- When notorious bandit Leopoldo Juarez takes refuge in her house, pretty young Mexican girl Carmelita finds herself falling for him, and arranges to meet him at a nearby brook, but falls asleep soon after he leaves. She awakens to find American army officer William Jerome arriving at the house, looking for Jerome. Intrigued by the young officer, she tells him about her scheduled meeting with the bandit. Juarez finds out about it, and forces her to wear his hat and coat. Jerome mistakenly shoots her, is tried for murder and sentenced to be shot before a firing squad. However, everything isn't quite the way it seems to be . . .—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Carmelita Carrito was in love. The lucky man was Pepo Esperanza, Mexican like herself, an inhabitant of the same little border village of San Lepo. In spite of her fat, crude father, Carmelita had the soul of an aristocrat. Somewhere in her make-up there reposed the spirit of a Carmen. For Carmelita was nothing if not a coquette. The fame of the great bandit, Leopoldo Juares, had traveled all over Mexico. When he made a raid on the larder of Carmelita's adobe home, therefore, it was natural that the girl should be somewhat impressed by his commanding personality. The strange events of that day on which Leopoldo made his raid quite excited the girl. At night she sat by her window and looked lazily out at the Mexican moonlight. Gradually she fell asleep, and she dreamed Leopoldo returned. She realized for the first time that she was in love with him. An American army officer, William Jerome, was at that very moment nearing her house in search of the man who had raided the territory of the United States. Jerome came to Carmelita's home. Once more the fickle girl changed her mind and her heart. Now she was in love with the American. As the days passed, she grew to know the Gringo better and to love him more deeply. Finally she wrote him a note. Leopoldo, she said, would be beside her at a neighboring brook. Jerome could creep upon them and pick off his man with a single revolver shot. Then she would be his, body and soul. Leopoldo intercepted the note, but allowed it to go to Jerome and arranged a counter scheme. When he met her at the brook, he craftily urged her to don his own coat. Then he placed his hat on her head. Jerome, seeing the party through the bushes, thought Carmelita was Leopoldo, and shot the girl he loved. Jerome was taken prisoner and shot. With fainting breath, the heartless Mexican girl whispered to her first lover, who had returned. He must get the Americans at once. Leaping swiftly upon his horse, Pepo rode off in the distance. Then Carmelita awoke. She was just in time. American troopers, aided by Pepo himself, were closing in on her house. There the bandit, Leopoldo, had taken refuge. And Pepo himself captured Leopoldo and received the reward; and he and Carmelita lived happily ever after.
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