The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-20
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IN WHICH THE CATTLE ARE sTAMPEDED by
LDRENAts GANG.

IE WHIcH THE CATTLE ARE srAMPEDED Bl
~LoRENA's GANG.
had not an idea as TO Spiders prob
akae whereabouts, The desert was III
very large aud Spider 50 very minute i
apeek upon ifs surface that IL struck M
after Wi had started out that our quest
gal ii singnlnrly hopeless y Lee,
however, differed from me
~ don't zee no trouble In KNOWN
where ter 20. be said. Ping Hollis,
he'll be prrltty sllre ter strike to 'rdt
Agna laliente. IN Spider'Il sure be Ia
his wake All we got ter do ~ ter ~
ter Agna Galiente. too, that all II
anything's wrong an that kids alive.
he'll be maxim some noise or other Ter
let us know He's n star al makjn b
noise. Spider N. It's right In his line, !
by this time we were well away from
the camp, our ~ sight Of The fire. But
tor the pole star TINT hung burning
brightly oyer orr heads would not
have bad The fnintest notion Of the III
reetion ia which we were going Bnt
Lee, with the p|lainsnlan i nnerfin9 ~
etinet. loped stendily along without
ever raising bis eyes Lee was not 4
~talkntiye person The only sound TINT
broke the Oppressive stiffness Was the
dismal yelp III d distant coyote, The
smothered pad 0f the haofs of our
mounts az they fell Oh the soft sand
and the reglllor click of the spur ehains
against our heavy wooden atiunps
Only once did Lee spenk
4FMap.tA y .ta,3in i1n Lauy ufhuflp Ana
On tell what we're doin now lie
pointed to q si!pery sheen on the dark
blue horizon, into which q few minutes
later the fnll moon climbed, straDking
the rolling surface Of the desert with
bright light and blapkast ahnlaW md
silvariDg the stntoly forms " the tree
fnetps that studded tho desert thiokly
A faint white line d mile abead marked
the course of u trail toward which, by
taell consent, We turned opr horses
Suddenly Lee beld mp bis hnnd M
signal that should listen AT first
conld hear nothing Then, sounding
faint IN the distance, there came three
pops pf . pistol
uThata him~~somobody what wants
help anyhow, = called Lee, HOyer be'
yon' the rise, thar, they are, We ON 800
from the top LOIS bnstlor~gniek r.
Putting spurs to our horses, WI soon
were climbing i long, stony ridge Tint
for miles divided the plain, nonoealing
one half from tho Other,
Opr horses stopped of their own 40
cord ~ they seanhol Tho top Az first
We eonld 500 nothing, Then my atten'
tion was attracted by a moving blot
near the edge of tho blnek shadow
thrown by the ridge, AN we Looked tha
blot passed. ont Of tho shadow and was
M once defined Ms 4 buneu ~ unllls
driven by three hnrspmen toward Agnn
Galipnte, Who these men wnrp WE
conla not tell ~ Tint distance, hnl they
were not ~ orr force, md onn ~ them
from the ppnkfd crown ~ hie hnl, Wna
probably . Mnsiean They were driving
tho anille rapidly ono ~ the men Stop
pod, and, lnrning, l0nkrl inlrnlly III
the direction from which bp Ind come
One ~ hia companions nplhe hnak md
Joined him Then, Nllnr moment, they
both wheeled and gallppel hnpk W the
herd, Where The Third mnn seemed nns
lnnsly 10 nwNit ihem Evidently the
fhrno wero nnpnsy nloni aomnlhing,
rIhey think somebody ID nfolluin
en- aail Leo softly la my nnr Vhpy
Wnrn not fnr from tho lrnth II They did
think 40, horaoman emerged from TIN
fhndnw, md tho hrlllinnt moonlight fpll
on tho ~dlminntlya form md hrlghl
now phnps NJ Spider
The men snW Spider npNrly ~ aonn ~
\, Two ~ them NJ nnen pulled MP lhnir
horses and stopped evidently inlanllng |
IN pnf The why Spider stopped ulan
Tho mon rode nn, and Spider followed
PRESERVING his diHtnnpN unchanged
vhpy ropanlnd this mnnanYpr two III
three Times until ~ Int tho nun win
The MeSiunn hat loal his lnnlpW HR
tnrnaa apdlnnly md dartfd nlter Spider
~ Tho flll speed ~ hla hpfse
Firms lhrea muck shots NJ hla pnr
Hnnr, Spider Whlrlel Nhant md win
yell ~ aelRht YnnlsAnl into thp ahNa
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