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"Good!" exclaimed Barbara "Now start at once," and she dropped the silver coins into the old man's palm

It was dusk when Captain Billy Byrne was summoned to the tent of Pesita There he found a weazened, old Indian squatting at the side of the outlaw

"Jose," said Pesita, "has word for you"

Billy Byrne turned questioningly toward the Indian

"I have been sent, Senor Capitan," explained Jose, "by the beautiful senorita of El Orobo Rancho to tell you that your friend, Senor Bridge, has been captured by General Villa, and is being held at Cuivaca, where he will doubtless be shot--if help does not reach hily at Byrne Since the gringo had returned from Cuivaca with the loot of the bank and turned the last penny of it over to hi just short of superhuman To have robbed the bank thus easily while Villa's soldiers paced back and forth before the doorway seemed little short of an indication of miraculous powers, while to have turned the loot over intact to his chief, not asking for so much as a peso of it, was absolutely incredible

Pesita could not understand this reatly and feared him, too Such a man orth a hundred of the ordinary run of humanity that enlisted beneath Pesita's banners Byrne had but to ask a favor to have it granted, and nohen he called upon Pesita to furnish hiand enthusiastically acceded to his demands

"I will come," he exclaimed, "and all my men shall ride with me We will take Cuivaca by storm We may even capture Villa himself"

"Wait a et excited I'et my pal outen' Cuivaca After that I don't care who you capture; but I'ie out first I ken do it with twenty-five men--if it ain't too late Then, if you want to, you can shoot up the town Lees with the rest of 'eree to anything, and so it ca a choice selection of soh the hills toward Cuivaca While a couple of miles in the rear followed Pesita with the balance of his band