I can only add my word to what so many who are writing already have told you: That to listen to you is to learn how to see the hidden beauty of the visible world; that to be your friend is to try to be intellectually honest.

So I dedicate this book to you with the understanding that you shall take as your own the parts that please you, and forgive me the rest.

As ever,

Jack.

New York,

July 3, 1914.

CONTENTS

[On the Border]

PART I. DESERT WAR

  1. [Urbina's Country]
  2. [The Lion of Durango at Home]
  3. [The General Goes to War]
  4. [La Tropa on the March]
  5. [White Nights at Zarca]
  6. ["Quien Vive?"]
  7. [An Outpost of the Revolution]
  8. [The Five Musketeers]
  9. [The Last Night]
  10. [The Coming of the Colorados]
  11. [Meester's Flight]
  12. [Elizabetta]