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“ “ ‘ < + gow ct. ee S/O THE =A fi ica a WK "are Ls Ye . ee EE y ~ z > ete a r CHAI ER. A. tt was r the station ! stock and « r property hrd been ac- | counted i the fact fairly well aemonstra } 1e inwaders of the | corral, whoeve might be, were gone, that any approached the man lying dead at the outer corner of the wall, for the purpose of finding sut V - h Af CAre fu rt connoitring around and beyond the corral the station keeper stopped at ¢he corner. lighted a match, and, stoop- ing, Inst i the face of the dead man. Around him, @s he did so, the re gathered to look over his

other men

shoulder. Th in was to all appear-

ance a Mexican, his swarthy face whit~- ened in the pallor of death. His re~ yolver, lying on the ground beside him,

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tell HifM env than we haa Knowing the did, it was not the tenor of his they were, Sangrado’s ‘and the

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appearance more of what et out to the others. whole matter as we difficult to infer from mquiries, cautious thousth that he vaguely suspected mnection with the matter, purport his visit.

A sudden thought seered struck the senor, who asked of his daughter :—

“Where is Dolores her anywhere about.”

“Why, where indeed ? She was with me when TI fell asleep. She must have got frightened and run out of the

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? IT haven’t seen

house before I woke. Yes, that must | be so, for, now that I think of it, I found the door unbolted when I went

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rok out.” Felix touched my elbow with his. Now the little Indian’s case was corm-

for judgement, and no one but

he and I had the clue %o the whole

; Inatter.

contained three loaded and three empty cartridge shells, and it was at full gock, indicating that he had fallen while in the act of firing. His clothes, while not fine of make and texture, were of a quality superior to those | ordinarily worn by shepherds and freighters. His whole appearance and equipment, as Well as the place and manner of his death, were evidence |

sufficient in the minds of all who look- ed that WAS no peaceable It confirmed the theory, and 1 were desirous should prevail, that the disturbance at the corral was

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caused by an attempt of robbers to enter and steal the _ stock inclosed therein. Under such circumstances

as these there was little disposition to spend much time investigating the matter. The station-keeper ‘voiced the general opinion tion when he said :—

“He was one of a gang tryin’ te break into the stage company’s cor- ral to steal its property, and here met his death at the hands of parties unknown. They can stay unknown for all I care, except that I'd like to move them tec a vote of thanks for doin’ their work so thoroughly. This man we will leave here until mornin’, sub- ject to the ‘immspection of anybody who chooses to ©xamine him for purpose of identification.

“After a reasonable time, say until nine o'clock a.m., if nobody knows or ciaims him, we'll plant him and call the whole proceedin’s closed. Gentle men, do you agree with this werdict ? Very well, as you do, will two of you jend a hand to help me lay the body out ? will rest ‘im the shade, moonbeams, and not so near the gate that every horse and mule will go into the air and stampede at sight of it when it is led out through the gate- way. Thats well. T1ll throw this

bit of waggzon cover over him, and we'll call‘the inquest adjourned with- out day.”’

Now that things had quieted down, and it had become pretty evident that the disturbance at the corral, what- ever had caused it, was over, some of the men camped near the station be- gan to appear one by one to see what the firing had all been about. The Missourian, with long rifle on shoulder, strode first up to the station, and fol- lowing him came one of the prospec- tors, whose ‘“‘ pard” remained behind to guard their joint effects. But the show figure in the gathering was the maestro, who, when satisfied that his ewn belongings were safe, and that no attack on his tent was meditated, emerged from his retirement with pis- tols at belt,-and in his hand the sword with which, by his account of the pre-

Vious evening, he had, in the days when he was a matadore, slain the valorous bulls of Bashan and Tor- reon.

But of all that came none identified ‘the dead robber, who, without guard or watcher, was left lying alone under the corral fence, beneath the stained and diney piece of canvas which the Station-keeper had spread above hirn.

“Only one Gead man more,” tre- marked the prospector as he turned indifferently away. ‘It’s a great year

citizen. | which Felix |

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| cealed her face, | we could getect,

Over this way, please, where it | out of the °

‘Dolores, Dolores,” celled Don Ra- mon, sharply, ‘‘ where are you ?’’

To cur surprise, an answer came promptly from round the corner of the hcuse :—

* Si, senor, estoy viriinedo” (‘* Yes, senor, Il am coming ’’), and through the geteway of the corral waiked Dolores, the air of one who had stepped outside only for a minute. Her shawl, @rawn up over her head, partly con- upon which, so far as there was no sign

of discomposur:2. No ‘one could have

as to the situa. | suspected her of having borne so pro-

mirent a part in the occurrences of the night, unless, like Felix and myself, he had witnessed it.

