Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-03-18
CHAPTER xvl-contInued.

~11A Se%hS q PA%tuAS VA AZ AVA
mis- people. He told me about them.
want them to think he amounted to
something, after all. And when you
get this two-by-four republic Of yours
going again, Rick, you might have
your congress award Don Juan a
thousand dollars orc for capturing Sar-
rOS. Then we can send the money to
his old folks"
~But he didn't capture Sarros,"
Ricardo protested. '"The man escaped
when the guards cut their way
through"
HE didn't. That was q ruse while
he beat 1t out the gate where you
found me. saw Don Juan knock him
cold with the butt of his rifle after
I'd brought down his horse"
do you think he's there yetY
"He may be-provided all this didn't
happen the day before yesterday. II
] wanted him, I'd go, down and look
for him. Rick"
"Tll go right away, Jack"
Zone minute, then. Send a man
around to that little back street where
they have the wounded--it's couple
of blocks away from hereto tell
Mother jerks and the young lady
with her I'll not be back"
They're both outside now. They
must have gone booking for you, be-
cause they found you and Don Juan
first and then told me about it"
"Who told your"
Mother jerks"
"Ohl Well, run along and get your
man."
Ricardo departed on the run, TAX
ing the sentry at the door with. him
and in his haste giving no thought
TO Mother jerks and her companion
waiting for the doctors verdict. In
the palace grounds he gathered two
more men and babe them follow him;
leading by twenty yards, he emerged
at the gate and paused to look around
him.
Some hundred feet down the street
from the palace gate Sarros bay
charger lay dead. When Webster's
bullet brought the poor beast down,
his rider had fallen clear of him, only
to fall victim to the ferocity of Don
Juan Cafetero. Later, as Sarros lay
stunned and bleeding beside his mount,
the stricken animal in its death-strug-
gle had half risen, only to fall again,
this time on the extended left leg of
his late master; consequently when
Earros recovered consciousness follow
ing the thoughtful attentions OF his
assaflant, 1t was to discover himself
hopeless prisoner. The heavy carcass
Of his horse pinned his foot and part
Of his leg to the ground, rendering
him as helpless and desperate as a
trapped animal.
For several minutes now he had
been striving frantically to release
himself; with his sound right leg
pressed against the animals back
hone he tried to gain sufficient pur-
chase TO withdraw his left leg from
the carcass.
AS Ricardo caught sight of Sarros
Ae instinctively realized that this was
ais mortal enemy; motioning his men
30 stand back, he approached the
struggling man on tiptoe and thought
fully possessed himself of the dicta~
tors pistol, which lay In back Of him,
out not our OF reach. Just as he did
30, Sarros, apparently convinced of the
utility Of his efforts to free himself,
surrendered to fate and commenced
rather pitifully to weep with rage
and despair
Ricardo watched him for a few sec
ends, for there was just sufficient of
fhe blood of his Castilian ancestors
sun In his veins to, render this sorry
spectacle rather an enjoyable one TO
him. Besides, he was 30 per cent
beri0n, race which can hate quite
as thoroughly as it can love, and
for time Ricardo even nourlshed the
thought of still further INDUCING his
thirst for revenge by pretending to
aid SarrOs in his escaped Presently,
however, he put the ungenerous
HAought from him; SELLING the dead
hOrse by the tail, he dragged the car
'aasss on his enemy's leg, and while
SaFrCs sat up. taiIOrsfashion, and COM
menced to rub the circulation back
anto the bruised member, Ricardo
SEATED himself on the rump of the
head horse and appraised his prisoner
critically.
garros glanced up. remembered his
zaanners and very heartily and grace
9nlly thanked his deliverer.
IT IS not matter for which thanks
are due me, sarros," Ricardo replied
leolaiy. 81 am Ricardo Luiz Ruey,
ma I have come back to Sobrante to
wny mo fathers debt to you. You
III remember having forced the obli-
cation upon me In the cemetery some
aAeraen years ago..