The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-02-11
By PETER B. KYNE

81 guess that's about all OF your
job Bill. AS for me, I'll camp right
here. I'll have a deal of surveying
to do and l plan to sweat the booze
out OF that Cafferty person. I'll
make Don Juan my chain man and
run the tail Off him. Then I'll be
busy with preliminary plans, arrang-
ing for labor and so on, and when
I'm idle I'll go hunting"
In conformity with this plan, there
fore, Billy saiG good-by to his friend
and packed out FOR San Miguel de
Padua bright and early next morn
ing. During the following ten days
Webster managed to keep himself
fairly busy around the camp at the
mine; then for a week he hunted and
6shed, and finally, when that began
to pail on him, his agile mind re-
turned to business and the consIdera-
ton of the possibility Of a flaw in
Billy's title to the claim; whereupon
he suddenly decided to return to Bue-
naventura ano investigate that title
fully before proceeding to throw dol
lars right and left.
At the head of his little cavalcade,
therefore, he rode out one morning
for the railroad, whereat providence,
in its inscrutable wisdom, ordained
that en- route he should fall in with
no less a parsonage than Don Ricardo
Luiz Ruey, nee Andrew Bowers. RI
cardo was mounted, armed, and alone,
and at sight of Webster he shouted
with delight and spurred toward him.
"What the devil You, Rick, the
government cut-up. What are you do
ing in these parts2" Webster rode up
and shook hands.
ooh, I'm Robin flooding It around
this part OF the country. 1t is so Sc
Guided. you know. and Sarros hasn't
any friends or any telegraph lines or
any garrisons up this way. heard in
San Miguel de Padua that you were
camped yonder, and was on my way
over to confer with you on matters
of state. Met your friend, Geary, at
El Buen Amigo a couple of weeks
ago, just before he sailed for the Unit
ed States. He was telling me you
had to have a lot of tools for road
building, so l cabled In a secret ci-
pher to the Sobrantean revolutionary
junta in New Orleans to ship these
tools to you Immediately. They ar
rived on the last trip of the Atlanta
and now repose In Leber's warehouse
waiting for you to call and remove
them"
"You scoundrell What have you
sent me?"
"a couple of hundred rifles and
three machine guns, branded axes
picks, shovels, plows, and so on.
also ran in three cases of ammunition
labeled grindstones, two more cases
disguised as bolts, and quite several
thousand labeled nails in kegs.
should feel rather sorry for you II my
friend, Sarros, should get suspicious
and investigate, but haven't any fear
that he will. You see, he knows you're
here on legitimate business. He has
investigated and learned that you are
bona fide mining engineer of con
siderable reputation-and then, you
know, your friend, Geary, dickered
with him for the concession. The min
ing property you are about to devel'
op belongs to the people, not to Sar
ros; yet he has bartered 1t away and
will divert the royalty to his own
pocket instead Of the public treasury"
"Hum-m-mI What do you want me
to do with all those munitions CON
signed to mel"
Arrange with Leber to keep them
there until you get ready to build
your road into the mine. want them
there when my American mercenaries
arrive In Buenaventura. BY the way
you are going to import these mer
cenarles for me. They are American
miners and road builders In the EN-.
ploy Of the Honda Mining & Develop
ment company, which Is to be the
name of your enterprise. hope you'll
like the name, Webster. l picked II
out myself"
"You cool scOundreIl You're max.
ing cats paw out of me-"
''That is because you happen to BIZ
so handy for my purpose. You sex
my plan, do you notf I'm going tC
attack Buenaventura from within anC
without. I'm going to come down OF
Sarros like a wolf on the fold, anC
the Job is scheduled for next Satur
day night a week"
'Look here, Rick, my boy, hav'
no desire to mix in the politics Of thiI
country"
"You have some desire, however, Il
mix in its wealth." Ricardo reminde'
him.
t'WellT"
"rm the only man that can hell