Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-02-14

We were OH, we thIt" Oh Jul bdIIOp
to save and 10 Stay.
Pumps and Fuiano took fire at once.
They were ready to burst into their top
speed and go OF in a frenzy.
"Steady, steady" cried Brent. 'NOw
we'll keep this long easy lOpe for awhile,
and I'll tell you my plan.
"They have gone TO the southwark,
those two men. They could not get
away In any other direction. l have
heard Nerker say he knows all the
country between here aud the Arkan-
saw. Thank heaven! so do l, foot by
foot"
Irecalled the sound OF gailoping hoofs
/ had heard in the night to the south
ward.
II heard them, then" said I, Gin my
watch after Fulano's lariat was cut.
The wind lulled and there came q sound
of horses, and another sound, which !
then thought a fevered fancy OF my
own, far away scream Of a woman"
Brent had been quite unimpaSsioned
I'm his manner until now. He groaned
as spoke Of the scream.
"Oh, Wade! Oh, Richard" he said,
"why did you not know the voice? II
was She. They have terrible hours the
start"
He was silent a moment, looking
sternly forward Then he began again,
and as he spoke his iron gray edged on
with a looser rein.
at is we'll you heard them; it makes
their course unmistakable. We know
we are on their track. Seven or eight
full hours! 1t is long odds Of start.
But they are not mounted as we are
mounted. They did not ride as we shall
ride. The had q woman 10 carry and
their mules TO drive. They will fear
pursuit and push on without stopping.
But we shall catch them; we shall
catch them before night, so help US
Godv'
'.You are aiming for the mountains?'
asked.
'.For Luggernel alleY," he said.
sThey will make for the Luggernel
springs. The alley is the only gate
through the mountains toward the Ar
kansaw. II they can get by there they
are safe. They can strike of New
Mexico way, or keep on TO the States
out OF the line OF emigration or any
Mormon pursuit. The springs are the
only water TO be had at this season
without digging anywhere in that quar-
ter. They must go there. We are no
farther from the spot than we were az
Bridger. We have been travelling
along the base OF the triangle. We
have only lost time. And, now that We
are fairly under way, think we might
shake out another reef. A little faster,
friends-a little faster YETI
So We galloped three abreast, neck
Nand neck, hoOf with hooi, steadily
,nicksning our pace over the sere width
DESERT. We must make the most OF
feieyels. Ru4gher work, cruel obSta-
cles were before.
We held steadily for that notch in the
blne Sierra. The mountain lines grew
sbarper. the country where we trav-
eled rougher, every stride. We came
upon q wide tract covered with wlid
sa0e bushes. These delayed and batfled
us. 1t was a pygmy forest OF trees,
mature and complete, but no higher
than the knee. Sometimes we could
And natural pathways for a few rods.
Tbep these strayed aside or closed up
and we must plunge straight on. We
lost time: moments we lost, more pre-
rions than II every one were marked by
a Srop in a clepsydra, and each drop as
Il fell changed itself and tinkied IN the
basin priceless pearl.
''It worries me, this delay, SAID 70
Brent.
'sThey lost as much-more time tnan
We" he said.
And he crowded on, more desperately
asa man rides for dearer than life-as
lover rides for love.
We tore along, breaking through ano
oxar the sage bushes, each man where