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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER; RANDOLPH. UTAH By FRANK H. SPEARMAN . CHAPTER VIII Continued 9 breakfast next morning Bowie and Don Ramon sat down in If you still feel the rancho office. you want to go ahead, Don Ramon, After said Bowie, Im inclined to come to stay here with you. Don Ramons face lighted. The details were worked out. The two scouts, Pardaloe and Simmie, were offered, and later accepted, work as vaqueros. But with the understanding that when the wanderlust seized them they were free to head for the mountains, where, in fact, they had spent most of their time in California. After the difficulties had been ironed out Don Ramon ordered horses. Bowie was introduced to Pedro and his vaqueros as major-domTaking Pedro, Pancho, Pardaloe and the Creek with them, Don Ramon and Bowie spent hours riding over the valley and through the hills granted by the king of Spain to his favored retainer, Don Ramon Estrada, grandfather to the present Don Ramon. Dona Maria had been told of the new arrangement. She was so pleased that she hastened to Carmen to tell her of the coming of Bowie. Carmen looked up with a face almost as black as a thundercloud. Why, Carmen, protested her mother, dont you like it? Like it? exclaimed the impetuous girl. An Americano to come to Guadalupe? Could not Father have picked anybody but an Americano to take poor Franciscos place? o. the news was cautiously relayed to THE CHEERFUL CHERUB the whole company. Take a last look at your carbines and rifles. Have your knives They invite rrse to parties handy if were rushed. The trail end luncheons tnd tees volsplits here. Sanchez wants six Uhenl much prefer old unteers to follow him up another hundred feet. He will post them clothes end qviet high above the cave where they can so And theyre fire down at the raiders or roll boulto thet wants who on ders their heads lve jure . go? But, he added truthfully, you time should know that if were licked I htveht theres no possible salvation for Ketrt to these six. the twenty-eigman of Every deny volunteered. Three rancheros and Like chosen. were three vaqueros men chosen for death, the six with Frank H. Spaarman WNU Service their guide crept and crawled to the has sent me. The Indians were last difficult post. Even Bowie, with led by Yosco. He has carried away keen ears, awaiting with the main WNU Service. twenty-fiv- e and women and body the return of Sanchez, could girls volunteers of Marafter three hundred horses. Padre the hear nothing tinez begs you will send help today. they had gone fifty feet. He fears they will.be back tonight Now, whispered Sanchez on his to carry off more of the women. return, you have kept quiet. Keep Don Ramon raised his hand. Tell quieter. Try not to start a single Padre Martinez we will send help." chip of rock under your feet, for it The horseman, touching his forewill rattle all the way down the canhead, whirled away. A clatter of yon wall. They are in the cave hoofs and a trail of dust marked that much I know now. Get on your his way across the valley to the hands and knees this time for the AVIATION TRAINING southern ranchos. The group on the last climb. I think weve got them. O.I.T. Learn Aviation (Government porch watched him. Despite the utmost care an occa- Attend certificated courses) , Radio, Automotive, We' , Don Ramon looked to Bowie. sional bit of rock would rattle down Diesel, Machine-ShoWeldmust act, he said. The mission booklet. Address: Supervisor, Ore. the canyon wall; fortunately the dull ing. Free of Institute Technology, Portland, Ore. gon must be protected. ascending roar of the small waterdeWhat. about their soldiers? fall muffled the noise. For the weary manded Bowie of Pedro. Wisdom in Life Hagnt rancheros this final climb on hands this worthless government enough Wisdom does not show itself so and knees, dragging their rifles with painful care, topped the hardships much in precept as in life a firmof the night. But just as the first ness of mind and mastery of appefaint streak of dawn lightened the tite. Seneca. eastern sky Sanchez, with the utmost caution, turned the top of the trail and led his men into a second Full, Choked Feelin- grecess in the precipice. after eating and drinking usually As each man crept around the rendezvous. comes with acid indigestion and heart-bucorner he beheld with astonishment Their numbers had been hand- a small fire burning fifty yards away Have ADLA Tablets handy, somely supplemented by rancheros with dim figures dancing and chantcontain Bismuth and Carbonates they from the south in all, twenty-eigrelief. Your druggist has ing around it. Sanchez did not alfor men rode from the mission that low a word to be even whispered. them.quick night for the stronghold of the outlaw Indians in Santa Maria Canyon. It was only a handful of men for Rebound Tells an invasion, but they were twenty-eigAttack is the reaction; I never men, each capable of giving think I have hit hard unless it rean account of himself. bounds. Samuel Johnson. But the only chance would be to surprise them. If they discover you first every man you take along will be killed. Do you want to take that chance? Why