Ah kin guaran-dam-tee that a rifle will be found in Pepe's hovel when they finally reduce it to a pile of smoking debris. It will be a rifle that Pepe never fired, for some mysterious reason, but it will be there...

By the way, I forgot to mention that those other two Mexicans Pepe killed...well...the big cattle rancher paid him to "take out" those guys, but things were different back then. Pepe was on the payroll, you see? So it was sort of okay under those circumstances. True, it was murder...and it was really quite nasty...but those guys he killed didn't like big ranchers. They were a threat to community life.

Pepe became a threat to community life later. That was because he didn't turn out to be as good at killing the other Mexicans as one might have hoped he would, and then the bugger went inta business fer himself, and started trying to buy a rifle somewhere. Frankly, he was a big disappointment.

Wal, the siege is still goin', and Pepe and his family are provin' more resourceful than expected, but they are only a buncha lousy wetbacks, right? Shouldn't take too long to smoke 'em out. Let's git to it! Ah think we'll jest haul one o' them Alamo type cannons inta town, and blast him clean outa that Adobe hut, that's whut we'll do. Damn right!

- LH