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angry if I were molested. This finished the soldier person, 
and he disappeared amid much talking and great shakings of 
the stick by the first officer or brigand. 
Still no sound of wheels, but a pleasant-faced Indian woman 
came along carrying a huge basket on her head, a baby in a 
blanket on her back and two chickens in her hands. I told 
her as best I-could that I was afraid of the man, and she 
smiled, let me carry the chickens, and we trotted along to- 
gether, followed by the militant brigand. But my guide’s road 
turned off from the main road, and I was again alone with the 
barefooted, blue-calico-dressed officer. Fortunately for my 
peace of mind, I soon came to a small adobe house, a cantina 
where all the Indians stopped for a drink. My captor said 
that I was not to stop, but I stopped. The Indian woman who 
sold the drinks told me that I must do as the man said—all 
this in Spanish, so that I mostly guessed at what was said. 
The officer said in a loud voice that I must go on, pronto 
vamoose. I knew those words, and I sat a little more firmly 
on the box, and a dozen or more Indians gathered about me, 
' and a little five-year-old girl who had left her burden at the 
door put her hand in mine with some soft Spanish words. A 
pleasant-faced Indian began to argue with the officer, I thought 
in my behalf, and all the time the Indians came in and out of 
the little room, getting, I am afraid, a little more white eye 
than was good for them and all stopping to regard the strange 
Inglese lady. Ten rather anxious minutes went by, and my 
captor was making further violent efforts with his stick when 
I heard our driver’s insistent “Mula! Mula!” Never will 
mules look so good to me again as those five that dashed 
around the corner and drew up with a flourish in front of the 
little cantina. 
The Gualtemaltecan’s attitude changed amazingly when he 
saw five other Americans. He insisted that he thought I was 
poisoning the plants, but so differently did he feel that he 
went out and brought a beautiful chrysalis, a souvenir of the 
occasion, perhaps. 
