The Russellville Democrat., 1893-07-20

M showed Miss Harvey into the cave reserved for the women. There they have cool water, cool and fresh air and complete shelter
 And now, ss with experienced hands the sergeant stripped off Drummond's hunting shirt and carefully exposed the bruised and lacerated arm and shoulder, he piled his patient with questions as to whether he felt any internal pain or soreness. How a man could be fattened out and rolled over by such weight and not be mashed into a jelly is what I can't understand. You're about as elastic as ivory, lieutenant, and you have no spare flesh about you either. That and the good luck of the cavalryman saved you from worse fate. You've got battered head, broken arm, and had the breath knocked out of you, and that's about all. But we'll have you on your feet by the time the fellows come from Stoneman. ?
 "But how about the young ladies7" again asked Drummond, wearily and anxiously, for his head was still heavy aud painful and his anxiety great. He was weak, too, from the shock. "Won't they sui fer meantimeYp
 "Well, they might--at least Miss Ruth, the younger, might in the re- action after their fearful experience i; but I'm something of a doctor, as l said, and 1 shall be able to prevent all that. "
 "Howf"
 "Well, by giving her something to do. Just as soon as they've had a chance to rest both young ladies will be put on duty. Miss Ruth is to nurse you"
 Suppose she doesn't want tof'
 "The case isn't supposable, lieu tenant. She would have gone into mysteries this morning, think, had she not been detailed as a proven 1 tive to hold your head. At all events, she quieted down the instant she was told by her sister to climb into the wagon again and sit still as mouse and see that your face was kept cool and moist and shaded from the glare"
 And now Sergeant Wings lips were twitching with merriment, and Drummond, hardly knowing how to account for his embarrassment, asked no more. His amateur surgeon, however, chatted blithely on.
 "There's an abundant store of provisions here, dried meat, frijoles, chile, chocolate You shall have a cup in moment. There's ammu- hilton in plenty. There's even 8 keg of mescal, which, saving your presence, sir, as I am temporary commander, shall be hidden before the men begin coming in with their prisoners. There's barley in abund- ance for horses and mules; water to drink and water to bathe in. We could hardly be better off anywhere. " 1 Drummond looked curiously about him so far as was possible without moving his pain stricken head. He was lying in deep recess in some dark and rocky canon whose sides were vertical walls. Tumbling down from the wooded heights above rare sights in Arizona-a little brook of clear, sparkling water came brawl- ing and plashing over it's stony bed at his feet and went on down the gorge to its opening on the sandy plain. There, presumably, it burrowed into the bosom of the earth, for no yes. tige of running stream could the Cababi Valley show. The walls about him were in places grimy with the smoke of cook fires. Over head, not fifty feet away, & gnarled and stunted little cedar jutted out from some crevice in the rocks and stood at the edge of the cliff. A soldier was clinging to it with one hand and pointing out toward the east with the other. Drummond recognized the voice as that of one of his own troop, when the man called out:
 "Two of our fellers arc coming with the old yellow ambulance, ser geant; but can't see the others. !"
 "All right, Patterson. Try to see where the rest have gone and what they're doing. I'll send the glass up to you presently. What Pm afraid of, lieutenant, is that in their rage over Donovan's death, and Mullsn's, and all the devils work done there at Moreno's, and your mishap, too, the men have be- come uncomfortable, and will never let up on the pursuit until they have killed the last one of the gang. These two who are coming in with the bodies of the Morales brothers probably have worn out horses, or perhaps Lee ordered them to stay and guard the safe. The last saw of the gang they were disappearing over the desert to the south striking for Sonora Pass. :"
 'I wonder they didn't all come in | here" said Drummond.
 "Well, hardly that, lieutenant. They knew they would be followed here, penued up, where their cap ture would only be a question of time. A hundred cavalrymen would be around them in few hours, and