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killing and killing. But there's no use in saying anything
to them!"
"Why, Demetrio"
"Hm, I don't know. . . . Because . . . because . . . do
you see . . . What we've got to do is to make the men
toe the mark. I've got orders to stop a band of men
coming through Cuquio, see In a few days we'll have
to fight the Carranzistas. It will be great to beat the hell
out of them."
Valderrama, the tramp, who had enlisted in Demetrio's
army one day without anyone remembering the
time or the place, overheard some of Demetrio's words.
Fools do not eat fire. That very day Valderrama disappeared
mysteriously as he had come.
V
They entered the streets of Juchipila as the church
bells rang, loud and joyfully, with that peculiar tone that
thrills every mountaineer.
"It makes me think we are back in the days when the
revolution was just beginning, when the bells rang like
mad in every town we entered and everybody came out
with music, flags, cheers, and fireworks to welcome us,"
said Anastasio Montanez.
"They don't like us no more," Demetrio returned.
"Of course. We're crawling back like a dog with its tail
between its legs," Quail remarked.
"It ain't that, I guess. They don't give a whoop for the
other side either."
"But why should they like us"
They spoke no more.
Presently they reached the city square and stopped in
front of an octagonal, rough, massive church, reminiscent
of the colonial period. At one time the square must