At this juncture, the chief muleteer advanced the necessary money, and they were spared.

" Jack agreed, and they walked up to the men in front just as the muleteer came galloping up with his troupe.

These at once left the road and struck up the hill, the muleteer proceeding along the road with the animals.

In one of the three men who accompanied them they recognized the peasant who had spoken to the muleteer when he refused to accept their first offer, and they had no doubt that he had arranged with the man to lead them to a certain spot, to which he had proceeded direct, while their guide had conducted them by a circuitous route.

At last one of them announced to his comrades that the person expected was in sight, and shortly afterwards the muleteer of the previous day appeared.

The meal over, the muleteer produced from his pocket some writing-paper and a pencil.

" To this epistle the boys both signed their names, and as the muleteer had not provided himself with envelopes, the letter was roughly folded and directed, "Captain Stuart, H.M.S. 'Falcon.'

His dignity did not rebel at the position of arriero or muleteer; any place would suit him, so that we would agree to take him finally to "El Norte,"for such is the universal designation of the United States among the people of Central America.

Well I know the tittle-tattle Of the caustic muleteer, And the Simla seismic rattle Is familiar to my ear.

So there were six; and each had a driver and a muleteer, making twelve hired men thus far.

Every wagon-driver and muleteer had a weapon of some sort always at hand.

The riderless horse, equally frightened and equally subordinate, was hurried to the rear of the leading wagon and handed over to a muleteer.

In every vehicle there was a muleteer, with hands free for fighting, bearing something or other in the shape of a firelock, and inspired with what courage there is in desperation.

One muleteer had been shot through the heart with an arrow.

They were the usual type of travelers: a single professional man in dusty black, a few traders in tweeds and flannels, a sprinkling of miners in red and gray shirts, a Chinaman, a negro, and a Mexican packer or muleteer.

The darkness was gathering, but the muleteer indulged in the same childish scrutiny of the dimly lighted shops, magazines, and saloons, and even of the occasional groups of citizens at the street corners.

The muleteer remained hidden in the obscurity of the vestibule.

It was only a drunken Mexican muleteer leaning against the house; but if he heard nothing, I did.

" The worthy muleteer, utterly abashed and confounded by this display of the acolyte's direct simplicity, contented himself by shrugging his shoulders, and a vague "Quien sabe?" "Come," said the boy, gayly, "confess it is only the aguardiente of the Blessed Fisherman thou missest.

he continued, submitting to the two sounding kisses the young girl placed upon either cheek, but still keeping his mischievous glance upon the muleteer.

It was his muleteer, José.

Go!" Father Pedro watched the disappearing figure of the muleteer and hurriedly swept his thin, dry hand, veined and ribbed like a brown November leaf, over his stony forehead, with a sound that seemed almost a rustle.

A moment passed; only the sound of the muleteer's spurs was heard in the courtyard.

" "Ah! it is like these Americanos," responded the muleteer.

one had picked up in the creek where he drank that much of gold;" and the muleteer tapped one of the silver coins that fringed his jacket sleeves in place of buttons.