The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-03

and an utter willingness to DE ignorant OF
all other things. Americans i'm New Mex
leo tolerate him rs a necessary evil, just as
they tolerate Cinnamon in California or
negroes i'm the southern states. Ho is
cheap even If he is nasty, and he make,
farming possible by his exceedingly low
self valuatio2.
Sometimes he shufiles off his scrvility
and becomes a Spaniard. Then 10 re-
| quires nerve to deal with him ard also u
quick hand on the trigger. / became
aware of that fact n few months ago,
when L was staying with Jack Henderson.
Jack went out to New Mexico five years
ago with bride and a dream and 81, 900.
When 1 saw him, the bride had become a
mother to the extent of Jack, Jr, aged 3,
the dream was on the verge of evancscence,
and the $3, 900 had gone
Jack had settled ON what purported
eventually to become fruit farm, when
company had worried out an impossible
irrigation scheme, 80 miles from Santa Fe
ana miles from white man. There
were far mountains to the cast with white
tops that purpled at sundown. All round
him was the drcary prairie, monotOnous
as the sea-mile beyond mile of brown
parched grass, with here and there bunch
of crawling bushes.
Roads, In the English sense of the term,
there were none We rode to the place
over the baked mud tracks, seemingly
without end or object, past the greasers'
"dobies, as they call their little homcly
mud huts, past myriads of prairie dogs,
scampering into their holes as we ap-
preached. And then at last we reached
long, low farmhouse of planks, sitting In
the midst OF a vegetable patch that had
literally fallen into the scar and yellow
leaf That was Jacks home, and present
ly came Mrs Jack, with Jack, Jr, cling
ing shyly to her shirts, to give me wei
come.
1t was broiling next day, hot after q
fashion that we i'm a kindlier cline com
prehend not whit. No white man could
lift his hand to his head without u weari- |
ness resulting thotefrom. Only the olive |
hued greaser was available, and indeed |
Jose seemed, from the short period oi my |
observation, TO be more on the oui yiye |
han any other living thing.
Jose was Jacks cook, a moist, uncom-
ortable looking greaser, with u quiverinc
,aunch and long limbs that seemed made
luate TO support the superstructure.
remark upon his unprepossess-
ng countenance but Jack became elo.
uent upon his culinary virtues. Even
tlrs. Jack had something TO say on the
ubJect, and l felt at once that was inter
ering with family idol
When, therefore, Arack told me later in
nc day that he hal been obliged to dis.
hargo Jose, with Instant orders to depart,
was matter of nO,small astonishment
} me. felt, however. that it was deli
ite subject, and to thisday have no idea
hat was Jose's cause pf offense. con.
:, ture that Mrs. Jack was concerned. and
,at the Msult was deep, for Jose's accom-
Iisbc,ss,cs were unparalleled. and nn sii-h. ]
'"' - ala nave caused his deposition.
In the evening the temperature grew en-
urable, not that it was cool or pleasant or
nything like an English version of n sum
ner evening, but there was an Intellectual
recze, and the "dobies'' cast long shadows
9 the sun died.
Jack and decided upon ride. We set
ut upon our way, talking SO earnestly OF
know not what that we barely noticed
ose as he mounted his pony at the back
loor of the house.
When we were 90 feet farther on, there
vas whirring noise with sort of muffled
hud. Jack was delivered of a sound that
appeared to have begun life as an oath and
,urned aside to be gurglc; also his horse
er6ed itself on its launches and seemed
% stagger helplessly.
BY the time l could turn my head Jack
was half way out of his saddle A leather
thong was girt around his elbows, pinion.
ing his arms to his sides. It's other end
was fastened to the pommel of Jose.s sad.
die, and Jose was bending over his horses
neck with u devilish sheen beneath his
heavy eyebrows.
Jack bed mis- fingers on his revolver in
Nd instant, but crippled 60 nc was by the
thong that cut deep into his flesh he was
ms helpless us though his arms had been
broken.
/ looked N him, frozen to my saddle, as
useless to move to his rescue as though the
lariat was bound about me.
Then there was crack that startled me,
and the whole fascination dissolved Jacks
arms were free, and Jose was tangled up
In confused mass of pony, harness and
man.
As the pony fell there appeared behind
Its body the figure of Mrs. Jack, pale and
quivering, with the lips set and u sort OF
norrOr III tnc eyes bnat WAS rcNelhtlOn tC |
me In my study of expressions. In hei
hand was revolver, with thread OF
smoke trickling from the barrel rs il hung
from her limp grasp. She swooned after.
ward and lifted her from the ground.
Before that time, however, Jack had re
oascd himself, and when looked round
le was standing over the prostratc greas.
n, with his watch In one hand and his re-
,olver i'm the other.
Jose" he remarked as placidly az
though he had been ordering dinner "in
ust three minutes l am going to kill you.
shall tell you as the minutes pass"
1t was nm unpleasant scene To look mt.
The fellow howlcd like a hurt beast. II,
lung to Jacks knees and prayed for mer
y I'm the name Of all his saints.
Its no Use, Jose. I'm going to--two
you. have no use for such
's you, and don't 500 how anybody else
AN have"
We buried him n little later, and then
lack collapsed also. had my hands full
or awhile bringing the couple to rca.
'onable condition Of nerves.
did not understand until day or two