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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JULY 24, 1397

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ther, Especialiy we noticed oue « > horses’ behaviour, Inowine that thev >} Were srood sentinels atcainet the ap- proach of hostile. indians, and that if i the Ataehes should come near them, - ™ te the windwerd, the fear and reyj-ur- ’ sf « “a <=) ° nance that the aritnsls had ta the 2 > Indian would be displayed im their

alarm and séftleseness,

CHAPTER ITI.

For a long time nothing occurred to

ed ge = at Ay Ps i disturb us. The horses grazed quiet-

\ 2 cv pe ae Je ~ ly. Except for the occasional rustle

: »ALS ‘ORY ESS +S Qo D of a passing breeze the prairie was

= c if € ba aN GEM ON DELATN eé | still. In the soft, clear moonlight dis-

\ex. a » al 4A he THE SA Pad Gis & 6 5l PRRL Ne » } tant mesquite clumps and their shud-

Wife # ies Nt! ary eternal a whe ht tenm!lCUM ows lay as masses of black. Pre-

AK oy Bape Fi od BYCLARENCE PULLEN. sently I fell to examining the level

yO Z ie Ti eg SQ ——- ee “ oer sround between me and the lone camp.

Se ee COPYRIGHT, 1897 By THE AUTHOR Between me and it upon the open

. ; sround something impressed me as

(Continued ) having taken place. On the hither

“ Prrr | Puc nmasnes gave piace w aarncness. | Side, ten yards from there detached

CHAPTER It. The distance was too great for any | trees, there seemed to be some ap-

To neither Felix nor me did sleep ! sound of shots or human cry to come pearance that I had not noted before.

at once. With each there was to us. What had happened we might; Was it a bowlder that lay theze in

th foreboding that something out of learn on the morrow, bug there was the moonlight barely distinguishable

the ordinary course would happen to nothing to be done to-night but wait., from the brownish green herbage of

us that night, and it was with an ex- ‘Our turn next, perhaps,” said Felix,' the plain? As I looked more closety

pectant feeling, serious enough, yet grimly, as he buckled on his cart-{I could discern another and another

vith somewhat of curiosity, that we ridge belt and then seated himself; Of these almost invisible protuberances

waited for what the turn of events coolly upon his blanket “We can do! Which appeared in some mysterious

mig bring us. That it was liable no better than to stay where we are, | Manner,

t e an ugly sort of visitation, if it If we are not attacked in the next half Surely that foremost object was near-

full i the import of those smoke hour, it will show that the Indians! er by five yards than it had been

Spires on the mountains, we both were don't know where we are, and we'll be When I first saw it, and where I had

we iware. pretty safe against being troubled by. first scen only three or four of these

We had taken the usual precautions | them before daybreak. In any event, sray bodies 1 now could count seven

that plainsmen take in a hostile In- we'd best sit down and take it easy.” or eight, and behind them others were

Gian country; had paused in the dark- Foran hour we sat in silence, with | Coming into view and were advancing.

ness and listened, after turning off | weapons in readiness, but there was! My senses were unusually alert,

from the trail, to find if we were fol- | no further disturbance or any sign of’ and, with the great attention that I

lowed, and before rolling up in our | danger. The horses. fed peacefully, | Paid, [ could now detect the cautious,

blankets had reconnoitred the space | and we felt that we could rely on them | Steady, yet rapid approach of these

about us for a considerable distance to discern the approach of an Indian. crawling bodies, and the full sense of

oI very side. There had been re- | to Our camp. Felix and I had been, the meaning of their appearance and

vealed no sign of danger. Neither of too many montis afielé in the Apache | of the danger which they signified us had so much as mentioned the to- _ country to be long impressed by any: fully dawned upon me.

pic of Indians since we first had seen and remarked the smcke of the Apache fires. But it was a thought we both shared which felix voiced when he said :—

“That old Mexican’s outfit seemed fixed as if he intended to go into camp on the plain to-night. I hope he’s changed his mind and pushed on for the stage station. It’s too bad to think of what might happen to that the Apaches

bred

eid.

Dons born and country,” I

in the

“Hostile Indians

should jump his |!

‘You Know how it is with those old | south-west |

have been so an everyday thing with |

them that they accept the situation as a matter of course. If they are at- tacked by Apaches, they believe it its the will of God, but they make best fight they can. If they get the best of the savages, they bless ther patron saints. But while they lives they go about and attend to their bus:- ness and pleasures, near and far, as freely as if they had never an Indian to trouble them.”

