Crossword-Solution: YAQUI 5 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

How fragrant it was, how exquisitely delicate, how beautiful its inner hue of red, deep and dark, the crimson of life blood! Had Nell left it there by accident or by intent? Was it merely kindness or a girl's subtlety? Was it a message couched elusively, a symbol, a hope in a half-blown desert rose? VI THE YAQUI TOWARD evening of a lowering December day, some fifty miles west of Forlorn River, a horseman rode along an old, dimly defined trail.

Lash had traversed it, and brought back stories of buried waterholes, of bones bleaching white in the sun, of gold mines as lost as were the prospectors who had sought them, of the merciless Yaqui and his hatred for the Mexican.

The other, striking in appearance for other reasons than that he seemed to be about to fall from the burro, Gale took to be a Yaqui.

Then he examined the injured Yaqui, not forgetting for an instant to send wary, fugitive glances on all sides.

This Yaqui would live unless left there to die or be murdered by the Mexicans when they found courage to sneak back to the well.