The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
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. AK IrOIU EOFEestEsf ssTo inc left t'ss senorita VIII op- nerve fhe eastern slope of the sierra Madres. Lopez lies at the base. iva can see d tower or two from here, II can he reached in two days from dris- rner. To the right',--Estehnn sw ept. an elooucnt arm out toward the land be- low. Tt Is Mexico here. Arizona there. We have reached the soroers The senorita iifted her head and drew in a deep breath of appreciation.
 Tt is simply gioriopsl Aunt Nell just look al the coiof down there on those rocks. 1t is wonderful. Don't you think Uncle Tristram would be wlli- ing to camp here for a day or so after we leave the arroyog
 Mrs Knights mule side stepped with sudden agility and jerkcd It's head the bridle length with a nervous, fret ful bray Mrs Knight adjusted her eyeglasses for the eightieth time since she had mounted the mule, and refused to look at the glorious landscape
 Marie Louise, If you dare to entiee your uncle into living one Nr,S n9Ss in s,dn snas The mosquitoes are eating me alive. Esteban, is there hotel in Lopez?"
 Esteban smiled slowly and reflect lively
 One hotel. ah yes. Sonora Very much the more worse than the mos qnitoes.'
 Tt would be delightful to camp out here. said the girl Look at the Aunt Nell, uncle would go crazy over 1t. It would be much better than one of those miserable little Mex ican hotels. We could put you up whole tent by yourself made of mos quito netting, and you could live Tn It all the time."
 Tt is so very much the picturesduts Esteban used his United states vocabu- Iary with fiuency and choice selection. He addressed his remarks to the senor- ita. It was pleasant to watch the color come and go in her face, and the spar kle in her eyes. "A few discomfo but for the joy of the camp--ah, Sen crita, the moonlight here, on the deseri wonder. on the foothills, on the snow capped sferras-aA-h-h.
 it must be awfully jelly assented the senorita. heartily. It seem ike the real thing. don't you think so, Aunt Nell, I haven't seen single baked bean can since we left Santa Rita"
 The desert island has one inhabi- tant." Esteban shrugged his shoulders and glanced back at the trail they had inst covered. <.sBut he never rides SC far as the border. Should he cross iron, Mexico, and be captured--
 Mrs. Knight had started the gray mule slowly on the descent Estenan fingered beside the senorita, and the senor:ta fingered to see the view
 asome dav they will catch him, but surely some day when he crosses the border"
 Catch whom?" A
 .+rhe Rattier, he is called. Senorita It is the very good name for the treach- erous desperado, yes"
 what did he do?" asked tine senor. ita, abruptly. From the trail ahead came a call for celerity Of movement Estebans inspirations were usually long winded.
 AZ Crismer. over the New Mexico border, he killed three men. and but boy, Senorita--a boy, yes" The sparkle leaped to the senorita's eyes. and Este han waxed pictureque in his How ol language Tt was not six months since. The boy was Texan--ah, sucf aevils, those Texans. The senorits should see them ride and shoot. mans life ouf! So, At Grismer wers mining properties@-silver, copper, verS rich. he boy they called the Rattlei had taken up ninety-four acres, foui riains. and had started surface wort on them with his partner And tner' had some two men. It was not cleal what had happened. The partner haf entered .anto secret deal with them t.cif. The boy they called theRattlel and Madfe 'de Diosr the1poy he would not be frozen. And he show the hgn most magnificent against three, ant when he rides into GrIsmer he tells th' truth, and the bodies are found in 'th' camp, three of them, shot dead, as h' says"
 Esteban paused. The sencrita Jean ed forwahd in her saddle slightly.
 What did they do to himr
 Nothing" Estebans smiled ,expres siyeIy The sentiment publico was 1T his favor, but the arm of the law wal after him, so he skip over the border-H
 And now he is right around here somewhere?'
 "Oh the Mexican side. senorita, smiled Esteban, soothingly.
 Well. I'm glad of that. think Aun Nell would simply die in the track o the gray mule if she had any idea O such a thing. Are they after him yetr
 Not yet. Four posses have beer sent, but they return. minus maybe one maybe two, according to the aim ant opportunity of the Rattier. He Is very bad boy. Senorita-"
 Marie Louise"