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At five o'clock the next day the reply came . Bob signed for it , and his fingers shook as he tore it open . DEAR THEO : State Department instructing consul by wire to take any action necessary to protect American ranchers . W. By eleven o'clock that night he got a message from the consul ; and thirty minutes later Bob was speeding toward Tia Juana , a hundred and fifty miles west , to see the Mexican governor . Early next morning Rogeen got an interview with the executive of the Mexican province , whom he had never met . The governor received him most courteously and manifested both alert intelligence and a spirit of fairness . During that long night ride Bob had thought out most carefully his exact line of appeal .