The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-09
Author of "The CO
Copyright, 1894, by the Author.)
PART IX.-CConclusion.)


4 CHAPTER VIL-Concluded.
Many a time before the boy had been
his fathers companion in mountain
hunt or scout, but never when the
Apaches were swarming as at this
moment 1--WE shall find none Of them
east of Date creek" said Cullen, "and
east OF there our escort viii be too
formidable for them to jump. Have no
fear for him" But what mother could
Danish fear for the safety of the only
boy? No one saw the parting with the
Devotedly though he loved her, he was
a soldier all over, like HIS father, and
eager to act the soldiers part-eager to
go with him to the seat of war, over
, mountain pass and desert and treacher-
Rpus stream bed, regetting if anything,
that there was no likelihood of en-
countering Indians on the way. Her
heart was wrung-yet like many an
other army mother of the old army
days, she simply had to face the in
eYitable. She was to follow within the
fortnight with the generals wife and
their party Of ladies, children and ser
wants, by steamer around old California
and up the gulf to the Colorado. By
the time they reached Fort Yuma the
outbreak would probably be all over
and the Indians back in their mountain
homes-the troops in garrison. 1t was
one of those temporary separations
mothers elsewhere marveled at and de-
clared impossible, but that army moth
ers wept over yet bowed to. Night and
day for forty-eight hours while she
N 5Iyed for them within sound of
|. Pacific surges, father and son whir.ed
rapidly Eastward, across the turbid
Colorado, resting only an hour at
Ehrenberg. where they changed buck
board, mules and driver, then on again
by starlight, gradually rising from bill
low to billow Of the long leagues of
desolation to the wild and picturesque
scenery of the Sierras, then through
resinous forests of pine, through rocky
canyon and winding gorge until they
were lar 1ed, stiff and sore, dusty, hun
CRY am thirsty, among the log
huts Of e little garrison at old Fort
Whipple, catching the department COM
mander Just two days before even that
impatient soldier thought it possible.
Then after a refreshing bath and a
few hours rest in the generals own
- ambulance, and escorted now by
by troopers, away they went for the
ley of the Sandy. Everything in
Ncated, said the chief, that the In
dams, after wiping cat the Santa Anita
settlements. had s%ooped upon the
lower valley while the garrison at
Retribution was in its state of trans
alton, and very probably they had
made it lively for Thornton. Couriers
had rushed to Colonel Pelham at Camp
Sandy with orders to send strong col
umns southwark at once, one Of them
following the valley to meet the gener-
al at the fords just above Apache cam
yon..
L Away sped their strong six-mule
team down through the fertile Hasa
yampa, across to the broad valley of
Willow Creek, changing mules and es-
cort al the mountain ranch and getting
all manner of startling news and ru-
mors on the way. Away at last for the
Sandy passing early in the afternoon,
while Randy was doing in his corner,
the foam covered, dust begrimed pair,
Muncey and Cardoza-"too badly stam-
peded 20 stop and talk" said the SER
gean. commanding the escort, ''but
shouting that they alone had escaped
1--WE should reach Retribution by
midnight said the general And just
won't / hunt up Leon and wake him
and hug him the moment l get there,
and won't he be amazed?" said Ran
dali ioyfully.
The story Of the boys long tramp
nome was familiar to one and all by
this time and won the little fellow a
host of friends among officers and sol
diers alike. mo one can believe what