The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18

the point As we mount to follow the cheerful
etSss ieiss Us, Us tia, CurT 4. and S.I his m PACK m a5sia are q
SiiHis'; when ' a SUDDEN sSEse' bun MS Of p fre se mSse ,he mead leading :
troop 10, the ground in a lilly and carbines come
OUT oil the boots with a yank The horsehoideis
aud curse their luck that they cannot he in IT.
Napier, a Georgia boy, whose voice had not yet
changed, squeaks out his disgust, but consoles
himself with the fact that he has shot one insur
gent already and carries the Nauser on his back
now 20 prove H. The other troops come up and
S SG%so %,t 2 , want fer q. The 3;oS word S,, 2 e. +. in nrh 4 % nin
Carter There is a Mauser bullet somewhere
he is spectacularly angry. When he was with
I.awton chasing Geronimo fifteen years ago an
Apache shot him IN the same arm Down by
arm and now he had got the Third bullet in il
But I be all right in a few DAYS, he says,
II ! didn't have TO mount and %dlsmo%unt so much
l could keep up with the point nov.
4 bugle rings down the road. The troopers
leap on their horses and away We all go. tie pack
G2wn the road going like staten Island Coroner,
rises again to a ridge with trees and bushes on
both sides. Somewhere ahead and TO the right
there i q rattle Of rifles, quickly answered by the
bark Of krags. We come around a turn andinto
the town OF Silan, with the scouts at the far end
Of the one street chasing the last OF the insurgents
Searched sT o,t ID 'hs ,I pfr,ui IN S .lsen min and fa l,red Il n%i''HWSs s
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go down that main street to the rattle Of burning
cartridges, at u pace that gives only. a glimpse
shacks, he Salf,ruined wSl Of an old church
a cloud Of. smoke nsing from the arsenal, half
a dozen soldiers scouting out the place, and tina
road 10 Indian opens before us Never but once
have | had the feeling VI tremendous speed that
mat nde gave. That was when sliding down
We front Of a big roller In Il surf boat on Waiklkl.
No express train eyer went rs fast as that cavalry
column. Nothing else ever felt that urg, TO get
along.
TIDiNos OF THE ENEMY.
With n vague, indistinct impression Of a poor,
miserable. sun dried, half baked, wi,hered-up
old town, oil that recollection could do for Silan,
we dashed on for Indian don't know what the
the insurgents, but simply to scare them, and
We We're doing that as surely rs the sun Mas shin
ing Indignation at BinGn had been that there
them more than five miles at top speed and had
seen, evidences that many had duCked into the
1tash at the roadside II, was the Battalion
| should come up with the bullet headed young
lover Of cockhghts and restore him to his friends
in paranaque \ mile out Of Silan Col Hayes
overlook US and there was a halt to let tie horses
breathe and give the men a chance to get a bite
from their saddle pockets. Then the maps came
cut and there was a study Of the road Fifteen
streams were shown Tor tie eight miles to Indian.
II there were many like the one lust outside Of
Slan we could foresee a very great reduction
was sent on ahead 10 get into Indian as quickly
rs possible, and after a little rest the remainder
OF NE column followed.
Tie road was Wide and good at frs, and We
went at The tIut or gallcp ior a rlile or 50. Then
come a lttIe creek where the insuisentS had re,
.,'Ied tae bridge We turned 9qt into the brush
trail We crossed rather quickly and were oil again
az trot only TO be stopped in less than half a
oyer a ridge al a to, and opened up a long lane
through tall trees with huge mAngoes among
them and the yellow afternoon sun shining
through as ii does IN the lanes at home We
went IN brlshly but We're stopped a minute by a
sharp bit Of ftIng behind Some ons went back
and found out uat tie insurgents who had been
! chased into the brush had gathered together a
few rifles and tted T. annoy tie pack traln. They
didn't have the advantage II knowing Curry,
or that he bad a lot Of Western men for his pack
ers was an extremely warm attempt, too
hot N fact 70 keep up Tor very long
The road grew more and more like a country
lane at home IN the apple orchard districts, where
elns and butternuts and great horse Chestnuts
spread the!r shade We were getting out uf tie
wilder country but into much rougher ground
Up and down the trail went, and now We came TO a
gorge beside which the one We had crossed in
front Il Sllan was only a promise. one at q tine
with the greatest care We slipped, stumbled aud
crawled down II, waded and foundcred across
the rushing stream at the bottom. and went
straight up through a narrow cut in the rock on
the other side So deep that only directly overhead
could We see the blue NJ heaven. Ten men in
rilr pits at the top could have kept us there until
now IL was "a climb that made even the service
hardened Colonel willing 10 M down and rest
| Army VIII know something Of the service Jack
| lisNeS has seen IN the States. lie was III al the
toughest Of the work in tie north until Lawion
turned south again. but this, he said, WIS the
worst country LIE had ever seen cavalry 60 over.
