The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-04-04

Harvey her innocence and her husbands
spotless character. You understand
Spanish, do you not?:'
"No, only the smattering we pick up
at the Point and what 'broncho' Span
ish 1 have added to it out here. Where
did you learn it, sergeant: They tell
me you speak it like q native
Wings sunburned face-a fine, clear
cut and manly one it was-seemed to
grow a shader or two redder.
"Oh, I have spoken it many years.
My boyhood was spent on the Pacific
slope. Pardon me, sir, I want to look
more carefully after your injuries
now"
"But the ladies-where are they?"
asked Drdmmond uneasily.
Occupying the sanctum sanctorum,
the innermost shrine among the rocks.
This is a wonderful spot, sir. We might
eventually have starved these people out
if once they got here, but 10 determined
soldiers could hold it against 1000.
I've as yet had only a glance, but the
Morenos have been here before, it is
most evident, for the senorita herself
showed Miss Harvey into the cave re-
served for the women. There they
have cool water, cool and fresh air and
complete shelter"
And now, rs with experienced hands
the sergeant Stripped off Drummcnd's
hunting shirt and carefully exposed the
bruised and lacerated arm and shout
der, he piled his patient with questions
as to whether be felt any internal pain
or soreness. How a man could be
fattened out and rolled over by such a
weigh 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 a battered head, a 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 ladies?'
again asked Drumnond YEARLY and
anxiously, for his head was still heavy
and painful and his anxiety great.
He was weak, too, from the shock.
Won't they suffer meantime?"
"Well, they might-at least Miss
Ruth, the younger, might in the reac-
ton after their fearful experience, but
I'm something of a doctor, as I said,
and I shall be able to prevent all that
"How?"
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 to-"
1.-The case isn't s%upposable, lieuten-
ant. She would have gone into hys-
terics this morning, 1 think, had she
not been detailed, as a preventive, to
hold your head. At all events, she
Quoted down the instant she was told
by her sister to climb into the wagon
again and sit still as a nous 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. hard
" knowing how to account for his EN-
barrassment, asked no more. His anna
teur surgeon chatted blithely ON.
There's an abundant store of provi-
sions here-dried meat, frijoles, chile,
chocolate. You shall have a cup in a
moment. There's ammunition in plen-
ty. There's even a key of mescal,
which, saving your presence, sir, as |
am temporary commander, shall be
hidden before the men begin coming in
with their prisoners. There's barley
in abundance for horses and mules,
water to drink and water to battle in.
We could hardly be better off any
where"
Drummond looked curiously about
him so far as was possible without
moving his painstricken head. He was
lying in a deep recess in some dark and
rocky canyon whose sides were vertical
walls. Tumbling down from the wood
ed heights above-rare sight in Arizona
"a little brook Of clear, sparkling
water came brawling and splashing over
its 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 yestige of running stream could
the Cababi valley show. The walls
about him were in places grimy with
the smoke of cook fires. Overhead,
not so feet away, a gnarled and stunted
little cedar jutted out from some crew
ice in the rocks ard stood at the edge
of the cliff. A soldier was cinging
to it with n hand and pointing out
toward the east with the other. Drum
mond recognized the voice as that of
one of his own troop when the man
called out:
1.-Two of our fellers are coming with
the old yellow ambulance, sergeant,
but I can't see the others"
AL right, Patterson. Try to see
where the rest have gone and what