San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-16
COPYRIGHTED BY Af1ERIchN PBES .RSSocIATIoN. 1891

so I'll take one of the pack mules and
fetch your two saddles along before dark
! lights down. 1t was too bad to lose that
iron gray, but there's more n two horses
into the hide of that black of yourn.
He was the best man of the lot for the
goin, the savin and the KILN. Stranger,
I've ben buyin and sellin and breedin
kettrypids ever since was raised my
self, but allow l never seed horse till
seed him lunge off with you two on his
back"
Armstrong rode up the alley again.
Another man he was since his commits
sion of vengeance had been accomplished.
In those lawless wilds vendetta takes
the place of justice, becomes justice in
deed. Armstrong, now that his stern
duty was done, was again the kindly,
simple fellow nature made him.
l returned to my friends by the
springs.
/ gave a few moments to the horses
and mules. They were still to be unsad.
died. Healthy Fulano had found his
own way to water, and now was feast
ing ON the crisp, short grass along the
outlet of the Champagne spring. tickling
his nose with the bubbles of gas as they
sped by. Sup, Fulauo! This spot was
worth the gallop to see. Sup, Fulano,
the brave, and may no stain Of this days
righteous death-doing rest upon your
guiltless life!
Brent was lying under the spruces,
browsing with fatigue, reaction and loss
of blood. Miss Clitheroe sat by watch.
Ing him These fine beings have an ex
quisitely tenacious Y tail tty~-~The happi-
ness of release had suddenly kindled all
her life again. AS she rose to meet me,
there was light in her eyes and color in
her cheeks. Her whole soul leaped up
and spoke its large gratitude in smile.
"My dear FRIEND" she said; and then
with sudden tearfulness, "God be
thanked for your heroislnr'
'God be thanked" repeated. "We
have been strangely selected and sent
you from England, my friend and and
my horse, the hero of the day, from the
Pacific-to interfere here in each others
lives"
st would seem romance, but for the
sharp terror of this day, coming after
the long agony of my journey with my
poor errant father
ga sharp terror, indeedr'
"But only terror" and glow of
maidenly thankfulness passed over her
face. Except one moment of rough
usage, when slipped away my gag and
screamed as they carried me off, those
men We're considerate to me. They
never halted except to dig well in the
sand of a riverbed. learned from their
talk that they had made an attempt to
steal your horses in the night, and fail
ing, dreaded lest you, and especially Mr..
Brent, would follow them close. So
they rode hard. They supposed that
when l was found missing, whoever
went in pursuit, and you they always
feared, would lose time along the emf
grant road searching eastward"
"We might have done so; but we had
ourselves ridden off that way in despair
of aiding YOU and gave her sketch
of the events of the morning.
sit was the hope of succor from you
that sustained me. After what your
friend said to me last evening, 1 knew he
could not abandon me if he had power
| to act" And she looked very tenderly
at the sleeper-a look to repay him for a
| thousand wounds.
"Did you find my glover" she asked.
"He has it. That token assured us. All!
you should have seen that dear wounded
boy, our leader, when he knew we were
not astray."
/ continued my story of our pursuit
the lulling beat of the stream underton-
ing my words in the still twilight. When
/ came to that last wild burst of Fulano,
and told how his heroic charge had full
| filled his faithful ardor of the day, she
sprang up, thrilled out of all WEAKNESS
I and ran to the noble fellow, where he
was taking his dainty banquet by the
brookside.
She flung her arms around his neck and
rested her head upon his shoulder. Locks
of her black hair, escaping into curls,
| mingled with his name.
Presently Miss Clitheroe seemed to
feel maidenly consciousness that her
caresses of the horse might remind the
horses master that he was not unworthy
of like reward. She'returned to my
friend. He was stirring little in pain.
She busted herself about him tenderly,
and yet with a certain distance of man
ner, building wall of delicate decorum
between him and herself. Indeed, from
the beginning of our acquaintance yes
terday and now in this meeting of to-
day she had drawn apart from Brent
and frankly approached me. Her fine
instinct knew the brother from the lover.