The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-03
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~Dead tW now. Iisuppose, flung back Darry.
 { .ssood ts6d r | cried. and under my Ekeath. s'Then you've murdered him!' :, don't know whether Barry heard Ile orFnot and sat the time did not f uch care. His sullen eye was rest <bod there ip the 6relight. Every face 4 x gnG a&gry and susp pi6idsiss1 Barry flung 2 naelf from bis hcrse.rto tore the pad \ 6om ttS back, slapped 1t on the flank
 md turned away, reckless of where 1t @ent, He cut himsel q steak and set
 = cooking hit rood, an uncompromis- app1a ers tnfnEd in our direction. ':' or d1f he open his mouth to utter an N hecs kword until the general discus
 Ion lktbr n tho evening. Don Gaspar,
 no owned the only riding saddle, un-
 5Sed hiS korse, led 1t to water,a \ n6s Filtered 1t and turned it loose to
 While 4e was gone no one,
 ,o1re, but we glanced at each other ' lzfkiFs Hestnraed, y sat down by the I(re, rolled himself a cigarette and vol oatecred his story,
 K s3ly fren,,r said he, with direct & mo6gt Und 9tlcGi4ctness utterly foreign 11o hi evefydEy speech, syou want to
 esw . vh,t ' E t sagpsn' M ys we'll # was VI N . Hs told sas sethaf aftsf We had left <; l6rl 4hey hurried on as fast as possi- M E1 1T .Qrder 10 reach the settled pcoun-
 5 Owing to the excellence of his if 1lmai hs was generally some distance ~ dyenee At one point, stopping on ' a1iI4 elevation to allow them to v p, he looked back fin time to < ]r = tWo men. on Horseback emerge from
 ehapafral jit1k behind his compan- < d Don Gaspar shouted and leaped
 - IT. saddIe, but before the warn < &1d reached the others riata from
 wy t1nd Of one Of the men had fallen H ed&ad1y a6Guracys around Yank's
 n1 and body, jerking him violently & on fle saddle The thrower whirled v M kcfSe to drag his victim, Don Gas !: - fired and by great good luck shot " S9{ anfmal through tho brain. It fell
 ~ heap, ufpninf its rider beneath it. 6 Ileai i'm Barry had leaped to Fl md 6dt t1fcm behind the shell 6f nh horse had shot the first rob fltQugh the body. Our two com
 6hS 4sew together and took
 cEnse behind acme large rocks, pre- Nd <iacs1 yecs5ve. the charge of band hk1f d61er WAb now appeared The < lkzat1on lpolS6 hSsperate. Don Gas ' TT 1Eed apd missed He was never i, 6nS l< 6f . 1harksman and his first " ImuSt ghayd d,been great piece of 1dck B6rry held his fire. The rob befp each discharged his rifle, but harmlessIy rThen just as they seemed xbout to charge In they whirled their kQG1ee and made of into the brush. # VI We. could not tell the why,'' ob- 6ery&6 Don Gaspar.s k 3F4sE m two men did not speculate, but m Out to where Tank lay, apparently 4ead, hi4 fp4s stilE bound close to his 1.by tho moose of the riata. Barry Gut the zppe,with his bowie knife, and tn6y folfSd nIm oyer. They found he 6fi1 breathed, but that. beside the {: n itck 6f nis violent fall, he had been badly trampled by the horsesS After la lnoment he carAe to consciousness, { buk when they attempted to lift him upkseht& they Mound sthat his leg was 's:t 3<-4s. Fl ' .ff'- S71s'7E Ef'1'fs2f
 At this moment they heard the sound of voices apd, looking up, saw coming from the other direction a band of g dozen men. half of whom were or 6ofseback and all of whom were arm ed 4his looked serious as1 s7s
 We got behind the rock, 1" said Dor GaGpar, ..but we think to ourself oul goose is cook" ffs Z, v, .s The newcomers, however, proved t be miners who had heard the shoti
 and who now came hurrying up. Eyi dentH the robbers had caught sight ol E sSound of their approach. They werl
 much interested ih the state ofaffairs
 examined the horse Don Gaspar ha( ki1led, searched for and found the bod,
 Of the robber Barry had shot, I
 proved to be c Mexican well knowl
 to item all and suspected to be mem Der of Andreas Aijo's celebrated band
 They inquired for the dead horse
 rider. 8tN
 AAnd then, for the first time," sai,
 Don Gaspr, i've think of him. H'
 Went down with his horse. But nov
 he was gone and also the horse O
 Ben0r Tank. But think he crawl of n the cbaparral and that the horse Q Oonor Tank run away with the othe horse Of the dead man"
 We saw the futility of our first in i. otinctive flare of suspicion It wa
 obvious that if Don Gaspar and Bucl
 Barry had intended treachery the,
 would never have returned to us. { think that, curiously enough, we wer
 uurensonably little sorry for this. sS would have been satisfactory to hay
 1ad something definite to antagonize Iks 1t was. we sat bumped around ou
 nEo uptn morning.
 With daylight we began to get gril
 (n ourselves . Ettle. I felt strongl,
 Int I should rec to Tank and so an
 ounceG Johnny at once offered t
 0erompany me. While we were talk
 nS oyer tho sfutuzD prospects McNall.
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