The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-20
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know ve're in bad somewhere. but


go to the mining agent and get copies
of all our papers and send them up to
that Gadsden lawyer. I'm going to 20
down and board with Mendez and see
IL can read his heart"
80 they separated. and while Phil
stayed In town to look over the rec
ords Bud ate his beans and tortillas
with the Mendez family.
They we're happy little family.
comfortably installed in the stone
house that Mendes had built. and rap.
idly getting fat on three full meals a
day. From his tent farther up the
canyon Bud could look down and
watch the children at play and see the
comely Indian wife es she cooked by
the open fire.
Certainly no one could be more in.
pocent and contented than she was.
and El Tuerto was all bows and pro.
testations Of gratitude. And yet. you
never can tell.
Bud had moved out OF the new house
to furnish quarters for FL Tuerto and
had favored him in every way: but
this same consideration might easily
be uninterrupted, for the Mexicans
are slow to understand kindness.
So. while ON the one hand he had
treated them generously, he had al.
ways kept his distance, lest they be
tempted to presume. But now, with
Phil In town for few days, he took
his meals with Maria, who was too
awed 10 say word, and made friends
With the dogs and the children.
The way to the dogs heart was easy.
almost direct, and ne finally won the
attention Of little Pancho and Josefa
With wcll.worn Sunday supplement.
This gaudy institution, with It's spicy
stories and startling illustrations, had
penetrated even to the wilds OF Sonora,
and every Sunday as regularly as the
paper came Bud eat down and had his
laugh over the funny page.
But 10 Pancho. who WAS elk years
old and curious, this same highly col.
ored sheet was q mystery Of mysteries.
and when he saw tho big American
laughing he crept up and looked at It
wistfully.
"Aifra,' aaid Bud. laying his finger
upon the smirking siBage OF one OF the
comic characters, look. and I will tell
you the story"
And go, with laborious cnre, he
translated the colored fun, while the
little Alendezes sQuirmed with excite
ment and lenped with Joy. Even the
simple souls of El Tuerto and Maria
wer moved by the comicaB. and Men.
dez became so interested that he
learned the words by heart, the better
to explain them t. others.
But as for Mexican treachery, Bud
could find none Of It. In fact, finding
them 90 Isimple-heartod and good.na;
tured, he became. half ashamed of his
early suspicious and waited for the
return Of Phil..to explain Don CIpri-
ano's'complacency. ~,
+ But the next Sunday, as Bud lay
reading In Ills tent, the mystery solved
Itself, Cruz Mehdes came up fcc.. 4Ae
house. hat IN hand and an apoIogetlc
smile on his face. and after the Gus.
tomary roundabout remarks hp asked
the boss az favor ifssaH would lend
him the page Of comic pictures.
"Seguro!" assented Bud. rolling over
and fumbling for the funny sheet;
then. failing to find Il iastantiy. he in.
Quired: What do yourwant # .fpr2'.
"Ah, to show to my boyi" explained
III Tuerto, his one'eye lighting UP with
PRIDE s'i1sS -, ~.
"Who-Pancho?"
"Ah, no. senor." answered Mendez
simply, my boy In La Fortuna, the
one you have not seen.:"
Bud stopped fumbling for the paper
and sat up suddenly. Here was u new
light on their faithful servitor. and one
that might easily take away from his
value as dummy locator.
.-Qhl9 be said. and then: "How
| many children have you, Cru2f: .sa,
Cruz smiled deprecatingly, as par
ents will. and turned away. az
by which woman?" he inquired, and
Bud became suddenly very calm. fear.
ing the worst For II Cruz was not
legally married to- Maria, he could not
transfer the mirlngsslain. s.s,.,
"By all OF them. he said quietly.
Five III all" returned Crnz-'three
by: Maria, as you knowe-two by my
lrst woman--and enc other. do not
count him." I.:s,s5.. Il ,.,..,-f
"Well. you one-eyed old .reprobate!""
muttered Bud in his throat, bat he
passed It of and returned smiling to
the charge.
"Where does your boy live, nowe.
he, asked with Gatterirg soiicifrde, the
better te nuke i,lm.taIk. yana is he
old .enotgh to understand the pic.
turasi" 1, 81.
.s-.Ah, yeslr beamed Meaaez, She .is
tsselys years old. He. lives with his
nathef tnsw--and my liftle daughter
too; Their mamma: Ii the woman of