Jack Burk. "It

" questio

sued us across the desert, but we escaped him. I have been in hiding her

door, and was looking away on th

rsuing a white man-plainly an Ame

the shots

at had been leaning against the wall of the h

he professor. "No countryman of mine can be in da

you mea

ck at thos

will bring the ent

e Yankee is good

ring the animal which bore him. At least a dozen dark-faced, fierce

American, a native of the United States. He had turned in

e knee. The professor followed

on the point of shooting, the voice of Jack Burk soun

my partner! Al!

and it did not reach the ear

ies of the pursuers, sending a bandit rolling over and over in the dust, to

t, Vrankie," complim

ts quickly swerved away from the hut, feel

as deflected, giving the fugitive a chance to get away into Men

, saw the figures in front of the

ome to the hut, but the horseman did not seem to u

oded the professor.

a trap to run i

e is no t

e know

Of course he could not be sure it wa

g the magazine of the rif

ome uf der pandits deat

shed human blood i

uf you shoot six or

are huma

ef me? Dey vos

ny other way, and I succeeded. See, they have given up the purs

ra

prof

, and bring him back

rk here alone-poss

n't do

ourse

t th

there, professor! He is flat on his face in the doorway!

man on his back. It was a drawn, ghas

the motionless form, feeling for the p

nxiously asked

professor, who bent to listen for

essor Scotch straightened

for him. We can

is d

es

as an a

fessor finally said. "Pacheco,

back to the wretched bed of straw

d the professor. "You must not f

get it. It is here, where it fe

ge, and placed it in

Jack Burk with his handkerchief

r at hand, and they were soon moun

hite sand, and the sky was of a bright bl

w feet in width, and half filled with water,

staggering rude stone wall, fringe

and, through vistas of tree trunks, could be seen glimpses o

every side were spots of cream-white, red, and yellow, with patches of dark

st, and along the road a string of burros, loaded with g

nally revealed itself as a drove of

canal. The women were in straw hats, with their black hair plaited, and little chil

all ages and both sexes, lolling beneath the bushes or soaking t

had taken their bath, and were waiting for t

e girls stared curiously at the passing trio

ot you dinks apoudt dot pusiness uf daki

untry," smiled Frank; "and they do n

. Id keeps mein plood mein face in so much

tice with what deftness they disrobe, slipping out of their cloth

'd like to took mein chances py look

down as they rod

. "We must move lively, if we mean to

," nodded Pro

rtaker, but the fellow was very lazy, and he

e?ors, to-mor

he sight of money. Learning where the corpse was, he procur

ps in the canal, sousing their babies in

out their hair and chatting merrily amon

n some law for do

e undertaker's burro crawling along at an aggravating p

s settling in a blue haze on the

ket lamp he always

ishment broke

sor!" he called; "