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 you'll go home with me, where we can be snug and private."

He spoke in Spanish to Lieutenant Bartholomew, who nodded.

"Certainly, certainly, señor. Until to-morrow morning."

And Jack gladly marched home hand-in-hand with his father, James Pursley, of Kentucky, the discoverer of gold in Colorado, and the first American resident in Santa Fe.