The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-09

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drawled Tamarack.
They chatted OF many things. and
travelled slowly, but, when they came
to those narrows where they could not
ride stirrup to stirrup each iockeyed
Tor the rear position, and the mar who
found himself forced into the lead
turned In his saddle shd talked back
over his shoulder, with wary, though
seemingly careless, eyes. Each knew
the other was bent on his murder.
At Purvy's gate Asberry waved fare
well and turned in. Tamarack rode
on, but shortly he hitched his horse
IN the concealment OF a hollow walled
win huge rocks, and disappeared INTO
the laurel.
He began climbing. In a crouched
] nnufIinn hW1nufnn aunl foot haUn
noiselessly and ~pausing often to listen.
Jim Asberry had not been outwardly
armed when he left Spicer. But, soon,
the brakeman's %delicately attuned ears
caught a sound that made him lie fiat
In the lee OF a great log, where he was
masked In clumps Of towering rho
%dodendron. Presently Asberry passed
him, also walking cautiously, but hur.
riedly. and grading n Winchester rife
In the hollow Of his arm. Then Tama.
rack knew that Asberry was taking
this cut to head him OF and waylay
him in the gorge n mile away by road
but a short distance only over the hill.
Spicer held his heavy revolver cooked
in his hand, but It was too near the
Purvy house TO risk a shot. He waited
a moment, and then, rising, vent on
noiselessly with a suarling grin. stalk.
ing the man who was stalking him.
Asberry found a place NJ the O
Of n huge nine where the undererowtb
would cloak him. Twenty wards below
ran the creek.bed road. returning from
its long horseshoe deviation. When
he had taken his position his faded
butternut clothing matched the earth
as lnconspicuously as a quail matches
dead leaves. and he settled himself to
wait. Slowly and with initiate cau.
ton his intended victim stole down,
guarding each step, until no was in
short and certain range, but, instead
Of being at the front, he came from
the back. He, also, lay fat on his
stomach and raised the alreadS cooked
pistol. He steadied II in a twO-handed
grip against a tree trunk and trained
II with deliberate care on a point to
the left Of the other mans spine Just
below the shoulder blades.
Then he pulled the trigger He did
not 20 down to inspect his work. II
was not necessary. The instantaneous
fashion with which the head of the
ambassador settled forward on it's
face told him all he wanted to know.
He slipped back to his horse, mounted
and rode fast TO the house Of Spicer
South, demanding asylum.
The next day came word that II
Tamarack spicer would surrender and
stand trial in a court dominated by
the Hollmans the truce would con.
tinue Otherwise the war was on"
The souths flung back this message:
Come and Kit him."
aut HOLMAN and Puryy. hynocriti.
callv clamorinR for the sanotity Of tho
law made no enor to come and ~Vit
him" Tbey knew that spicer sourb's
house was now a fortress. prepared for
s,ego They knew that every tr,il
tbither was picketed. Also. they kn,w