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The Young Engineers in Mexico

CHAPTER IX
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"I therefore ask you to consider our engagement at an end.

If you are disinclined to furnish us with transportation to the railway, then we can travel there on foot." "Do you hear the Gringo, my good Carlos ?" laughed Don Luis, derisively.
"I hear the fellow," indifferently replied Dr.Tisco, from the other end of the room.
"Will you furnish us with transportation from here ?" Tom inquired.
"I will not," hissed Montez, allowing his rage to show itself now at its height.

"You Gringo fools! Do you think you can defy me--that here, on my own estates, you can slap me in the face and ride away with laughter ?" "I haven't a desire in the world to slap your face," Tom rejoined, dryly.

"All I wish and mean to do is to get back to my work in life." "Then listen to me, Gringos," said Don Luis Montez, in his coldest tones.

"Your work here is to sign that report.


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