If you and the
others will come over to the hut this evening I will go on with
that yarn I was just beginning."
After tea the young Hardys went down to the hut, outside which they
found Seth awaiting their arrival. They were now comfortably
seated, and Seth, without further introduction, went on.
"One day our captain sent for Rube and me, and says, 'I've got a
job for you two scouts. It's a dangerous one, but you won't like it
any the worse for that, I know.'
"'Not a bit,' said Rube with a laugh. He was the lightest-hearted
fellow, was Rube; always gay and jolly, and wouldn't have hurt a
squirrel, except in stand-up fight and as a matter of business.
"'What is it, Cap?' said I; 'you've only got to give us the word,
and we're off.'
"'I've had a message,' he said, 'from Colonel Cabra of their
service, that he is ready to turn traitor, and hand us over some
correspondence of Santa Anna, of which he has somehow got
possessed. Being a traitor, he won't trust any one, and the only
plan we can hit upon is, that he shall make a journey to San
Miguel, thirty miles north of this, as if on business. I am to make
an expedition in that direction, and am to take him prisoner. He
will then hand over the papers. We shall bring him here, and, after
keeping him for a time, let him go on parole.
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