The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-19
Copyright, lsl&, by Frank A. Munsey.)
CHAPTER v.


The sjournex to: Fortuna is D ecant
fifty miles by measure. b,'l within
these eight kiIpmeters there is lapse
OF centuries In standards. AS Bud and
De Lancey rode out OF battIe-scarred
Aqua Negra they travelled a good road,
we'll worn by the Mexican wood-waE.
oqs that hauled in mesquit from the
hills. Then. as they left the town and
the wood roads scattered. the highway
changed by degrees to broad trail,
dug deep blythe feet Of pack-an1mals
and marked but lightly with wheels. It
followed along the railroad, cutting
over hills and down through gulcheg.
and by evening they were in the heart
OF Old Mexico. 81
Here were men In sandals and wom-
en- barefoot: chickens tied up by the
legs outside Of brush jacales; long
nosed hogs grunting fiercely as they
ekirmished for food: and half-naked
children. staring like startled rabbits
ut the strangers.
The smell OF garlic and fresh.roast-
Ing coffee was in the air aB they drew
into town for the night, and their
room wus an adobe chamber with tile
floor and iron bars across the win
dows. Riding south the next day they
met vaqueros. mounted on wiry mug
tangs, whu saI4ted them gravely. tay-
Ing no shame for their primitive wood.
en- saddle-trees and pommels as broad,
az soup plates. -
AS they left the broad plain and
clambered up over the back OF q noun.
tain they passed Indian houses, brush
built and matched with long, coarse
grasses.i and by the fires the women
ground corn pn stpne metates as their
ancestors had done before the, fall.
For in Mexico thnre. are two peoples.
the spaniards and the natives, ana the
Indians still l'remember the days when
they were free. (;
q II %as through Bdeii ihnd fiisS Ff,if
and Hooker. rode on their goliant
ponies, leading a pack-animal we'll
loaded with supplies from the north,-
and as the people ga7ed from their
miserable novels and say their cItft
they wondered at their wealth.
But II they we're moved to envy. the.
bulk OF heavy'pistol. showing through
the swell of each coat, discouraged
them from going farther; and the cold:
searching look of the tall cowboy afs
he ambled past atayed in their mem
ory long afteF~the pleasant "Adiosi"
or De Lancey had been forgotten.
Americans were scarce In those
days. and what few came by were lid:
ing to the north, How bold. then. must
this big man be who rode In 'front.'
and certainly he had some great re-.
ward before him to risk such horse
among the revoltosos! So reasoned
the supplemented natives OF tie noun
tatnB. gazing III admiration at Copper
Bottom, and for that look ia their eyes
Bud returned his forbidGing stare.
There is something about good
horse that fascfhates tho average Mex
icatf-perhaps because they breed the
finest themselves and are in position
to judge-but Hooker had developed a
romantic attachment for his. trim. little
chestnut mount and he resented their
widee3ed sapi1gs as s,i lbyer resents
Blances at his lady. THIS, and a frontier
education. rendered him short.spoken
and gruff with the' pa,Sanos and 1t was
.s .s.s ~ .ne easaie. ne Eancey 10 90
'ns 'ous.esies .he aes. = t1s ioaa. 80.
Snra ppsa ,,ss. Low ,n.Sa locay canyon, WIN
sinw,nr ,n @ ~. sH sr.,,s ynm s,;m ans sSa.
they broke out into a narrow. valley.
we'll wooded With sycamc CD and mes
Su,s s. aIu .ns;, s,... .n... ps,.s slees.
e E,oo.se " = Iuthnhy enBI.g
sAms ] ss,s saqosh,y ron IT oSWn aDelo@ ana
scaiiy ssai.t n tine tie oss oas 3. tauI turn