Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-29


 ing party ordered g retreat in good time to escape the charge of the Chan ming cOwpunchers through the rose garden.
 LOVERS LEAP.
 Pelting across country at a round pace, toying in the free swing of the unjaded animal beneath her, drinking in delight with every deep-drawn res piratiOn Of the clean, cool air of early morning, Patria swung a wide arc through trackless fields before, some twenty minutes after leaving the ha- cienda, she drew rein to rest and breathe her horse.
 It was then that a sound of distant firing was carried to her on the wings of the wind which was moving from the quarter wherein lay the hacienda.
 Definitely frightened. she swung her horses head about and Spurred him down the main road. but d hun tlred yards or so short of the junction with the road to the bridge at the bor der checked the animal again and sat Ntiils uolculAie NO lA4C sAN"Ahs iulAA"ie of many hOOfs.
 Fearing lest she be caught in this rush of hOrsemen, she jumped down and led her mount into the shelter of the roadside trees, then secuted on afoOt for a little distance to a point whence she commanded view of the fork in the roads.
 There she saw, first, an Oxcart, counterpart of that which she had passed in her mOtorcar the previous afternoon, stalled by an accident to one of the wheels, which the Mexican lriver had just succeeded in repairing.
 An instant later a cloud of Mexican horSemen swept up the road from the hacienda and paused at the fork. The leader, burly rufiian, stopped long enough beside the cart to admonish the driver in accents that carried clearly to the girl-familiar as she was with Spanish:
 Hurry that ammunition across the river before the GringOes get here-if you set any value on your skinl'
 That was all; but the sight of the captive lying unconscious across the horse ridden by one of the Mexicaus- q figure all too readily identified by the girl as that of her betrothed-was enough to decide Patria's course of ac- ton.
 The raiding party swung on at top Ear .h hA 1,r.fH ffn.a f1r-fr aNf the oxcart picked up his goad and prOdded his beasts to the best pace they could make. Patria ran back to her horse, fumbling in tEe pockets Of her riding coat and finding there the envelope of an old letter.
 With the soft-nOsed bullet of load ed cartridge for 8 pencil, using the saddle for a desk, she contrived to scrawl simple message on the back of the envelope:
 Mexicans with Capt. Parr prisoner crossing border by bridge-safe and trailing them-rush heIp-P. c.
 Folding and tucking the envelope in- to the bridle, Patria turned the horses head homeward and slapped it's side with the flat of her hand. Surprised and indignant, the animal snOrted and scurried off. Without giving it an- other thought the girl set off after the oxcart.
 She was somewhat surprised to find that it had made such progress; obliged to Overtake it ere it came with n sight of the bridge. or else give up her fOOlhardy scheme. she succeeded n the nick of time, with none to spare. An instant before the cart, numbering n haze of dust, left the shelter of the woods that cloaked the road, the girl labored up behind it and, unseen oy the terrified driver. climbed aboard md buried herself in the mass of straw that hid the cases of ammuni- lion. Then, half-choked with dust and Sufrocating with lack of air and heat, IS the sun beat down upon the straw, | she resigned herself to enforced inac- ion that endured for many hours.
 The cart had successfully negotiated | he passage of the bridge and won to | | considerable distance beyond it ] when a fusillade in the rear embol- ! tened the girl to lift up her head, be- | leath the straw. and gasp in few | )reathS of clean air while reconnoiter- ! ng. The cart was then on rising ground. ] The bridge across the arroyo lay be- 1 leath it and some distance back. She | .ould see the main body of the Mexi- l ans which ambushed the Charming , ,owpunchers. A few fell in the charge. Her heart [ lled for them, but her grief on their | account was a triie compared with her | Inxiety for Donald. He was already | ar ahead of the oXCart, escorted by 1