Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

ing from one boulder TO another. The
tops and orests OF the trees and boulders,
as has been said, were tinged by the
light of the fires still burning down in
the roadway. The Indian yells were
gradually ceasing as, one after another,
seemingly overcome by the liquor that
they had been drinking, they subsidized
into silence. 4 number of them, how
ever, still kept up their mOnotoEOus
dance, varied every now and then by
yell OF triumph; but the uproar and
racket was not to be compared with
what had been going on during the tor
ture to which Manuelito had been sub
ieoted before they had mercifully though
most horribly, put an end to his suffer-
ings.
Nothing but the embers Of the wagon
and the unconsumed iron work, of
course, now remained in the road. Pike
judged too that the ambulance had been
burned, and that nothing remained of
that. But all thoughts as to what was
going on among the Indians IN the pass
was now of little account as compared
with the immediate presence of this OBJ
iect below him. Could it be one of the
Apaches? Its stealthy movements and
the noiseless way in which it seemed to
fit from rock to rock gave color to his
supposition, and yet it appeared unGatu-
ural to Pike that any one of the Indians
should separate himself from his COM
rades and go on still hunt in the dead
of night for traces of their hated foes.
81 cannot see 1t now whispered i'm.
"Where is he gomez"
''Behind that big rock that you see
touched by the freight down yonder.
Our trail is just about half way. Look!
There it is again! Nearer, too, by fifty
yards. l wish he Il get on top of one of
those boulders where the light would
strike him. Then we might make him
ont. BY jove! He's coming up the hill.
Whatever you do, don't fire. III tend
to him. -
With straining eyes they watched the
strange, steaIthy approach of the mystic
rious object. Every now and then it
would totally disappear from sight and
then, a moment or two afterwards, could
again be dimly seen, crouching along be-
side some big rock or emerging behind
the thick branches of some stunted tree.
Nearer it came until Pike was sure it
must have reached the "trail' they had
made in their journeys up and down the
hill.
81 never saw an Apache that could
move about in the dark as quickly as that
fellow. jim, by jimminy, IN bet it's
no Indian at alll''
'What is it then?'' muttered Jim.
whose teeth would chatter little. He
had all darkey's dread of ''spooks'
and was more afraid of a possible ghost
than an actual Tonic.
THAT'S a lynx or wild cat, mani
They have dingy white coat to their
backs, in places at least, and you we
only stirred up some mighty small game.
See here, Jim, you re getting nervous.
1 IL have to call Ned out here with his
little Ballard to take your place if you
are going to-There! What did I tell
you?'
A heap of fresh fuel-probably dry
cedar boughs-had just been thrown on
the Goals by some of the determined
dancers down in the road and broad
glare of freight illuminated the pass.
Again the rocks and trees down in front
of the cave were brilliantly tinged, and,
as though determined to have a good
look ct these strange ''goings on' there