The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-14

forward through the long hours. searching
yalnly. vainly under the wan moonlight.
even along into the pallid dawn. for that
little cleft in the foothills Fioy had named
Mon Abri." Faint and shinmer.ng the
say-beanss came at last. ard then. and nol
untir then. Murdoch. faithful trooper.
now riding by his Iieutenant.s side and
supporting him with his arm. turned TO
his eomraae. who. 3ismounted. was strtv-
ing with the aid OF a match Or two 20
study some boof-prints they had found In
the soft surface. Jimmy" he whispered.
there's something moving along that
ridge yonder-comsng this way. What IS
it,"
And though soft the whisper. 1t caught
poor Randy's drvwsy ear. and he str0ve 10
straightSn ~ in the saddle. WHAT
Where7' he family asked.
~Yonder. sir. NOT ha1 mile away. It's
some az our fellows. or I'm a sufer. Yell
70 EN-. Jimmy"
And obefsent 70 the word. Jimmy ysll-
ed. Over the rolling surface the soldiers
voice wenE ringing through the dawn. ard
echo sent 1t Gathering back from the
Duties and bowlsrs TO the vest. This
way. you felierst-khis wayrs he cried.
and then. mounting. elxppei spurs TO his
pony. and suffered away down the inter-
venfng swaie
Ten minutes later Randy Merriam WAS
lying ca sne ground In n swoon. and
George Grafton wiki grave sad face well
ntgh as hagEard as the Iieussnaat's. was
bending over him and striving % force
some brandy Down his throat Following
'fsr al they we're worth the Apache
trail. they had overhaalea tae supposed
uaAFauders not twenty miles back In the
fsothiiis-s pacific hunting party. provit-
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and cuipsEse only in that they had come
ar American horse, abandoned AZ sight OF
them ~ some Mexirsns. wno gsiioged far
away; sna that American horse. minus
saddle and brittle. VAS FIoy's presty bay
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