Enterprise news-record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, 1911-02-15

remained at Las Flores.
lit is true nevertheless" be said la
conically. II knew the game was lost,
so came here to try to save q lady,"
"Ah-our Carmela? You thought Of
hery'
eNon
Then the spell passed from Carmela.
She literally threw herself on her
Hover.
Yes, it is truev' she shrieked. "He
Game to save me, but |. preferred to,
die here with you, father, and with
him"
Ess Dom Corria did not understand these
fireworks but he had no time for
thought Bullets were crashing through
the closed We hetians. Light they must
have OF the defense would become an
orgy of self destruction. yet light was
their most dangerous. foe when men
were shooting from the somber depths
OF the tire ees.
The assailants were steadily closing
around the house. Their rifles covered
every door and window. Each minute
fsHEpught UP fresh bands In tens and
ftw&hties AT last Barraca himself ar
Er19ed Some members Of his staff,
tmade hasty survey of the situation.
Tlpere were some 300 men available,
|'and in all probability Dom Corria could
not muster one sixth of that snumber.
| 1t was a crisis that called for vigor.
| The cavalry lance was twenty miles
from its base and there was no know
ing what accident might reunite the
scattered Liberationists. One column
Iat~teast of the Nationalists had failed
| to keep its rendezvous or this last des-
perate stand at Las Flores would have
| proved a sheer Ytmposstbility.s @Fs !
tsssSp s. he shouses mustrbe crushed, mo
] maater4what~tHe cost A,Fhis was q war
of leaders. Let Dom Corria fall and
his most enthusiastic. supporters would
! pay Dom Miguel's taxes without fur
ther parley. scheme of concerted
action was hastily arranged, Stimuli.
ftuneously five detdchments swarmed
Eagainst the chosen points Of assault.
One crossed the. cpateo to the porch.
another made. for the sta BILE entrance.
a third attacked the garden door,
fourth assailed the servants quarters,
and tie ffth. strongest of all and. in
spfrtd BY Dom Miguers presence, bat
4 tered In the shutters and tore away
Ethe piled up furniture Of the ballroom.
[ The NationaiistVleadeRs final order
was terse: .iataVs}h.N * n
.SRare the women !; shoot. every reb-
lei; do ,notstouoh the foreigners unless
they resist!"
| With yells of "Abajo De Sylvia"
"MoEto. Dor. rezoltadosE. the -assailants
closed in Neither side owned maya
zineTrhes. 50 tue tight &as with, mp
EeheteS swords and ~6ayohets when the
FIRST furious hail of lead had spent It.
/ Self,y sNer n3ns thought of quarter nor
feedsed to Stab and thrust until he fell.
When 400 .desneradpes meet fifty OF
flikd tafiber in a hand to hand conflict,
when rue L30DInean to end the business
and the fifty know that they must die,
4 fighting for choice, Ebut die IN any
event., the Hresultant9 encounter will
surely be both fierce and brief.
Rv one ofahoseA,ueer' chances which
4 sometimes decide tbe hazard between
life and deall,' l,,,,. .,s,rd,w- uearest tbat
end of the room where the sailors
stroye to -pgoteet eas few shifeking wo-
men had not been broken In, Here,
then. vas tiny, bay Of refuge. From
4 jtYtf,a men of tke X3drotneda saud the
1 Unser Fritz. Bulmer, Verify, Iris and
stsucb of the Rroziliah ladies as had not
aed 10 lie INNER reott,sA at the initial
voIlev look ed our on AN amazing butch.
EeSEv IDe Sy}vak no longer Young and
never robust man. had heen dragged
Prom morfal rSeril many times by bis
-3deyofed - ndherents. Carmela had
Il snatcbed a. u,ac6ere from the fingers OF
tasdvfng Soldier ana was ffghting like
one possessed of a tend. sNs
w Oa6et wRerfS d 't6hibfned' rush drove
the defenders nearly, on Top ct -thesnoa
TfOmbatants Iris would have StriyeD t(