Quito

The road ran from sea level at Duran up to twelve thousand feet on Chimborazo and down to ten thousand at Quito on the other side the range.

You see, I'd heard wages was 'way up on the American railroad runnin' from that place over the Andes to Quito. Now Guayaquil--"

"I made good on my job from the first, and lived in Quito in a

I was to take my run on the first division out to Quito, for which place I was to start next morning--only one through train running every twenty-four hours.

"Now, Sarah," her towering giant of a husband begged, "I just got to mention her or I can't tell about the nugget.--It was one night when I was taking a locomotive--no train--down to Amato, about thirty miles from Quito. Seth Manners was my fireman.

"It is not usual to have horses in the bull-ring at Quito," said Luis Cervallos, looking up from the program.

But John Harned did not go to Quito for the bull-fight.

One would have thought his heart was a piece of ice; yet did he have a streak of warm in his blood, for he followed Maria Valenzuela to Quito. Also, and for all that he talked low without moving his hands, he was an animal, as you shall see--the beast primitive, the stupid, ferocious savage of the long ago that dressed in wild skins and lived in the caves along with the bears and wolves.

"Come to Quito and I will show you the bullfight--brave, clever, magnificent!"

But he said: "I go to Lima, not Quito. Such is my passage engaged on the steamer."

Come to Quito and I will show you the brave sport of men, the toreador and the bull."

He left the steamer at Guayaquil and followed her to Quito. She was coming home from Europe and other places.

It happened in the bull-ring at Quito. I sat in the box with John Harned, and with Maria Valenzuela, and with Luis Cervallos.