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“Tt's a pity our horses should each cast a shoe to-day. It looks as if we Should have a night ride of it on the piain.”’

\s Felix Marchant said this, he gave his cartridge belt a hitch and glanced eastward, where the waggon trail | leading from the glorieta was lost to view in the windings of the pass.

‘If the blacksmith had something les han a cavalcade of troop horses to shoe ahead of ours, we ‘might get away in time to make the stage sta- tion before camping,” he continued, dis- contentedly *But things being as they are, we've got to wait and start w we can. We'll have to get along as far as we're able to-day, go

dry camp and strike the Pelon- cillos to-morrow. It’s an interesting tract of country to cross—the San Si- mon plain. Indians, rustlers, reptiles, é alkali, they’re all on the program- I But we can't afford to lose any more time than we have to here. We must push through and take things as we find them.”

The scene was Southern Arizona and the time a bright September day in the seventies, In the hot sunshine ef early afternoon but little Iffe was astir about the adobe houses and dusty parade ground at Camp Bowie. A sentinel pacing his beat and the officer of the day were in sight, a half dozen Mexicans lounged © listlessly in

front of the post trader’s store, and at

the officers’ quarters three or four garrison ladies, entertained by a young lieutenant, sat in the shade on & ccttage verandah. The hammer of the post blacksmith, on whose motions Felix and I were waiting, rang in slow time through stillness ‘unbroken by other sound than the random bray

from some tethered. mule or straying burro, phe .uilitiry post, 4 MeXican waggon train was drawn yp to one side, and the swarthy teamsters lay asleep un- der the waggons, while the oxen, watched by & herder, grazed down the Fats. very feature of the landscape was sharply defined in light and shade, and through the thin, transparent, up- land cir the most distant peak look- ed near. The scene was full of the repose, the genial warmth, the illumin- ation of early autumn in Arizona.

While our horses stood before the blacksmith shop Felix and I strolled in the military burial ground, idlv readirg the names and dates on the wooden slabs set thickly about amid dusty grass and wild flowers and the fresh earth of new mounds. Beneath the name on every whitewashed head- board, in long rows, there faced us, with awful uniformity, the inscription in black letters, ‘‘ Killed by Indians,” and it brought to our minds more forci- bly than anything else perhaps could have done that we were in the focus of ambuscade and massacre, the rock- walled route of savage foray through long centuries, the picturesque and dangerous Apache pass.

We had ridden into Camp Bowie early that morning, ceming from the San Pedro valley through the south- westerly opening of the pass. Within

the canyon our way had lain amid graves, some marked with headboards or crosses, some showing only as mounds of earth or stone, and what morta! reccrd could tell how many bocies of dead men we rode over, bur- ied, in times of Indian troubles, ob- scurely under the trail to hide them from savage desecration ? Trail and

On the sloping plateau below i

graves and grassy bottoms, shut in by seamed and fissured walls of red rock grown thinly about with gnarled Pines and clumps of scrub oak—the brightness in sunlight, the gloom in shadow-—told mutely their story of the Apache, of ambuscade and treacher- ous attack, of murder and torture Ww hich through untold generations have race this moyntain pass of ominous fidiie a Veritable valley of death.

The wheels of the massive family | earriage of Senor Don Ramon Velas- quez Bustamante had imprinted the trail in adwance of us that morning, coming from the south-west, and he ha halted at Camp Bowie. Now, af or his noonday meal, the stout Don was lying at full length on a cowskin ee ta spread on.the ground in the shade of the carriage, peacefully en- joying his siesta. His mules, a little distance away, grazed on the hillside in the care of a servant, Manuel, who reclined near them beneath a tree and eaucht cat maps between their ex- cursionrs.

While Don Ramon slept, his daugh- ter, Carmen, attended by her little

Indian maid, Dolores, wandering about within sight of the carriage, came near the burial ground. She was a charm-

ing picture of Mexican beauty, this senorita, from the Santa Cruz valley, sauntering in the sunlight amid the grim surroundings of the lonely pass. Spanish blood steeped in southern sunshine flowed pure in her veins, and the traits of her birth and station were manifest in the unstudied grace,

and gentleness of of race and this young girl which in colder

mingled pride bearing. Influences climate had moulded into those contours

northern regions come only with ma- turer years. Her face, with its clear, pale olive tint, was set off most becom- ingly by the black lace mantilla worn over the heavy braids and coils of her. dusky hair, and there was a sug- gestion of slumbering fire in the sleepy fall of long lashed lids over magnifi- cent dark eyes.

