Roots of Indifferences by Terri Ragsdale

Author:Terri Ragsdale [Ragsdale, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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As the days passed, time seemed like an eternity. There was no message back from Mexico City. The Brownville Herald kept reporting trouble in Mexico, that Huerta had overthrown Madero. The San Antonio Weekly Express was coming with eyewitness accounts and dispatches from consular officials in the capital saying that Gustavo had been killed and that Madero, with his vice president, had been arrested. Everyone in the Rio Grande Valley became frantic. War hawks and reporters kept coming from the frontier, telling of gory sagas that were happening in the interior of Mexico.

Finally, on February 24, came the final blow. The newspapers were reporting that Madero and José Maria Piño Suarez, his vice president, had been brutally killed. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had just taken office, and the whole border was in chaos. Men were lined up, five deep in the cantinas in Reynosa and all over the border towns, talking of taking up arms.

The area from the mouth of the Rio Grande River to Baja California was aflame with panic. War had broken out in Mexico. The atmosphere was tense. It split Mexico wide open since Ambassador Wilson was being blamed for his meddling in foreign affairs between Mexico and the United States, bringing discontent and hatred toward all Americans.

The winds of evil had stirred. It was as if the devil with his demon angels had been cast out of the bottomless pit to devour anything and everything, making a furious and futile effort to regain possession of the earth. The oceans roared and the roll of distant thunder sounded—the devil was marching his hosts from within.

Looting and killing became widespread in southern Texas, causing Governor O.B. Colquitt to send five companies of the state militia and several groups of Texas Rangers under the command of Captain Sanders to the Rio Grande Valley. All of the newspapers were busy with headlines of a Mexican War.

After reading the news, panic-filled Don Federico wasted no time in riding toward Spanish Acres, ordering Roy with several of his best gunmen to travel with him to Monterrey to get Victoria and Felicia. The train from Monterrey to the frontier had been derailed, and the only way to travel now was by horse. While the men were getting their gear and horses ready, Don Federico decided to pay a visit to La Señora Doña Adela, remembering what the old witch woman had said to him twenty-two months back. You will need my advice and real soon. You will come and pay me a visit, for you will need some answers that only I can tell you.

Don Federico was amazed at her accurate information, even though he had once laughed and made fun of her prophecies. What the old bruja had predicted for him had all come to pass, especially with guns and ammunition. All of the information was revealed after he had put two and two together on Hanson and Hobbs after returning from the gold mine trip. Soledad had been raped by Hanson and Hobbs.

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