the GREAT GoRGEs.
One after another "" came 10 six Of these gorges,
but three Of them were brdged and none NJ the
rest was 80 difficult al the first. Any one Of them,
however, was an Improbable position, and it
would not have taken fifteen minutes TO render
any. Of the three bridges impossible. Twice
the bridges furnished the only possible means
81 crossing, once the stream had cut It's way
down through sixty feet Of solid rock, leaving
a canon with vertical Sides. Between these guryps
the trail ran along high ground. II was a good
! road, or had been, and needed not so very much
work TO restore 1t t. soryiceahle condition. The
Of them were surrounded by little compounds,
and almost every one WIS frOutrd by a hedge
" tlich, green bush fairly well trimmed, in which
at short intervals, were bushes full Of great red
flowers. The gorgeous foliage plants which
abound here were IN p~r9tIsion along the hedges
and about the hut, The chickens and dogs
home, undisiutOri by The invasion, but the pao-
pie had lel and the huts were deserted and empty.
The altgTncon "0Tt on 10 one Of the magnth,
forced dw'!lnrs In thrs' islands. Then ,he stars
came out and twinhlcd in the clear blue before
the moon. almost at the fun. began 10 throw it,
helpful light along the unfamiliar way. 10
from the last gurEr. crossed In the gathering
gloom by a hriIEr prorilentlally, around a right.
Mas The old apple orchard on he lii just baynnl
III" town, exactly as 1t has been almost since
Onondagn county was established. No une
| could tell In this ligh, that those four huge trees
IN thr far corner Rr' not hlttcrnuts but maugoes.
That dark limo on the other side is III" old rail
fence, no hamhoOs there You can almost hear
the tinkl" q the bell on the oh Wcthpr that leads
the flock that haScroppcdt the grass 50 short.
INDAN REACHED ArLAs
Now the pace is a walk. The road is very
hard and the hOnfs ring sharp and distinct against
the ston" like clay. Thrr" Is very little talk,
and only III" tramp Of the horses and The occasional
ClNnk Of n Sahr" disturhS the evening stiffness.
Night birds lit about overhead and from the
trees SINE lns'c' calls so'tly with pll' ntjve note.
Lights shine from III" hints along the wav and
: coon fires glow. In q little hollow q thickly
lcaNed tree is fun Of trntlrS glowing lik" rain
drops In phOSphnreSc"ut water. The road forks
and We turn 10 the right No one knows WHY.
No one asks. The long column keeps on steadily
a. the walls. The moon rides Overhead and the
road is filled with yellow light. The trail grows
had again. Some ono In tlp lead sings out Keep
to tn" right" Man after man takes up the hail
o. pass II along and ''r behind MS W" hear IL die
awavin a faint ecGoinE, Keep 10 Oh" night"
Two milrs II lhI5 and We come ~ n halt end dis
mount The trend NJ the country hrd been stead
lily downward, hut Indian j. on the hills ENami-
nation of the road shows no track II Nolan 5 mon.
IN the hutS fires md lights are burning Two
ui ne GO IN 10 find u guido. Al Hra deserted
SO We go Il INTO the brush and call out fur some
uH' g. come No ono answers \ natv" boy,
servant II onn II The headquarters mess, calls
IN lagaloG "" g further into the brush, and
Our boy assures HIM that he viii not he hurt but
VII, he well rall II he comes ont and presently
he tGiS cpurngc 10 come AsSur'dly We Arr on
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