Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 February 1894 — Page 3
Continued.from Second Page. ^Juat stay" wTiere you are a "moment. You're all right perhaps, but our raards have orders to be on the lookout for Morales ami his gang, and yon might get shot by mistake." "Well, for God's sake, turn out your men, if you've got any, qnd help us catch these murdering thieves," was the impatient reply. "How many are you?" "Oh, there's plenty of us here," was Harvey's cheery answer. "Most of troop, but we've other business on hand
r.
The order to halt was obeyed.
Just now. You wait there quietly for a minute or two until tho sergeant comes around with the patrol. He'lh
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And IIkmi,
as
though the whole tjiing
had btiyti planned beforehand, out in the darkness to tho north Feeny's voice was heard in low toned but sharp command "Patrol, ha.lt! Close up there, Kennedy. When: are yon, No. 5?"
And so. cool Mini confident aa though he had a dozen troopers at his back. Feeny came striding up to the spot. "What's tin matter, sentry? Didn't 1 hear yon parleying hero with somebody?"
1'Two
strangers out there, sergeant,
say they're prospectors and been jumped by Apaches." "Where away are they?' Then in a low tone, "(Jo you out beyond the corral," he whispered to old Plummer. "There's four of them out there. Challenge if they try to come in." Then aloud again, "Shure, don't see anytiring, sentry." "Right out ahead there, sorgeant. Two men, mounted." "Come down, one of
3'e.
Dismount
and come in here. L'ave your gun behind. Give your reins to your pal thero, was Feeny's next mandate.
There was a moment of hesitation, A faint sound of whispering as though tho self styled prospectors were in consultation, and again Feeny spoke in a ton* more sharp and imperative: *'Dismount, one, 1 say. Como In hero, or I'll send a bullet for yonx cards. Quick now."
Still another delay. Tho "prospectors" seemed anxious to edgo off late deeper darkness.
If ye'ro not off that horse's back in 10 seconds, bo jabers, I'll tire. So be lively." And as lus excitement rose so did Feeny's Irish.
Four, live
seconds
ticked by, and still
there was im approach. Fiercely, with sharp emphasis, the sergeant brought' his carbine to lull eock. It's siming I am. said lie as he qnickl raised the butt to
his
shoulder. There was
a sudden scurry and scramble of horses' hoofs, low voiced words of warning and a muttered curse or two. Then leaped a tongue of fire into the night, and from tho corral corner came a sharp report, followed by a cry a gurgle, a gronn,
then
silence,
"My God1 they've shot the major!' exclaimed Harvey as he leaped away in the direction of the shot. At the same moment away sped the two horsemen in front of the post, N'o use to fire. They were shrouded in thick darkness and out of harm's way before one could pull trigger. Then came two flashes, two quick reports, then half a dozen rapid, sputtering revolver shots, then a vengeful howl and a rush out on the plain. Feeny ran like a deer on the trail of Mr. Harvey, and in loss time than it lakes to tell it they came upon the paymaster, sinking, shocked and nerveless lo the .^andy soil, his hands clasping on his side, "Pick him up. you and your man there. Carry him into lit-,' ranch. I'D bate back (hose blackguards yet. "muttered Feeny as he took a quick snap shot at some dim object flitting across the plain and sent anothei into the darkness. aiming vaguely where he could hear the thud of horses' luofs. For a moment, running from poiut to point after each di.-charge. he kept up a rapid fusillade, under (. over of which the hapless paymaMer was born swiftly away around the corner of the ranch ami car ried into the bar, where, wild with anxiety, but faithful to his trust, Mr Dawes still guarded the safe. Then Harvey slopped through the narrow doorway to the eastern room. "1 have to IHUTOW the lamp a moment. Fan. lie whispered Now. He still. We may have to stand a siege awhile until father can reach us."
Two minutes more, bending low and with his last cartridge crammed into the chamber of In*, arbine, Feeny turned to make a run for the ranch. Just as he came speeding in past the westward wall the wooden shutter was hurled open, and a strange voice, loud, exultant, strident, burst ujHin his ear. "Come on. Pasqual! Come"-
But tho rest was lost in the roar of Feeny's ready weapon. The rude facade of adolw bl.t/.'-d red one instant in the Hash of the carbine, and the loud report went bellowing out across the plain But within the ranch there went up a wail of terror and dismay, for Ramon Morales, shot through the brain, was stretched lifeless at tho foot of Moreno and his shuddering wife.
