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"That's Urgante," growled Cluff; "that devil with the flag." "But he seems to be eulogizing it," cried the girl. The orator had set down his bright burden, wedging it in the iron guard railing of a tree, and was now apostrophizing it with extravagant bows and honeyed accents in which there was an undertone of hiss. For confirmation, Miss Polly turned to the others.
Raimonda, with a courteous bow to his companions, followed him. Wearily the goggled one sank back in his seat. Cluff moved across, planting himself exactly where Carroll had stood. "Perkins!" "Eh?" responded the sitter absently. "What would you do if I should bat you one in the eye?" "Eh, what?" "What would you do to me?" "You, too?" cried the bewildered Perkins. "Why on earth "
His head drooped a little forward; his hands dropped between his knees; one foot but Cluff, the athlete, was the only one to note this edged backward and turned to secure a firm hold on the pavement. Carroll stepped over in front of him and stood nonplused. He half drew his hand back, then let it fall. "I can't hit a man sitting down," he muttered distressfully. Perkins's set face relaxed.
But the noted scout Cooley, lived elsewhere, at Showlow and at Apache Springs. The first Mormons to come to Showlow were Alfred Cluff and David E. Adams, who were employed by Cooley in 1876. They were from Allen's Camp, almost driven away by necessity. Others soon came, including Moses and Orson Cluff, Edmund Ellsworth and Edson Whipple, a Salt Lake Pioneer.
Meanwhile, and in secret, those same heads of the Church Smith, the President, Cluff, the head of the Mormon College, Tanner, chief of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association took unto themselves plural wives by way of setting an example and to keep the practical fires of polygamy alive.
"For Heaven's sake, give me a drink, Cluff!" The other produced a flask. "You do look shot to pieces," he commented. "Find Perk Pruyn?" "Yes. I'll tell you later. Where's Miss Brewster?" "In her stateroom. Asleep, I guess. Said she wanted rest, and nobody was to disturb her till we sail." "When do we start?" "Eight o'clock, they say. That means ten. Will Dr. Pruyn get here?"
It is told that "the gospel was preached and that many Indians were converted and baptized." One of these missionaries was Benjamin Cluff, who in later years became a prominent member of the Gila Valley settlements in Arizona. In his biography is found notation that the Las Vegas missionaries worked in lead mines, assumed to have been those in the Potosi section.
Thus it happened that at eleven o'clock that evening, he paused before a bench in the plaza, bowered in the bloom of creepers which flowed down from a balcony of the Kast, and occupied by the comfortably sprawled-out form of Mr. Thomas Cluff, who was making a burnt offering to Morpheus. "Good-evening!" said Mr. Carroll pleasantly. "Evenin'! How's things?" returned the other.
Harris and several others refer to the Little Colorado country as being in "Aravapai" County. This was in error. The county then was Yavapai, before the separation of Apache County. The valley was found by Oscar Cluff while hunting in the fall of 1877 and soon thereafter he moved there with his family. In February there followed his brother, Alfred Cluff, who suggested the name.
He was rambling around here not a quarter of an hour ago with young Raimonda. That's them sitting on the bench over by the fountain." "Will you take me over and present me? I think it is due Mr. Perkins that some one should give him a frank opinion of his actions." "I'd like to hear that," observed Cluff, who was not without humanistic curiosity. "Come along."
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