The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-06-22
CHAPTER XIV.

" - q great MISUNDERSTANDING IL
rich-one OF the greatest In the world.
Some men punch a burro over the
desert all their lives In the hope Of
achieving Il once; Bud and Phil had
taken a chance. and the prize now lay
within their yEAsp. Only q little while
nova month. maybe. II the officials
we're slow-and the title would be
theirs.
The Mexican miners, blinded by
their Ignorance. went their way. we'll
eontented 10 get their money. Nobody
knew. 1nere was nothing 10 40 puI
70 wait. But 70 wait, az some people
know. Is the hardest work in the
world.
For the FIRST few days they fingered
about the mine. gloatlng over IL In
secret, laughing back and forth, sing.
ing gay RonBs-then. az the ocstAay
passed and the WEAKNESS OF waiting
set In. they vent two ways. Some
fascination, unexplained to Bud. drew
De Lancey TO the town. He left In the
morning and came back at night. but
Hooker stayed at the mine.
Day and night, weekdays and Sun.
days, he watched Il jealousy, lest
someone should slip in and SURPRISE
their secret-and for company he had
his pet horse. Copper Bottom. and the
Iaqui Indian. Amigo.
lgnHcio was the Indians real name,
for the Ynquis are all good Catholics
and named uniformly after the saints.
but bud had started 10 call him Amigo.
or friend, and lgnacio had conferred
the same name on him.
Poor ~lgnaciol His four-dollar-a-day
Job had gone glimmering In half a
day, but when the Mexican iaborers
departed he liagered around the camp,
doing odd Jobs, until he won q place
for himself.
A. night he slept up In the rocks,
where no treachsry could tako him
unaware. but at the first peep Of dawn
It was always Amigo who arose and
lii the fire.
Then, II no one got up. he cooked a
breakfast after his own ideas, boiling
the coffee until It was as strong AZ
I've, broiling meat on sticks, and went
TO turn out the horses.
With the memory Of many envlous
Eiances cast at Copper Bottom, Hooker
had built u stout corral. where he kept
the horses up at night, allowing them
10 Craze close-hobbled In the daytime.
A Mexican insurrecto on foot 10 a
contradiction Of terms, II there are
any horses or mules In the country,
and several bands OF examiners from
Fortuna had gone through their camp
In that condition. with new rifles In
their hands. But n they had any de-
signs on the Eagle Tail live stock they
speedily gave them up; for. while he
would feed them and even listen 20
their false tales OF patriotism. Bud
had no respect for numbers when Il
came TO admiring his horse.
Even with the Yaqui, much as he
trusted him, he had reservations about
Copper Bottom; and once. when he
found him pettinG him and stroking
his nose, he shook his head forbid.
dingly. And from that day on, though
he watered Copper Bottom and cared
wi ha MaAAnf amigo was Cafetul
neyer TO caress him.
Blu in all other matters. even 10
lending him his gun. Bud trusted the
faqui absolutely. Il was about a week
after he came TO camp that Amigo
sighted a deer. and when bud loaned
him his rife be killed Il with a single
shot.
som aiterward he came Looping back
from a scouting trip and made signs
for the gun again, and this time ha
brought In a young peceary. which he
roasted In a plt. Indian style. After
tha., when the meat IA low. nud sent
him out TO hunt. and Zach time he
brought back a wild hos or a deer for
every cartridge.
The q cross under which the
Yaqui suffered was the apparent fail
ure OF the mine. and, after slipping up
into the cut a few times, be finally
came back radiant