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Froh the hole into the blackness belon the hall came the barefoot landlord, awakened by the screa his revolver belt about his hips as he ran Not having been furnished with paja, and so he had lost no ti

When the two, now joined by Benito, reached the street they found the guard there, battering in the bank doors Benito, fearing for the life of Tony, which if anyone took should be taken by hi with both lips and hands the remarkable accident which had precipitated Tony into the bank

The sergeant listened, though he did not believe, and when the doors had fallen in, he commanded Tony to come out with his hands above his head Then followed an investigation which disclosed the looting of the safe, and the great hole in the ceiling through which Tony had tueant and the landlord were in Billy's rooo," cried the excited Boniface "This is his room He has cut a hole in my floor which I shall have to pay to have repaired"

A captain came next, sleepy-eyed and profane When he heard what had happened and that the wealth which he had been detailed to guard had been taken while he slept, he tore his hair and promised that the sentry should be shot at dawn

By the time they had returned to the street all the male population of Cuivaca was there and most of the female

"One-thousand dollars," cried the bank president, "to the man who stops the thief and returns to me what the villain has stolen"

A detach the bank as the offer was o?" asked the captain "Did no one see hi that he had seen him and that he had ridden north, when it occurred to him that a thousand dollars--even a thousand dollars Mex--was a great deal of money, and that it would carry both hi for pleasure beside

Then up spoke a tall, thin man with the skin of a coffee bean

"I saw him, Senor Capitan," he cried "He kept his horse inthat he was riding to visit a senorita He fooled me, the scoundrel; but I will tell you--he rode south I saw him ride south with my own eyes"