The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-16
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hn(4Sa thing for the cause. When sAA#t
T. & m 1t came to delivering a W4$s
%A&An passport and letter which VM%#=
would take the party past ~
outposts, thai was another matter. "
They were willing to do it, but always
tomorrow
IF we let them guys us we'll never get
there" commented scotty They know they are
going to give us those papers, but they hate to
get down to work. There is only one way to
make them get busy and I'm going to use it,"
The only way" meant cheerful patient, per-
sistent attendance on the junta morning, noon
and night until finally late one evening, after the
last promise to have it ready the following morn
ing at tain O'Clock" had been brushed aside the
passport YVES prepared with great mystery duly
sealed deliberately addressed and tremendously
handed over Before the following daybreak the
automobile was streaking down some OF the best
country road in the United States bound for
somewhere around Guadalupe, little to"r
something like forty miles distant on the Mex
lean side.
Locke, the Of the car, and ]in the chauf'
feur were In front. Locke held the wheel on the
country road. but later Jim would take the gaso-
line bridge. Jim would have been the working
mate of Kit Carson, old man Bridger or some OF
the other giants of pioneer days ii he had been
a man fifty years ago Now he is border chauf'
feur, able to drive car any place goat can
climb and willing to go anywhere into the seeth'
ing interior Of Mexico for his price
"This ought to be a cnch today, Jim SAID
Well get through a humming If we don't run
into bunch of Salazars men from Juarez out
scouting, and they're bad hombres or some OF
Castio's bandits Split out your passes ana
don't shove tina wrong ones; let me do the talk
Ing"
Ahout twenty-five miles east of Ell Paso the Rio
Crande swings into the side of the country road
and at the first turn two khaki-clad young cav
arymen with stx-shooters strapped to the right
hip stepped forth with uplifted hands Uncle
Sam is making an earnest effort to keep down
the smuggling of contraband across the border
snd for that purpose has thrown his soldiers
along the international boundary. 1nasmuch as
the soldiers not only have both factions OF Mex
leans against them but the American business
sentiment % we'll, the thing is somewhat IN the
nature Of a farce
These young cavarymen, however, we're doing
their duty as best they could and they wanted to
know who what where, ETC. They were told
a,v scrutinized an official pass from the military
authorities and took a look through the automo'
hiIe Cartridges, like blessings, come and go I'M
awares and they were not taking chance. JUST
a little later at what once an international
bridge six more soldiers headed by sergeant
tumhled out of the underbrush and from under
the abutments and cried Halt!
tsorry YOU know" said the sergeant crisply as
he went through the car with the deftness OF a
customs inspector "but we've got to do 1t. Have
Mummy. I win that bet! Washington did trim
the Athletics.
The river ceased at this point to be the inter
national line because whenever the lrrlgauoh
will let her have little water she gets even by
finding new channels, cutting across lots ana
s,,cing, Nh territory to give boundary commits
sion a. nice summer job. In this particular IN
stance she had sliced into the United States
mile or more which threw the line mile or
lwo on the south side Of the river, in low lying
hat land, which occasional floods have filled with
willows, cottonWoods and dense undergro"tn IL
is a great point for smuggers.
Just; at the end of that mile the fairly good
road ended abruptly. Shifting sand, overgro"n
trails and desoation succeeded. 1t was as II
The car had been dropped suddenly into fa1
distant country, unsettled and practically unex
elored'
Just a mile to the north there has been hare
scientific road passing through farm land brought
TO the highest point Of development The Fields
were fragrant with growing, Towering alfalfa
Eafir corn, milo maize fruits and melons. TIT
houses were pretty bungalows modern con
crete dwellings. There men at work in tn
fields and. their mules and horses were sleek an
we'll cared for. Windmills were drawing waite
from wells where the gasoline pump was no
used It was all happy, all busy, all prosperous.
Over here the country stricken. Land jus
as good as any in the world lay fallow, ovel
grown with brush.
1--WE ought to pick up an outpost about now.
rallied back Jim finally Look out!"
AS he spoke there came from the mesquit
covered side of mesa single sharp deton'
ting report and something sang by in the al
above like large humming top.
"Sit still ulless It's one Of the Castillo bunch
came the command; II 1t is, jump for the me
quite"
Around the edge OF the hors
man with his pony dead run, Winchestt
swung In hand, his Mexican sombrero flu
tcrlng~
Rebel" was the decision TITS all right: g.
out the tunta letter."
The outpost had said that the way to Ortes
was straight ahead and turn to the left at a b