Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-03-04

saddle; and once a dazzling bolt and fearful simultaneous clap of thunder caused the poor beast to swerve madly aside, rear, and then turn back in her track for short distance while a tall tree, cleft by the lightning, scat tered half its mighty bulk over the spot from which the marc had shrunk back.
 But, with steady hand and coaxing voice, the horseman finally caused her to return again aIsa Es.Esltisafx .sser stiss,s llrsstrate tf1zzlk, they resumed tho;r. " zs<,1zsse. zrIiIe l3rn;rn1 ..1o1ohs z 1. <{}Til fraz1 kzzIesf trees. wlsitle1 {Ial14er- oas1S though She dark al1.
 Thus, fIEE9]1eh 1ke lsii6kl. {lsey prlj- i the dim da~n of day approached and, when the cheering sun at last broke with merry face over the glittering hills, the drenched stranger was far beyond the perplexing forest through which he had ridden.
 "Thank you for no,hing," he ex- i claimed, mockinglv saluting the sun. ''The world is full of such friends, who l give their aid only when the trouble is over. The sun should shine in the night such times.
 The mare made the best of her way to l the nei9hboring village, where the rider now determined to stop, recruit and pass half day at least.
 Dirty, drenched, sore with travel haggard as he was, it may be supposed i that he did not feel ver-communicative to the people at the tavern, who stared at the stranger the harder. They thought him not at all prepossessing- poor. proud, no baggage and very likely no money.
 The mare, however, was stalled; not without being closely regarded by every eye.
 May I never eat meat" said one, eff that isn't Amos Dunbar's mare Jule"
 [" I wish I may be shotif don't think so, too. White fore feet, and just such a shape, height, head and gait; mane and tail, at any rate
 Couldn't be possible" said another.
 "He left yesterday to be gone week, he said; and he wouldn't allow any live
 man but himself to ride his maro.' D
 But there she is, howsomever, in-
 sisted the others, and they went out to
 the barn to reassure themselves.
 Meanwhile the stranger, having gone
 in to wash and make his garments some
 what more tidy, disclosed to the land-
 lord a bloody gash upon the side of his
 head, which he bathed, and, calling for
 plaster, dressed 1t.
 How did you get that wound,
 fiiend?" asked the landlord, curiously.
 "A falling bough in the storm last
 night" was the answer, carelessly. "I
 did not think 1t was so severe a cut. Sc
 much to do to manage my horse l hard
 ly gave 1t thought.
 Where might you be from, sir?'
 continued the landlord, not exactly sat
 is6ed.
 '' might be from any quarter of the
 world you choose" said the stranger
 tand If l told you from England don l know that it would make you any wiser Don't begin to catechise a tired man. | l, pay my way that's all you need wisi
 of me-"
 "Humph! !" grunted the landlord, a, he ordered table ready for his bluf , visitcr. I'm not sure that this fellow , ain rough customer and suspicious , character. I'll keep an eye on him P l While the stranger was at breakfast those who had been to inspect the hors, reasserted that 1t was no other thai Amos Dunbars mare and, whisperin;
 to the landlord about 1t, they agreed f, ask the stranger how she came into hi , possession as soon as he had hnishe,
 his meal.
 l |" He had heap of money about hin . when he went away, yesterday saiC
 the inkeeper, shaking his head in sin a ister manner.
 : "Look here, stranger" said one c : the villagers, as he rose from the tabl F and came forth, "ain't that same Dun s bars mare, that you rid here 2" 6 "I don't know him. Why do yo
 ask?" said the stranger, frowning q r what lie considered village imperti q hence.
 0 But we know his mare and that e her, sure as snakes He left here, wher - he lives, yes'd'y forenoon on her back j. and you must have met him else ho7
 came you by his horse ?" l. have ridden her about 200 miles, an d so she couldn't we'll have been her
 yesterday" replied the stranger, vexe e at the esuspic ous g'anees which were cas e upon him, and attributing them to th . insolence which a solid exterior some times invites from the low-minded. } Without staying to hear their replie.
 he turned his back suddenly upon thel , and proceeded to the barn, where h 2 took from the saddle large leather l pocket-book, and, concealing 1t abor , his person, returned to the house. 5 [" had forgotten that" he reflected
 Without money I might indeed giy f cause for suspicion.
 a A boy in the barn had noticed tn | act, and, hearing that the man was F suspected horse thief, he ran in and tol a the landlord.
 Suspicion now increased against tt i stranger. Why didn't he tell a straigl
 story? Where did he get the wound c his head ? Why did he falsify about u V mare? Why was he so close minded I Amos Dunbar was widely known as a wealthy man, and his favorite mar T Jule, was equally well known to the vi = lage. He had ridden away with her tl I day before, with large sum of none, n Now. stranger had come back wit E her, pretending not to have seen hin o What did all this mean? Q The landlord sent at once for Mir - Dunbar, who came in great haste all a anguish, identified the mare, even u .s saddle, and now joined in the paint .r belief that the traveller had murdere ; her husband for his money and fed III on his beast, not deeming that he WI e coming to the very place where l r would be most easily detected. V The ire of the people at the tavern ", ; aroused, and they again confronted tl " stranger, having procured a constabl "a and, to his dire alarm, the mare havi1 's been brought from the stable, he w 70 told to consider himself under arrest II 70 tess he could give satis actory e m planation of the mystery. The presen, n of Mrs. Dunbar added soIemnity to u 10 inquest. But the strangers indignatiC o stii ovprmastare6 his olsi1-,,,