The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1899-06-24

- decker knew nothing, and that was
= spend the evening with DIR. Pleasant,
Mt Gypsum Flats. When he and his s,
I LETT there it was SO late that tn,
! couldn't have reached Truckee's ran,
I before daylight.
with such an indisputable alibii it w,
evident to all that he could not ha,
stolen the cattle, yet they considere
this fact suspicious circumstance
itself, for while Castles best FRIEND
were at Gypsum Flats, he rarely visite
there, or anywhere.
cassie was tried as an accessory, an
the people of the two larger towns @
Coldspring valley watched the trial wit
interest, Lanceville hoping for cor
vlction, Gypsum Flats for acquittal.
The jury came to the conclusion, how
ever, that the hides had been stole,
from Cassie, and that the whole thin,
was deep-laid plot to injure him. III,
morning after the conclusion of tn,
trial hundred men swarmed on to tn.
northbound passenger as she drew ur
70 Lanceville station, and when she
pulled out there wasn't a newspaper
left aboard, while an excited throng.
around the station, was staring angriIy
at the head lines-Cassle not guilty.
But Cassie was almost forgotten in
the speculations regarding the mysteri.
Gus stranger who had come to Lance.
vile. He would often disappear in the
evening, with a sawed-off shotgun owe,
hes shoulder, and not return till nearly
daylight.
There was something in his eyes
which discouragedquestioning One man
plucked up courage enough to ask what
he was hunting, and he had answered:
"Rattlesnakes."
"Rattlesnakes at night! Plumb
crazy!" said Lanceville.
Forseveral weeks Mr.. Nemesis-as the
name appeared on the hotel register in
Lanceville = continued his nocturnal
prowhngs; and interest tagged as it
came to be taken as matter of course.
One night-it was nearly a month
after his arrival in Lanceyille - Mr.
Nemesis started off as usual. For awhile
ne avoided the yuccas, keeping in the
pen country where only bunch grass
rev. 1t was moonlight, and a man
ouid nave been seen a long distance,
oatished, finally, that he was not fol.
owed' he turned in among the yuccas
nd walked rapidly in the direction OF
Gorge Decker's ranch. When within
All mile of the place he stopped. He
'oked at his watch by the moonlight:
was IL o'clock.
Half-past eleven. A wagon was com. :
g. 1t passed the place where Mr. ie
emesis was hidden. Mr.. Nemesis fol. G
wed. The horses could not go fast S
trough the sand. 7
Ihey reached the Foothill road. The f
'rses struck trot, and the man fol- r
wed at run. A little further they b
rned into the valley again, and ii
oPped near Bentler's ranch. I,
II was quarter to one when three r;
III ie1t the wagon. 1t was five minutes n
ST when they returned, leading two in
GERS. AT five minutes after one two of nj
men lay grooming in the bottom i,
the wagon, and the third was n
ing furiously away on a horse from n
ich the harness had been partially m
!. firing back as he went. -
ABOUT four o'clock in the morning -,
OF Bentler's herders rode into -,
melville, shouting: .
Thet crazy Teller run onter pang
Tie thieves on our range, an filled T.,
OF EN- full er buckshot!" -
VINO be they? Anyone lives round hs
e?" 1"u De
Ro,,;. Ru
NOME IL iralne and Hace Greys!" an
me Constable and deputy! No n.
'uer ther wern't no thieves caught no,
hi" Del
liner Nemmysis feller's hurt bad: Al 10 30
lis shoulder SUI
1870 almost the entire ponuIat;on "a
anceviile was on its way to the Bent ;na
,anch. Everybody wanted to shake ,' IS
is with Mr.. Nemesis, in spite of his MOO 90
tered shoulder, as they crowded Nv NY
the room where he Law. q.
nat is not my name," he said. smiI- -
ever tborrh. So, - gro
p" - yer incc
ebert Cassie" seVe
ell, I'll be i'd" remarked the "aS ,
rs. II
n.y. OF course" said one. "Jest Ne"
a on his mustache and BACKED ner.
llr and whiskers! always thought .nor
as the very picter of Cassie. only ',us
MT think of it, she
eternal rivalry between Lance. coo
md Gypsum Flats grew more bit poop
ian ever when it took the form of 'na'
with each other in showing Mt. Guy
N to the wounded hero. oand
moon rose large and red. above star,i
'sert hills; black, fantastic sbad- t;ss
~ thick on the smooth, white
immense yucca palm stood at the
VI clear space. 1t had been AZ,
nj a.