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twenty-four hours. Ww ynais. <s a the Gila valley, here. You can't

for down to Las Pol Mexican settlement in about ten miles below do better than to

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that the senorita can ride.”

Darkness was falling fast, and we all felt that the best thing for us to do was te accept his invitation.

In the ravine were nine horses, se- curely picketed, and on five of them were bridles and saddles. We showed no inguisitiveness as to how the rust-

Jers’ possessions had been so greatly enlarged since we saw them at the

stage station. We were grateful for

the chance ta get a lift to civilized settlements. With Carmen seated on

saddle, whose pommel substitute for the we took our

the cowboy's was an indifferent erutehes of a sidesaddle,

— in strange companionship, through the darkness, down the side of the arroyo, bound for Las Polo- nais.

CHAPTER XV.

After following down the bank of the arroyo 2 mile or two we struck into @ horse-trail which led down toward the Gila river. In and out among thiniv-wooded foothills, with stretches cf grassy valley, some- times descending abruptly into a ra- Vine, with a steev bank to climb bhe- yond, the party wound its way in sin- gle file. The outlaw chief rode in the van, followed bv his two men. Pita ane Carmen came next, and Fe- lix and I brought up the rear. In our dark ride through a country unfamil- jar to us we had to trust our safety

three rustlers, each of whom rade With a price on his head. The only

fuarantee of their lay in the inftuence actress with the leader, and her good will tcoward us had been inspired by the desire of revenge upon a recreant lover, with perhaps a compassionate feminine impulse toward her high-bred Sister of the same race.

Of the two girls, who, Ress, preceded Felix and me along the devious trail, Lupita, sitting tride her like a handsome dey, rode in advance. Now and then, Where the lay of the ground fawoured it, Felix pressed his horse onward so ide by the side of Carmen. The 4 softiy-spoken words, which at such times passed between them, seem-

friendly behaviour of the Mexican

in the dark-

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sed vastiv to comfort and encourage ber. As the night grew more chilly = he took from behind his saddles the

|rclied-up Indian blanket and wrapped sit about her. Observing this with ap- = Proval, Lupita took from behind her B Seddle a large black mantie and ® Wrapped it similarly about herself.

= Once Felix drew rein and fell back $0 as to speak with me.

‘If ever we get safe to white set-

s tlements, I shall marry her—if I can”

e he \ hispered.

=» so far as her liking for you goes, there doesn’t seem to be any hitch in the matter,” I said.

“Perhaps not. But there is her fa- ther to reckon with, and there's likely to be plenty of trouble from him. While you were riding ahead of the (airiage this afternoon he may have

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Her feelings I y were naively The narrow path along which we shown by } yes d expressio! >; had been travelling came into a wag- he ca > the ur of US| gon trail, which permitted the party were sta Ss looked as sne to clese up its ranks more e ympactly. caw 0 ie but him. ae The Rio Gila’s in flood,” I] heard

“You've got t girl and killed the | the outlaw leader say. “There'll be Mexican,” he said to Felix. ay Now : no passing it for days.” what do you propose to do? You | “I wonder what's the meaning of so won't be able to get across the arroyo | many lights in the village,” he added.

“ Something's going on there out of the cemmon run.”

Soon our route lay along an irrigat-

ing ditch, with mudwalled 4elds up- on either side. At the outskirts of the village Billy called a halt. and, telling the party to remain wlese ‘t

was, rode ahead to reconnoitre.

Presently he came back.

“It’s all right,” he said. “ They're getting ready for some kind of fan- dango—a baile or a wedding. We'll go on in and see what it is.’

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Ti: the little plazeta of Las Polonias some things had been going on this dey of great interest to the people of the town and to others who had come or were expected from away. Francisco Padilla, of Los Tejones, be- yond the Gila, was this night to wed

