Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-15


should be done. Meantime Ynmez
had hung his gun on the pegs and
gone for a bucket o water.
" Wonder Ii Ynmez seed any lnlun
sign. when he was out?' said Bill
Why, sea /. was he out whilst !
was gone? Thought he was hyar With
you.
".He went out with his gun soon
after ye did. said Bill I'll AZ him.
And Bill left the hut
THAT gave me another suspicion.
to l. arm that Yumez had left the hut
shortly after did. What forf An
why did he pretend he'd heard the
rifie-shot an come out afterwards 70
see what it meantp got up an went
to the pegs an examined the Mexicau's
| rife. didn't see the result for the |
! gun wasn't loaded at all! Things had
an ugly look While | was putting the
| gun back the Mexican returned, an
seein' what l was dom, he look'd
guilty as q thief. an then know'd
the rascal had fred that bullet at ms
hisself.
II wos on the pint o. denouncin' the
villain to oncest an scarcely onder-
stood why didn't. 1t was dreffui
mistake not to do it. fer mebbe II
had matters would hev been diff rent.
an the awful thing what happened
) might never have come TO pass.
have allus been sorry ! didn't shoot
the traitor on the spot But reasoned
that bein' warned could easily sar-
cumvent his deviltry. But he was
! worse than give him credit for.
, II decided not to tell Bill about 1t,
but when the next mOrnin' We diskiv-
I cred some o. our best traps gone an
, that the Mexican had vamoosed also.
J up an told pardner all about 1t; an
/ think ii Bill had been a swearin'
man the air 'ud smelt O birthstone
i: sartin, for the old fellow was bilin'
, | mad cl'ar through. We skirmished
d round all day. an not an injun sign
. | could we see. which satisfied US that 1t
o was all the work O that thievin' Mex
8 lean. We should miss the traps o
Q course, but so far as actooal value was
i concerned. the scamp's share OF the
pelts made that good, an we was glad
n to be shut O him. But we didn't
i understand what reg lar coyote the
r Teller was, for snake was fool com
. pared with him in general deviltry.
Things went on smoothly enuff fol
. about three weeks an we was quite
n forgettin' the Mexican, when one day
Bill went off to visit q creek sew ra
miles distant whar we had beer
e thinkin' OF settin' few traps, leavln
me at home. for l had been quit
II seedy for several days with chills
'. which never had afore or sence-
30 ..Wall, after Bill left / got roya
1e big b ar skin an toted 1t out on tn
III grass in front o. the hut, an, spread
M it out. I lay down. the hot rays O
de the sun feelin' very grateful to m
ia chilled limbs. an bimeby 1 went O
de sound asleep.
.. AFTER awhile l woke up with
IS start, feelin' half smothered. an foun
X, myself on the bare ground with tn
ng big bar skin on top entirely GOVERN
ID, me up. l also heard voices an fe
*. that was bein' held down by sewers
,er pairs O hands. struggled as well 1
ne could to throw off the bar skin. b.
MT found that was really helpless, n
IN feet bein' caught in the moose O.
tut stout lasso.
he VERY soon, however. the skin Wi
lar dragged off, and l saw several lnju'
so- wh9 fell upon me an tied my han'
In in jiffy, an l found myself ia
5ut prisoner in the clutches O ha
his dozen redskins. But this wasn't
discourasin as it was to d
eat cover a man holdin' the end
he the lariat, in whom recogniz
me Yumez, the Mexican, who grinned
art me in a most diabolical way tn
showed l need look for no mercy
t his treacherous hands.
lin. "Carambo!' he growled. 1T Is I
are turn now. You sot Bill agin' me 8
no now I'll have my revenge
h ".What does this meanP l deman
day ed. furious with rage. Loosen me.
our coward, an I'll
end Caralor interrupted Yumez. 4
hot nuch fool Ye had your chan
ian. an We let it slip. Now you'll ia
in what you get
ars And with that the brute came
IN &hippin' out his knife said;
sew 50. mark we with cross. so Sataa
sill vii, give you an extra hot roast
arty " hnn he gifts ye down thar
but An then the half-breed gave
P to the mark We see on my cheek. strans
"a laughed long an loud. an the
o. a Jun. danced lively jig as he did
thar Hur ? Wall no doubt it did. an b
was some, too. but l war so mad did
our tsel The pain till long afterward-
.Jhen the villains seized me.
pam dragged me to the edge o the pr
9 on pice on which our hut stood, wher
up was two hundred feet deep. the
an bsing perpendicular an as smooth
ed a bald mau's pate, an tumbied
half over.
nall. Il fell about ten feet, an
COAL fetched up short by the lasso witt
and Jerk that nearly twisted my ankles
It he o. lint Then the brutes began (
ugh. In out The rope, finally hitchin
enly upper end to the stub o the sapl
much
till l wa, left hangin' by the h
n ey hasd downwartis dauglin' in mid