“They live long lives, too, many of them, and die in their beds at last,” commented Felix. “ All don’t have that fortune, however, by a long shot. I know prominent New Mexican fami- lies in which for generations nearly every man has, soon, or later, been killed by the Indians. Some of the Mexicans of the old stock are great ndian fighters—old Roman Baca, of San Mateo, and Colonel Miguel Cha- vez, for ¢xample.”

“Yes, such men as these remind us ‘S? what their ancestors, the old con- quistadore’, must have been, who came up into this country with their arquebuses and lances and coats of mail three centuries ago, and héta their own against ‘P Indians. Their blocd tes in some o Fneir descendan*s

-@ay, in the bravery of the men as well as the beauty of the women.”

‘Hello! What's stampeding horscs ?

clx and I jumped to our feet in

haste. With a loud snort, Bill, my ridinz horse, had dashed at a gallop asfarns his lariat would permit, and Faw stcod at the end of the rope with ears erect and head and tail in the air. I went to the picket nin, saw

the

that the end of the rope was seciirely |

fastened and then walkzda toward the horse, The sharp whistling rattle of a snake tha® [I almost trod on check- ei hy steps and caused me to start back in a hurry. The sound was twice repeated, each time farther away, as the unseen reptile that had stertied the horse’ glided off under

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ee cme, eee

, at the thought Carmen wept piteous-

cover of the darkness. Bill, at my ap- proach, became quiet, went again to |

feeding, and I returned to my blanket. But we were not to fall asleep with-

out being again aroused. The horses presently pricked their ears and iook- | ed toward the east. I turned in the

Girection of their gaze and saw the edge of the round, full moon rising above the Peloncillo mountains. From the same direction came the faint sound of

swift trampling heofs, growing loud- er, and soon their noise was inter- mingied with the rolling of light wheels. Felix lay between me and the trail, rolled in his blanket, the bar- rel of the long sharp rifle by his side glinting dully in the moonbeams. He hed taken off his neckerchief and spread it beside his face on the rub- ber coat on which he lay. From be- neath it peeped the butt of his No. 45 | revolver. He, like myself, was awake |

and listening.

’ is the stage,”’ he said.

I raised my head and looked over him toward the sound of the trotting hoofs, now near at hand. A short stretch of the trail was visible opposite our position, and four mules drawing a buckboard came into view, moving rapid! The driver sat on the front seat. erect and watchful beneath his wide-brimmed hat, with reins and whip in hand, the mail bags piled on the | floor beside him. On the rear seat a | sleepy passenger, lurched and nodded. |! The vehicle whirled by and in a few moments was far down the trail. From where we lay we could see in the | growing moonlight its indistinct out- |

lines, as it moved onward, for some time |

after the sound of wheels and hoofs had died away. We watched it until in the distance it merged indistinguish-

ably with the dark clumps of mes- quite that obscured the trail. The buckboard had passed from

sight, but we were still looking in the direction in which it had gone, when far down the trail there came a suc- cession of flashes, larger and brighter than the scintillation of fireflies could account for. With one accord we leaped to our feet and gazed with eyes intent upon those distant out- bursts of flame.

“It’s shooting,” said Felix, in a tone as low as a whisper. “The Apaches have attacked the stage.”

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danger that did not force itself im-! The Apaches were stealing upon our portunately on our attention. With position, and the attack we had dread- the Slight weariness after our day’s ¢d Was upon us.

ride. the balmy coolness of the night’ My Winchester rifle was at half

brenght an irresistible drowsiness,; cock. I silently drew back the ham- which soon merged into sound and: mer, took careful aim at the nearest dreamless slumber. , of the gray objects and fired. With-

How tong I slert I know not. but ' out waiting an instant to see the re- it must have been hours, when my | sult of my shot, I worked the lever repose was invaded by the phantas-| back and forth, aiming quickly and magoria of a troubled dream. From: sending shot after shot among the

a swift succession of incongruous sen-| figures then clinging to the ground. Sations, the rocking of boats, the jolt-| Simultaneously with my first shot ing of waggons, and menace from: there rose a yell and tumult of yelps man and monsters, I awakened to; and screeches so frightful that, pre- the reality of the sound of soft foot-| pared as I was for such a result to steps and the light rustling of the prai- | follow my shot, it startled me for an rie grass. Someone was stealing upon instant.

