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There was no alarm miring the night,
and before sundown the next day the
party reached the forks of the Cheyenne,
where the soldiers were in camp. Be
fore entering the camp Bob cautioned
each man to preserve the strictest secresy
regarding their adventures and the con
tents of the wagon, and camp was made
about a quarter of a mile from the tents
of the soldiers.
The outlaws kept a sharp outlook on
Taylor for awhile, na if fearful that he
meant to betray thein, but their sus
picions did him injustice. He had other
plans, and they were plana to he curried
out after th'e encampment had been left
behind. ,.
The outlaw leader iu...t'jj only one
who went into camp and reported, and
when he returned he brought something
with him which made Taylor's heart
beat with delight. It was a two gallon jug
of whisky which he had purchased from
gold seeker s outftt stopping on the
other side of the encampment for the
night.
That perfects my plans! he chuckled
as Bob came in with the jug, "and they
are doomed men!"
Each outlaw was told to help himself,
but Taylor was not invited. This was
another slight, deliberately intended,
and was a further proof that the quurtet
considered him an interloper. It was a
long distance yet to Fort Sully, with
danger menacing every mile of it, and
but for this fact Taylor would have been
driven out of camp. Five rifles were
better than four in a brush with the red
skins. The outluw party moved on to the
east at an early hour next morning, and
as the traveling was good and nothing
occurred to interrupt thoir progress a
full thirty miles was covered before sun
down came and they went into camp on
the bank of the river,
While Taylor was watering the horses
Bob said to his companions:
'Being as we are between the fort and
that camp of soldiers, it don't stand to
sense that we shall meet any hostiles.
Tharfore let us git shot of that feller
tonight. We'll draw lots to seo who
fires a bullet into him as he sleeps."
And later on, as Taylor sat by him
self, he meditated:
'I believe the route will be safo from
this on. I'll dose that jug within an
hour, and before noon tomorrow I'll
drive off and leave four corpses behind
for the wolves!"
CHAPTER XXV.
He did It quickly nnd deftly.
It was long past dark when snpper
had been eaten. That the outlaws medi
tated some evil wkb clear to Taylor from
their demeanor. He had been repeatedly
snubbed and insulted during the day,
but now that they had arranged their
plan to kill him they greeted him with a
hearty good will.
"They mean murder!" he said to him
eel' he looked from one to another,
an w occurred to him that they must
have planned to kill him while he Blept.
He, however, returned joke for joke aDd
laugh for laugh, and to have seen the
five sitting about the campfire one
would have thought them the truest
friendB.
"1 don't calkerlate we shall even see
an Injun on this trip," said the outlaw
leader, as he finally knocked tiie ashes
from his pipe, "but in course we can't
be sure of it. We must thurfore post a
sentry, as usual. Sav, Taylor. I hope
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ye ar' teelin gooa naturear ,
"Oh, yes." "
"Didn't know but I riled ye back thar
at the old camp. I wasn't feelin well
when ye jumped on me about the gold.
We sheer and sheer alike, in course.
You get a fifth."
"But as you have the team, and as
you are four to one in case we are at
tacked, I shall be satisfied with less
than that," replied Taylor.
"Well, yon jest sot your own Aggers
and it will be all right," continued Bob.
Now, then, let's get to sleep."
Taylor went to the wagon after his
blankets. He had planned just what to
do, and he did it quickly and deftly.
Had the men been watching him lie
would not have been detected. He re
moved the cork from the jug, emptied
the poison from his bottle therein, gave
the jug a few shakes, and returned to
the tire humming a jolly air and evi
dently in good spirits. The outlaw se
lected to stand the first watch took hi.
nation under the cottonwoods a hun
dred feet away, the blazing brands were
scattered and in fifteen minutes the
four men wrapped in their blankets ap
peared to be buried 111 slumber. Three
of " them perhaps were, but Taylor was
never so wide awake in his life. His life
never before depended on it. He noticed
that the three outlaws lay down close
together, leaving him alone and several
feet way. and he figured it out:
They have arranged to kill me, and
it will lie when the sentry is changed.
