The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-24

else to help you. Patterson, your horse
is fresh, gallop back on the trail. Tell
Sergeant Meinecke to come ahead for
all he's worth. Let the packs take care
of themselves. Send Sergeant Leo in
hero to me again" Then with from
ping hands the young officer turned his
attention to his other patients. Sever
ing the cords with his hunting knife, he
freed them from their bonds, then
dashed water over their scorched and
plackened faces, meantime keeping up
running fire of questions. Between
ms sobs, the young civilian told him
that the outlaws had hitched in both
teams and taken also the spare mules
and the blackboard. They had lifted
the Harvey girls into the Concord the
safe and Pasqual Morales into the nav
master s ambulance, while the wounded
men and Moreno's people probably were
put ON the open wagon. Then they
had all driven fnriously away to the
south, leaving only two or three men
to complete the work at the ranch.
F1ndlng the paymaster and sergeant
we'll nigh dead, they had contented
themselves with binding and leaving
them To their fate, to be crematcd when
the roof of the shed came down. Then
one of the gang whom he had once
befricnded i'll Tucson pleaded with his
fellows to spare the life of the only one
of the party left to tell the tale. Pas.
quail and the Mexicans were gone.
Those who remained We're Americans,
Judging by their speech though two of
them were still masked. MY name
is Woods, said the poor fellow. but
that bandit had to beg hard. They
were ready to murder anybody con-
nected with the defense, for Ramon was
killed and Pasqual shot through the
leg. l did that, though they didn't
know it. They bound and left NE
here, but made Inc swear would tell
Harvey and his friends when they got
back that it was no use following:
they had 80 armed men and three hours
start. They never thought of any one
else getting here first. Oh. my God
who can break it to Mr. Harvey when
he does Gomez
And then Sergeant Lee came hurry
ing back, one Or two men with him,
and together they labored to restore to
consciousness the paymaster, breathing
fcebly. and old Feeny, bleeding from a
cash i'll the back of the skull and Il bull
let hole through the body For nearly
quarter OF an hour their efforts were
vain. Meantime Drunmond, we'll nigh
mad over tn, delay, was pacing about
like Il Gagged tiger. He set two of the
men to VOL; ~ hitch the bewildered
littlo burros To the we'll wheel and get
up several hinge bucl.ctfuls of water
against the coming of the troop. He
ordered others to rub down his hand
some sorrcl. Chester, and the mounts of
two of the advanced party. At last
after what must have seemed an age
yet could not have been over 30 min
utes from the time of their arrival, IL
soldier running i'll said he could hear
hoofs out on the plain, and at the same
instant two men appeared Juggling be-
tween them, bleeding and scnsclcss
the ragged form of Edward Harvey.
Scratched. torn, covered with blood
and bruises and still unconscious though
he was, Drunmond knew him at Il
glance. They had met the previous
year, aud though only once it WIS
enough. Men with young, and lovely
sisters are lot soon forgotten. Knocl-