{ &@ senorita of the same hamlet, Tomasa

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Lujan, the niece of the head man and alcalde of Las Polonias, Don Am- brosio Lujan. The locality in which the prospective bride and groom lived Was remote and difficult of access from the main travelled routes, and <o Don Ambrosio, in the generosity of his heart, had invited them tc Las Po- lonias to be married in his house. Here he would provide the wedding feast and entertain the bridal party, the priest and the guests from afar. ' While Francisco and Tomasa, with their parents and an escort of inti- mate friends, were on their way to Las Polonias, Don Ambrosio and his spouse, aided by many willing help- ers, were preparing 2 feast that should exemplify the hospitality of their house. Seven kids and as many lambs were being roasted and broiled after the various methods of the Meviecan euisire, while the hot, red ¢hili sauce with which they were to be served “was simmering in earthen pots. Tor- tillas, bread and sweet cakes had been baked in a profusion worthy of the oe- cesion. Coffee, freshly roasted and ground, ready for the boiling, diffused its aroma through the house, while in a room, for the time being kent un- der guard and censorship, a srirituous edour proclaimed the liberal su>ply of whiskey, aguardiente and wine of the

Rio Grande valley provided for the general entertainment. Now with the coming of nightfall,

With the great room cleared end swept for dancing, with the priest errived from Silver City, the musicians wait- ing with harp and guitars, and

most

of the guests from abroed present, in- stead of Francisco and Tomasa from up the valley, the river had come Gown

ir flood, cutting the wedding party

off frem Las Polonias and upsetting every arranvement,

* Que lastima! What ai “pity? mourned Aniceta, the alcalde’s wife. “The people here have cor, far, and now there is te be no wedding un- til—who knows when. The priest

must oO away to-m~-rrow ear y to bury tne people the Apsches killed vester-

day down the valley, and no one kni

3 MWS how long it will be before he can come again. Was ever anything so unfortunate {”’

Bad as things were, there noth- ing to do but make the best of them. The guests must be entertained, and, #0 long as ‘there was no reason to think that harm had _ befallen the

bridal party beyond the inconvenience ef delay, there should at Jeast he the cance and supper for the people pre- sent. But these festivities could not decently begin befere the hour ap- pointed for the marriage ceremony, and meanwhile the alcalde and his spouse waited, looking out upon the spreading waters in the valley bottom, in the direction from which the wed- ding party was expected, as if it might yet in some miraculous way arrive on time.

In the great house of the alcalde, and in other houses of the village, the

senoras and senoritas, in their finery, with their husbands and admirers were waiting impatiently for the ball to be-

gin. The general joy had been damp- cd by the news that there would be

no wedding that night, but there was still the dancing as a consolation. At last the sound of a rattling tune, play- ed by musicians upon the portal be- fore the house, gave the rignal for the guests to assemble in the ball- room. '

It was at this time that our party

rede into the village. The cry was raised that the bridal party had ar- rived, but the mistake was discovered when we rode toa the alcalde’s dcor and asked for hospitality. Don Am-

brosio welcomed us cordially, and call-

ed for a man to show us the corral where our horses could be kept and fed. His wife at the same time came

her greeting. While Carmen to dismount Lupita slipped from

forward to add Felix assisted from her -rorse,

her unaidei, and stood by the side of Don Ramen’s daughter. Her cow- boy hat had ‘disappeared, the lceng

cloak fell to her heels, hiding the silver spurs, while the u part as drawn cowlwise over head so fax as to hid: In suc} il

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with a laugh, she threw off the and began to dance, raitling the beads of the rosary like castanets.

Carmen was too much norrified at

cloak

the sacrilege to protest in words. In- stant Lupita stopped and stood look-

among strangers, weary and famish- ed, after the exciting, perilous vicissi- tudes of such a day.

What is it, senorita, that troubles you now ?” asked Lupita, in a tone { that expressed her sympathy. ; “My father and friends at home— I what will they say and think of me | after this, carried away and remain- ing so long under protection of men [ who are not of my kin ? You know - how severe and exacting our people are with an unmarried gir). And i

am innocent.”

Lupita was then laughed.

‘Senorita Carmen Bustamante,” she said. “vou love the young American caballero who fought for you and res- cued you. Why not marry him to- “vight 7°

‘Marry him—to-nizht ”’ reneated Carmen, turning auickly round toward her madcap adviser with eyes very wide open, yet with no sign of displea- Sure in her face.

— why not f chance.”

“ Marry without my father’s consent, away from his house, with none of my kindred present ?’

“Why not ? The priest is here, and 100 guests will dance at your wedding. Then you can snap your fingers at the world. And at your father, too,” she added, under her breath.

Carmen said nothing. She was think- ing gravely. Presently she rose, walk- ed to the mirror, and began to ar-

silent for a moment,

He will jump at the

range her hair. She still was ab- Sserbed in thought, but a little look of complacency came upon her face at the sight of the fair picture the glass reflected. Lupita threw the

cloak about herself and slipped from the room.

