Frank Merriwell in Mexico: The Search for the Silver Palace — page 18: what you’re looking at

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_. fainter, left the town for the open plain, | 7 6 | FRANK MERRIWELL IN MEXICO, ‘At this monient, a horse with a double | will But Pacheco is not the worst!’ burden swept past in the flare of light. ihe suddenly gasped. ‘‘There is Carlos ~ “Help! Frank—Frank Merriwell ! | Merriwell, who must be one of the ~Help—save me! ' | bandits. He may take a fancy to torture _ “Merciful goodness!’ cried Frank. ‘<It} Professor Scotch. simply because the pro- is the professor’: s voice !"* " Fessor is my guardian.”? —. “Und he vos on dot“horse!”? “What you say, senor??? asked the .. ‘Yes—a captive!’ . feurlotis Mexican. ‘“‘I do not understand “Dot's vat he vos!” all dat you speak.”’ “They are carrying him off!” Frank turned away with a gesture of | “Vou pet!” despair. — “Our own horses—where are they? We “Vot you goin’ to done, Vrankie?’? Iust pursue! What have become of our:asked Hans, dolefully. horses??? | “Ido not seem able to do anything _ “Dose pandits haf dooken them, I sus-| now. This matter must be placed ‘before bect.’? | [the authorities, but I do not fancy that This was true; Prank had killed two of | will amount to anything. The officers the horses belonging to the bandits, but! ‘here are afraid of the bandits, and the the. desperadoes” had escaped with the government is criminally negligent in the three animals hired by our friends. ;matter of pushing and punishing the out- But that was not the worst, for Profés-. ‘laws. ‘The capture of an American to be sor Scotch had been captured and carried | ‘held for rausom will be considered by away by the bold ruffians. | | them as a very funny joke.” Frank heard the professor’s appeals for | “Vel I don’d seen vot you goin’ to help, and heard a mocking, cold- -blooded | done apout id.” i Jaugh that he knew Caine from the lips of | ““T do not see myself, but come on, and .€arlos Merriwell, 2 we will find out.?? Then the clatter of hoofs passed on). a : : “He sought the highest officials of the down the street, growing fainter and town, and laid the matter before them. In and anally died out in the night. tested their pained solicitation and cém- A ae | miseration, but when he urged them to | | do something, they replied: CHAPTER VI. ‘‘To-morrow, senor, or the next day, 7 i , "9 CARRIED INTO THE MOUNTAINS. we will see what we may be able to do. 3 ““To-morrow!’ cried Frank, desper- In vain Frank attempted to organize ajately. “With you everything is to- ' party to pursue the bandits. The « citizens | morrow, to-morrow! ‘To-day, to-night, of Mendoza were coinpletely terrorized, now is the time to do something | Delays - and they had no heart to follow the des are fatal, particularly in pursuing bandits - peradoes out. upon the plain, which was | and kidnapers.”’ . the. bandits’ own stamping-ground. But they shook their heads sadly, and _. Frank urged, entreated, begged, and! continued to express sy mipathy and regret, — finally grew furious, but he simply wasted | ‘all the while protegting it would be im- his breath. ‘possible to do anything before to-morrow .. “No, no, senor,” protested a Méxican. | or the next day. the most polite manner possible, they pro- ~ Vou no find anybody dat chase Pacheco! Frank was so furious and: desperate that — '. dis night—no, no, not much! — lhe even thought of following the bandits ‘‘Pacheco? You don’t mean to say— | with Hans as an only companion, but the you can’t mean——”? man of whom.he had obtained the horses “Dat was Pacheco. and his band, /in the first place would not let him have -».genor.”? other animals. Frank groaned. | | That was not all. This man had gone -: “Pacheco!’? he muttered, huskily—| through some kind of preceeding to law- _ Pacheco, the worst wretch in all Mexico! |/fully seize Frank and Hans and hold He 1 is utterly heartless, and the professor them till the animals captured by the COMmicbool S (CO) iin