Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-03-29
CHAPTER K. MN
After the Storm.

For a week the search continued day
and night, but each day, even each
succeeding hour, reduced the expec-
tation of ever seeing De Spain alive.
Spies working at Calabasas, others
sent in by Jeffries to Music noun
tain among the Morgans, and men
from Medicine Bend haunting Sleepy
Cat could get no word Of De Spain.
Deaf Sandusky and Logan had been
found dead at the Inn by Leftover on
the night after the fight. Fairly accu-
rate reports accounted for Gale Nor
gan, nursing a wound at home, and
for Sassoon, badly wounded and under
cover somewhere in the gap. Beyond
this, information halted.
Toward the end of the week a Mexi-
can sheepherder brought word in to
Lefever that he had seen in Duke
Morgan's stable Sassoon's horse-the
one on which De Spain had escaped.
He averred he had seen the blood
stained Santa Fee saddle that had been
taken off the horse when the horse was
found at daybreak of the day follow
Ing the fight, waiting at Sassoon's cor
raj to be cared for. There could be.
1t was fairly well ascertained, no mis-
take about the hOrse-the man knew
the animal; but his information threw
no light on the fate of its missing
rider.
Though Scott had known first of
De SPANS helpless condition in his
desperate flight, as regarded self-de-
Tense, the Indian was the last to aban-
don hope of seeing him alive again.
One night, in the midst of a gloomy
council at Jeffries' office, he was
pressed for an explanation of his con-
hdence. 1t was always difficult for
Scott to explain his reasons for think
Ing anything. Men with the surest in
stlnct are usually poorest at reason
Ing conviction out. But Bob, cross
examined and harried, managed TO give
some explanation of the faith that was
In him. I'm the first place." he said.
i've ridden a good deal with that
man-pretty much all over the coun-
try north of Medicine Bend. He is as
full OF tricks as a nuts full of meat.
Henry de Spain can hide out like an
Indian, and doctor himself. Then
again, L know something about the
way he fights; up here they don't. If
those four fellows had ever seen him
In action, they never would have ex-
pected to get out of room alive. after
showdown with Henry de Spain. AS
near as can make out from all the
talk that's floating around, what fooled
them was seeing him shoot at q mark
here one day in Sleepy Cat"
Jeffries didn't interrupt, but he
slapped his knee sharply.
you might just as we'll try to stand
on box of dynamite, and shoot into
1t, and expect to live to tell it," con-
tnued Scott mildly, "as to shoot into
that fellow In room with closed doors
ana expect to get away with 1t. The
only way the bunch can ever kill that
man, without getting killed themselves.
Is TO get him from behind and at that.
John, the man that fires the gun" MUIR
INJURED the scout, fought to be behind n
tree.
you say he is hit. 1 grant it." he
concluded. But 1 knew him once.
when he was hit, to lie out in the bush
for week. He got cut off once from
whispering Smith and Kennedy after
a scrimmage outside Williams Cache
two years ago."
you don't believe, then, he's dead.
Bobf" demanded Jeffries impatiently.
mot till see him dead" persisted
Scott unmoved.
De Spain, when he climbed into Sas-
soons saddle, was losing sight and
consciousness. He knew he could no
longer defend himself, and was so