Frank Merriwell in Mexico: The Search for the Silver Palace — page 7: what you’re looking at

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FRANK ME Frank was calmly refilling the maga-| zine of the rifle with fresh cartridges. ‘Why you didn’t shoot some uf der pandits deat, Vrankie?’’ asked Hans. ‘‘T do not wish to shed human blood if I can avoid it.”? , ‘*¥ou don’t done dot uf you shoot Six or elefen uf dose togs.”” ‘'Oh, they are human beings.”’ “Don’t you belief me. _ Dey vos volves —kiotes.’? “Well, I did not care to sueat them if| Icould aid the man in any other way, and I succeeded. See, they have given up the pursuit, and the fugitive is far away in that little cloud of dust.”’ “Prank? | ‘*Ves, professor.’’ back to his dying partner.’’ | ‘And leave Jack Burk here alone— pessibly to die alone?’ 4 We can’t do that.” ‘““Of course not.” ‘What then?” But Burk—— sor! He is fiat on his face in the door- way! He fell ‘like that after trying to shout to his partner.’? | _ Frank leaped forward, and turned the ‘man on his back. It was a drawn, ghastly : face that the trio gazed down upon. Professor Scotch quickly knelt beside ‘the motionless form, feeling for the pulse, and then shaking his head gravely. “What is it?’ anxiously asked Frank. “Has he——” He was silent at a motion from the pro- ment of the man’s heart. After a few seconds, Professor Scotcl | straightened up, and solemnly declared: “This is the end for him. nothing more.”’ ‘*‘F¥e is dead ?-- (Was, 13 There was an awed hush. 2IWELL IN MEXICO, ~ nt ‘‘Now wecan leave him,’” the eee ‘‘Pacheco, the bandit, _ sor finally said. cannot harm him now.’ They lifted the body and — ‘bore it back! to the wretched bed of straw, on which they tenderly placed it. “The idol—the golden image? 2 seit the professor. “Vou must not forget that, : ‘Frank. = “Tittle danger that I shall epek if It is here, where it fell from aye fingers as L You have it?” ran out.’? He picked up the image, ai placed it in one of his pockets. : Then, having covered the face of Jack with his “handkerchief, Frank led. Burk the way from the hut. , Their horses had been tethered near rat. ‘“We should follow him, and bring him eel and they were soon mounted and. siding away toward Mendoza. The sun beat down hotly on the plain and the sky was of a bright blue, sich as Frank had oie. of white sand, seen elsewhere. . Outside Mendoza was a narrow donnie , “We'll have to consider the matter.|but afew feet in width, and half filled: Look—see there, profes-} with water, from which rose little whiffs. of hot co 54 Along the side of the eehal was a tetas fringed with, gering rude -stone wall, bushes in strips and eivinne, Beyond the canal, which seen vistas of tree trunks, could be glinipses of brown fields, —- away into: pale pink, violet, and gre The dome and towers of a church a against the dim blue low down, and on every side were spots of cream -white, red. - fessor, who bent to listen for some move-/and yellow, with patches of dark eTeen intervening, revealing bits of the tow ™. with orange groves all about. Across the fields ran a road that was. We call do|ankle deep with dust, and along the road, a string of burrows, loaded with ereat. bundles of green fodder, were’ crawling: into the town. An undulating mass of yellow diet fixed ike: boundary of the plain of sand, through: COMIICcaool S (CO) iin