When he comes in to wake the other
man up he is to do the deed. 1 must be
wide awake und prepared for mm.
And now cuute night and solitude on
the plain. Men who have not experi
enced it can have but u faint under
standing of its weirdness its awful
solemnity the fear that creeps into the
heart of the wakeful listener and un
nerves him.
C'liee-weet Chee-weel Chee-weel
It is only the voice of the tree toad,
tint it makes every uerve tingle and the
tireath come shorter. The notes broke
in ou a silence as profound as the grave;
they cease and the silence which retUi
is appalling.
Step! Step! Stepl
It is only the footfalls of a timid tab
hit yard away, hut they reach the
strained ears with terrible distinctness
and make the pcrspirution start from
every pore.
Hustle! Rustle! Rustle!
The listener almost cries out as he
starts up. It is a harmless Rnake mak
ing his way through the dry grass, but
the sound might have signaled an lu-
.U;in c
work
tri creeping into camp to do blooJy
Ho-wtchl He-wichl He-wichl
It is only the note of a queer, wee bird
which Hits at night over those vast soli
tudes, hut it has made hundreds of
urave men shiver with alarm.
An hour has gone by in the camp on
the liig Cheyenne. The sentinel does
not close his eyes, but feeling quite se
cure from danger he leans against a
tree and gives himself np to his thoughts.
Taylor has a thousand wild thoughts
a score of plans a longing to have time
hurry np and bring the worst.
A wolf comes skulking over the earth
to smlf and smell and growl and won
der, but the sentinel tieither sees nor
hears.
The wee night bird ceases its notes
and alights on a branch over the sen
tiller head and looks down upon him
with cnnoiw eyes. I
A rattlesnake which has been in hid
ing nniler a brush heap on the bank of
the stream now comes forth and races
swiftly pant the rear end of the wagon
to another hiding place.
Tbe awful solitude affects the horses
as much as the men. They have laid
themselves down to sleep, hnt they are
uneasy and wakeful. Their ears work
hack and forth. Their eyes are strained
to pierce the gloom, and nothing keeps
them down but the fear of breaking in
on the solitude if they should get np.
They aoftly scent the air. One wonld
say they bad a feeling that some awful
trageJy was at hand.
Two hours passed away.
"Time must be most np," whispered
the outlaw sentinel as he finally straight
ened up and looked about him.
'The trial must be close at hand!"
whispered Taylor as he noted the action
of the sentinel.
Ten minutes later the outlaw walked
softly back to tbe sleepers. When be
reached the bodies of his friends he laid
his ntie on the ground, drew his knife
and had made two steps toward Taylor
when the latter suddenly sat up,
yawned, looked about biiu in a sleepy
way and then discovered the sentinel
wd
ana saia:
"Oh, it's you. eh? 1 dreamed that one
of the horses was walking over me. Ev
erything quiet?"
"Yes!" stammered the would be mur
derer, who expected to strike his victim
as he slept.
'Well, 1 think I'll turn out and have
a smoke," said Taylor, and suiting the
action to tbe words he flung off his blan
ket, arose and began to fill his pipe.
In retreating from him the outlaw
kicked against Bob, who sprang up in
alarm with a curse, and in a minute the
two others were awake. The one who
was to relieve the sentinel made ready
to go out, but before he left, the outlaw
leader said:
"Some one deserves a clubbing for
turning ns out in the middle of the
night. One of you bring out that jug
of whisky."
All knew that Taylor was to be killed
as he slept. All saw that he was alive
aud unharmed, and that some blunder
had occurred. But there was no oppor
tunity for explanations. One of the
men quickly brought the jug and a cup,
and beginning with the leader each
poured down a stiff drink.
Taylor had bis pipe alight, and not
nne of the quartet addressed him nor
offered him any of the liquor.
