Along the Rio Grande Page: 64
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64 Aiong the Rio Grande.
"I'd never been in Mexico and knew nothing about it.
Near twelve years ago, when I was weeding potatoes, I
had a vision."
1 smiled. He scowled, and I stopped smiling.
"I had a vision, I say," he continued, "of a bunch
of mountains, a canyon and a river. At the end of the
canyon was a well. I didn't know what to make of it at
the time, and 1 thought nothing more about it. Twelve
years later I was in Madero, in the State of Chihuahua.
"The same vision returned to me, and I made a
map on a small piece of paper. I showed it to a native
and asked him what it could be.
"He looked at me with a queer excitement. 'The
Lost Mine of Tayopa,' he gasped. I learned that there
were hundreds of millions of dollars in the mine in almost
pure gold, but long ago its location had been lost.
"I intended to go there to stake out my claim, but
trouble started, and all of us Americans had to leave.
"Here I am busted. In Chiluahua there's millions
in gold waiting to be taken out."
He handed me a dirty paper on which was drawn
a rude sort of map.
"There it is, right there," he said, stretching across
the table and pointing with a grimy forefinger to a circle.
"I don't want any money. I want to be grubstaked,
pardner. Give me enough to git a mule, some grub and
tools and you'll have a half interest in whatever I find.
It sounds like a touch, but I swear to God I'm telling
you the truth."
"I'm sorry," I said, excusing myself somewhat
hastily, "but when I was a child my parents made me
take a vow never to grubstake any one."
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