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280 A Double-Dyed Deceiver
came back to the trembling Thacker, and held up his left hand with its back toward the consul.
"There's one more reason," he said slowly, "why things have got to stand as they are. The fellow I killed in Laredo had one of them same pictures on his left hand."
Outside, the ancient landau of Don Santos Urique rattled to the door. The coachman ceased his bellowing. Senora Urique, in a voluminous gay gown of white lace and flying ribbons, leaned forward with a happy look in her great soft eyes.
"Are you within, dear son?" she called, in the rippling Castilian.
" Madre mia, yo vengo [mother, I come]," answered the voung Don Francisco Urique.
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