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CAPTAIN ALVAREZ 69 "Bonita!" Her uncle was at her side, holding an opened note. She saw his fingers shake about the paper. "Rosas bids me meet him in the fortress, ready to fly the country with him in event of Federal defeat to- morrow. I go." He paused—listen- ing; then, with resolute calmness, bent to her forehead. "Good-night, my child," he said; "sleep well." Bonita watched his tall form disap- glare stood the blue-eyed gringo, with Mercedes in his arms. At the sound of her gasp the pair turned. Wain- wright was the first to find speech. "You dont understand " She looked at him wearily, as tho from a very great distance. There was no fury in her, only a tiredness. "I do understand, sefior," she said quietly; "and now will you please to go?" He started again to speak, looked at ALVAREZ AND MERCEDES CONCEAL THE BODY OP LIRZO pear; then, with a long breath, turned. "Come, Mercedes," she said to her terrified maid, '' we will retire.'' Three hours later, thru her dreams, she heard sounds below. Slipping a silken wrap about her, she stole to the head of the stairs. Perhaps her uncle had returned. She listened. The sounds came again—voices "If I hadn't overheard Lirzo's plans, she would have been gone by now to one of the holes of that wily fox," Alvarez was saying. "You've been a brick to help me, little girl—" Down the stairs swept Bonita and to the lighted doorway. In the candle- her and bowed. The door closed be- hind him. Ensued, between the two women, a silence, broken by the sudden spit and snarl of rifle-bullets outside. "Oh, he will be killed!" wailed Mercedes. She ran to the frozen girl, shaking her violently. '' Senorita, you mistake. It was only out of gratitude he kiss me—that gringo! He had jus' kill Lirzo, who come to steal you, an' I hear the noise, come down an' help him wrap up the body so the bandits would think it you. An' now hark! They have foun' him again! Thees time they kill!"