The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-15
CHAPTER XXX.

CHAPTER Xxx.
In O country where witnesses to q
crime are imprisoned along with the
principals and kept more or less In
definitely in jail. man thinks twice
before he reports to the police.
With four dead Mexicans to the
Yaqui's account, and Del Rey In
chaIse OF the district, Hooker followed
his second thought-he said nothing.
and took his chances on being arrest
ed for murder. Until far into the n,rlt
Amigo busted himself along tho hill
side, aud when the sun rose not sign
remained to tell the story Of the fight.
Men. horses. saddles and guns-all
had disappeared. And, after packing a
little food In a sack. Amigo disap-
peared also. with grim emile in prom
Use Of return.
The SUN rose round and hot, the
same as usual; the. south wind came
up and blew into bellying mass Of
CLOUDS. which lashed back with the &C.
'customed rain; and when all the earth
was washed clean and fresh the last
trace Of the struggle was gone. Only
by the burns ON his hands was Hooker
aware OF the fight and Of the treachery
which had reared its head against HIM
like a snake which has been warmed
land fed.
Nowhere but IN Mexico. where the
low pelado classes have made such
deeds q subtlety. could the man he
found to diasimnlate, like that, false
assassin.in-chief, To pause suddenly
In q pEotracted speech, swing OF and
pick up q gun. and halt bis viz im for
the shooting by the preparatory click
| 6f THE LACK hat; s..ssSdeaa called Cor a,
brand Of cunning rarely. found. In the
United States. -,
There, was one thing about the affair
that. -yagnely haunted 5Hooker-why
was 1t that a man go cunning as that
had failed to load his gun? Twice, and
With everything In his favor, he had
raised his rife to fire; and both times
tt had enapped,in his hands. Certainly
he, must have Deem inept at arms-or
accustomed to slngle.shot gnns. :.
The reputed magic of the Bwift-flr-
ing rifles evidently had been his undo
ing, but where had he got his new
gun? and VINO was ne, anyway with
those two baming questions Bud wren-
tied as he sat bes!de. his door. and at
evening, his answer came.
The sun was. swinging low and he
was COLLECTING wood, down .,tha, gulch
for q fire. when. with a audden thud OF
hoofs, horseman rounied the. point
and came abruptly to q halt, It was
A4Fagon. and he was spying on the
camp. ., IL. ,.y f,.. u.
For q full minute he scanned the
house. tent and mine with a. look 30
snaky and sinister that Bud could read
his heart like book Here was the
man who had sent the assassins. and
he had come to view their workl,
Very slowly Buds hand crept
toward his six.shooter but, slight es
was the motion. Aragon caught II and
/ sat frozen In his place. Then, with an
inarticplate CRY. he fell Dat on his
horse's neck sna. Eent3 snnrrtng opt
The answer to Buds queations was
very ,easy. now.s The Mexican who had
led the attempt on his life was zone
| Of Aragon's had men. one of the four
,gnnmen whom Hooker had looked
ever 90 carefully when they came to
drive him from the mine. end Aragon
had fitted him, out with new arms to
| make the result more sure, But with
that question answered there came up
another and another until. In a sud
den clarity OF vision, Bud cav through