The Dermott news., 1916-06-15
CHAPTER lV-Contlnued.

lou stay here. sergeant, wJth the rest If tho detachment on the Amerl. can side will cross over and | | ind l need you I shall start fro. You can see 1t for ten miles. If you see | fire show theee tunes. come risht into Mexico Wtth ali tae men. shall take one man Win me.
 It Is Jast possible that we mas be able to help the people without g,ttMs ourselves iuto trnabte= h any ease, We must not gct tuto a row on che Wroug s5ae of the llHe Be sure to keep q man aa tae looNaat l shall make two flares f want you. Nolan. you come N.ta ue.
 The old soldier would HaFc Iks4 t3 demonstrate with hIs o".ear tut tae 6abIgs 5G discipline af twenty years were t4o #tgoas He ea'utea and hd- ding A4s maa azsmaaat aH. Ioeseu their cileh.4. watched lis Eeens sl. per5or and \l.aa as ,4.y U4.Aet their horses U.au the L.I in tar growing 4zlt
 When rey reae1.t ta. IUyaf ground la#g NOUN MY were cut of sight am8He taa ss.seAy caett and taa mes4a-t hl-s has taat coy cred tha tace of the laa4
 It Was d great risk ta take. not that fHe danger ol actual eaa1.et Was great. hut there was the certainty thal if his interference should become known Co the higher authorities Eyuast.n would have to be offered up as d sacrifice to NtEte4u complaints
 We'll move up to that FH just above the miaehouse. Nolan and see what We can from there. Thero go some more shots It looks to mo as though the place is being attacked from the southern side If so. We wiu hide under cover pn the range to tho north and work down toward the house. We'll h.de OUT horses among the powders and scout down atd1t
 So, moving very carefully along tho bowi9er-streWu hillside, they tied their horses to great mesquit bush that stood in the bottom ot an arroyo Yak ing their rifles from the scabbaras, they picked their way wart'y up the slope to the summit point from which they could plainly see the at tack
 The santa Cruz mine lay some six hundred yards below them X little cottage built of adobe showed where the superintendent lived, and across from it stood the general store Be- hind this again. surrounded in front with adobe walls that marked the cor rals where the mine mules were kept, stood the long engine house.
 Dark, yawning mouths gaping at them from the hillside showed where the lines of the ore-cars were loaded in the drift. for the Santa Cruz was fortunate above most mines in that it was possible to tunnel straight into the breast of the hill without digging d shaft
 Far below the line of the buildings kynaston and Nolan looking down from the vantage point of their hill, saw in a far hollow group of rider less horses. with one or two dismount- ed men guarding them.
 There's their herd. Look, Nolan, !, Do you see their Hne2
 Before Nolan could speak the long crack and rattle of rifle fire broke out from the line of giant cottonwood trees that marked the bottom of tho now dry watercourse,
 The bullets whined over the house {; some of them kicked up spurts of dust from the adobe walls. An answering shot from the house told that the de lenders were wide awake. Kynaston saw the shot take ground on the slope below him.
 At once awake to the necessity of finding some way of getting to the house undiscovered Kynaston scanned the ground in his front carefully.