The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-04-05

anu cllllu Vi MI, Ming tne wealthy
mine-owner.
Twenty years have passed since the
duel in the plaza at sonora, and Do
lores Sangrado has been married
nearly as long to Che victor. Fortune
seemed to favor the young American
from the start, and wealth and power
came apparently without effort.
Yet, with all the success he won for
himself, and with the love OF his wife
and daughter Isabel, he was known as
melancholy man-rarely smiling
and never appearing to escape from
some sorrow which seemed to be
always weighing upon him,
Let us listen to what he is saying to
his wife, now n handsome matron Of
forty, as he sits beside her in corner
watching the dancers as they whirl
past them to the music of a Strauss
waltz.
"My dearest Dolores, you know I am
happy-as happy as can be, happier,
perhaps, than have been since that
night when Arthur WAS stolen"
AT the mention of that name his
wife's lustrous eyes filled with tears,
but she says no more, and soon they
separate, while he goes out on broad
veranda with half dozen of the seniors
to smoke the customary cigarette be-
tween the dances.
"Haye you not suffered from this
band, Senior King" inquiries one of
the guests.
"No, they have never dared to mo-
lest us; they know that they would
receive too warm reception. l have
sometimes wished they would, for,
perhaps, if they were thoroughly
thrashed once they would leave this
part OF the country, and it would be a
good lesson to all those Apache scoun-
drels. Ii the military"
But at that moment wild yell rose
from the darknessof the garden below
followed by rafting volley.
-Four of the six guests fell to the
floor OF the veranda, while the war
whoop OF the Apaches rose again, and
the garden swarmed with dark figures,
rushing toward the house.
The survivors of the party on the
veranda sprang to the low open win
dows, and in a moment the heavy shut
tiers were closed and barred, while Mr.
King, revolver in hand, hurried to the
front door, just in time to meet half
naked Apache on the steps. A shot
from his pistol sent him rolling back
into the arms Of dozen who now ap
peared, following him, and with won
derful quickness King shut the dool
and barred that also.
The house was now, for the moment
safe, although the air outside rang
with fierce yells and shots, as the ser
wants quarters, row of low wooder
buildings back Of tho house, was at
tackled.
/
Here it seemed to go all their way
for the men, taken by surprise, Tough
but feebly, and without any concerted
action.
In the hacienda, meanwhile, KIM
and the gentlemen were rapidly arm
ing with Remington rifles and revol
: vers, and the next moment sailed fortl
into the space between the house ant
the first out-building, pouring a volley
! into the swarming crowd of Indian
} that made them turn and fall back.
> The little party charged toward tn
. out-building, forming rapidly as the.
: went, and being armed with repeating
weapons, apparently did the work of
Q hundred men. TheApaches fell back
| and King and his followers reache,
S the servants quarters, when, calling
e out the terrified men who had barre
: themselvs in different rooms and i
9 the cellar, the combined force nov
t turned and attacked the Apaches, VIII
: by this time had rallied and returne
t to the struggle with greater ferocit
than ever.
n AT first it seemed as if victory wa
J. almost certain to fall on their side, TO
e numbering nearly one hundred brave
e they possessed great superiority owe
:. the whites, who consisted OF onl
/, about twenty men.
k But twenty men, led by such on
d as King, and armed with repeatin
o rifles and revolvers, make an ugl
d crowd to run against, as the Apach,
h found at last, as with half their nun
r Der dead or wounded, they final
, gave out and began to retreat.
= At that moment piercing CT
= rang out above the din of the struggl
II and King, looking up at the hous
saw the ponies of two Indians, wi
is had gained access to the hacienda /
h some unfastened window, appeared
the door-one OF them bearing in h
70 arms the figure at a woman.
@ AS he looked, another cry bur
,e from the girl, but the next momel
r her captors leaped to the ground al
disannearad in the melee