Now, keep yer eyes open, said Bob
to the sentinel, "und we'll turn iu agin
and go to sleep."
CHAPTER XXVL
The ocean has its thrilling mysteries
and awful tragedies, and the plains and
prairies have theirs as well.
One of the ontlaws walked off in the
darkness to stand sentry for the next
two hours, and the other four men laid
down to sleep again, each taking his
place as before. In two minutes the
camp was as silent as the grave, and the
specter of murder which came out of
the gloom and hovered over the recum
bent forms was seen tiy no mortal eyo.
At the end of five minutes a wolfs
long drawn, faraway howl was heard,
and a shiver passed over the listening
sentinel as the lonesome sounds reached
his ears. There was a warning in that
howl a menace, a wail which whis
pered of tragedy.
Taylor beard it as well, and he grew
pale and held his breath. He had braced
himself to carry out a p"rt, but he was
fearful that his nerve might give way
before the end was reached.
Ten minutes passed twelve fifteen
twenty. It was time the powerful poison should
begin to act.
Taylor was . watching and listening
One o; the men moved and groaned.
"Sayl Are any of yon awake?" called
Taylor as he sat up. "I've got terrible
pains, and 1 can't keep still any longer."
"So huve I," replied one of tlje men as
he sat up.
Three minutes later tho others were
aroused, groaning and cursing, and the
sentinel came staggering in to gasp out:
"Do something for me or I'm a dead
man!"
From the way he acted ono would have
thought Taylor the worst off of all. He
groaned, gusped, writhed, twisted, but he
had company. The outlaws rolled about
on the earth like wounded dogs.and, curi
ously enough, none of them suspected
the cause of their illness. The jug was
brought and each drank again, hoping
the fiery whisky would ease the pains
of what they believed to be colic. It was
only after one of the men hod fallen in
spasms, foaming at tbe month and tear
ing at the earth with his fingers, that
Bob suddenly shouted:
"By heavens, men! but I believe we
have all been poisoned."
"How who by?" shrieked one of his
companions.
"By by this infernal cur, if anybody,
and I'll have his life!"
Bob pointed at Taylor, who was ap
parently in convulsions, and then
stoorjed for one of the rifles. As he did
so he fell forward upon the earth with a
' terrible curse, and Taylor sprang tip and
ran away into the darkness. He did not
dare go far, and yet it was horrible for
bim to linger within hearing.
I Strong men who die by poison die
hard. It is an awful end. The crouch-ine-.
hidimr. tretnblinrr murdorer heard
them rise and stagger and fall; they
raved and wept; they prayed anu curseu,
in their awful BL'onies they attackod
each other and struggled in death. The
night bird was driven away by the cries
and shrieks, and the wolf who sat lis
tening and wondering was finally forced
to flight by the wails and curses.
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To the Ed. Gazette:
Not having much to do at t resent will
send you a few lines. ,
The Gazette puts in its appearanoe
pretty regularly, and is very much ap
preciated. It is as sood as the best of
uens letters.
Times are not very flush here just now,
so we manage to Iibvo a little spare time
ouoe in a while. We went , to Malta to
see the election cil and came home pret
ty well eatished us t how it would pan
out. I went down with the inleutiuu of
betting some 011 the result. I made up
my mind that if Malta wert for Cleveland
would bet ou him, but when Clerk
Philbrook shoved the ballots through
the shute, uud Judge Tucker worked
the gate, and Juiixe Davis got a (jood
Onuuton, then we fouud that Cleveland
and Harrison had 38 votes each, and
Weaver 1, so I says, 'Boys, this don't go.