us, so close at hand that my opening A score of tongues of flame spouted eyes fell upon the advancing shadow. | from the grass, mingled with the war- With the first appalling thought that | cry, and twenty bullet shots whizzed the Apaches had surprised us, I seizeq through the mesquite trees with their

my revolver, and as I cocked it started, rushing scream. The horses reared up and turned to face the intruder. and plunged, and, turning from the But it was not the evil face of In-| Indians, dashed into the mesquite

dian or of white “rustier” that con- fronted me. The starlight and moon- pent illumined the face and kneeling orm of a beautiful Mexica rir whose dark eyes, upturned to. wee her maid had both fallen asleep, and ean - ee behind her upheld, clasp- i end sound - —— ae the Indian ed hands. n the musical Spanish | Ye ey Swasesec.. & ecream. oe . melodious voice implored ae pc nase yey a e rant ees aintively :— ‘ : 2y lay silent, close to “Senor, no me mates te lo ruego!} the ground, while the rifles were roy, Carmen!” (Senor, do not kill| Cracking near and away and balls tore me, I pray! It is only I, Carmen.”) through the sheltering trees about x hae ripen WKS the imnpmipe instant- ae eee al — thse a oo y to fire, and my revolver, with er ‘ PONY. mer raised and iat finger at oa vicious crack of Felix’s rifle, which on the trigger, was pointing straight fell to work in earnest with a celerity at the head of Carmen. who at my| Which almost rivaled the quickness of ‘2 ae wae ae ee Thar calae, athe had evident! ng Ww ear and fatigue. ehin Oa , y near at hand, Ser Sie Wee Bodees counted upon stealing unchesrved up- crouched and whimpered. I turned my | 0” °Ur position, taken wholly by sur- weapon ¢Way and lowered the hamnier: Prise, sprang upward, fired their rifles deen thr che | and flattening upon the sround backed Felix’s pistol had clicked at my first lacvay like centipedes into thé obscurity

thicket, in which was our camp, and were quickly tangled among the trees, which served in a measure to screen them from the bullets. Carmen and

movement, and, revolver in hand. he | of the light. Several of them, with was crouched on one knee, listening. | ®8tonishing quickness, caught and He accosted Carmen in Spanish dragged into the detached clump of

mesquite one or two fallen comrades, ‘but the one at which I tad first fired lay as he had lain when f pulled the From the mesquité, and from

“How came vou here, sencrita ?’

“Senor, we were encamped beyond the arroyo. The mules ran away in the night. Manuel followed them and | Tigger.

@id not return. My father went arte | ee i at @ Steater distance away,

i ; ; the otners kept up a quick fire for piaseet, end ne, tod, did -_ ak seyeral minutes with an occompani- wack. Evverything looked strange an ‘ment of frightful yells, while we work- fearful to us who were left alone.

ed our rifles as rapidly as we could, firing at the flashes as they discharg- ed their pieces,

‘We directed our fire into tached mesquite clump and quickly cleared it of the Indians. From the more distant line of cover their shots were necessarily at random. Evi- dently they got tired of wasting am-

When after a long time Manuel and mny father did not appear, we left the camp in search of them. We soon lost our way, but by favour of heaven We at last saw your horses, and so were guided to you. Ah, I fear mis- fortune has hefallen my father !” And

the de-

ly, While Dolores sobbed in syiapathy munition. on us, and perhaps they

and addressed to the gilded medal of| thought their position dangerous, for

the Virgin of Guadaloupe that hung |their fire slackened and soon ceased.

from her neck her prayers, in a semi-| Felix and I were glad to pause to

| Indian dialect, for protection from the} jet our rifle barrels cool. We waited

Apaches, five minutes, but no further sound of Well, this was a strange and not

unpleasing episode of a nizght’s camp- ing upon this plain of sinister repute. Much better it was than to be routed out by Apaches. Felix and I did the best we could under circumstances so novel and unexpected. Failing to con-

attack came, and at last Felix spoke in a low tone: “Are you hurt ?” The question suggested something that I had not thought of since. xs had for an instant realized a quick }

Sole Carmen with assurances of our] pain, such as I should fancy that the belief in her father’s safety, we feld-] sudden brushing over the skin of a ed the blankets so as to make a sort] white hot iron would produce. jt had uf divan for her and the Indian maid.| made my shoulder twinge for A fho- | Leaving them to their sorrow, we] ment, and then it had passed from |

Started out to see how our horses were| my mind in the excitement of firing.

faring. They had fed well and were] I examined my shoulder and saw that lying down. Finding them all right,] the sleeve of my shirt was torn and we seated ourselves in the shadow of} was damp with blood. I tore it open

and perceived the raw and blackened furrow where the hot bullet had grazed

a clump of mesquite to await the com- ing of daylight.

