San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-18
Ehe Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER is, 1898

Is geUrmg restless. ana by that l know he i
pluming his wings for fight. You must show
me that wonderful 81 you wrote about. What
curious anomalies the west produces at times
All the same, you must not admire any one
there OF elsewhere but your own devoted
STELLA.
This pleasing news and the unusually
active nature of his duties kept Philips
mind so occupied that the complex in
terest which Arizony's person and affairs
had excited was for the time allayed-
The squadron of cavalry with which
he was connected was kept busy patroll-
ing boundaries, and searching the new
territory for interloping boomers. The
dissatisfaction of would be settlers was
increasing, while the rigidity with which
the soldiers depressed all predatory move
ments intensified their anger against the
authorities. A keen border sense of the
injustice of such treatment gradually
overbore other considerations, and the
rights of the Indians, the supremacy of
law and the necessary enforcement Of
order-all these to their inflamed Wis
ion savored more of official tyranny and
red tape than of justice to those most
concerned. Only a sense of helplessness
prevented an open declaration of war on
the part of the more desperate and reso-
lutte of the boomers.
Stirling one day, having scattered his
troopers over an extended belt of the de-
batable land. was riding leisurely by
himself toward the common rendezvous
when he found himself again upon the
spot where he had first met Arizony.
The dugout, with its waving banner, was
still there, though the soldiers under
Philips orders had taken her movables
TO the boomers camp.
While he sat upon his horse recalling
TO mind the dash and melancholy of this
singular girl and the unwomanly sur
roundings of her life a bulky form
emerged from the dugOut and confront
ed him. The man had the neck and
shoulders of a Hercules, together with
shaggy hair. a heavy bristling mustache
and bold brow that hung beetling over
a pair of small, restless, infamed eyes.
His manner and appearance were both
domineering and cunning.
Il reckon you don't know me. do your"
He drawled out the words with pc
culiar information, which. added TO his
manner, was almost insulting
Il believe you are the man they call
Yates" replied Stirling. You know
this is forbidden ground. of course. May
| ask you what you are up to here:"
"Of course. you may ask until your
throat splits, but as to my answerin
that's another thing. l don't see as it's
any of your business anyhow"
There's where you are wrong, my
man. 1t is my especial business to keep
such man as you out of here until the
lands are declared open. Sorry to dis
turb you, but you really must skip back
over the border"
I'm ID if do! Hark you, leften-
ant. Icanread you like you were book
you and all your tribe. You're here
to keep honest men out of their rights
But we're not goin to stand it, id
my blood, if we are! You've jumped
our range about as often as we're going
to put up with. Now | look at you good,
seems to me you're the chap as inter
fered twiKt me and Arizony tother night.
She was as peart and obejent a girl as
ever rode a bucking broncho till You
came along. I've got you marked and
branded. I'll have you down, too
bucked and gagged-if you don't quit
vO17r 4 YDa1J1ir NTH lo+Ao,. $500
rights and sweethearts."
Stirling had quietly unslung bugle
he carried.
81 will not handy words with you," he
said. IF advised that poor girl. it was
for her own good. am sorry she seems
so infatuated, and | see no harm in wish
ing her well out of it all AS to your
being here, | have only this to say: You
had best leave quietly for your own
good. One call on this bugle and men
will be here to assist you in moving on
Come now, will you go peaceably?"
Not till l settle with you" roared
Tates, thoroughly Infatuated by Stir
hng's quiet contempt and a sense of his
own impotence. He jerked up his win
chester, but the lieutenant, watching
the man. leveIed his own revolver in
trice.
I've got the drop on you, as the
phrase goes, my man" he said as COM
posedly as if at drill on the parade
"Of you go-quick time-march!"
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