"You shall have it of us,--the four! You shall come to our camp and shall melt it,--and show the silver, and--enough! Come!" and in his feverishness he clutched the hand of his companion as if to lead him forth at once.
"What are you going to do with your mule ?" said the stranger.
"True, Holy Mother,--what, indeed ?" "Look yer," said the stranger, with a grim smile, "she won't stray far, I'll be bound.

I've an extra pack mule above here; you can ride on her, and lead me into camp, and to-morrow come back for your beast." Poor honest Concho's heart sickened at the prospect of leaving behind the tired servant he had objurgated so strongly a moment before, but the love of gold was uppermost.

"I will come back to thee, little one, to-morrow, a rich man.

Meanwhile, wait thou here, patient one,--Adios!--thou smallest of mules,--Adios!" And, seizing the stranger's hand, he clambered up the rocky ledge until they reached the summit.

Then the stranger turned and gave one sweep of his malevolent eye over the valley.
Wherefore, in after years, when their story was related, with the devotion of true Catholic pioneers, they named the mountain "La Canada de la Visitacion del Diablo," "The Gulch of the Visitation of the Devil," the same being now the boundary lines of one of the famous Mexican land grants..