Manuel started the canoe upstream. He did not look back.
Captain and crew and prisoners on the boat thrilled to Bustos’s mocking farewell.
“Adios, Manuel!”
THE END
FOOTNOTE:
[1] Recently the Mexican government changed its policy toward peon labor in Yucatan, and the Yaquis in Sonora. These Indians are now in the regular Mexican army. [Author’s Note.]
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.