The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-27

keen. his mouth half open as if the
girls kiss still fingered there And
that haste had made them careless, for
the horse of the man who LED nm
slipped in a gopher-hole, rolled over,
unseated his rider. and even dragged
the bound and helpless second captive
from Judge BoOmpointer's favorlte
marc In an instant they were all on
their feet again, but in that supreme
moment the second captive felt the
cords which bound his arms had slipped
TO his wrists By keeping his elbows
to his sides and obliging the others to
help him mount, it escaped their no
tice. BY riding close to his captors,
and keeping in the crush of the throng.
he further concealed the accident,
slowly working his hands downwards
out of the bonds.
Their way lay through a sylvan viii
derness, mid-Ieg deep in ferns, whose
tall fronds brushed their horses sides
in their furious gallop and concealed
the tapping of the captive's lOosened
cords. The peaceful Vista, more sug
gestive of offerings of nymph and shep-
herd than of human sacrifice, was in
u strange contrast to this whirlwind
rush of stern. armed men. The wester-
ing sun pierced the subdued light and
the tremor of leaves. with yellow
ldil1CSs BlluS Stdl NOu lllAO SOllS Oil bAdC
and dove-iike wings, and on either side
of the trail of this vengeful storm
could be heard the murmur of hidden
and tranquil waters In a few mo-
ments they would be on the open
ridge, whence the common turnpike to
Sawyer s." a mile away. 1t was the
custom of returning cavalcades to take
this hin at headlong speed, with shouts
and cries that heralded their coming.
They withheld the latter that day, as
inconsistent with their dignity; but
emerging from the wood, swept silently
like an avalanche down the slope
They were well under way, looking
only to their horses, when the second
captive slipped his right arm from the
bonds and succeeded in grasping the
reins that lay trailing on the horses
neck. A sudden vaquero jerk, which
the well-trained animal understood
threw him on his launches with his
forelegs firmly planted on the slope.
The rest of the cavalcade swept on;
the man who was leading the captive's
horse by the RATA, thinking only of
another accident, dropped the line to
save himself from being dragged back
wards from his horse. The captive
wheeled, and the next moment was gal
looping furiously up the slope.
1t was the work of a moment; a
trained horse and an experienced hand.
The cavalcade had covered nearly fifty
yards before they could pull UP: the
/ freed captive had covered half that dis
! lance uphill. The road was so narrow
/ that only two shots could be fired, and
these broke dust two yards ahead of
| the fugitive. They had not dared to
! fire low; the horse was the more val
liable animal. The fugitive knew this
| in his extremity also, and would have
! gladly taken shot in his own leg to
! spare that of his horse. Five men were
/ detached TO recapture or kill him. The
/ latter seemed inevitable. But he had
calculated his chances: before they
! could reload he had reached the woods
again: winding in and out between the
| pillared tree trunks, he offered no mark.
They knew his horse was superior to
! their own; at the end of two hours
/ they returned, for he had disappeared
| without track or trail. The end was
briefly told in the Sierra Record"
Red Pete, the notorious horse-thief.
who had so long eluded Justice. was
captured and hung by the Sawyer's
| Crossing Vigilantes last week: his con-
fed9rate, unfortunately, escaped on a
valuable horse belonging to Judge
Boompointer. The Judge had refused
one thousand dollars for the horse only
a week before. As the thief. who is
/ sun at large, would find it difficult TO
dispose OF so valuable an animal with
out detection, the chances are against
either of them turning up again."
X x X
Salomy Jane watched the cavalcade
until 1t had disappeared. Then she be-
came aware that her brief popularity
had passed. Mrs. Red Pete. in stormy
| mysteries, had included her in a sweep
ing denunciatiOn of the whole universe
possibly for Stimulating an emotion in
which she herself was deficient. The
other woman hated her for her mo-
| mentary eXaltation above them: only
the children still admired her as one
| who had undoubtedly "canoOdled" with
a man "a-going to be hung'-a darine
flight beyond their widest ambition
Salomy Jane accepted the change with
| charming unconcern. She put on her
yellow nankeen sunbonnet-a hideous
af1alr that would have ruined any other
| woman, but which only enhanced the
| piquancy of her fresh brunette skin
tied the strings, letting the blue-black
braids escape below it's friIled curtain
behind, jumped on her mustang with q
casual display of agile ankles in shape
| ~ white stockings, whistled to the
| houndy and waving her hand with a
! so long. sonnyi" to the lately bereft
but admiring nephew, tapped and fut-
tered away in her short brown holland
gown.
Her fathers house was four miles dis
| tant. COntrasted with the cabin she
had just quilted, it was a superior
/ dwelling, with a long lean to" at the
rear, which brought the caves almost
| to the ground and made it look like a
| low triangle. 1t had long barn and
cattle sheds. for Madison CLAY was a
| great stOck-raiser and the owner OF
! a quarter section" IT had a sitting
room and a parlor organ, whose trans
portation UhitheT had been a. marvel
| Of packing" These things were sup
/ posed TO give Salomy Jane an undue
| Importance, but the girls reserve and
/ inaccessibilfty to local advances were
rather the result of a cool, lazy tenn
permanent and the preoccupation of 4
large, protecting admiration for hei
rather, for some years a widower. FoI
Mr.. Madison Clay's life had been
| threatened in one or two feuds-it
was said. not without cause-and it is
possible that the pathetic spectacle OF
her father doing his visiting with a
| shotgun may have touched her cIosely
and somewhat prejudiced her against
the neighboring masculinity. The
| thought that cattle, horses and GUAR.
ter section would one day be hers die
not disturb her calm. As for Mr.. CLAW
! he accepted her as housewisely. though
| somewhat interfering and. beina