The Arizona sentinel., 1894-01-13

craving 1nCO Que Oh inc SlulccSJ Wucrc
it was only about half as hot as it was
outside.
"He told me afterward that he had
seen it getting dark as the storm came
up, and looking up toward the noun
tains saw the upper edges getting an
indigo blue and melting up into the
black part Of the sky. lie knew q
cloudburst was likely and was just
thinking of crawling out and looking
after corralling the water when it came
down, and all of q sudden he heard the
windlass rattling upon the dam and the
valves came down with bang, caging
him up inside the dam
1T flashed upon him in minute
what the Mexicans had donc-trapped
him in the dam and were going to let
the water back up and then flush him
out down stream.
''IIe thought minute, and then got
up and stepped into the lateral passage,
closing the sluice door after him. He
went along the passage till he came to
the we'll at the end, climbed up the lad
der to the manhole, and heard the Mex
leans in the Office talking. lie cascd up
the cover little crack and saw them,
much to his disgust, drinking ont of his
private whisky bottle, rolling cigarettes
out of his Turkish tobacco and cOngrat-
ulating themselves on the good job they
had done. lie had no gun on him, so
he waited. and pretty soon the storm
broke. It struck the hills first, shut
ting them in with q veil of mist. Then
the torrent came roaring down the can
yon four or five feet high, tearing up
sticks and legs in front of it
''It backed Up at the foot of the dam
and commenced tapping mp the wall,
creeping higher and higher. After
awhile, when it had covered in the top
Of the sluice doors. the Mexicans rolled
themselves some fresh cigarettes and
went over for the grand finale. They
got combined pull on the wind
lasses and threw the gates all widc
open. The water went bowling ont
down the valley below, with sticks and
rubbish tossing about. The fellows
caught the sight of Nick's blanket in
the water and took few shots at it for
luck. surprising he was under it.
"By that time night had come down,
and they went into the Office out of the
rain and sat down for an all-night
orgie. Nick heard them coaching each
other as to the story they were to tell,
how the scnOr was crossing the river
at the time the water came down,
and how they shouted to warn him,
but he was caught by the flood and car
ried below beyond their help. the gates
being open and none of them knowing
how to close them. They would grieve,
because he was good young man,
though he was hereto, but it was the
will of God. and perhaps they might re-
cover the body for his friends when the
water went down. Of course there
would bc n reward in that
Then they returned to the whisky
and the cigarettes. Just about this
time it had got as dark as pitch except
for the lamp the Mcxicans had inside
the Office. and Nick crawlcd very quiet
ly out of the hole and let the lid down
again. All of his guns were inside the
hnnSc. but he Slipped around to the tool
and get out OF the ne1ghDornood almost
on run, fearing the police might get
hold of it. and I've seen Wall street
broker buy an extra pair to send to his
old other and disappear around the
nearest corner like n noon-day shadow.
"Yes, it's Il good lay" replied one of
the peddIers after we had drank our
beer, but shall drop it for q better
thing next week. I'm going to peddle
laces around the suburban towns"
"On what line?" / asked. ;?
''Oh, stolen goods, of course. 1 can
buy lace at r'7e cents q yard Wholesale
which can Ike out and sell at twenty
or thirty cents. All I've got to do with
the average woman is to drop a hint
that smuggled or stole it, and she'll
rake up her last penny to buy with
I've got sister who clears twenty-five
dollars a week right here in New York
on kid gloves. Buys 'em at wholesale,
goes from house to house rs q SNUG
gler. and makes profit Of from thirty
TO fifty per cent. So long, old man; got
to rope in three more suckers this after.
noon. Detroit Free Press.