Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-20


 what I must not criticize. Further more, it is my duty to whisper in your ear word of advice"
 If you please" said Patria simply -surmising what was coming.
 Yet the general hesitated.
 You understand" he said, trace embarrassed, q am acting under in' struction."
 T quite understand" .s
 -Then I must tell you-frankly- that you are coming perilously near to usurping a power which the Con- stitution vests with congress alone.
 ''The right to raise and maintain a standing army" Patria added.
 "Precisely. If that is not what you are doing-on a small scale. but none the less in an admirably efficient way T have misunderstood all you have shown and told me here today"
 Perhaps" Patria agreed. smiling. And yet you will find, upon invesh- gation, that every man in my employ. aside from the ranch hands and others who have definitely peaceable labors to perform, is carried on my pay rolls as a watchmanr'
 "An army of watchmenw
 Again the eyes of the general twin kled.
 Precisely. The Constitution does not prescribe the citizens right to protect his own property, I believe, by employing men and arms to guard it. That is all that I am doing here on my lands. I have my property and my people to safeguard, and l mean to do it."
 No further reference was made to the object of the visitation, but the un- derstanding was implicit that a report must be made to Washington and that Washington would then take such ac- ton as it might see fit.
 Noon-and still no word from Bess Morgan or the party which had ridden forth to rescue her.
 But Patria betrayed no inkling of the anxiety which gnawed at her mind. To confess that she was waiting the outcome of an armed invasion of a nominally friendly land which she, Pa- tria Charming, had authorizedl Even the favor her patriotic spirit had found in the esteem of her guests could hard ly mitigate the disaster to her plans which must follow any such dlscov- cry.
 And it was nearly two O'Clock before she was finally rid of them.
 With heartfelt gratitude she saw the dust of their wheels drift away down the road-then turned and jumped into her own motor car and had it moving back toward the aviation field almost before Donald could take his place beside her.
 One of her fiiers was making land ing as Patria alighted at the field.
 He had nothing to report.
 Again clambering into the pilots seat of her own particular tiplane, Patria committed her fate to the ad- venture of the air lanes.
 For a little she climbed steadily, but not for long; content to leave the greater range of observation to those on the higher levels, with their power ful glasses, she quartered the land be yond the border at an elevation bare " sufficient to escape the eddies and currents that made navigation inter esting if not devoid of danger above the summits of the lowland hills.
 Here, comparatively close to the ground. she might be able to pick up indications invisible to the airmen so far above her.
 And so. iG the end, it proved.
 She had been flying little more than an hOur-was returning from a wide circuit through the south toward her starting point. Of sudden she was conscious that the monotonous drone of the motor behind her was be- ing punctuated-one cylinder was be- ginning to miss fire.
 Patria began to foresee that she might be obliged to make landing south of the border. She searched the landscape that swan beneath her anxious eyes.
 Then she saw a motor-car abruptly sweep out of a narrow gulley at some distance off to the right, making a furious pace northward. The men who occupied it wore khaki; for an instant she thought them soldiers in American uniforms. Then she saw that they were men of an average stature smaller than that of Ameri- can troops. They were standing up | in the tonneau and firing pistols back