As Carmen took her way past the cemetery she looked curiously over the low wall at the mounds and head- boards, and frankly at the two cabal- leros, Felix and myself, with our rid- ing costumes of California jean much overlaid with cartridge belts, and the dust of Arizona tratis.. After we had

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ert tne DuMmMal frouna sne vassea wirn- in the wall, where, looking back, I saw her gathering wild tlowers among the graves.

It was the middle before we could get the blacksmith. ing them,

of the afternoon our horses from Saddling and mount- we rode toward the easterly

mouth of the pass. AS we crossed the parade ground an indian courier, dusty and travel-worn, rode a tired horse from the trail up to the quarters of the commanding cflicer, and before we were out of sight of Camp Bowie I saw an orderly gving in haste across the parade ground toward the sol- diers’ barracks. ‘Then a rocky point shut off the backward view as we fol- lowed the waggon trail chat winds

along the steep canyon side down to the San Simon plain.

As we emerged from the pass a wide, open valley lay before us, slightly de- pressed toward its middle, and rising again toward its far-off eastern bound- ary, the foot of the Peloncillo moun- tains, which stretched north and south parallel with the Chiricahua range which we wet leaving. Stein’s peak rose loftily ahead, and our trail, the overland stage route across the plain, marked by telegraph poles and their wires, led well to its right. We car- ried our rifles across our saddle pom- mels as we rode the bay Missouri horses, Bill and Tip, which had borne us many a hundred miles in the Apache country. A single blanket and oil- Skin “slicker” were strapped behind each saddle, and a flour sack rolled in Felix’s blanket held our provisions, bought at Camp Bowie. ‘ith can- teens freshly filled with water before Starting out, we felt that we had made all reasonable preparations for comfort and safety, and entered on our jour- ney with light hearts.

North and south the plain extended seemingly without limit. The summer had been rainy; and the grass and plants of the arid region had grown exuberantly. On delicate stems the razor blade heads of the grama grass waved in the breeze above the curly bunches from which they rose, and the = was spangled with wild flowers.

ere were mimic thickets of the tal- ler, coarser grasses, patches of sage- brush and greasewood, and here and there a space of barren alkali ground. Low clumps of thorny mesquite trees dotted the landscape, miniature and grotesque groves of the larger yuc-

cas and cactuses appeared, and grow- |

ing near the ground were’ seen the prickly pear, the spiky soapweed, and the trailing vine, and odoriferous yel- low fruit of the wild pumpkin.

Anima! life was not lacking in the

scene. A band of antelope fed in the distance, and jack rabbits bounded away at our approach, and then sat upright and motionless, holding erect.

their prodigious, black-tipped ears, as’ they watched us out of the corner of,

their eye. Slender, striped ~ gophers ran lithely through the grass, to} crouch, in an attitude of attention, at

the entrance of their holes, and the chameleon lizards darted thither with surprising swiftness. High in the air hawks and eagles swam in circles, with extended, motionless wings, and at one place, where the carcass of an ox lay by the wayside, a flock of buzzards were contesting the carrion with two coyotes. On the left, ahead, in a depression of the plain, a playa, or prairie lake, caused by the summer rains, glittered brilliantly blue in the sun.

The trail, worn hard and smooth by the travel of centuries, was an ex- cellent roadway, and we pushed for-

ward at a good pace, varying the fast walk and the trot to which our horses were accustomed by an occasional short gallop. Late in the afternoon we turned from the trail to the playa, 200 yards away. Near at hand, the water, so blue in the distance, revealed itself as turbid, and its recession through evaporation had left it sur- rounded by a wide, flat margin of hardened mud, deeply imprinted by the feet of hirds and animals, and white with alkali. Spreading as it did over ground that was almost level, the lake was astonishingly shallow, and the horses had to be ridden into it, far from the edge, to find water deep enough for them to drink com- fortably. Swarms of pallid, alkali fed mosquitoes rose about us, and the horses, tormented by their bites, and not liking the water, stamped and pawed and moved about, drinking slowly, a little at a time.

Don Ramon had driven out of the pass an hour after us, but he travel- led faster than we, and his ponderous carriage rolled along the trail as we sat on our horses at the lake. A wa- ter keg, swinging below the rear axle, showed that he was prepared to camp that night on the plain. The pair of Spanish mules, flanked by a led ani- mal, drew the vehicie easily at a trot and, passing the playa, rapidly widen- ed the distance from us. Manuel was driving the team, and beside him sat the Indian maid, Dolores. As the car- riage drew past the water sheet, Don Ramon looked watchfully, perhaps suspiciously, at us from the window, and over his shoulder? appeared for a few moments the fair faec, the dark eyes and sombre hair of Carmen.

