Chapter 17Villa and Zapata left the next morning. We met with Carranza and Obregon one more time. As far as my mission for Funston was concerned, nothing was accomplished by any of our meetings with Carranza, other than to confirm that Germany was doing little, if anything, to support his Constitutionalist Army. And with the Huerta government on the verge of collapse, the Germans were not about to throw support his way either.
“So what was the purpose of all this then?” Charley asked. “Seems it was all about as useless as a four-card flush.”
“Well, we now know what the Germans aren’t doing, and that’s more than we knew before we rode up here,” I said.
We left an hour or so later, escorted by Nicanor and a dozen of his men. When we reached the spot where we had met Nicanor four days befo
