Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-08-14

d~I-p6FfdSlHe BOOu nature, OF L00 re
spect inspired by his hardihood; per.
haps the qualities of natural leader.
ship which had made him a picked
a among his brother Yaquis. But
when, late In the afternoon, Bud came
back from a trip to the tent he found
Amigo in charge of the gang. heaving
and struggling and making motions
with his head.
Good enough" he muttered, after
watching him for a minute In silence,
and leaving the new boss In command,
he went back and started supper.
That was the beginning of a new
day at the Eagle Tail, and when De
Lancey came back from town-whith-
er he went whenever he could conjure
up an errand-he found that, for once,
he had not been missed.
Bud was doing the blacksmithing,
Amigo was directing the gang, and a
fresh mess of beans vas on the fire,
the first kettleful having gone to rein
force the Yaqui's backbone. But they
were beans well spent, and Bud did
not regret the raid ON his grub-pile. If
he could get half as much work for
what he fed the Mexicans he could
well rest content.
But how did this Indian happen to
find your" demanded Phil, when his
pardner had explained his acquisition.
Say, he must have deserted from his
company when they brought them
back from Moctezumai"
"More'n likely" assented Bud. He
amt talking much, but | notice he
keeps his eye out-they'd shoot him
for a deserter If they could ketch him.
I'd hate to see him go that way"
"Well, If he's as good as this. let's
take care Of him!" cried Phil with
enthusiasm. I'll tell you, Bud, there's
something big coming off pretty soon
and I'd like to stay around town a
little more If l could. l want to keep
track of things"
FIR instance?" suggested Hooker
dryly. 1t had struck him that Phil
was spending a good deal of time in
town already.
well, there's this revolution. Sure
as shooting they're going to pull one
soon. There's two thousand Mexican
miners working at Fortuna, and they
say every one OF 'em has got a rife
buried. Now they're beginning to quit
and drift out into the hills, and we're
likely to hear from them any time"
"All the more reason for staying in
camp, them" remarked Bud. TN tell
you, Phil, I need you here. That
logged ledge is lost, good and plenty,
and / need you to say where to dig.
We amt doing much better than old
Aragon did-just roofing around in
that rock-pile-lets do a little timber
ing, and sink"
You can't timber hat rock" an
swered De Lancey decidedly. And
besides, it's cheaper to make a cut
twenty feet deep than 1t Is to tunnel
or sink q shaft Wait till we get to
that porphyry contact then we'll
know where we're at"
"All right" grumbled Bud; but
seems like we're a long time getting
there. What's the news DOWNTOWN
We'll, the fireworks have begun
again over in Chihuahua-Orozco and
Salazar and that bunch-but 1t seems
there was something to this Mocte-
yuma scare, after all. l was talking to
an American mining man from down
that way and he told me that the fed
erals marched out to where the rebels
were and then sat down and watched
them cross the river without firing on
them-some kind of an understanding
between Bernardo Bravo and these
black1eg federals.
1.-THE only fighting there was was
when a bunch of twenty Yaquis got
away from their officers in the rough
country and went after Bernardo Bra
vo by their lonesome. That threw a
big scare into him, too, but he man
aged to fight them off-and if l was
making a guess I'd bet that your Yaqui
friend was one of that fighting
twenty"
81 reckon" assented Bud; "but don't
you say nothing. | need that hombre
in my business. Come on, let's go up
and look at thai cut come across
an old board today, down in the muck,
and bet you it's a piece thai Kruger
left. Funny we don't come across
some of his tools, though, or the hole
where the powder went off,"
When we do that" observed Phil,
well be where we're going. Nothing
to do then but lay off the men and wait
till / get my papers. That's why | say
don't hurry so hard-we haven't got
our title to this claim, pardner, and
we won't get it, either-not for some
time yet. Suppose you'd hit this
ledge"
well, If / hit It," remarked Bud,
I'll stay with it-you can trust me
for that. Hello, what's the Yaqui
found?"
As they came up the cut Amigo quit