"
"Maybe we would and maybe we wouldn't. We'll have to take a chance on
that," replied the bearded Mexican sullenly.
To their prisoner it was plain that the men were I growing more anxious
every hour. They regretted the course they had followed and yet could
see no way of safety opening to them. Suspicious by nature, Sebastian
judged the American by himself. If their positions were reversed, he
knew he would break any pledge he might make and go straight to the
sheriff with his story. Therefore they could not with safety release the
man. To kill him would be dangerous. To keep him prisoner was possible
only for a limited time. Whatever course they followed seemed precarious
and uncertain. Temperamentally he was inclined to put an end to the man
and try a bolt for the hills, but he found in Pablo an unexpected
difficulty. The young man would not hear of this. He had made up his
mind riot to let Gordon be killed if he could prevent it, though he did
not tell the American so.
Menendez made another trip after supplies next day, but he came back
hurriedly without them. Pesquiera's poster offering a reward of one
hundred dollars for the capture of him or Sebastian had brought him up
short and sent him scurrying back to his hole.
Gordon used the poster for a text. His heart was jubilant within him,
for he knew now that Valencia was not back of this attack upon him.
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