Williams news., 1914-10-15

favored the occupants of the adjoining apartments with an aria from Beau tiful Doll.''
 and music there Is always a morning afterward; and fine tenor voice set to ragtime never helped much in the development of mine. Though Bud had remained Loyalty by his friend in his evening serenade he, for one, never forgot for 8 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 practical man who, If he ever made love, would doubtless do 1t in perfectly businesslike way, without hiring any string bands But at the same time he was willing to make some concessions.
 Well. go ahead 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 his 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 we'll loaded with the products of the hot country -fanegas of corn in red leather sacks, oranges and fruits in handmade 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 go.by without word, and then at last, overcome by curiosity. he inquired about the revoltosos.
 What revoltosos?" queried the old man to whom he spoke.
 'tWhy, the men of Bernardo Bravo" answered Bud "the men who are marching to take Moctezuma."
 When left Moctezuma," returned the old man politely, "all was quiet there were no revoltosos. Since then, : v I cannot say"
 But the soldiers!" cried nud. Surely you saw them! They were marching to fight the rebels
 Perhaps .so," shrugged the arriero, laying the lash of his topojo across the trump of mule; but know noth- ing about it."
 "No," muttered Bud, as he continued on his way; "and I'll bet nobody else does"
 Inquiry showed. that in this, too, he was correct. From those who travelled fast and from those who travelled slow he received the same wondering an swer-the country might be filled with revoltosos; but as for them, they knew nothing about it.
 Not until he got back to Fortuna and the busy federal telegraph wire did he hear any more news of rapine and bloodshed. and the light which dawned upon him then was gradually dawning upon the whole town. | It was a false alarm, given out for purposes of state and the higher poli- tics" with which Mexico is cursed, and the most that was ever seen of Der nardo Bravo and his lawless men was | twenty miserable creatures. half starved, but with guns in their hands, who had come down out of the noun tains east of Moctezuma and killed a few cows for beef.
 {. Thoroughly disgusted. and yet vaguely alarmed 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 employment becauss of