ingle gents and
business women--they're the ones that have the money. It was interesting,
too. I'd put an 'ad' in the Sunday paper and all day Monday folks would be
coming to see my rooms; I met some real nice people that way. Well, I
think you'd better be turning in; you'll feel this to-morrow."

Scott and Hard rose and said good-night.

"That's a plucky girl, Scott," said the latter, as they walked down the
silent road together.

"Do you know who brought her over from Conejo?" demanded Scott, with a
chuckle.

"I thought you said Mendoza did."

"Mendoza's sick and she took a dislike to old Mrs. Morgan, so she came
over with Juan Pachuca in his car."

"You're joking."

"I am not. I drove as far as Junipero Hill and when I got to the top of it
I saw a big car at the foot, twisted about, almost in the ditch. I found
Johnny on his stomach under the car and the girl holding an electric torch
for him. She said she'd been underneath giving him a hand with it. I
wouldn't put it past her."

"But the child must be out of her head," protested Hard, weakly. "They
don't do those things--even in these degenerate days."

"I guess you and me are behind the times, Henry. And then, you know
Pachuca's manners. Something between the King of Spain and Chauncey Depew.
Any woman'd fall for them."

"But----"

"But nothing. Pachuca brought her over and he behaved himself while he was
doing it as near as I can find out. What I want to know is what the smooth
young devil wants around here?"

"If there's a revolution in the air, Pachuca would throw in his lot with
Obregon and De la Huerta. What he thinks about the First Chief is
unprintable."

"He had the cheek to tell me to close up the mine and get out of the
country," grinned Scott.

"That may mean something and it may not. They're keen about their bit of
melodrama, these chaps. My El Paso paper says that there is a rumor again
about troops having been ordered in from Chihuahua. That looks as though
they were afraid of something."

"Or else were trying to stir up something," replied the other. "Obregon's
never going to stand for Carranza's candidate for the election. His own
chances are too good. It might be a wise plan for the Government to stir
up a little revolution on its own hook and get in the first hits."

"Might be. Anything might be down here; that's why it's such an
interesting place to live. Still, I don't altogether like the idea of
Pachuca roaming the country