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There was another awkward silence , and then Saunders , who had been examining the intruder with languid criticism , removed his pipe from his mouth and said quietly : -- `` That 's the woman you 're looking for -- Jovita Mendez ! '' The rest of that interview has not been recorded . Suffice it that a few minutes later Parks , Brace , and Saunders left the Emporium , and passed the night in the latter 's cabin , leaving the Emporium in possession of Miss Mendez and her peon servant ; that at the earliest dawn the two women and their baggage were transferred to the old adobe house , where , however , a Mexican workman had already arrived , and with a basketful of red tiles was making it habitable . Buckeye , which was popularly supposed to sleep with one eye on the river , and always first repaired there in the morning to wash and work , was only awake to the knowledge of the invasion at noon . The meeting so confidently spoken of the night before had NOT been called . Messrs. Parks and Brace were suffering from headaches -- undoubtedly a touch of tule chill . Saunders , at work with his partner in Eagle Bar , was as usual generous with apparently irrelevant facts on all subjects -- but that of the strangers .