not? And we must start Sanchez nodded assent. tonight. We must get to the cave before The Indian nodded daybreak. We shall need you for a again. guide. A small cloud of dust could be seen on the northern horizon. Those are rancheros, said Bowie. They will be here soon. The rancheros rode up in twos and threes. Felipe and Jose Martinez from Pinole; Antonio Bernal from Santa Teresa, Francisco Soto from El Molino; Pedro Arguello from San Miguel; Sebastian Pacheco and Ignacio Alviso from VicentL The sun was hot. Francisco Soto, who was pugnacious but fat, suggested moving to the shade of the portico. Bowie vetoed the suggestion. Let us keep away from the servants he suggested. ears, These Indians are not all to be trusted. If we dont surprise Yosco, he will surprise us: that Indian must be a smart hombre. The conference moved, as a compromise, to the shade of a spreading oak. Two hours went to impressing on the group the details of And I dont the plan of attack. want anyone to ride into this without warning him of the danger, said Bowie as the meeting broke up. It is a dash into enemy country. If our attack fails some of us will not coine back, and if anyone wishes to drop out now there will be no hard feelings. We meet at eight oclock at the mission. That night the Spanish blood was up. . Every don who had been summoned was on hand at the evening od IVt the it im ht QQi6OO,O0 DEPARTMENT! - Body-Fende- r, M ht ht i CHAPTER IX self-conscio- s - . t-do- m. But Carmen was at least mistress of her feelings and she kept them to herself. 'At dinner that night there was present a new member of the household, and he was received by the family with the perfect courtesy of their training and traditions. Bowie, in spite of himself, was a bit Perhaps that was why With a face almost as black he talked more than was his wont. as a thunder cloud. He was likewise conscious of choosing his words carefully in the new regard for the property to supply tongue because of listening ears at guards for it? He did not wait for an answer. Pedro, he said sharpthe lower end of the table. ly, fetch Pardaloe and Simmie . . . Within a short time the rancho Who is this? he asked. A second routine had already become so es- unobtrusive vaquero had stood at tablished that the presence of Bowie Pedros elbow, listening to every seemed a part of the considerable word. This-iMariSanchez, my right-han- d domain. Pedro, a posa Indian, took to Bowie from trailer," answered Pedro. He is the start. Simmie told him of one frantic. Among the girls Yosco has fairly stiff brush in company with stolen is his sweetheart, Amelita. He knows the mountains? asked the Texan and how he had taken stock of his bearing when baptized Bowie. ' Bom and lived there.. He Is by a cloud of arrows. In the estimation of an Indian one characteris- .down here only two .years. And Yosco has stolen his girl? tic ranks above all others steadiness under fire. Every day Pedro mused Pedro. They were to be married soon. and his fellow Indian vaquero, PanYou should have some idea of rode foothills the valley and cho, where this Yosco hides, said Bowof Guadalupe with Bowie, who gradually applied to its better manage- ie, eying Sanchez closely. He is no ment the experience and practice of doubt the same wretch that killed Don Francisco. We must get him. a Texas cattleman. One morning word came to the Where does Yosco hide? Marstolid Senor, muttered Jhe rancho that the Indians had raided the mission. Two hundred horses iposa, he has three places. Which is the closest? were missing and fifteen women and If he is in the closest he cannot girls taken.. The storeroom r was be taken. You must wait till he robbed and emptied. Senor Bowie, what do you think goes farther up in the mountains. Bowie was impatient. Tell me, f this raid? Don Ramon asked the talk faster: where is this closest Texan at breakfast. Pedro thinks this is another of place? he asked curtly. In a canyon of the Santa Maria Yoscos jobs. Pedro knows these But well. Indians River, high up in a cave mountain pretty I know that Pedro interrupted. theres one thing certain: every time Indians make a successful raid they big cave, senor. It opens on a canare bolder for the next. They need yon wall five hundred feet high. The cave is halfway up, reached by a ' a lesson. ' He spoke slowly. ledge not three feet wide. You see, What shall we, do? asked Don there is no chance to attack while Yosco hides there. You must wait. Ramon, interrupting him. This cave it opens out on a canI know of but one thing, conto is that after tinued Bowie; yon wall. Is the opening narrow or go them. Anyway, thats what we used wide? Wide, senor. to do down on the Staked Plain We will try for the cave, Pedro. when they got too troublesome. But, senor! Theres another angle in this for me, We will Bowie shook his head. Don Ramon. This Yosco led the raid that resulted in the death of start tonight. What say, Sanchez? The Mariposa did not speak. He Don Francisco murder I call it, for the boy was killed after he was looked at the ground, thinking. Don He was my friend. Id Ramon, Dona Maria, Carmen, waitwounded. travel from here to hell-fir- e to punish ed in suspense. his murderer. Sanchez, asked