“Was this a time to desert your mi: tress ?” said Don Ramon, a little sternly. “So you were frightened and ran away when you heard the fir- ing outsi¢e ? Mahaya! I] am asham- ead of having such a little coward in my hcusehold.”

Dolores hung her head and said no- thing. As if in pity, Carmen stepped aside and motioned her that she should enter the house. Delores crept inside as if glad to eseape, and disappeared from sight and sound in the darkness. Certainly good fortune was with her that night—she had come unscathed from greater perils than she knew of, and now the unpleasant reckoning which she might reasorably have ex- pected with her master had been eas- ily settled.

Carmen had thrown her Hght man- tila about her head and _ shoulders when sre came to the coor to meet her father. As Don Ramon talked with Felix and ms, standing before the decor, she stood within, a little to one side, in the shadow, so that only her hair above her brow, her forehead, and her eyes showei distinctly in the stpaft of moonlight that streamed through the doorway. She seemed to be in no haste to retire and stood lis- tering interestedly as we talked. The eyes of a womanr of ‘the Spanish race have an eloquent language of their own. Carmen’s, modest as pansies, were as free from eequetry as femi- nine Spanish eyes ean be, but I no- ted that her gaze rested on Felix, and if ever eyes sent @ message, her glance carried this one to ‘His—that she had something to say to “him, and wished to speak with him dione.

But if I read her message to my comrade rightly and “her wish was te be realized, it must "be an affair of seme other time than to-night. The herders were waiting to close the gate. and the other men that had gathered had now dispersed. Don Ramon Kiss- ed his daughter, said t#uencs noches, listened until he hearG-the bolt shut within, shook the hanG@s of Felix and me as he bade us goodnight and went to his own slumbers. The herders, after passing a remark -or two with us, retired to their rest inthe shed. Fe- lix and I, following their example, spread out blankets upon the earthen ficor of the shed, turned in with weap-

" Killings in Arizona.” cns in easy, reach of our hands, and During the excitement it seemed ' aimost at once were fast -asleep. that no one present, except Felix and For the few hours that remained of Myself was aware of the absence of ; the night our slumbers were undis- Dolores. I was recalled to the thought turlbed. We were awakened in the of her by Felix’s remark to me, de / bright dawn by the voice of the sta- livered in a low tone :— | tion-keeper calling hi men, and it an- " ronda ur ha t*s« > > es . . « —o “< pecice ar? cone net Seed |e ae ee eae ee a as ae ee : . ing. e herders s omselves up in all this rummus, and I'm afraid | from their blankets and set at once to she won’ feeding and grooming the mules that “Carried off, or teft on the prairie | were to serve as the relay. Felix and eet tik f an ‘red, suddenly re- | J crose and went from the corral -~voun4d membering her existesce, and the part | to the front of the house, where Don She had unwitting! iken in admite | Ramon and the station-keeper were tins +} ‘t leader to the corral. | standing. The red light of dawn a CARS eT eS en eo : | etrenmed over the eastern mountains, There’s a big chance that her lover | inating the fresh tints of the _ ee on oe ee _— BS Se { picin in its joyous glow. Seen ‘far ee dispose of her in es | away. came on through the brightness way.” pee | an elongated speck, with a whittsh euey & — have found out blur rising behind it, which the prae- her ab wig 3 yet,” said Felix. When tised eye of the stetion-keeper, when te do, there'll be = end of or yeimetant | first it came into view, bad identified ene AA FO ner at | as the mail buckboard, and the dust rs — ater Soa oT —— " eed * | reised by its wheels and the hoofs of door, talking with his daughter. nules that drew it. Rapidly it

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Picions as to the cause of the rmid- ‘ight invasion of the station, or if her father rad, rc did not appear in the

Conversation that Felix and I had with little later, Don Bamon to the door, and sed us a euarded questions con- ) erning the matter. Beyond giving | ™ a fair Aeecrintion.ef Sanrrado’s

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rE eed ed, and soon we saw that there were horsemen accomparying it. In a time, surprisingly short, it drew mw to the station, a bueckboard with four cavalrymen 2s escort.

With the driver, upon the front seat, in undress uniform.

sat an orderly, ni On the second seat was a military-

locking gentleman in the uniform of a

general of the United States army, and beside him sat a lady, younser

than he, his wife. Every one of the n-en, the general, the orderly, and the driver, had a revolver strapped to him, or resting by his side, and each held @ repeating rifle between his knees.

