The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-25

= - - -! W seiZo one OF tne ieUpdrus
naighbor's arms, and Manuel Herrera,
seapDea through the heart, was added to
the dead In the doorway of the Hacienda
Mojas =
iherc was nobody else around except
servants and poems. 1t was mono of their
,,,,I 10 Interfere in family. quarrel.
iho ooohs Kept their preparations for the
weuuing breakfast, and two old men con-
tinued TO mend harness In the corral.
stepping over his yichms, Macedonia
went INTO the house. In tho hallway he
round Anita. He seized and carried her
70 tne gate. Ho lifted her up before him
IN tho saddle. He galloped away to tho
mountains
IL was morning before the authorities
learned OF the four dead mon at the Haci-
enda MONS and tho flight of their muir
deror with his sweetheart. Tho big bell
was rnng. Tho yaquoros wore gathered.
The neighhors came and tho soldier
poiico and all struck off for the mountains
on the trail of macedonia Frausto.
bu1 moro than his Indian nose and his
sharp eyes had como down to the young
COWBOY from tho men who used to hunt
lnSuars III those same mountains
on inc Hat there WAS not much trouble
20 trall him, but when the upland was
reached 1t seemed ms If the double ridden
horse had taken wings. Abandoning the
COW trails, tho young murderer hnd ridden
ncross the loose rock that held no tclltale
tracks. Some of the trailers thought they
round Hints that bore tho mark of n shod
hoof, but 1t was wild searching, simply
securing over the rocky hills, and it came
to nothing. An Indian can trail u white
man and find him in any sort of country.
there M trc IF
that Macedonia Frausto did not know,
and he employed them all to cover his
tracks. Ho knew where they would search,
ana those were tho places ho avoided
He told the story aftcrward, and what
he did not tell the girl did. So they have
the connected talo of the wanderings of
the pair mt Monterey.
There are plenty of jaguars left in the
Goa hills, and there AFRO other beasts to
carry out the punishment of death when
the human agents of tho law fail The
searching parties saw tho buzzards hover
ing about PERCEPTIONS, inaccessible can
yon, and coming back, reported their belief
that Macedonia and his sweetheart had
been dovoured by tho wild things of the
mountains
A bitter enough time the pair had of it
hiding in the hills, and once tho spotted
Anita Mojas' brothers, betrothcd and
neighbor. 1t was in the canyon of San &C.
ronimo they were attacked by tho jaguars.
They were crouchng among the rocks
the second night after the murders whom
tho beasts found them out. One of tho
animals lcapcd upon tho young cowboys
back rs lie covered there, and it was only
his inherited swiftncss and his bloody
knifo that saved them. All that night
Macedonia stood guard, and wherever ho
SAW pair of eyes blazing in the brush ho
fired with his revolver
1t was Wednesday night when tho young
murderer swung his sweetheart before him
into tho saddle and gallopcd away to the
mountains. 1t was tho following Tuesday
when the pair staggered into Villadama,
over 40 miles away. They had staid out
rs long rs they could. They had lived on
roots and berries that tho young noun
taincer's instinct taught him woro good.
They had ridden their horse to death the
first day to get beyond tho posses reach,
and 1t was tho carcass of tho horse that the
buzzards reported by tho trailing party
lowered over in the inaccessible canyon.
After that they staggered along OH foot.
You who do not know tho Goa noun
tains cannot dream Of tho parohing dcsort
places, tho dry mountain gorges, so deep
that it is II days travel to pass ovor them,
the Jagged heaps of rocks that run up into
the clouds. This is the country over which
Macedonia Frausto dragged the bride that
was his wngc Of murder. They went days
without water, they went days without
food, under tho blistcring Mexican sum-
The rocks cut their shoes from their feet;
tho mesquite and manzanto bushes toro
their clothes from their bodies. AT night
the mountains were alive. Tho screams
of jaguars and pumas kept them awake, in
spite of their exhaustion. They would
have travelled at night, but when the sun
goes down all tho ycnomous, creeping
things of that desolate country como out,
and n journey in that darkness ia death as
certain rs it is awful
They were almost dead with hunger and
fatigue when they staggered into Villa
DANA. They were apprehended mt once
Promptly they were separated and placed
under guard. Tho fight was not all out
II the boy yet, but he was too exhausted
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