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not entrust them to my care? See.
We are unobseved. HAND them to
me. now"
Annette shook her head NO"
she faltered, 81 cant do IL. Il seems
to me that / must never part with
them again. Why, / wouldn't even
entrust them TO Joe Welcher."
II wouldn't entrust anything to
Joe Welcher," said lnez.
She shrugged her shoulders and
became silen,
She was thinking Of ono thing and
one thing only-but sne did not
think aloud.
Before we reach La Plaza must
Il shallN have the map and locket.
! must .ud shall promise you.
Hernandez. Wherever you are,
across country there, Hernandez. |
promise you. I'll have them before
we reach La Plaza. | must and
shall"
Across country Hernandez, Ponto
and the Brute were travelling hard.
The indomitable viii Of Hernandez
kept them ever going on and on.
You understand" cried he, eve
must make La Plaza before the Al.
bany gets there. We go cross-coun-
try-she goes by shore. III knife you
both il YOU fail me at this time
Finally, on a moonlight night, Her
nandez halted at a forest opening
that looked down toward shore. He
glanced across he sea.
"Ha, Friend Ponto." he cried,
something stirs-far in the dis
tance Wen have n look
He whipped out his glasses and
took 4 look Then, disobeying his
own Injunction. he dropped off his
own steed, and sank upon the
ground
"It IS she The Albany" he cried;
look, Ponto. She is at hand. 1t is
matter OF hours now, one would
say, rather than days"
After rest he reconnoitered. In
the valley he saw a light OF two nj
tering through he foliage. Again
they mounted and descended the bill
into civilization They Knocked on
the door of an adobe hut. A native
opened and shambled out, gun in
hand. TO meet them. Seeing the
Brute, he drew back in terror.
"It is nothing, friend" said Her.
nandez, here is a coin. Where lies
La Plaza"
But five miles farther on-close
by shore" returned the native.
"A bagatelis," said Hernandez.
come on"
Meantime Inez Castro, on board
;he Albany. had become unusually
active. She had asccrtained the time
of arrival of the Albany at La Plaza
the schedule time
OH" said the omcer OF whom she
made the inquiry. you'll be fast
asleep when we drcp anchor Five
a. m"
81 should say So" returned lnez,
IL never wake till 10"
Notwithstanding which she was
awake all night. And 10 some pur
pose too
Joe Welcher bunked in with Neal
in the quarters of the warrant Off
GERS. lt was nearly evening when
Inez Castro using Joe as usual TO
do her bidding. whispered In his ear
Joe. like a whipped dog, did,
through fear of her, what he other.
wise would have been afraid to do.
He slipped into Meals quarters, and
laid his hands upon an object or two,
twisted them into a little bundle and
took them back TO Inez. lnez took
them to her cabin.
She secreted them. Then. alone.
or in company with Annette and
Neal and other officers, she strolled
about the decks.
II could stroll thus all night" said
Inez, "is 1t permitted? Would-what
you cali-Uncle Sam--be alarmed if
he saw me strolling here at mid
night I'm the moonlight? Would he
put nae in irons?"
He would sprobably.P--' 20" in.
arms" said a facstloGs young en-.
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(To BE Continued9