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7 - Mexico as soon as SataNe: £ for hee ia) Vera Chas and perhaps catch a steamer AE elared that the vengeance of the N anigos there for New Orleans. ss extended to all members of a victim’s! ‘‘Onthe other hand there was the family. ‘chance that by guing to San Blas they Sse Warren Parmenter had reason to be-| could get a steamer at once and so get lieve that this was true, for hardly had — from the country more quickly. z his father’s body | buried and right | | °‘They had not fully decided which while the police were supposed to be in-| ‘course to take when they retired for the iE vestigating the af he found one of night. these little tags upon ‘his | bedroom door. | ‘*Young Parmenter was rather inclined ime ‘The young man was Ei cea? to see to go toward the City of Mexico because a the thing throug xh and fight it ont much. if that COuTSe prov ed successful they | as his father tried to do, but his mother Would get out of the country sooner than and sister were so shocked by the tragedy by taking the other route. that he felt bound to care for them. ‘He was feeling quite safe from in- ae ‘He let it be understood that he was terference by the Nanigos, ee as | ~oe voing to leave Manzantilo at once. : | have said there had been no sign of them _ ‘He engaged a wagon for the purpose during their three.days’ wagon journey. Of being driven to Mexico City. _ “He got up at daybreak the next 2 “The nearest railway is fully two hun- Morning because whichever way they = ed miles from Manzanillo, so that a Went they would have to make an early sc wagon j sity start, and he was considerably startled to ae = “With a great pretense at secrecy he find one of those wretched little tags eo Og ey let his route be known. Then, stuck upon his bedroom door. ‘*This was proof enough that although he had thrown the enemy off the trail by his clever trick at Manzanillo, they had naking a start and getting well away trom ‘the town he changed his sourse completely and started toward the pe e ‘northwest intending to reach San Blas, discovered the fraud, had chased him up = — were he hoped to catch a coastwise | and overtaken him. steamer and so niake his way up to San| ‘Well, he hastily scratched the tag off the door so that his mother or sister _ *Anparently his ruse was effective for) ™ight not chance to see it, then he the family 3 ae among the mountains aroused them, breakfasted with them and for two days without seeinc ous of ‘escorted them to the railway statton. Bela ls oneiniod He had timed his movements so that ‘At the end of the third day they came. he arrived at the station just a moment ie ae eel Ri or two before the trains were due to start | A Way. “From there they could 20 nation to ‘They left at the same time, one go- _ Mexico, along journey with more than ing in one direction and the other, as I One change of cars, or they could take said in another. Jk train direct for San Hiss about one hun- © Young Parmenter went to the ticket See niles OI office and “bought three tickets to Mexico There were no geen leaving Ameca City. | Eis =e direction that night, but they “The train for that place was directly Francisco. sing up time-tables, that in- front of the station and on the next morning two trains would track just beyond, was the train for San _ 4€ave at the same time, one for the inte- Blas. | ‘flor and the other for the coast. bs et Parmenter led “Tt was hard to decide which rise n tO! foy