Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-30
ATERBUR4 EVENING DENOCRAT SATURDAY.

hope and courage.
 Beyond the wounding of one of their number, no impression apparently had been made, whereas the bandits had sorry loss to contemplate. Ramon shot dead. Pasqual crippled and the two "gringos, !" the daring, enterpris- ing leaders of tho attack, painfully wounded, one probably mortally so. And now, with the flames lighting up Sle whole valley between the Picaoho and the Christobal, with cavalry known to be out in several squads within easy march, some of the men were already weakening. They had had enough of it and were quite ready to slink away, but Pasqual was a raging lion. Re- venge for the death of his brother, wrath over his own crippled condition, fury at the failure of the assault and hatred on general principles of all hon. est means and honest men, all prompt ed him to order and enforce renewal of the attack, all served to madden him to such degree that even burning his adversaries to death seemed simply case of serving them right. What cared he that two of the besieged were fair young girls = noncombatants? They were George Haryey's daughters, and that in itself was enough to bring balm to his soul and well nigh cause him to forget his physical ills.
 One or two of the band strove to point out that the faintest indignity of fered to the sisters would array not only all Arizona, but all Mexico against them. Like dogs they would be hunt ed to their holes and no quarter be giv- en. Returnir 7 hitherto with their spells, Chihuakua or Sonora had wei comed them with open arms, but what outlaw could find refuge on Mexican soil who had dared to wrong the chil- dren of George Harvey and Inez Rom- ero? It was even as they were point ing this out to Pasqual and urging that he consent to be lifted into the ambu- lance and driven away southward be- fore the return of the cavalry that Mo- reno himself appeared. Slipping out of his western window, dropping to the ground and making complete circuit of the corral, he suddenly joined in the excited conference. What he said was ill Spanish, or that pan-Arizona patois that there passes current for such, and was wild, fervid appeal.
 They had ruined him-him and his. He was unmaSked, betrayed, tor now his connection with the band was estab- hshed beyond all question. Now he was known and would soon be branded as an outlaw. His home was being de- stroyed before his eyes-not that that amounted 10 much now that he could no longer occupy it-his wife and child must flee at once for Sonora, and he go with them, but recompense for his loss he must have. Never again could he venture into Arizona. He would be known far and wide as the betrayer of his benefactor's children, though he called God and all the saints in the Spanish calendar to witness he never dreamed of their being involved in this plot. The paymaster's funds, not the lives of any of the paymaster's s men, were what he had sought to take, and now there lay the dollars almost within their grasp. but unless captured at once would be gone forever.
 II know that pig of sergeant! May the flames of hell envelop him for all eternity!" he cried. He will not scru- | pie to do us he says. He will cast ev- cry package into the seething furnace. Mira! Look! The shed is now all ablaze! In one minute the roof of the rancho will burst into flame! There is not an instant to lose! I adjure you, let the daughters of Harvey, the son, the men, come out at once. Swear to them safety, honor, protection. Let them go their way now, now! Then you will have to deal with only two or three, and the treasure is ours. Look you, Sanchez. Pedro, Jose, down with that | shed next the rancho. Hurl it. drag it | down so that its fire cannot reach the brush beyond; then We can barley; We can win their ear. They will be but | too glad to be spared to go on their way unharmed. Wonder are their mules across the corral. Hitch them in at once. Save the others for the ambu- lance and the blackboard here and for our noble chief. Is it not so, captain Am not right?"
 Approving murmurs followed his fiery words. So long as the Yankees held to- l gether there was little likelihood of the ! outlaws gaining the ground except by burning out, and that now meant the destruction of the very money they were | after, the utter loss of the fortune that, divided even among so many, would enable them to live like princes in Her mosillo or beyond. They would be he roes, conquerors. But if that were lost after all their plotting, planning, labor and crime, there was absolutely no rec ompense. Even through the brain cloud ing fury of his revenge Pasqual Morales saw the sound sense of Moreno's plea. He made no effort to check the men who ran to do his bidding and were even | with sofS talN ort dragging the props from under the shed and letting its western end come pat tering down. Within the eastern room the dense smoke was already finding its way. The sound of falling beams and timber only conveyed to the occupants the idea that already the shed was in embers and that any instant the roo1 over their heads would burst into a tor rent of fire. Ned Harvey's brave spirit was taxed to the utmost. Unless relief could come, and come at once, nothing remained for him but death, nothing for those fair sisters but fate fal worse.
 At one instant he was on the point of urging the paymaster to comply with the outlaws demand, pledgine himself and his fathers fortune to make good to the government every cent SC sacrificed. His father could pay it foul times over and would rather sink hii last cent than that the faintest harm should come to those beloved children but the next moment Feeny's splendid defiance had so thrilled him that hC could not frame the words he thought to speak, and yet here was awful peri close at hand. What right had he tC further jeopardize the life, the honol of these, his fathers fondest treasures If it were only himself, he would stay and fight it out to the bitter end