And then Feeny, unscathed. leaped inside tho barroom.
""Now for it, men I Drag in those two drunken brute bastes," he cried, laying hold of Mullan's limp carcass. "Lug in wan of them water jars. Stick their heads into that trough beyant. Now be lively. The whole gang'll be on us in less than a minute."
CHAPTER V.
At midnight the situation at Moreno's ranch was a strange one. The occupants of the two rooms farthest to the east were being besieged by 10 or 15 outlawed men, some Mexican, some "gringo," but all cutthroats, and up to this moment the besieged had had the best of it.
And yet their plight was desperate. In the easternmost room, secure from bullet or missile of any kind so long ae they crouched close to the ground and back from the doorway, lay trembling in silence old Harvey's daughters. At the door, only, the barrel of his rifle protruding, keeping under cover all he possibly could behind an improvised parapet of barley bags, knelt their devoted brother, cool and determined, every now and then whispering words of hope and encouragement. In the adjoining room, connected with the eastern chamber by a doorless aperture through the adobe wall, lay the paymaster. sorely wounded, but still con scions and [ducky, his faithful clerk ministering to him as best he could, stanching the flow of blood and comforting him with cool water.
At the doorway opening on the hard, trampled space at the southern front of the ranch, sheltering himself behind his breastwork of barley, but never relaxing vigilant watch, knelt Sergeant Feeny, a bandana bound about his forehead, the blood trickling down his right cheek, the sleeve of his flannel shirt rent by a bullet that just grazed the upper arm. Kneeling on the counter and peeping through a hole in the bottom of the wooden window shutter, one of Harvey 's men kept guard. The other faced the doorway into Moreno's domestic apartments, every now and then letting drive a shot through the woodwork to keep them, as he said, "from monkeying with the bolt on the other side."
In planning his roadside ranch Moreno had allowed outer doors only to those rooms which were for public use. The three which lay to the west pf the bar could not be entered except through that resort or by a door giving on the corral, both of these doors being supplied with massive bolts as security against intruders, and all three rooms being furnished with air ports rattier than windows, pierced at such a height through the adobe that no one from without, except in saddle, could peer through tho aperture and see what was going on within. The travelers' room and the barroom ports, however, were low and large, and all the rooms woro spacious. The bar of course, being tho dining as well as drinking room, carried off the honors in point of size. This, too. was furnished with an opening into the corral, but Feeny's first thought on reaching his comrades was to barricade.
Springing into the walled inclosure and bidding Harvey watch while the others worked, he had soon succeeded in lugging a score of big barley sacks into the interior and piling tliem into breastworks at tho tiireo doors, the one opening into the corral being provided in addition with a high traverse to protect its guard against shots that might come through from Moreno's room. All this was accomplished amid the wailing of tlie-Mexican women and the fusillade begun by tho assailants in hopes of terrorizing tho defense before venturing to closer quarters. Like famous Croghan of Fort Stephenson, Feeny had kept up afire from so many different points as to impress the enemy with the idea there were a dozen men and a dozen guns where there was in reality only one. and even the temptation of that vast sum in the paymaster's safe was not sufficient to nerve tho followers of Morales to instant attack.
The valor and vigor of the defense and tho appalling death of one of their loaders had so unnerved them that Pasqual himself, raging, imploring, threatening by turns, was unable to urge them to close quarters. "Most men are cowards in the dark" is a theory widely believed in. Indians certainly are only brave against defenseless Women and children at such a time. Not until the firing had ceased and it was evident that the defenders had retired to the shelter of the ranch, and then only very slowly and cautiously, would these brigands of the desert be induced to resume their stealthy approach. For fully half an hour there was a lull in the fight, and theu, guided by the light Moreno was now able to show, Pasqual and two of tho stouter hearted knaves approached the western wall and held a brief consultation with the rascally owner.
