"I had not thought of that," was the reply.
"You'd better be thinking about it!" said Jimmie. "Some one will
come down here and geezle it!"
"No one will ever find it," Fremont said.
"But we found it!" Stevens remarked.
"There are a couple of men in my company," the lieutenant said,
then, "who are anxious to get out of the service. Why not leave
them here to keep possession? After this revolution is over,
you can come down here and work it, or they can handle it for you.
They are honest and capable."
When spoken with about the matter the men were eager to undertake
the task of guarding the mine until peace should be restored,
after which they were willing to undertake its development.
And so, when the party left, these men stood on the shelf of
rock by the opening, reminding Lieutenant Gordon and Fremont
for the twentieth time to be sure to send up provisions. It
is needless to add that the provisions were sent!
When the party reached El Paso one of the first men they met
was Don Miguel, who smiled in a sarcastic manner as he greeted Nestor.
"And so you were released?" the boy asked.
"On orders from Washington," was the reply.
"The case ended when the arms were captured," Nestor said.
"And if they had not been taken?"
"If a raid had actually taken place, you would have been charged
with murder," was the quiet reply.
"Only for you," snarled the other, "my plans would have succeeded."
"Only for the strange combination of circumstances which brought
us both to the Cameron building that night, you should say,"
Nestor replied.
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