The sun was an hour above the west- ern mountains 2s we rode out of the water and resumed the trail. The mosquitoes followed and continued to annoy us, until a friendly breeze blew them to leeward. The horses, refresh- ed by the halt and the water, moved with a brisker pace than before. We were nearing the middle of the plain, and the mountain ranges that bound it on the east and west were equally in view. To the south, in the Chiricah- uas, smoke was rising from unseen fires to several places on distant peaks and wooded mountain sides. As we

hither and |

wees ‘hem Miiua mavve> ments ~cound, “ter and near, as those neea ao whe ride on Arizona prairies,

it was seen that the sinoke from some of the places rose strangely in spires and puffs. The sigut of these mys-

terfous signals was a sudden and un-

pleasant revelation to Felix and me. Each, by the saine impulse, examined the cartridge in his rifle barrel, and Whirled ‘the cylinder of his revolver

to make sure that the weapon was in working order.

Felix spoke first.

“Indian fires,’ he said, “ "Phe Apaches are out. They’re rendezvous- ing in the mountains about the San

Simon plain.”

1 nodded, and he continued :~—

“IT thought something was up when that courier rode in so much of a hurry

{into Camp Bowie He probably ‘ prought news that the renegades have erossed the border. It wasn't to be expecied they would let this moon go vy without an outbreak.”’

i “What about these renegades ?”’ ] asked. ‘I thought General Crook had got all the Apaches killed or safe in reservations.”

‘He didn’t get them all,” said Felix. “There were some forty warriors of Cochise’s old band, ied by a chief nam- ed Skin-ya, who refused to come upon the San Carlos res ‘rvation, and went across the border into Sonora. There they have been lurking since, keeping near the boundary ‘line between the United States and Mexico. They pass to the one side or the other of the border, according ws the Mexican or American troops get after them, and

go on the warpath as often as they want horses and the excitement of kill- ing white people. On their raids they are usually joined by Indians who steal away from the San Carlos and the Warm Springs reservations.” ‘Those fires certainly look as if the Indians were moving,’ I remarked. *“What are we going to do about it ?” ‘Il size up matters this way,” said Felix. “The renegades have been coming up from Mexico in little par- ties, so as to divide their trail, and are gathering in the Chirichua moun- tains. The fires are to bring them together, and notify the reservation Indians where to join them. There is a full moon this week, and within a day or two—to-night, as likely as not, after moonrise, or to-morrow, at daybreak—they will sweep the San Simon plain northward on their way

to the Gila river. They will manage the business with the greatest cun- ning. One thing they are certain to

lay out todo, That is, to capture the east and wist bound overland stages £0 as to keep the news of their out- break from getting out as long as pos- sible. They will time their attack so as to corral them both. They're watching the plain from the moun- tain tops now like hawks. They’ve had their eyes on us ever since we left the pass, and if we are on the plain when they move they won't slight us in their round up. What we've got to settle right away is this: Shall we go into camp at fall of dark- ness, as we have intended, or make a long night ride for the San Simon Stave station ?”

I knew Felix, and that his judgment Was to be trusted.

“T’'ll leave the matter with you,” I said. “‘I know nothing better for us than to cary out the plam we have ar- ranged, and camp down on the prairie. | We want to keep our horses fresh in case we should have to run for it, and it would be well not to exhaust the animals by a long night ride.’’ > Thee’ just my idea of the best thing to do,” said Felix. “ Suppose we manage it this way: we'll stop a little before sundown, and have sup- per. As soon as it grows dark, we'll saddje up, push on and go into camp, off the trail, two or three miles ahead. | The Indians, once started, must hurry

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She looked curiously over the low wall.

alcrg, for they know that the first tid- irgs of their outbreak will bring the

scldiers after them, and they won't St €nd much time hunting us in the Cark. We'll get through that w a. 2 at a0”

So it Was agreed upon that we should follew this plan of operations, Soon we came to a clear, grass ¥Y space oa the prairie. Here we stopped and picketed the horses out to graze. Bread we had, and a few dry branches

of mesquite made a fire sufficient to

frizzle some slices of bacon and to, boil coffee in a pot extemvorized from an emptied peach can. We fell to our Supper with a good appetite, just as the sun was going down behind the Chiricahua range. By the time we hed eaten our meal, and smoked a pipe, darkness had fallen The stars were Cut, and the distant mountains were lost in darkness, as we saddled the horses, mounted, and rode onward

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the luminous stars shone with soft brightness through the misty blue of aa high, cloudless sky. In the dusk the plain took en a new asvect. Its

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