Arizona republican., 1899-02-23

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 He roared aloud. and his hanger went up ovel his head. | Cries and confusion, the flashes and
 reports of pistol shots and one louo
 groan rang in my cars.
 Out, lads, out, and fight 'cm in the
 open! Cutlasses!' cried the captain I snatched oUtlass from the pile and some one at the eame time snatch ing another gave me q cut across the knucl;les, which I hardly felt. dashed out of the door irto the5clear
 sunlight. Some enc was clcse behind,
 know not who. Right in front, the ! doctor was pursuing his assailartaown
 the hill, ard, just as my eyes fell upon him, beat down his guard and sent him sprawlirg on his back, with a great slash across his face.
 "Roundl the house, ladsl roupd the house!" cried the captain; and even in the hurly -burly l perceived change in his voice.
 Mechanically I obeyed, turned east ward, and, with my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house. Next moment l was face to face with HLder- son. He roared aloud, and his hanger went up above his head, fiashingfn the sunlight I had not time to be afraid, but, as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice upon one side. and, missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled headlong down the slope.
 When 1 had first sallied from the door the other 1nutinecrs had been already swarIning up the palisade to make an end of Us. One man, i'll q rcd night cap, with his cutlass in his mouth, had even got upon the top anG thrown leg across. Well, so short had been the interval that when 1 found my feet again all was in the same posture, the fellow with the red night-oap still halfway over another still just show ing his head above the top of the stock ade. And yet, in this breath of time, the fight was over, and the victory ours.
 Gray, following close behind me, had cut down the big bOatswain ere he had time to recover from his lost blow. Another had been. shot at q loophole i'll the very act of firing into the house, and now lay in agony, the pistol still smoking in lis hand. A third, as had seen, the doctor bad disposed of at blow. Of the four who had sealed the palisade, one only remained unac- counted for, and he, having left his cut lass on the field, was now clambering out again with the fear of death upon him.
 ''Fire-fire from the housel" cried the doctor. And you, lads, back into cover"
 But his words were unheeded, no shot was fired, and the last boarder made good his escape, and disappeared with the rest into the wood. In three seconds nothing remained of the at tacking party but the five who had fallen. four on the inside, and one on the outside, of the palisade.
 The doctor and Gray and ran full speed for shelter. The survivors would soon be back where they had left their and at any moment the fire might recommcnce.
 The house was by this time somewhat cleared Of smoke, and we saw at a price we had paid for victory. lay beside his looP-hole, stunned; Joyce by his, shot through the head, never to move again; while right in the center, the squire was supporting the one as pale as the other-
 ''The captains wounded" said Mir. Trelawney.
 ''Havc they run? ?'' asked Nfr. smollett.
 "All that could. you nay be bound,' returned the dccto-; ''bat there's five of them viii ncye- run again" |
 ''Fivc!" cried tho captain "Come, that's better. Five against three leaves . IS four to rirc. That's better odds han we had st starting. We were ;even to nineteen then, CT thought we were, and that's as bad to bear.'*