The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-03-17

ohd "a liz DShOht VI LIZ sONNAH
ment, to-wit, Sarros and his satellites.
We had to cook up q dirty deal like
that to save your life. OF course, now
that l have warned you In time. you
are safe. We schemed a proposition,
however, hat worked both ways. 1t
enabled us to save you and to a
us, by permitting the shipment, free
Of suspicion. of arms for the rebels
that are to attack the city from with
In. Naturally l had to cache their
arms within the city-and that was a
hard problem until you happened
along. Thank you. fairy godfather"
MY thanks are due you. Ricardo.
I'm for you, first, last, and all the
time, and against this Sarros outfit.
BY the way, how do you purpose NOV
ing your machine guns?"
EVEN have to carry them, l guess"
swell, I'll have a small auto-truck
delivered In Buenaventura by that
time. You might arrange to armor
1t with sheet steel and with a cou-
pie Of machine guns mounted In 1t,
and q crew Of resOlute Americans be-
Illlu lic uluNllihc SuLS, you COuiu n
per from one end Of the city to the
other and clear a path for your in
fantry."
THANK you, my friend. I'll bor-
row the motor truck and arrange to
armor it. That's a bully idea. Are
you bound for Buenaventura nOw?"
Webster nodded. "Then," Ricardo
.,rroctoJ NIuI p,oat Won, In ~ room,
' at FL Buen Amigo next Wednesday
night at II and explain the details Of
my plans to you If you care to hear
them. | think they're alright my
self. but somehow l think I'd feel more
certain Of them If you approve them"
"TT be there, Rick, and the day
you run that outlaw Sarros off the
grass you'll know why l an for you"
"GOOd-by, old man. You will new
er know how grateful you have made
me-"
Ruey shook hands with Webster
and rode off through the timber, leav-
ing John Stuart Webster to pursue
the even tenor Of his way, until at
length he arrived once more in Bue-
ldNellluTu anu SOuSul
at the Hotel MateO. And there, as he
entered the lobby and gazed through a
glass door across the patio and into
the veranda, he saw that which dis
turbed him greatly. In a big wicker
rocker Dolores Ruey sat, rocking gent
ly and busily stitching on a piece Of
fancy work!
Billy Geary gone back to the Unit
ed States, and Dolores vas still in
"Buenaventura! Amazing! Why,
what the devil did Billy mean by
letting her have her own way like
that? OF course, they hadn't been
married, or she would not now be out
there on the veranda, and, of course,
they hadn't quarreled, because that
was an impossibility, and, Of course,
Billy had departed alone for the U.
S. A., else he would have returned to
their camp in the hills back Of San
Miguel de Padua.
"Well, l know what I'm going to
do" Webster decided. "Im not going
to be led into temptation while Bill
ly's not on the job-sO I'll not put up
at the Hotel Mateo after all. I'll
Just sneak around to Ell Buen Ami
go and fix 1t with that old Mother
jerks not to tip off my presence In
town to Dolores Ruey until l can get
the lay Of the land and see what the
devil has happened to all my we'll
laid plans"
He retreated out the front door and
called a carriage, into which he was
about to step, bag and baggage, when
Don Juan CafeterO came rushing up
in great excitement. "Sure, where are
We goin' now, sOr. Is there no room
for We In the Hotel MateoT
"Their beds have jiggers in them,
and l just remembered that" Web
ster fbbed. "Hop in, John, and we'll
drive around to Mr.. Geary's lodgings
in III Buen Amigo"
"But 1 come trough the patio just
now" Don Juan explained, "an' who
should l meet but the young Teddy"
"You internal %scoundrel! Did you
tell her l was in town."
"Sure / did, sor. An why mott"
"None Of your Internal business.
You've spoiled everything. You're a
muddle-headed monkey n I've a
great notion to let you get drunk
again. Take the baggage back into
the hotel"
bon Juan CafeterO, greatly hum
BILE and rebuffed, stepped aside and
watched Webster stride back into the
hotel. God love We, sOr," he mum
bled. "knowin' what l know, Is 1t like
ly I'd let We make a monkey out av
her or yerself? Ye mode yer plans
wit Misther Geary wit'Out consultin'
her. Now go, We grand big divil, an
find out why she kicked yer schame
to smithereens." And with a solemn
and knowing wink at the duffle bag,
Don Juan picked that article up and