The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-04-16

kled face seemed to proclaim him to
be And In the door of the jaCal stood
Tonia And Lieutenant cambridge sat
in his saddle staring at her like q
gannpt aGape at Il sailorman.
Never before had TUmia seen such
q man rs this He seemed to be made
Of sunshine and blood red tissue and
clear weather. He sopmod to illumi-
nate the shadow Of the pear when he
smiled. as though the SUD were rising
again The men she had known had
been small aud dark. Even the Kid.
in spite Of his achievements. was
STRIPPING no larger than herself, with
black. straight bair and cold. marble
face that chilled the monday
AS for TOnia, though she sends de
sCriptiOn to the pOOrh0use. let her
make a millionaire of your fancy. Her
blue black hair. smoothly divided in
the middle and bound close to her
head. and her large eyes. full of the
Latin melancholy, gave her the Ma
donna touch.
The newly lighted sun god asked
for drink of water. Tonia brought
1t from the red jar hanging under the
brush shelter. cambridge considered
it necessary to dismOunt so as to
lessen the trouble of her mfnistratOns.
/ play no spy, nor do assume TO
master the thoughts of any human
heart. but / assert by the chronicler's
right that before a quarter of an hour
had sped Sandridge was teaching her
how to plat a six strand rawhtde
stake rope.
In his camp by the water hole Lieu
tenant Sandridge announced and Ceit-
Grated his intention of either causing
the Cisco Kid to nibble the black loan
of the Frio country prairies or OF hal
| ing him before a judge and jury.
That sounded businessIike. Twice
week be rode over to the Lone Wolf
Crossing of the FriO and directed To-
MAS slim. slightly lemon tinted fin
gers among the intricacies of the slow
| ly growing lariata. six strand plat
is hard to learn and easy to teach.
The ranger knew that he might End
the Kid there at any visit. He kept
| his armament ready and had a fire.
duent eye for the pear thicket at the
rear of the jacal Thus he might
bring down the kite and the Drumming
bird with one stone.
While the sunny haired ornitholo-
gist was pursuing bis studies the Cis-
co Kid was also attending to his pro
fessional duties. He moodily shot up
q saloon in a small COW village on
Ouintana creek. killed the town mar
shall, plugging him neatly in the cen
ter Of his tin badge. and then rode
away, moFose and unsatfsfed.
On his way the Kid suddenly expert.
enced the yearning that all men feel
when wrongdoing loses its keen edge
of delight He learned for the wo-
man be loved to reassure him that she
,, was his in spite of It. He wanted ner
to cnll his bIoodthfrstiness bravery and
his cruelty devotion.
The Kid turned the speckled roan's
head up the ten mile pear bat that
stretches along the Arroyo Hondo un
til ii ends at the Lone Wolf Crossing
of the Frio.
More weird and lonesome than the
Journey of an Amazonian explorer Is
the ride of one through Texas peal
fat TO be lost in the pear is to die
almost the death OF the thief on the
cross. pierced by nails and with gro
tesque shapes OF all the tends hover
ing about
But it was not so with the Kid ant
his mount. Winding, twisting, cir
cling. tracing the most fantastic anC
bewtldering trail ever picked out, th'
good roam lessened the distance to th'
Lone Volt. Crossing with every col
and turn that be made.
AS though he were in circus rim
the speckled roam wheeled and dances
through the labyrinth of pear until q
length his rider knew by certain land
marks that the Lone Wolf Crossin
was close at hand Then. where til
pear was thinner, he caught sight G
the grass roof Of the jacal aud To
blackberry tree on the edge of the al
royo. A few yards farther the Ri
stopped the roam and gazed intentl
through the prickly openings. The
he dismounted. dropped the roam
reins and proceeded on foot
The Kid crept noiselessly to the yer
edge of the pear thicket and reconno
tered between the leaves of a clump
cactus.
Ten yards from his hiding place
the shade of the jacal sat bis Tom
calmly plating a rawhide lariat- {
far she might surely escape condemns
ton; women have been known fro
time to time to engage In more mi
chievous occupations. But If all mu
be told there is to be added that b.
head reposed against the broad al
comfortable chest of tall red al
yellow man and that his arm WI
about her. guiding her nimble smf
fingers that required SO many lessol
= at the intricate six strand plait
sandridge glanced quickly at t
: dark mass of pear when he heard
n slight squeaking sound that was
n altogether unfamiliar. A gun sea