ok the train from Mendoza to Zacat

f finding a reliable guide, which was

et, and the full-blooded Spaniards did not seem

for the man he wanted, and he was finally

g out without a guide, depending on a compass, with which he believ

ped that night was a fine-appearing man, and

ire story, looking very grave, s

ne, young se?ors. Without a guide you might get los

o obtain a trustw

ut I think I may be able to

it will be a

t can be done. If you would take my advic

y n

be heard of again, it would not be easy for your friends to discover what had become of you. Pacheco directed

" said Frank, quietly; "

to change the determination of you Americans. If you have firmly decided to go, you

would do his best to obtain a guide, F

ng trained himself to sleep under almost any circumstances. Hans also slept a

t is time we w

in surprise. "We don'd peen asleep m

s mor

ou so! Vell, dot

and declaring over and over that the nights in Mexico

d it proved the best they had found since leaving "the Sta

imself informed them that he h

ws the desert and he knows the mountains. You may depend

son poncho, and smoking a cigarette. He was a dark-faced, som

licy to delay longer, and a bargain was soon made. Pedro not only agreed to ta

ey rode out of Zacatecas, and, with the s

re shade and water were to be found, and, at noonday, they rested long beside a spring, with the sun beat

than it did Frank. The Dutch boy

onward again. They did not halt as the grateful shadows

they saw the twinkling of a ligh

clared Pedro, in Spani

s," suggested Fra

ts do not build fires on the ope

to lead them strai

ispered

ns ready. This m

of two or three horses, but no human being was to be seen, although

ing somewhat uneasy

sked Frank, wit

ans. "Vos der camp left al

been heard, and the ones at the

aype dey haf der tro

likely,"

ut there was no answer, save that one of

tried it

ho is there, and

tly a man's v

w but you wus Greasers, an' I ain't got no use fer ther onery varmints. As yer

tion that dispelled Frank's fears immediate

ere he had been stretched on the s

irelight fell on the man's face. "It's