"
"They'll try to make it lively for us, I suppose?"
"They will certainly watch us closely, and will take advantage of any
carelessness on our part."
"Do you think there is any chance of our finding Manuel Perea?"
"Hardly; he is too far off our route. We cannot leave the train to
look him up."
There was a suspicious choke in the voice of the little corporal when
he said: "It is awful to think we are going so near the dear old boy
and can do nothing for him. Only think of his poor mother!"
"I was told at the fort that she has offered five thousand dollars to
the man who will bring Manuel to her," said Frank. "I wish I could
bring him in for nothing."
"Brenda says she believes we shall find him somehow," Henry said. "I
hope she is right, for I saw his mother at Algodones and promised her
to rescue him or become a prisoner with him."
"So she wrote me at Los Pinos," I replied. "Well, something may turn
up to enable us to serve his mother. Let us go to bed."
Next morning we were again on the road by starlight. A march of
sixteen miles brought us to Agua Fria--cold water.
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