Carmen had thrown herself on the| the muscle of the shoulder. Although blankets, with her face in the lapn of | it had drawn considerable blood, the her maid. She seemed overcome by} Wound was not serious, although it er grief, and did not speak or look| C@lled dad faror farod dawad wada up at Our approach. The Indian girl} Carried an unpleasant sense of the had recovered her composure, and with closeness of what might have hap- stoical face sat immovable by her pened. mistress. “I believe I got scratched on my The little grove of seattered mesquite shoulder,” [ answered, when I haa clumps in which we had camped was|™2de Mv examination and ascertained about 100 feet in diameter. In its| that I was hit in no other place. ‘ it’s centre was a smooth, grassy plat about} °f mo importance. Are you all thirty feet across. About the group | "sht ? of low tree clumps there were no others| ,,. SOUrd as a Cw#lar,” Felix replied. near, and we were separated by fully But some of ’em came mighty close. 100 yards of level, open prairie from|,! think I got a ventilating hole in my anything that might furnish cover by; "@t. for a bullet, or the wind cf one, which an enemy could approach. _ {.tcok it off my head. What do you It was now about two o'clock in the| think 2? Will they come again, or

have the Apaches drawn off for good”

“I believe they’ve got enough of us," IT said. “They have no reason for staying around here and losing time trying to take us in. Their only hope Was to surprise us. Now that they've failed of that I think they'll get away as quickly as possible.”

“That’s mv idea,” said Feltx. 7 ee you'll keep watch, I'll slip back and reconnoitre on the other side of our camping place, and see if the rest of our company are all right.’’

It was near daybreak, the chosen time of Indian attack, and we anxious-

hz watched for what the lifting. of

morning. The full moon was high in the sky, and it flooded the plain with its mellow light. Felix and I reclined upon the dry, smooth ground, smoking our pipes, with Mexican dollars laid upon the bowls lest the glow of their burning should guide the shot of a lurking Apache. We spoke only in whispers, and when, as happened now and then, one of us dozed off in a few minutes’ sleep the other kept awake and watchful. From time to time one or the other in turn made the circuit of the mesquite clumps, keeping under shelter as far as possible and care- fullee ananning the ones snace about

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a ae Garkness might Dring.” The’ gray light of dawn was bringing into view the darkered plain and the sky was red- dening in the cast when the sound of a rarid vclley of shots came faint in the distance from the direction of the Mexican’s camp. The shooting ceased and quickly a fire blazed up where it had ovcurred. We sat “ expectancy with weapons in readiness, waiting for

the attack on us which now seemed certain. But it did not come. We were left undistarbed, and soon our

attention was attracted to a weird and cminous apparition in another quarter. The sky beyond the Peloncillo mount- ains wes now flaming with the dawn, and through a cleft the level sun- beams came in a wide shaft of light upon the plain. Across this illuminat- ed space, like shadows against a screen,

a procession of horsemen passed in single file between us and the moun- tains. Their forms, muffled in blank-

ets, and their attitude in riding, show- them to be Indians. We counted nineteen in the party. Nearly all were leading horses behind the mount- ed animals. Thev passed beyond the light into the @Cuskiness, and were (ost to sight in the shadow against the dark continuation of the mountains.

Dawn brightened into sunrise, and the San Simcn plain in the daylight lccked frish, fair, and peaceful. Some cark moving ebjects could be seen near

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the playa, but there were re sigrs of Canger to us. We offered the girls the last of the water in the canteens, end then, having packed our limited eqvipage, we all, by commen consent,

started to visit Don Ramon’s cam», Which, in the daylight, was now dis- tinguishable about a mile away. [ fave Carmen my horse to ride, and walked in cempany with Dolores, who looked thoroughly unconcerned, and munched a piece of bread as she trudged along. Carmen’s face was tear-stained and melancholy, and she Seemed unconscious of the rents and tatters in her dress, which testified woefully to the thorns and briars

that had Jain in her path the night be- fcre. But her nantilla was becoming- ly arranged, and she looked the lovely incarnation. of grief and egrese. (To be Continued. )

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