Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-01

rkHTN were l1t tI'SfS W IVA liiNN HDnSpU
their privilege. Stern was their rule,
rude their speech, but by officers end
men alike they wero trusted and re-
spectcd.
AS for Fccnv, there were not lacking
those who declared him spoiled. Twice
that day had the paymaster been on
the point of rcbuliing his apparent in
difference. Twice had be withheld his
censure. knowing. after all, Feeny to DO
in the right and himself in the wrong.
And now in the gathering shades of
night, as he stood in silence watching
the brisk process of grooming, and
noted how thorough and businesslike,
even though sharp and stern, was Fee
ny, the paymaster was wishing he had
not ventured to disregard the caution
of so skilled a veteran.
And yet the paynaster having hui
man heart in his breast had been sorely
tried, for the appeal that came for help
was one he could not well resist. Pass
ing Ceralvos at midnight and pushing
relentlessly ahead instead of hating
there as the men had hoped the party
was challenged in the Mexican tongue.
Que wiener"
To which unlocked for and Uncalled
for demand the leading trooper, scorn-
ing greascr interference il American
territory, PROMPTLY answered;
"Go to h--l!'
All the same he heard the click of
lock and was prompt TO draw his own
Colt as did likewise the little squad
riding ahead of the creaking ambu-
lance. Tho two leaders of the mules
whirled instantly about and became
tangled up with the wheel team, and
the paymaster was pitched out Of 4
dream into doubled up mass ON the
opposite seat. To his startled questions
the driver could only make reply that
he didn't know what was the matter;
the sergeant had gone ahead to see.
Presently Feeny shouted Forward"
and on they went again, and not until
Ceralvo's was mile behind could the
major learn the c&use Of the detention.
Some of Ceralvo's people, " answered
Feeny; d--n their impudence
They thought to stop ia and trlln us in
there by stories of Indian raids just
below us-three prospectors murdered
"a miles this side of 'he Sonora line.
Cochiscs' people never came this far
west of the Chiricahua range Its
white cutthroats maybe, and we II need
our whole command
And Yet i'll the glawnS sunshine Of
that May morning, after they had I'M
saddled at Moreno s. and the sergeant,
wearied with the vigis Of two success
sive nights, had gone to sleep in the
coolest shade he could find, there came
riding across the s1;nbaked, cactus
dotted plain at the west young man
who had the features Of the American
and the grave, courteous bearing of the
Mexican.
My name il Harvey" said he.
my sisters, who have been III San
Francisco at school, ARC with me on
the way TO visit our parents in Tucson.
Father was to have met us at the Bend
with relays of mules We have waited
IS hours and can wait 70 longer For
Gods sake let half dozen Of Your mon
ride out and escort them down here.
( There is no doubt in the world the
Apaches are in the mountains on both
sides, and IN trembling for fear they We
already found our camp. None Of my
party dared make the rid, 20 | had 20
come. y
What was Plummer TO do? He didn t
want to rouse the sergeant, This WASH t
going back to Ceralvo'S, hut riding
northward to the rescue of imported
beauty. He simply couldn't refuse,
especially when Donovan and others
We're eager to go. From Mr. Harvey
he learned that his father had married
into an old Spanish Mexican family at
Havana, had been induced by them to
bake charge of certain business in Mat
amOras, and that long afterward he
had removed to Guaymas and thence
to Tucson. The children had been ed
ucated at San Francisco. and the sis
tiers, now II and - years Of age re-
spectively, We're soon to 20 10 Cuba to
visit relatives of their mother, hut were
determined once more to see the quaint
old home at Tucson before so doing
hence this journey under his charge.
The story seemed straight enough
Plummer had never yet been to Tucson,
but at Drum Barracks and Wilmington
he had often heard of the Harveys, and
Donovan swore he knew them all by
sight, especially the old man.
The matter was settled before Plum
mer really knew whether to take the
responsibility or not, and tho cavalry
, corporal with five men rode back into
the fiery heat of the Arizona dav and
was miles away toward the ella before
Feeny woke to realizing sense of whar
had happened. Then he came out and
blasphemed. There in that wretched
little green safe were locked up thou
sands enough of dollars to tempt all
the outlawry Of the occidcnt to any
deed of desperation that might lead to
the capture of the booty, and with DON
ovan and his party away Feeny saw he
had but half a dozen men for defense.
At his interposition the major had at
least done ono thing Moreno
not to sell drop Of his fiery mescal to
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