CHAPTER XVIIIDEALS MAINLY WITH SOME NEWS FROM MEXICO
THE next day at Schwartzberg was uneventful. Scanlon saw very little of Campe, and nothing at all of either of the ladies. Kretz was silent and in no way interesting.
Once, about the middle of the afternoon, Bat took a walk along the river bank, but he saw nothing which caught his attention, and he did not go far. The remainder of the day he lounged about, smoking and reading. The day following was even more dull; except for a gallop in the morning with Campe on a pair of well-conditioned horses, the time was altogether unprofitable. Then two more days passed, one duller than the other.
“Even some light reasoning would be welcome,” complained the big man, “but there’s nothing new to reason about.”
Upon the fifth day, having seen noth