Bowie casually, are you afraid? His speech and manner were still The taunt stung the Indian into deliberate, almost cold, but his tone carried conviction of deadly intent. words, For himself, Sanchez fears Again he was cut short. Pedro, nothing. Yosco has stolen his Amhat in hand, had run hurriedly to elita. . Sometime, Sanchez spoke the doorway. Vaquero from the slowly on, sometime Sanchez will kill him. mission! he exclaimed. You speak like a man, Sanchez. The Don with Bowie, followed closely by Dona Maria and Carmen, But help us now to get back the hastened to the portico. The mes- horses and the mission women. Can senger was bareheaded and his you take us to the cave? horse foam flecked and restive. Again the Mariposa paused. I Padre Martinez can take you to the cave, senor. He spoke fast. full-blood- ed twv5 htd -- At Don Ramons suggestion Bowie was made captain of the company, and it was agreed to obey his orders. You all understand, I suppose, that we must depend on Sanchez to take us to the canycgi? explained Bowie. If we fail to find the Indians in the cave our work is lost because we cant follow them into the mountains with a skeleton com- Is chapped, r1willyourbeskin delighted with pany. We are taking the chance of them. I think, a good chance. Sanchez, we are ready to start when you give word. A few moments, senor. When the big star shows in the east we start, said the Indian in a very finding low voice. And when the column moves, not a word is to be spoken by anyone, added Bowie to the company. Not a whisper nor a cough nor a laugh por a sneeze. This is no holiday ride some of us may not come back. You are going against a chief We are two hundred feet with the reputation of being the from the cave. wiliest of the mountain outlaws. Sanchez says we need every precau- He had achieved his surprise; what, tion. Are you all in moccasins? If now, of the attack? not, provide yourselves here. Look Dancing to keep warm? asked to your rifles, carbines, knives and Bowie to Sanchez. your ammunition. If there is a fight War dance, whispered Sanchez. there will be no time to correct our Another raid tonight. mistakes. Yosco will do that for Maybe! exclaimed Bowie menus. At midnight the ghostlike column tally. Call on them to surrender, had penetrated the higher moun- Sanchez. The high shrill yell of the vaquero tains. Sanchez halted the party in a small grassy glade. Here they dis- broke loud over the empty- gorge. mounted. Three men, Don Ramon The dancers stopped, petrified. The and two vaqueros, were detailed to squaws sprang up and scurried from guard the horses above the glade sight. Sanchez called for surrender. the trail could be followed only on The startled warriors looked about foot. The advance was begun single in vain for a. foe. They raised a yell of defiance. For file, and like a writhing black ser- quick-sharof them it was the last. ' A most men the of column armed pent rifle of fire visburst wound its way, toppled them over faintly ible in the light of the stars, and at like pasteboard men. The few who times disappearing into the eclipse partly escaped the fatal hail stagof a mountain shoulder. Not a word gered or plunged, wounded, back to was spoken the Texan knew the shelter. tricks of Indians and left nothing to Undismayed and sooner than the chance. Californians could reload, a fresh The going grew rougher than that party of warriors ran out; one limpof the sierra they had crossed. Bow- ing savage pointed in the direction ie halted at times to give the col- of the gunfire. A shower of arrows umn a chance to close up; and an flew from the cave mouth. As these occasional cautious Hist! checked 'struck the rocks hiding the attackthe movement while Sanchez felt ers a yell and a volley came from out the rocks for further ascent. He across the canyon. Three of the warwas following a trail along which riors went down before the rifles of each man was cautioned in the low- the Texan scouts and Pedro. The est whisper to hug the face of the savages had not recovered from their amazement at gunfire from a precipice they were mounting where a misstep would have plunged new quarter when a second volley a man hundreds of feet into the was poured into them from the Californians hidden on the trail. canyon below. At long last the struggling ranchTo add to the trouble of the cave eros, who, had they not been men of men, boulders were tumbling down spirit, would have sunk under the on them from above. As warrior exhaustion of their long and danger- after warrior, yelling defiance, isous climb, were led in the dark- sued from the cave he was struck ness to a rock chimney in the sheer down.' The was soon covered face of the precipice. Within the with dead. ledge Still 'Sanchez waited. walls of this they could stand in a He waited till the patience of Bowie - at-tim- the effect of Mentholatum applied to the stinging, red, swoUen parts. Mentholatum quickly cools and soothes the Irritation and assists Nature to more quickly heal the Injury. Mentholatum Is a pleasant; effective application lor minor skin Irritations. Jars or ' nt Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. Shakespeare. 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