As they had hoped, the whole detail of forty men were in
a special car next to the one containing the arms consigned to
Michael O'Halloran, importer of pianos.
Lieutenant Chaves, in charge of the detail sent out to see that
the rifles reached Governor Megales instead of the men who had
paid for them, was finding his assignment exceedingly
uninteresting. There was at Chihuahua a certain black-eyed dona
with whom he had expected to enjoy a pleasant evening's
flirtation. It was confounded luck that it had fallen to him to
take charge of the escort for the guns. He had endured in
consequence an unpleasant day of dusty travel and many hours of
boredom through the evening. Now he was cross and sleepy, which
latter might also be said of the soldiers in general.
He was connected with a certain Arizona outfit which of late had
been making money very rapidly. If one more coup like the last
could be pulled off safely by his friend Wolf Leroy he would
resign from the army and settle down. It would then no longer be
necessary to bore himself with such details as this.
There was, of course, no necessity for alertness in his present
assignment.
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