The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-05

Felig fen hack q little behind the carriage. !
yards follow them in their work, Tor
thew know they will find plenty OF
prey.
soon came another sight which caused
us all 70 rein up and pause for time
before going forward. We watched IT
with weapons held ready in hand as II
RI meet instant danger, although what
, we saw was far away. We had passed
from the Cienaga de San Simon and
now were in the high, broken country
| TO the eastward. The mountains We're
about us, near at hand, although the
trail for the most part still followed the
omen plain that lies between and about
the ranges in this region. To the right
and left many eminences were III VieW'
sometimes rocky and jagged, mostly
rounded hills or level topped mesas dot-
ted with pinon trees. Long reaches Oh
nlain. on which the mesquite and cac-
rms grew, stretched to the southwark
limitless seemingly like the ocean, WIN
solitary peaks rising like volcanic Is
lands from the sea. All about the SOUTH
orn and eastern horizon the mirage
nlaved in similitude of vast undula-
tipg water sheet, in which rocked ana
Aoated islands with strange trees ana
structures and monsters. -,
( Far off TO the south, where the Solo
, Garth seemed first to lift into the mirage
' looking as unsubstantial as shadows OF
90 magic lantern pictures thrown upol
a q screen, herd of horses, mules an'
0 donkeys were galloping southwark. be
@ hind them rode mounted men, hve O
o six in number, lashing them along ant
}. dartipg to left or right as If to keel
them TO a course To one trained IN III
$ mon the plains the difference between
x white man and an Indian. even see
l. too far away to identify more than Tn
# outlines and motion of the body, is uil
|. m;stalxable. and the riders we saw wer
G. plainly Indians.
n Whether the horsemen were Tar ava
p or comparatively near could not De est
ps mated with any certainty, nor was
" necessary that it should be. They WEI
ps widening the distance between us, an'
H. en- far as we were concerned, there w;
r. M danger to be anticipated from then
N Rrt the sight of them, like that OF u
~
ce buzzards, was bad omen OF what mig
ce come, and seriousness we had not Ie
en- before fell upon all our party. Don n !,
mon lifted the butt of his rifle from q
so bottom of the carriage and laid u
nd weapon across his knees. Carmen rea
,ly ling the premonition Of danger rath
lat from the feeling that pervaded our par
en- than from anything she saw or unde
ma stood. turned to Felix as If to gain
,rd from his expression what might be !.
ed matter and if there were cause
at alarm. Her bright face took on q qu'
.de tioning, anxious look at the shaae
vas seriousness upon his brow, ana she On
all her gaze fixedly upon him as II TO Co
es. mand an answer to the mute inquiry
40. her ewes. At once the signs OF somi
nit thoucht left his face, and he smile
nd Instantly the look of anxiety vanish
sed from her face, but her eyes still ask'
as there anything wrongf'
ON T was afraid the rain was about
mi. fall and give us wetting," he sald'
With If she had spoken to him, lie pom
nes toward the mountains beyond S'ei
ION peak, whose toys were dimmed slign