like childrén, and the Americans joined in contemptuous curses of their mistaken bravery as they beheld in what straits it had left them. Forbtdden by the superintendent to |, ./ "ome 1o Auburndale Springs, Tenn. Note the address g, participate in the combat, yet having in their care the women of the camp, they were compelled to stand passive- ly aside while rebels by the hundred !large variety of h IL:ltgtrees, and untold quantities of wila flowers, cheereq | came charging down the ridges. Only in the last resort, and when all diplo- macy and federal defense had falled, would they be allowed to 80 much as cock a rifle. And yet—well, twenty determined Americans might easily turn back this charge. Taking advantage of his Mexican | citizenship, Hooker was already on the run for the trenches when the super- intendent stopped him with a look. “Let the Mexicans fight it out,” he | said, “They might resent it if you took sides, and that would make it bad for us. Just wait a while—you never can tell what will happen. Perhaps the rurales and federals will stand them off.” “What, that little bunch?” demanded Bud, pointing scornfully at the hand- ful of defenders who were cowering ! behind their rock piles. “Why half of | them pelones don’t know what a gun | was made for, and the rurales—" “Well, the rebels are the same,” sug- gested the superintendent pacifically. “Let them fight it out—we need every out over all the valley, but protected American we can get, so just forget ‘ by a high hill behind, upon the summit of which was placed a mammoth black water tank. In its architecture the casa grande was an exact replica of a hot-country hacienda, a flat-roofed, square of adobe bricks, whitewashed to keep off the sun and presenting on three sides nothing but dense trees planted near for shade. Along the front was a long arcade, the corredor, graced by a series of masstve arches which let in the light and air. Inside were low chambers and long passages; and, behind, the patio and garden of | orange and {.3 trees, Built for a sumptuous dwelling, it became in a moment a fort and, with men on the high hill by the tank, it was practically impregnable to direct | assault, As Hooker stepped out on to the cov- ered porch with his saddle-gun in his hand he became simply one more of a band of excited Americans, all armed and ready to defend the house to the last. Some were pacing back and forth in the corredor, others were hurrying up from the Mexican quarters with a last belated handful of women, but the major portion were out on the open bench, either gazing north and south at the scenes of the distant firing or engaging in a curio-mad scramble for any spent bullet that struck. The fighting, such as there was, was mostly up the canyon, where a large party of Sonoran miners had rushed in pursuit of the rebels. The firing down the canyon in the direction of Old For- tuna had died away to nothing, and for the moment it seemed as it the futile charge and retreat was the beginning and the end of the battle, A party of rebels had penetrated ' clear into the town, but it was appar- ently more by accident than intention, and they had been quick to beat a re- treat. Chular, six miles up the railroad, where they had surrounded and taken a small mining camp and captured a train at the summit. The coluinm to the south—the one which Hooker had encountered—had | taken to the high hills west of the town, and, along the skyline of the buttelike summits they could now be seen in scatiered bands making their way to tl.¢ north. The deicnder A consisted of a rigtag $ fed- erals and the hot-headed, charging | miners But apparently that was a | combination hard to beat for, while the federals entrenched themselves be- hind the black tank on the hill and d to proteet the town, the So- s i shouting masses drove every- £ before them and marched on to * a mistake, for : the great body pressing on up the nar- roce back and informed wrdo Pravo. He would 1 indeed who could the opening that was offered t Sonorans pur- up the pass, lf of his 1eir retreat the rebel of defeng row « the tr be a4 b not see ind. while the va sued the amoering by e r———— Best r-nrlnk Lunch at Fountains LICK’S More healthful than tea or coffee. Agrees with the weakest digestion. Keep it on your sideboard at home. 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