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Forin a little Mexican town on the

border There were really tns, but they were built together with

only a strip of a hundred feet between Along this strip ran the

border itself, with a tent pitched on the A it The Aht and clean, orderly

and self-respecting, but only a hundred feet away, unke-hell in plain vieas Mexico

itself--leisurely, improvident, not overscrupulous Mexico

At first Rudolph was fairly contented It a the innu the croupiers in the "Owl" He liked wandering

into that notorious resort and shoving Hindus, China down a silver dollar and watched the

dealers with cunning, avaricious eyes

He liked his own situation, too It amused him to think that here he was

safe, while only a hundred feet away he was a crio to the very border itself, and jeer at the uard there

"If I was on that side," he would say, "you'd have me in one of those

rotten uniforms, wouldn't you? Come on over, fellows The liquor's