Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-05-19
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in then thoughts. yeC eacm coverUy
watchful of the other. When Essex dis
mounted to tighten his saddle -girth, Hill
waited but a yard away, regarding his
slightest movement, afraid to have his
hand empty, afraid to lay it near his re-
volver, lest Essex should perceive and
draw a second quicker.
When the sun set they had spoken
scarcely half a dozen words or covered
half dozen miles.
They halted more from habit than in
clination, in the secrecy of a small wood
on the rugged side of a low mountain
and lettering their horses, they sat down
facing each other to eat sparngly OF
their food.
Time passed, but neither suggested
sleep: and as each realized that he no
longer dared rest in the others presence
his melancholy moodiness returned.
Neither had closed his eyes, when, about
midnight, they got into the saddle again
and rode forward
1t was Il dirty night. Heavy rain fell
obliquely, with a strong wind that had
sprung up suddenly in the west. The
men rode with loose reins, almost where
their horses chose to carry them. Each
felt that the darkness offered him a
chance Of gaining legal freedom and that
the act would be suited to the night; but
they both distrusted the chance.
Now and then they rode so close to-
9ethcr that their elbows touched. while
at times they fell apart and losing each
other in the blackness halted suddenly,
each seized with the suspicion that the
other was stealing away in blind at
tempt to reach the enemy's camp and
commit the betrayal; and they sat tense
in their saddles listening for the sound
horses feet to indicate which way the
otner had gone. In the absence of any
sound but the beating of the rain and the
buster of the wind, Hill would call gent
~ and Essex would reply with an inward
sigh of relief; then they would draw
together again and ride on elbow to el-
bow, their eyes heavy with sleep, their
limbs aching with cramp, hungry and
thirsty.
In this way they spent the night, and
early in the morning, when the yellow
streak of breaking day crept into the
sky, they saw mining town nesting in
the dim west not more than a mile away.
wv must iltil, llldle. Sdlu ESSEX.
They retired to some rising ground,
and under cover of bush-growth and
trees, they sat down to wait the coming
of another night. From physical fatigue
and mental exhaustion they fell to nod
ming, each with a heavy, struggling eve
upon the other. The intervals between
their mods gradually grew longer. the
power to realize their fear ebbed away,
and thus they fell asleep, rolled on to
their sizes and lay like dead men.
If one or the other had opened his ewes
first the matter would probably have
ended differently but it CHANGED that a
movement of Hills horse awoke them
both at the same instant. They onened
their eyes, and catching sight of each
others PROSTATE form. each believed the
other still slept, for in the gloomy dark
ness it was not possible for them to dis
tineuish features.
SO they lay keeping still in order not
to awaken each other. and with minds
cleared and refreshed by their brief sleep
| they weighed their circumstances. Each
| thought OF the town before him. the GAL
lows behind him. the unconscious partner
| at his side, but Essex, who had the
! quckeT mind, was the first to move. He
rose slowly to his elbows, to his knees
to his feet; not to be taken off his Guard
should Hill suddenly awake he drew his
IrevulVer.
Hills eyes. ghnting, watched him.
| He glanced over his shoulder toward
the town, then at the horses. as if CON
sidering whether it were wiser to At
| tempt to cover the distance on foot or
take horse at the risk of arousing Hin
Md while his eyes dwelt on the horses
Hill silently. quickly drew his revolver.
and raising himself on his hin. fired
couple OF shots at his would be betraver.
But rapidly as his second shot succeeded
ms hrst, 1t rang third through the wood
Tor ont OF the corner of his eve Essex
mad seen his partners raised arm. and
WITH slnartness which had made him
terror in the state he had sent Hill to the
ground with a bullet through his brain.
For ten seconds Essex stood motion
less. Then he shivered violently. turned
half round, stumbled a step and fell
| heavily across Hills body.
| 1t was thus they We're found four DAYS
later by party from the mining town
G. Randolph-Lchfeld in Maemillan's
| Magazine