The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-28

forty miles farther to the west. It was their intention to locate all the stray stock on their way down, and to pick them up as they returned by the same trail. Arriving at Saueripi, they put up at the house of an old Ameri- can physician, who had lived in the place many years. The old gentleman had been surgeon in the Confederate army during the civil war, and in common with many others who fought on that side had emigrated to Mexico after Lees surrender. He was full of life and vigor and he insisted that all Americans who visited the town should enjoy the hospitality of his home.
 Billy and his partner were hand somely entertained, and in the evening the doctor called in few of his neigh bors to have frolic in an inner court yard of his place. A number of Mexi- can girls came to enjoy moonlight dance with the two gringos, who spoke very little Spanish but knew all about Mexican dance. Billy looked his best in a suit of buckskins, and his graceful bearing was enough to capti- vate any ones heart. He impressed all present, but there was one in par ticular who showed very plainly by her actions that she had seriously fallen in love. This was Senorita Car olina, tall, graceful girl not more than eighteen years of age. She had an abundance of glossy black hair and great, big, lustrous eyes; but low, receding forehead and very large mouth gave her face peculiar expres- sion.
 She danced several times with Billy and seemed perfectly happy as long as he remained by her side; but the mo- ment he left her to dance with any one else she seemed to give way to a fit of melancholy. The old doctor, who was watching with evident inter- est all that was going on, noticed the girls actions and twitted Billy about his "monkey faced" sweetheart. When the crowd dispersed Billy was still joked by his companions, and poor Carolina was invariably spoken of as "monkey face"
 Early next morning the two scouts set out for Bacanora and arrived there late in the afternoon. The trail be- tween the two towns leads through an exceeding rugged range, which has al- ways been tavorite hiding place for rowing bands of Apaches.
 As they passed over the trail Billy and his partner counted eight new wooden crosses, which had been erected on spots where travellers had lately been killed by Indians. They were not on the lookout for Indians, as Geronimo's band had been seen only a few days before on the Barispi River, nearly POO miles north.
 Accomplishing their mission at Bacanora, the two men started on their return trip; driving three or four horses before them. They had covered about half the distance to Saueripi, and were jogging along leisurely through the mountains, when they refined up short on hearing the report of guns not very far ahead of them. Immediately afterwards they saw woman mounted on horse- back dashing up the trail towards them.
 "What in the - do you reckon that s!" exclaimed Billy in astonish- ment, as he and his companion hastily dismounted and got their Winchesters ready.
 "It's some greaser tryin' to kill his wife, guess" was the nOnchalant re- sponse, but moment later, as the woman came near enough for her features to be distinguished, Billy cried out:
 of it ain't my monkey face you can have my hat"
 "Yes, and here comes the whole cussed Apache tribe right behind her," chimed in his companion.
 The woman was now only few yards away, and it could plainly be seen that the bosom of her plain cal- ico dress was saturated with blood. Billy sprang forward to catch the frightened horse, which she was evil dently too weak to manage, and as he did so he heard her say:
 "Cuidado! Los Indios! Los Apa- ches !" and the next instant she fell heavily forward into his arms. Billy eased the girl gently to the ground, and tearing open her dress, tried to stanch the blood which flowed from the gaping wound in her breast, but he soon saw that she was dead, and he turned to assist his companion, whose Winchester had already begun to talk. The two scouts "pumped lead" lively for a few minutes, and the Apaches, who were completely taken by surprise, could not take to the rocks before three or four of their number had been killed outright and several others wounded. Once under cover it was next to impossible to get a glimpse of an Apache again. and.