They had a great victory at San Pedro--thirty
kilometers from La Feria. Not a prisoner was spared, senora."
"Is General Longorio with them?" Alaire inquired, quickly.
"That is what I came to tell you. It is believed that he is, for
he takes his army with him wherever he goes. He is a great
fighter; he has a nose for it, that man, and he strikes like the
lightning--here, there, anywhere." Jose, it seemed, was a rabid
Potosista.
But Dolores held opposite sympathies. She uttered a disdainful
sniff. "To be sure he takes his army with him, otherwise the
Constitutionalistas would kill him. Wait until Pancho Gomez meets
this army of Longorio's. Ha! You will see some fighting."
Jose blew two fierce columns of cigarette smoke from his nostrils.
"Longorio is a gentleman; he scorns to use the tricks of that
bandit. Pancho Gomez fights like a savage. Think of the cowardly
manner in which he captured Espinal the last time. What did he do
then? I'll tell you. He laid in wait and allowed a train-load of
our troops to pass through his lines toward Chihuahua; then he
took possession of the telegraph wires and pretended to be the
Federal commander.
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