Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-25

ieyed command and the column
halved, while the corpse of Manuel
Pacheco was stripped Of uniform ana
equipment. Following the unique but
simple Mexican insurrecto method OF
promotion, Corabado donned the neat
blue jacket, with it's heavily fringed
epauletS, and buckled the sword around
him.
On the same principle, corporal
substituted the former sergeant's coat
for his own, and private in his shirt
sleeves put on the corporaps jacket.
"VOlante!' cried the new captain.
The soldiers closed in and the coli
umn moved forward. Manuel Pacheco
that was lay rigid and stark on the
caliche, gazing at the cerulean SKY with
fixed and sightless eyes.
Buck Williams turned to look at
Jitendra. The OrientaPs face was in
scrutable. He was gazing straight
ahead, immovable, as if behOlding some
scene yet to emerge from the womb OF
time.
American growing more and more per-
picked. Something-from somewhere
had annihilated the man who had
vented his brutality in contemplate
blow upon the face of one powerless
to resist.
Had Bucks hands been unbound.
Manuel Pacheco, ex-foreman in the
employ of the FL Tigre mine, would
never have dared to offer such an
affront to it's owner; no, not if he had
been in the center of a regiment of
disciplined troops instead of q mere
company of ragged poems whose coun-
terfeit military air only heightened
their ridiculous appearance and mag
nified their ignorant sWagger.
They were banditti, not patriots;
and their movements now were those
of body of half-terrified, yet revenge
full men actuated by some intelligence
superior to their own. The hideousiy
sudden and unexplained death of their
previous commander had daZed them.
The more he thought, the more in
comprehensive the whole affair ap-
peared to Buck Williams. He knew
Mexico. His acquisition Of the min
eral land on which Ell Tigre was To-
Gated had been achieved during the
last years of the Diaz regime.
The very name of the mine itself had
been derived from him. Ell Tigre Sig
nified 'The Tiger" and that name had
fallen once from the lips of thieving
ally chastised by Buck himself for
stealing camp supplies in the early
days Of his operations.
For Buck was named 'Ihe Tiger"
because of his implacable fury when
any attempt to victimize him was made
by the subtle methods which Mexicans
usually employ with a "gringo'' I'M
accustomed to their ways.
Now 1.-THE Tiger" was bound fast to
the back of a horse, en- route ito some
tribunal Of whose authority he was ig-
norant but of whose judgments he
could guess.
Pacheo, of himself, would not have
dared to presume to lay hands upon
him, nor did the indOlent Mexican
foreman possess sufficient initiative to
seize on a mining property of the mag
nitude Of Ell Tigre unless with inspira-
ton from bigger minds than his. But
Pacheco was dead-a bloated purple
corpse-struck down almost at the in
slant Of his atrocious blow and hurled
into the great unknown.
Pacheco's death was, and forever
would be, utterly battling. Buck Will
nams kneW-unleSS Jitendra could and
would explain it.
He turned to glance at the little Hin"
du with growing feeling of respect,
bordering on awe. He noticed that,
while surrounding them, the soldiers
were riding we'll away from Jitendra
and himself.
The mysterious demise of their cap
tain had evidently not been without it's
effect. Buck wondered why Jitendra
and himself had not been shot down.
1t must be because definite orders
had been sent out both for his capture
and Observation-Disclosures the rifles
of the bandit command would, ere this,
have visited death as sudden, but by
no means as mysterious, upon both.
"Jitendra," whispered Williams.
The Hindu turned.
'What was it that killed Pachecow
1.-THE vengeance of Vishnu, sahib,"
answered the other