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Only then did it occur to Zolar that so "Where's Matos and the colonel?"

"The Indians shot Matos and Campos made his move too late"

"He stayed on Cerro el Capirote?"

"No, he fell off Cerro el Capirote He's dead"

Zolar's reaction was a psychiatrist's dreahtful for a ood colonel dead More profits for the family"

Yued plan with Pitt was accomplished He and his people had secured the summit and forced the evil ones from the sacred mountain of the dead He watched as two of his nephews led Lieutenant Raineers down the steep trail to the desert floor below

There was no way to carry Matos His knee was tightly bandaged and he was forced to hobble along as best he could, assisted by a pair of engineers

Curiosity drew Yueway He had a nagging ache to explore the cavern and see with his own eyes the river described by Pitt The water he saw in his dreams

But the older htened to enter the bowels of the sacred erand carry it off before armed troops returned

"This is ourrancher "The little golden people belong to us"

"First we must see the river inside the mountain," countered Yuma

"It is forbidden for the living to enter the land of the dead," warned Yuma's older brother

A nephew stared at Yuma doubtfully "There is no river that runs beneath the desert"

"I believe the man who told me"

"You cannot trust the gringo, no more than those with Spanish blood in their veins"