Come!
I know everything."
"Lies! Lies!" Rosa's voice grew shrill. "Out of this house! I know
you. It was you who betrayed Panfilo, and his blood is on your
hands, assassin!" With the last word she made as if to retreat,
but Dave was too quick; he seized her, and for an instant they
struggled breathlessly.
Dave had reasoned beforehand that his only chance of discovering
anything from this girl lay in utterly terrorizing her and in
profiting by her first panic; therefore he pressed his advantage.
He succeeded better than he had dared to hope.
"You know who killed Senor Ed," he cried, fiercely. "The fortune-
teller read your plans, and there is no use to deny it."
Rosa screamed again; she writhed; she tried to sink her teeth into
her captor's flesh. In her body was the strength of a full-grown
man, and Dave could hardly hold her. But suddenly, as the two
scuffled, from the back room of the house came a sound which
caused Dave to release the girl as abruptly as he had seized her--
it was the clink and tinkle of Mexican spurs upon a wooden floor.
XXVI
THE WATER-CURE
Without an instant's hesitation Dave flung himself past Rosa and
through the inner door.
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