The eleotion will be thrown into the
house,, aud we citu't be resoonsible for
what they do"; so I shuved my little fif
teen oeuts away down in my pocket and
went up tu Coliius' store uud bought a
republican cignr on time, aud went over
tu Trafiou's store uud talked ubniit Wea
ver's issues, and grasshoppers in Kiinsas;
but Mr. '1'nitlon wits a Birong tlcmoorut
and said he would bet hie lelteyeou
Cleveland, His left eye ie a glnss one,
but I hud decided not to bet, but tuld
him I wanted to buy a gun; that I was
uoiiig to have free uieitt whether Cleve
land was elected or not. Mr. Tint ton
handed n.e un old needle guu of the
model of '43, I guess, uud naked how it
suited. So I took it ou examiniitioti,
got some 45 30 cartridges and went ouc
hebiud his biiru to try it, but it was uo
gn. The Klin wits so big that the cart
ridges went np the barrel aud lodged 111
a wood rat's nest, so 1 came b ck, miide
a roar and said it whs dnnuenus us I
11 1 1 V ti t keep shoving iu ouitridites till one
happened to reuch the hitmuier unil then
there would be a fusiou. Fusious are
nil rijiht in polities, but I duu't want
nny ftiBiou iu a Springfield ritiu in mine.
I told him that I liked a magazine gan,
but wsuied thu uiHgiiZine on the nti'snlp,
and that his gnu wus a "democrat," for
it is just like them u great hitf bore aud
the party bus nothing to fill it.
We are having lovely weather here for
the time of year, but there has been big
snows ail around us nearly, but, have not
had more Ulan nne-hulf inch yet ou
Frenchman's oreek.
Game is quile plentiful; blnok mid
a bile tail deer, imtticnenml just "scads"
of prairie ohickens. We manage to keep
about three deer strung up 111 sight ut
onoe. ,
Hay, what hue beoome of Dixie? Hue
be lont his "nip'' sinew he led tue Mis.?
I got Kreutly interested in him. By the
May, I believeour subscription lias about
ruu out, aud money is out ui the ques
tion ; but oil say wood und vegetables
are legal teuder. Well we have plenty
of wood if you will out it yourself, but
vegetables are a lilllo soaree. JJut say,
how are you heeled for ice? This is one
f the nuest places for icu to grow iu the
world. (Guess we can make a dioker.
I have heard recently that Cleveland
was elected, und without a vote from the
house of representatives, so I missed my
guess a liltle. But I think some tueu
who are thouifbt smarter I hull I were
f joled too. 1 have one oouHolation left,
ior I think I know juot how it happened
I hat wuy. UI course when 1 iuhiIo my
rash guess I Had only heard from Malta,
Hid nothing from the nutlvijg precinots,
such bb New York, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois, ilulinnaniid Calllortmi, hut Iboutfht
hey would follow Malta's example. My
'ipiuinn is that ns Cleveland hud ins votes
ill packed on his while horse uud was
leading him from Chicago back towards
Washington, heHoliloquissed thus: "Now,
if out ol every 77 votes Weaver gols one,
anil Harrison aud I tie, I must have
Weaver's votes to get elected.'' Just
then he looks up and just where the
Kansas road oomes into the Chicago
road he saw 11 man leudiug a mule ull
parked. It struck lr. Cleveland in a
minute that it wan Weaver, but t Ixitiu lit
ins pile looked big, but then he thoinrit
that in Soul h Dakota, Kansas and Ne
vada, Weaver would run likn a soaied
nlf, so he might, have a "riyht smart."
So Cleve oomes up und says, "How many
voles have you gol?'' Weaver savs,
"Just about enough lo get au appoint
ment. Ha) s Cleve, "1 will uive )ou tho
eys to the labor bureau for your mtilo
ind rig" "Guod," saya Weaver, and
Oleve Bays, "For the next few days I
ill b-i a Weaver man and make a flue
iet for you to wnrk 111 und will warrant
hut no rnpuhlioan boss flies will h tlnr
voti for the next four years, "(ioud,"
lays W caver, "ihe mule is yoiits."
Yottrn truly,
A IS. 1'owelj,
Malta, Mont,, Deo, 4, "J'i.
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