Five minutes later the Mexican ac- tress was talking earnestly with Felix in a corner of the hall-room. Then thev went together to the room where Curmen was, and Felix knocked at the door, spoke and passed in. Lupita drew the door to, leaving it ajar, and Stood outside. Presently Felix came cut with the air of a man who has no time to spare, took Lupita’s hand and kissed her cheek gratefully as he passed and went to find the alcalde.

“ Remember that I am Sister Mag- daiena—a sister of charitv—from Tuc- son,”’ she whispered, as he left her.

He found Don Ambrosio sitting with

me in the little room which served as his office. A servant had just

brought in a decanter and some glasses. The alealde, warm with his own hos- pitality, was in a most accommodat- ing mood, and asked onty questions enough to secure the necessary names and places of residence before granting

a license, under his official seal, em- powering Felix Marchant and

Carmen Bustamante to unite together

-In the holy bonds of matrimony. With the priest the matter of per-

forming the marriage ceremony was

not arranged so easily. It was with

Some severity that he after asking him the tomary in such cases

spoke to Felix, questions cus-

“It is strange,” he said, “that none of her family or anyone claiming the

authority of a guardian, should be pre- sent at a ceremony so solemn ind im- portant. feel that I am not author- ized to perform the ceremony without the verbal or written consent of her responsible guardian.”

* Permit me, father, to address you,” spoke a voice, soft but earnest, at our elbow. “I am her guardian.”

I turned to see Lupita, smooth and

demure in ‘her sister’s garb. In the wardrobe of the bridal chamber she

had found a black mantilla, which, by her art, had become a nunlike head covering which mostly concealed her face. The cloak which she wore to complete her attire i felt positive was the one which Sansrado had thrown from his shoulders and left on the zround when he scaled the corral wall at the San Simon stage station the night before. But it was in her voice and manner that most she showed the religieuse, pure and holy. In tones calm and convincins she continued :—

“The senorita, who is motherless, Was intrusted to my care while, with her father, we jeurneyed to Silver City, where we had honed to find you. There it was our intention that you should solemnize the marriage be- tween her and the young American caballero. Upon the read we were in- formed that you were not in town, but would be here to-night. Her father’s waggson broke down, and he was un- able to travel the rough trail to Las Polonias. He is a poor man, who can- not afford to leave his property upon the plain. He directed us to take the saddle horses and come here at once to get you to perform the ceremony, While he will travel on to meet us later in Silver City.”

“But did he send no writing giving his consent ?”

“ Father, as I have said, he is a poor

man. He cdénnot read or write. He would not have thought of writing if he could have done se. He believes

instant ’?

that no ‘ would for an dcubt the word of a sister of charity.

The priest looked at her as she stood, the hnicture of her eyes, in her earnestness, modestly rais- ed to Ieck him in the face, her fingers pleyirg with his cwn rosary which he failed to recognize as it hurge about te Re i al

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at her seriously. Carmen, her simple toilet completed, sat by the indow, her elbow on the sill, her fore- head resting upon her hand. Her | eyes and mouth showed that she was cn the point of crying. [It was little wonder that she should feel disconso- late, poor child, flung as she was

