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the fifth day, I drove across town and caught the 

 Sunset Express to El Paso, which is a two days' 

 run. Upon arrival in El Paso I set about at 

 once to see if I could have my guns bonded 

 across the line. It was just at this time that the 

 uprising and the revolution were spreading 

 throughout Mexico, and I was told by many it 

 would be impossible to get my guns over. How- 

 ever, I took a rather optimistic view of it and ex- 

 pected the situation to improve, but on the con- 

 trary it grew worse from day to day. I waited 

 in El Paso four days trying to get my guns over 

 and expecting the trouble to abate, but each day 

 the papers told more thrilling stories of the 

 spreading revolution, bloody conflicts, the killing 

 of Americans, and, finally, the day before I left 

 for Casas Grandes, on the Mexican Northwestern 

 Railroad, they fired on the train, killed two pas- 

 sengers and several troops, cut the wires and 

 burned some of the bridges. After reading this 

 the morning I w r as ready to start I telephoned 

 over to find out if the train would start out that 

 morning. They said they were going to run it, 

 but didn't know how far it would get. Deter- 

 mined not to be turned back to New York, with- 

 out at least a try to have my hunt, I crossed the 

 Rio Grande River to Colonia Juarez, boarded 



