The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-16

against tho flames. And soon, ns quiet
as FOX. tho Yaqui appeared from the
! gloom.
Did he como for me?" ho asked.
sdvancing warily into the Arelight,
that capitan?"
Yes" answered Bud. "and for me.
500. But you must have known him
before, Amigo--he seems to be afraid
of you"
A smile Of satisfaction passed over
Che swarthy face Of the Indian at this.
and then the lires became grim again.
His eyes glowed with the light OF eome
great purpose. and for the first time
since he had been with Bud he drew
aside the veil from his past.
YES" he said. nodding significantly,
the rural ie afraid. He knows l have
come to kill him."
He squatted by the fire and poured
oHt a cup OF coffee, still brooding over
his thoughts-then. with q swift ges-
ture. he laid open his shirt and pointed
to a scar along the ribs.
"He shot me there" he said.
And 80 you have come to kill him7"
YES" answered Amigo: but not
now. Tomorrow ! go to my people
l must take sem my money first"
"Have you got q wife?" asked Hook
or. forgetting for once his accustomed
i reserve.
NO" ,grumbled Amiga. shaking his
head sadly. mo Wife"
"Oh. you take your money to your
father and mother"
mo. No father--no mother-nadie!"
He threw up his open hands to Gig
nifty that oil were gone. and Hooker
said no more. For three months and
more he had worked alongside this
giant. silent Yaqui and only once had
he sensed his plst. That wns when
Amigo had torn his shirt In lifting,
and across tho ripping muscles of his
back thcro he'd been shown the long
white wnlo Of a whip.
1t was the mark Of his former
slavery when. with the rest OF his peo-
pie. Eo had been deported ID the hene-
quen fields of Yucatan and .flogged by
the Overseer's lash-and Amigo was
nshamed OF 1t. But now that he was
about to go, Bud made bold to ask him
one more question, to set his mind at
rest.
Perhaps this captain killed your
people?"
"No. senor." answered Amigo quiet.
ly; they died."
Ho spoke the words simply. but
thero was something in his voice that
brought up images of the pnst-of
peaceful YaQuis, seized at every ranch
in Sonora on a certain night; OF long
marches overland. proddcd on BY
rurales and guards; of the crowded
prison-Bhips from which the most an
guished hurled themselves into the
sea; and then the awful years of
slavery in the pciso.ed' tropics, until
only the hardest were left.
. Amigo had seen 1t all, as the scars
on his broad back pfoyed-bdt ne
withdrew now into silence and left his
thoughts unsaid As he sat there by
the fire. one long, black hand hold out
TO keep the CLEAN from his eyes, he
made O noble figure. but the Yaquqi
| songs which he had crooned on other
nights were forgotten, and lie held
himself tense and still. Then at last
he rose and gazed at Bud.
"You pay me my money" he said.
II go now"
Sure" answered Bud. and after he
had weighed out the equivalent in
gold on his scales he fipped in some
more for luck and gave him a sack to
hold it.
what you buy with all that?" he
inquired with a friendly grin; grub?
mo. senor,' answered Amigo. knot
ting the precious gold In handker-
chief; '"cartridges!" -
What for?" Qucried Bud, and then
1t was Amigo who smiled
ITO kill Me1icans with" he replied,
and in those words Hooker read the
secret Of his thrift.
While his wild brethren fought in
the hills or prepared for the battles to
come, It was his part to earn the
money that should keep them In am
Elunition. It was for that, In fact, that
f. l'orfrio DiaE had seized all the peace.
ful Yaauis In night and shipped them
TO Yucatan-for he saw, that while
they vera working the Wild Yaquis
would never lack.
All the time that Amigo had been
doing two mems work and saving on
the price Of shirt he had held that
cheerful dream in his mind-to kill
more Mexicans!
4 Yet, despite the savagery in him.
Hooker had come to like the Yaqui.
and he liIed him still. With the
rurales on LIZ trail 1t was better that
he should go. but Bud wanted him to
return. SO, knowing the simple hon
esty OF Indians. he brought opt his
own spare pistol and placed It in Ami.