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dere sne bade them consiaer tne | said, with grave respect. “It was my { room and the entire house as theirs | duty, as you know, to make fuil en- | and saw personally that all prepara- | Quiries in a matter such as _ this. tions were made for their, comfort. Your presence and censent are suffi- More than this, she threw! open &@i cient to assure me that it is prover Wardrobe in which were hanging sev- thet I should unite the couple in mar- | ers | of the silk gowns and mantillas riage Let the vcung woman appear.” hich every Mexican woman of. her | The gayly-dressed dancers in the hall, } quality is supposed to possess. | whirling in picturesque Spanish “The beautiful senorita may wish a | Waltz, stopped in surprise as the music, , change of dress,” she said. “ Anything | at a word from Don Ambrosio, sudden- in the wardrobe is at her service to ly ceased, In a little space, clear ofl | wear, We were expecting that my | people, at the nead of the hall, the niece Tomasa and her husband would | priest was stat ding, with Felix and cecupy this room. They were to have | Carmen before him. Hardly under- been married to-night. Alas, where | standing at first ‘he meaning of what are they low 7?” Then, seeing that | was goin; on, so unex vectediy had it her listeners were interested in the come about, the guests crowded round topic, she went on to give them an ac- | gt a respectful list ince and heard the count of the intended wedding and brief and impressive ceremony which the misnap that had interfered to pre- made the young counle man and wife. Vent it. Then, the little group concerned in While Carmen laved herself with fair the ceremony nassed into the room be- Water Lupita darted irto an adjoin- d, the musicians struck up a lively Ings room, where she tipped things tune, ond once a in the dance went about and examined them inquisitive- | , ss -n ril han pete ly. I i re: 3] i i i of: the ae i$ the priest’s chamber,” she | Mexican wedding « m, the bride called “Here is his rosary. I think and groom had to appear once on the the alcalde’s wife took me for a nun. | rleor in te dance ar d to sit for a time l've a great mind to be one in earnest | at the wedding feast. But soon they fcr a little while.” Cisappeered, and saw them*no more She swept back to Carmen with the i that x nt resary ebout her neck, and, suddenly | wor the safety of our horses, I toct Stopping, stood posed before her, with | my blankets te the corral sO as to hands rossed upon her breast, the | sleep near the £nirmalis. Glancing Icng cloak drawn over her head in the irto the ballroom before I retired from attitudes of a nun at devotion. Then, ! ene Il saw Lupita amonz the

cencers upon the floor. Attired in a gaylv-{ red silk gown, she wae, both from her heauty and the grace

her dancing, the cynosure of admira- tion. In the sam f With her was lilly the Kid, his pistels bulging his ccet skirt ae he denced. The priest ad long befcre gone to bed; but, even

had he been present, he

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scme dancer the demure sister of charity who had posed as the guard- ian angel of Den Ramon’s daughter. His rosary he had found in his room

in the place where he had laid it down.

When I woke next morning in the bright sunlight, the outlaws had de-

perted. In place of their horses there were some other animafs in the corra which I hai not noted the night he- fere, but which yet had a familiar ap- pearance. The reason of this became clear to me when, on opening the gate, I saw drawn up on the outside the weggons both of Don Trinbajo and the Missourian, and accompanying them rad come the two prospectors. Fine- ing the arroyos filled with water, and the read badly washed out by the ficod that came from the rains in the mountains, they had turned off upon a waggon trial which led them, after the most cf a night spent in travel, to Las Polonias.

Somewhat to my surprise, Lupita had not accompanied the outlaws. Indeed she seemed not at all inconsolable over the departure of her lover, which led me to suspect that they had parted amicably, by mutual agreement, to meet again when the occasion should serve. The priest had gone away be- fore sunrise, so her audacious person- ation before him of a sister of char- ity remained undetected.

Senor Trinbajo, waiting for the wa- ter to fall, so that he could resume his journey to Silver City, did a good stroke of business at Las Polonias. He set up his tent in the plaza and an-

The priest was sten7ing, with Feltz and Carmen b: fore him,

nounced an afternoon and evening per- formance. Both were well attended and highly appreciated, and, of all the performers, the Senorita Lupita, acting in her familiar roles, won the loudest plaudits.

Early in the day a messenger was sent up the arroyo to find Don Ramon and notify him what had become of us. The arroyo had become fordable, and the Don came back that night with Dolores and the messenger over the trail which Trinbajo had followed. To say that he was much taken back when he learned of tme marriage is to express the situation mildly. But the joy of recovering his daughter and his gratitude to Felix for the part he had ph in her rescue prevailed over all disappointment about the failure of his matrimonial scheme concerning her, and he accepted the situation with philosophy and later with satisfaction.

By nightfall the river had so far fallen that the bridal party, with Francisco and Tomasa, from Los Te- jones, arrived soon after sundown. Most of the guests were still present, and, with no lack to eat and drink at Las Polonias, they had only to await the return of the priest from down the river to celebrate the belated nuptials in proper § style. But, though Don Ramon and Felix gave the young couple generous gifts, we did not wait to see them married. We were on our way to Silver City, where, the Apaches having left the country for the time being, we arrived on the sec- ond day without misadventure.

There I found despatches calling me imperatively to the East. So I had promptly to say adieu to our party, leaving Felix to attend to our busi- ness matters at Silver City, where he and his beautiful bride were to pass the first week of their honeymoon. Af- ter that they were to travel west- ward for e long visit at Don Ramon’s hacienda, in the Santa Cruz valley.

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