Show SAN JUAN the tragedy tra edy at by albert R lyman mrs barton had find no reason to doubt that those seven cavajos navajos na bajos intended to kill her husband eya even tho they I 1 spared tier and tier her mother and the babies her husband lay there in plain sight under the shed by the door it was impossible to move or conceal him it was ss doubtful whether lie he knew what went on around him or could understand what they said still as a last resort ifor for the seven angry stalwarts stal warts were coming comingo near she whispered in his hb ear urging him to close his eyes eye and be perfectly still as it he were dead the cavajos navajoa lined up in front of the shed guns in hand baud and the women waited in tei terror rot but barton acted well his parth pait and rid they saw no need of him again then they demanded enhance to the store opening the door mr arg barton em ton lett left thorn them to liely help tl themselves its as hey had intended they loaded up freely with whatever took whatever took lock their fancy till their people call loudy from the cliffs across tho the riven I 1 to 0 beware someone was vaa coming it was an hour and fitten fitt en minnit 9 icom the time Cheer headed pull in 11 mell mall for the dugway till kumen jones and platte 1 I lyman arrived ai rived from bluff in ili answer to his message no horse borse flesh had been spared elther or from bluff john adams carried the news on to amasa bartons bai tons brother joseph joeeph r barton who was noo ning ili ills alg freight outfit at the mou ali ot 0 recapture recap tuie and lie he was next to reach the scene of the trouble later jn h tile day da other men left for foi Rin roncone colle among them the bishop jens nielson a and n d a gloom of loneliness settled over the little town as evening approached with ith butiro but iw 0 meri men left in the place that was before the days davi of oe mort cello and the nearest neighbor town hundred miles anwa was as more than a hut t i t a across cl os s the river and beai c tir 1 i to b be e hear li ear when they callet callei I 1 to encourage was the great nillon nation whose people nit maht lit suddenly po af wild ver river a miss understanding standing of 01 i ahe trouble tio uble no wonder onder those women or of tho the long lone long miles of roush rough and brooket trails rails between thern them ind and the hist first heir end crid it aured thit that they and alich harlp IV children wee nere it a the tha meick of thi the li lionides ades of navajo so sn hv fit 14 darene s approached apio ched they decided not to sta stay y in their vailous homes but to w gather in one place so they the rolled i ed cd with theli their children at the home oi 01 i aunt atten ahten niolon nielson to pass the ominous night and all the men in town ton which were two peter allari allan and john adams stool stood guard with their guns till rooming morning two men t withstand thousands yet most of 0 the tha follis who had bad their beds in or 01 are biourd u I 1 that log house slept sweetly and un disturbed when came panting on its his lathering cayuse into bluff witti with that message cincone the 11 e people nt ft once of all their numbers who were vero away avav especially if they mighty be expose exposed to danger at tile the old I 1 gapch lit li olo cr cf tile tl B alleys cost cast or of elk mountain father john aller was aag running a daliy dairy and a number of youg folks had recently gone there jt R w ras is bet best to get in touch with 0 them a once and blob allen alien was aa sent on a tough pony at the ranch it was decided the young oung folks should po go t to torri right away aai tho the father allari allan bould stay and protect his property pio perty there was aa bobs two sisters si stera aggie anil and lizzle allan miss magnolia Mip nolla wal ion on miss stela hyde and her hei brother biot liei brank biank too many for the limited number of saddles available but nothing deterred them in the least Stait ln a attey ay cautiously and silently in ill darkness to traverse tia eiso that thirty odd ballf of trail tin u brush and trees and rocks every sound of the struck sharply on theli their ears eais and dark objects loomed menacingly by the way ay but they arrived duty duly and ha had t r recollections of that ride lide for days afterwards whatever vei the file shortage qt OF men in bluff five or six si stayed staged all the tha tini k at while billu amasa amai barton ili between life and death for the kavalos collected collect pd in a menacing camp camil across the river liver and no one knew when they might come to finish plundering the store stole or to make even