The station-keeper, who at sight of the buckboard had set about prepar- ing breakfast, came to the door to greet the arrival, and he and the driv- er exchanged friendly nods. The herders came running out from. the corral to take the mules from the ve- hicle and eare for them.

right,” satd the keener, “We @idn’t | kn a when to exrect you, hut knew | you'd brenk a hole throuvth if ote |! eculd he made.”

‘7 es, * replied the 3 driver, as he Jauntily stepned to the ground and he- Ean to pull cff his gloves. “ But vou can bet your boots it wasn’t: a dead sure thine we'd get arywhere when we started out.”

‘Apaches raisin’ the @evil the coun- try over, |] suppose, turnin’ un every. Where that they're least expected 7”

y l re in OV ’ ¢ veu ¢ 1 whol ¢ et up, ft i Rio rara to here, In a i ares evel ard a good

1 Of real’ kil} In the bergcin.” ¥y ’ . : . . He pat and waited until the gene | eral’s wife, whom husband had | : id to alight, had passed from |

‘#Caring’ into the house rr

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then added :— xican freighting

Springs vesterday afi-

terncon, Killed nine people. A wo- man with her child was along, and she escapec into the bushes, The Ap- aches couldn't find her, and they tor- tured the child so that its cries might draw the mother out of her’ hiding place to come to it. A party was to So cut for the bodies this morning freey ¢ vor CVtw This s a specimen

of the sort of news that's coming in

from every quarter. It seems as if all the Apaches from the reservations are | out on the warpath this time.’

‘Looks like it for a fact, and they’re workin’ cunning, two. The catchin’ of the two buckboards between here and Bowie night before last

was a specimen of their work, and they seem to be keepin’ their gait up right along

sinee,”’ said the keeper. “ But come in to breakfast, Tom. Everything's

ready.’”’

“I'm ready for it,’’ said the driver, Iving his gloves upon the waggon seat. | “Td like some coffee about now. I don't mind saying I’ve had a hard and anxious night handling the reins.”

At the breakfast table in the sta- tion the general and his wife, seated

opposite Don Ramon and his daughter, talked Spanish to their neighbours like

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Dolores hung her head and said nothing.

natives, and ‘shared with them ‘the manmalade ami divilled ham they had brought along.to ek» out the rude fare to be expected.at stage stations. Es- pecially were .they interested in Don Ramon's account of the adventures of the night hefere and the night previ- ows to tnat. It was a strange meet- ing. here on ‘the south-western plain, of these representatives of two con- quering civilizations, the general repre- semting the military power of the United States, the Don the glories of the Spanish @onquistadores. The one had won distinction during the Am- erican civil war and in Indian -cam- pPaigan upon the wester frontier; The other upon iti broad estate had con- ducted its affairs and defended his howsehold ami property against the Apaches,’.as his ancestors before him had #one since first they settled in the Santa Cmiz valley, two centuries age, winder a grant from the Spanisa Crown. .

More strikimely dissimilar even than these were the types of femininity pre- sented by the general's fair young wife and Don Ramon’s daughter. The one, in. her fashionable, exquisitely fitting traveljing dress, complete in every ap- pointment, brought into the rough sur- roundings the eultured ease and charm ef manner that characterize the high- est society in the great cities. Car- men’s dark hearty was set off to per-

fection by the :arrangement of her hair, hastily gathered and fastened by a gold arrow skot through its knot, and by her brightly flowered gown, the sole one left d#er after the dash of the Apaches upon her father’s camp.

Her untutored grace and naive, pretty, half shy manner of speech, and the pride of race that unccnsciously to herself pervaded emery expression and movement gave heran interest and at- tractiveness that none appreciated and admired more than the cultivated lady who sat by her. A ‘bond of sympathy and corfidence seemed at once estab- lished betweer them, and soon, by in- quiries. delicately made, the general’s wife learned the destitute condition of Carmen's wardrobe.

After breakfast I saw the general’s wife and her husband comversing with Don Ramon apart. AS a result of the conversation her trunk was _ taken down from the buckboard, opened, and she took from it a ha eash- mere wrepper and variovs small ar- ticles of wearing apparel and others for toilet use. The smaller things she roiled up in the wrapper and car- ried the bundle herself to Carmen's room.

She came back to Don Ramon, still standing in conversation with her hus- band, and he began to thank her wermiy for her kindness to his daught- ef,

“Not a word, not a word of thanks?” she cried, impetuously. “Why, the poor child! Think what she has been tnrouzh, and what she has nar- rowly escaped ! These trifles I leave with her I shall not miss, and it is a great pleasure to me to think they may be of some use to her.”