Rage at tho death of their leader's brother and ally, the thirst for vengeance and the hope of securing such rich booty—all were augmented by Moreno's tier}- assurauces and eucourage-
At the door knelt their devoted brother. ment AH the soldiers were gone, he said, except the "pig of a sergeant" and two drugged and senseless swine. %mebody among them was wounded. There were only three, possibly four, left. Let his companeros make com-
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bined attack, two or throe through his tL&rh day. Most people need to use it.
rooms, two or three rush in
om the corral, and the same number from the south front at once, and beyond doubt the cursed Yankees would succumb. Then no quarter, no quarter for the men. His connection with the outlaw band was now known, and these witnesses must be put to death. Then —then the paymaster's safe could readily be battered open, then there was the mint of money to be divided among the victors, then away to Sonora with their spoil and with old Harvey's beautiful daughters. What ransom would he pot be willing to pav—that proud, disdain ful father! Was ever luck so great? But haste! haste—not a moment could bo lost. They must act at once. [lo be Continued Next Week.]
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Two or three years ago the Prince and Princess of Wales distributed badges and prizes to a large number of profes sional nurses arjd afterward entertained them royally at Marlborough House. It was expected that fashionable dames would show their appreciation of the royal example by taking up nursing as a recreation, but little was done until a few months ago, when the National Health
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The Duchess of Bedford is particularly active in the work. She has placed her fine house in Belgrave square at the dis posal of the society's lectures on every Wednesday during the winter season, and, as the course includes an afternoon tea, the attendance is expected to be large. The proceedings should certainly be interesting, as it is announced that each lecture "will be praotically illus trated with a patient, bedding, etc."
The pioneer among the aristocracy of nursing and sanitation was Lady Brooke, who, with her husband, enjoys the particular friendship of the Prince of Wales. Her ladyship has for years been accustomed to keep a sharp eye on the water supply and sanitary arrangements of the villages on her estates in the counties of Warwick and Essex, often to the deep disgust of the cottagers, who claimed the inherent right of a Briton to please himself in such matters, and who objected strongly to being coerced into cleanliness on pain of eviction. Puritanical people have sometimes said hard things of Lady Brooke. It is right that credit should be given her in this matter.—London Letter.
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Tho machine soldier is made of iron, and he is set going by clockwork. When wound up, he can fire 40 rounds a minute, and he carries in his interior a large supply of ammunition. Should he be captured by the enemy, he can be blown to pieces by means of an electric discharge acting upon a quantity of dynamite stored in his bead.
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During the entire summer of 1894 the main exhibition buildings will stand in Jackson park. The public will be admitted everywhere in the park free. The work of beautifying the park will progress steadily. On the first day of tho new year the park commissioners assumed control. All state and foreign buildings will be out of the north end of the grounds by May 1. The commissioners will at once begin the work of restoring that end of the park to its former appearance and continue to improve ft. What may be done with the buildings the following year cannot be said. The board will take no action on that matter for some time.—Chicago Letter.
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Albert Denton Pullman, George M. Pullman's brother, who died near Chicago recently, was the mechanical genius of the family that have made their fame in the manufacture of sleeping cars. Understanding as be did every part of the art of cabinet making, he was able to superintend all the details in the construction department of the great Pullman industry. There are four brothers surviving—George M. Pullman of Chicago, the Rev. R. H. Pullman of Baltimore, the Rev. James M. Pullman of Lynn,Mass., and Charles L. Pullman of Chicago.—Exchange.
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Rhodes, his two sons and sister are on the way to Cameron county, Wis., and left Dayton, O., Dec. 5. They reached Englewood about 6 o'clock last evening and were directed to the police station, where they were given supper and lodgings. Rhodes told an interesting story. "I was engaged in a little business in Cameron county. Wis.," he said. "In July 1 got a letter from a brother whom I had not seen in 24 years, in which he urged me to come to Dayton. O. He told me that I would find employment there and that he would assist me. When I got there, he told me he wrote the letter because he wanted to see me. I couldn't do anything there, and if I wanted to starve .1 would rather do it among friends than strangers, and so I decided to come back. My sister's husband having died, she was alone and wanted to come with me. I hadn't any money, so we decided to walk. We left Dayton Dec. 5 and have walked every step of the 800 miles. Two nights we were without fire, and only four nights have we slept in houses. We make from 10 to 16 miles a day and hope to get to our destination next month. Sometimes we get money, and at South Englewood $2 .50 was raised for us. I can make money in Wisconsin, and my sister will keep house for me."
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