Benito's words at
the rodeo recurred to her, and she wondered if this Ranger might
not also have a way with women.
The house was very still and empty when she re-entered it.
XVII
THE GUZMAN INCIDENT
Ricardo Guzman did not return from Romero. When two days had
passed with no word from him, his sons became alarmed and started
an investigation, but without the slightest result. Even Colonel
Blanco himself could not hazard a guess as to Guzman's fate; the
man had disappeared, it seemed, completely and mysteriously.
Meanwhile, from other quarters of the Mexican town came rumors
that set the border afire.
Readers of this story may remember the famous "Guzman incident,"
so called, and the complications that resulted from it, for at the
time it raised a storm of indignation as the crowning atrocity of
the Mexican revolution, serving further to disturb the troubled
waters of diplomacy and threatening for a moment to upset the
precariously balanced relations of the two countries.
At first the facts appeared plain: a citizen of the United States
had been lured across the border and done to death by Mexican
soldiers--for it soon became evident that Ricardo was dead.
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