ee worse reprisals they could be seeni seem peeking over the cliff cleft in the day time and the smoke ar or the light of chelp fires beyond the lie till hill top indicated all the time they were waiting just out of sight whatever vei move they decia pd ed to make they would bould not be hin dered by any substantial resistance from the people at roncone or at bluff both places wafred wafted entirely liely at their mercy deicy taking po no steps towards to aids nor depending on new arrangements of defence barton lay there with its ills brain slowly oozing from ano ghastly bul let holes near the crown of his head they had seemed to lodge in the re region of the optic nerves making him blind and cau causing lilg dark places around his eyes ayea they succeeded in poul poultice tle ing the color away avay but the sight was gone what could they do for a man with w ali two ivo bullet holes thru his brain what could the best surgeon burgeon have done even it if he had been there but skill shill was so far away avny they made no nn effort to get it and yet tho the the i knew kne nothing about it till later on dr winter was vas camped then at soldier spring near to what is now Alon drello sometimes the sick man seemed to know what lie he was saying at lenac in part when lie he hot it t vos praydt time ho he called its his eifes attention to 10 the fact and then he be prayed placed as hr ho ind bad been accustomed to do in their pamily worship also lie he know something about what had bad hap bened for orn lay day he said well I 1 atless old eye eve will give us a loa ion rest towards To vaid the last week of walt tying ing lie he sang a verse eise of an old rou alch which ran 1 I am ain getting old and too fee ble and my work Is nearly done clone I 1 have traveled on oil the toughest roughest kind ol 01 road load thi thiu u trouble and thru sorrow sorro I 1 I 1 have lave met the end at last and am waiting by the wayside with my load but besides keeping anxious datcu by y dartois Uart Dar tons ons bedside the little company kept a vigilant eye eie on the cliffs beyond ond the river where the enemy walt wait fed ed in derad silence as it if incubating some infernal intel nal plan pt attack those lavados lava jos debated the question of war some borne of them contended that it if the man died they were even but others insisted it would take more lead dead whito white men to balance the I 1 account out from that camp on the cliff idle due day came a man mall with resolute lesol nto step towards the cabins down doin the cliff to the river bank cross the slie aiu and on again towards tho the watching company he was alone but he was large laige and powerful powei ful and he as it if he line knew what lie he wanted and vas determined debei mined to anve lave it might into tile the house he came silent and dignified his great dark eyes and his powerful powei tul boim a rare raie combination or ol magnetic manhood it was tonj ton holiday the chief who had pone gone on two ho pence peace missions to silt salt uke lake city as related in a former chapter and he be was on a peace miss mission lorl to ile he wanted to know the nature or tho trouble double and they told him showing him the wounds in bartons head ind ano tailing calling his attention to their pa redness and their dislike for foi tiou hie ble lie ile called them friends and sali sal I lie wanted no trouble with its ills friends lie said he had told his hh people then fidio da no need of trouble lie ile wante bantel the lie matter fixed up ind and ind and he returned le turned to lits ills people to re ie enforce the lie he had made t them before holiday left good and ass arice ance in the stricken cabins at til RI cone and alien tile the weary vigil reno ed its le end they the movel moved HIP body to bluff and held tile the funera comparatively free of fear for foi in an further danger front from the nation acres acio the river the more moie conservative men of tile the bajos agreed with tom holiday ind v anted canted the darmedy it at Rin cont to be forgotten foi gotten but there was it phile of liot hot headd alio who disregard eo Us amell nod and still figured thit that tn spore deore would never be even een between betwee them m and the settlers till more moie blo I 1 had been shed Se deverril verril days nir tile funeral tills this hot blooded elemer clemer apo alto numerous nume ious icus to be i restrained entrained by 0 eg e men collected a company compani r severity five or a hundred bundled men lilen blich ened thelt theli fares afaf es loaded up with tair t arms rind and headed for bluer to set the ta account in their own on way i |