The young engineers in Mexico or fighting the mine swindlers . atter what happened to him afterwards,Don Luis was now furiously bent on getting theyoung engineers off on the lonely mountain trailwhere Gato and his comrades were lying in waitfor the two young Americans. I shall have no more questions for you, forthe present, Senor Honda replied. Just nowI wish to have some conversation with theseAmericans. Then come, senores, cried Don Luis, withforced gayety, as he thrust a hand under thearms of Tom and Harry. Come, we will haveour ride and our talk. We will be back here inhalf an hour and the
The young engineers in Mexico or fighting the mine swindlers . atter what happened to him afterwards,Don Luis was now furiously bent on getting theyoung engineers off on the lonely mountain trailwhere Gato and his comrades were lying in waitfor the two young Americans. I shall have no more questions for you, forthe present, Senor Honda replied. Just nowI wish to have some conversation with theseAmericans. Then come, senores, cried Don Luis, withforced gayety, as he thrust a hand under thearms of Tom and Harry. Come, we will haveour ride and our talk. We will be back here inhalf an hour and then we shall hear this affairthrough. Come! Tom Reade threw off the fellows arm, ex-claiming, warningly: If you touch me again, you snake in thegrass, Ill reduce you to powder with a fistthats fairly aching to hit you! The vehemence of Toms declaration madeevery one within hearing gasp with astonish-ment What does this mean, Reade? gaspedPresident Haynes, looking thunderstruck. It means, sir, reported Tom, wheelingabout, that this fellow, Montez, threatened us. This Man Is a IN MEXICO 235 with death if we did not sign a glaringly falsereport concerning El Sombrero Mine. We werealso to be killed if we did not stand by our re-port to the fullest degree after you and yourfriends arrived. Then El Sombrero Mine is worthless!cried Mr. Haynes, his face turning a ghastlywhite. As far as I know, sir, or as far as Hazel-ton knows, Tom Reade made prompt Sombrero isnt worth the cost even of fill-ing up the shaft. And you, Reade—and you, Hazelton—themen we trusted implicitly—you stood by andsaw us robbed! I CHAPTER XXIV CONCLUSION ««1 DONT blame you for being angry, Tomanswered, quickly. However, you maysafely go a bit slow on the idea that westood by to see you robbed, merely to save ourlives. We had tried to escape from here. Weeven sent out two letters by secret messengers,these letters to be mailed at points distant fromhere. The letters would have told our
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