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Rozales started back toward the ring of s Will you er from Granavenoo is a captain and that it is ht injure hi poor, bleeding unhappy Mexico"

Again Rozales bowed and departed This tiuel squatting on the ground with two dirty-faced peons standing guard over them The latter were some little distance away They h they had looked intoward thee, and broke into a laugh

"What's the joke?" asked Bridge "Are we going to be hanged instead of being shot?"

"We ain't goin' to be either," said Billy, "an' I'm a captain Whaddaya know about that?"

He explained all that had taken place between hiuel listened attentively to his every word

"I t'ought it was about de only way out fer us," said Billy "We were in worse than I t'ought"

"Can the Bowery stuff, Billy," cried Bridge, "and talk like a white ood-naturedly "You see I forget when there is anything pressing like this, to chew about Then I fall back into the old lingo Well, as I was saying, I didn't want to do it unless you would stay too, but he wouldn't have you He has it in for all gringos, and that bull you passed hin country called Grand Avenue! He fell for it like a rube for the tapped-wire stuff He said if I wouldn't stay and help him he'd croak the bunch of us"

"How about that ace-in-the-hole, you were telling ot it," and Billy fondled so under his left arainst the whole bunch? I et us all in the end This other way is better, though I hate to have to split with you, old round Bridge whistled, and cleared his throat