While the mules were being har- nessed to the buckboard under the careful superintendence of the driver, the general, cigar in mouth, watched critically the soldiers composing his escort as they equipped themselves to

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cuve two tne miue KNMet or usteners gathered about him his views as to the movements of the hostiles and the likelihoced that they might be inter- cepted and forced to battle by the troons,

.' They have left the Gila valley,” he said, “and have been massacring and plundering as far east and north as the Mogollon mountains, and the Black range The troons concentrating up- on them have headed them off on the east and south, that it will he dif- ficult for the Apaches to proceed in these directions, especially if they are leaded down with plunder. Fither they must turn back, or they must take the risk of meeting the troons in a fight. There are many of them out that they may venture to trv a battle, but I think they will turn back

So

so

and run for Mexico, following pretty nearly the route they took in coming rorth.

“T predict that important news con- cerning them will come with twenty- four hours,’”’ he said, in conclusion.

Now evervthing was ready for the buckbeard to start. Before taking her seat the general’s wife kissed Carmen, and wished her and her father a safe and pleasant journey to Silver City and Santa Fe. The other farewelis, warmer than usually follow so brief a mecting, were said, and then the buckboard rolled awey down the trail to the westward, with the cavairymen galloping’ behind “ The buckbeard was not the first out- fit to leave the station that morning. Daylight had found the three outlaws gone, and—what was as gratifying as their absence—there were no reports by any one at the station of horses or other property missing as a result of their visit. The prospectors did not remain long at the place. They had taken breakfast in the early morning, packed their burros, and immediately

. after the arrival of the buckboard had

started up the trail to the eastward. Now their little procession Was a mere speck in the distance. The

Missourian, with more things to look after, was more leisurely in making a move, Breakfast with his family heing over, preparatory to packing up his movables for a start, he came up to the station, bringing with him the spare harness which he had engaged the night befcre to sell Don Ramon. The harness was tried upon the driv- ing mules, and it was found that, with some slight adjustments, it could he made to fit them satisfactorily. The price agreed on was paid the Mis- sourian, and a few minutes later the white-torpped waggon, with the rock- ing chair, and the led cow behind it, and the family mvsteriously stowed beneath the canvas, was taking its way up the trail.

One frewsome ceremony the station- keeper had asked each man to observe who came up to the station before starting away. It was to look at the dead man, lying unwatched and un- noticed at the corner of the corral, to see ff he could identify him bv day- light. ‘For this purpose Ion Ramon, Felix, and I approached the body with the station-keeper, who lifted the cov- ering from the face. Neither my comrade nor I recognized it as one we ‘had ever seen before. But Don Ramon started at sight of it, and the ex- ‘pression of his countenance grew stern ‘ana anxious.

“Do you recognize him, Senor Busta- ‘mante ?’ asked the station-keeper, 're- spectfully.

““Yos—that is, I have seen him)” an- ‘swered Don Ramon. ‘“ He is ‘& man whose fate none need regret. He is a thief and a murderer. His name ? TIT <dion’t recall it.’’

“*Shouldn’t wonder if there’s a re- ward or two out for him, dead or flive, most likely,” remarked the keep- eT. “Tf so, the boys at the station might not mind turnin’ an honest dol-

lar by sending his body ‘in to the sheriff.”’ “I don’t know how that is,” said

Pon Ramon, shortly. Something evi- dently had disturbed him, and the sub- ject was distasteful to him. “My ativice would be to bury him, and to make no stir about it. By mixing in the matter you might § raise some enmities that would give you trouble.”

He walked away with a cloud on his brow. He met Carmen at the door of the station, and stood talking with her in a low tone for some time. Be- ing there they missed part of a lit- tle conversation that took place at the carriage.

"The mules were harnessed to the earriage, our horses saddled, the pack- ing and other preparations all com- pleted ready for a start, when the maestro, likewise ready, came up to speak with us. His face looked so woebegone, and showed so much dis- composure of manner that Felix asked hirn what had gone wrong with him.

“It is the Senorita Lupita, senor. My star, my great attraction, is gone,” he said, mournfully. ‘She disappear- ed some time during the night, leay- ing no werd or token why she left me or where she has gone. I believe it is the doings of that cursed Sangrado. I knew misfortune'would come after he hati shown his face here.”

“Do you suppose she has gone away with ‘him ?” TI inquired, hypocritically.

“Quien sabe ? With him or with the young cabaltlero, camped down by the trail, El Carbrito, I believe thev call him, or with some one else, the devil knows who. She would go with Belovhegor himself did he happen to strike her fancy, and would give him

worst of the bargain before she got through with him. Zut actress, a genius,

macnificent breaks my heart to lose her.”

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