"
"You think she ran away to escape him?"
"Exactly."
Dave breathed more easily, for this seemed to settle Strange's
theory. The next instant, however, his apprehensions were doubled,
for Benito added;
"No doubt she went to La Feria."
Law uttered an incredulous exclamation. "Not THERE! Surely she
wouldn't go to La Feria at such a time. Why, that country is
ablaze. Americans are fleeing from Mexico."
"I hadn't thought of that," Benito confessed. "But if she didn't
go there, where did she go? Saints above! It is a fine condition
of affairs when a wife keeps secrets from her husband, eh? I
suppose Dolores feared I would tell Don Eduardo, God rest his
soul! This much I do know, however: not long ago there came a
letter from General Longorio, offering settlement for those cattle
he stole in his government's name. Dolores told me the senora was
highly pleased and was going to Mexico for her money. It was a
mark of Longorio's favor, you understand me? He's a great--friend,
an ardent admirer." Benito winked. "Dolores told me all about
that, too. No, I think they went to La Feria."
Dave remembered his first conversation with Phil Strange and the
fortune-teller's insistence that some powerful person was behind
Jose Sanchez.
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