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When the prophet-bearded, huge, swarthy-faced Joel Mazarine, with a beautiful young girl behind him, stepped from the West-bound train and was greeted by the Mayor, who was one of the executors of Michael Turley's will, a shiver passed through Askatoon, and for one instant animation was suspended; for the jungle-looking newcomer, motioning forward the young girl, said to the Mayor: "Mayor, this is Mrs.
The Pueblos and Mexicans, after their cruelties at Fernandez de Taos, attacked and destroyed Turley's Ranch on the Arroyo Hondo twelve miles from Fernandez, or Taos. Arroyo Hondo runs along the base of a ridge of a mountain of moderate elevation, which divides the valley of Taos from that of the Rio Colorado, or Red River, both flowing into the Del Norte.
Turley having seen the girl in town, and the old fellow went immediately and took her out of the little boarding-house where she had put up, and brought her to his home. Keith was not long in doubt as to the connection between her presence and Wickersham's. Several times he had occasion to call at Mr. Turley's.
The very next evening Markhead rode into camp with the hair of the luckless horse-thief dangling at the muzzle of his rifle. The wild crowd of rebels rode on to Turley's mill.
The inhuman wretch, however, affected pity and consideration for the fugitive, and advised him to go to a certain place, where he would bring or send him assistance; but on reaching the mill, which was a mass of fire, he immediately informed the Mexicans of Turley's place of concealment, whither a large party instantly proceeded and shot him to death.
When the prophet-bearded, huge, swarthy-faced Joel Mazarine, with a beautiful young girl behind him, stepped from the West-bound train and was greeted by the Mayor, who was one of the executors of Michael Turley's will, a shiver passed through Askatoon, and for one instant animation was suspended; for the jungle-looking newcomer, motioning forward the young girl, said to the Mayor: "Mayor, this is Mrs.
In times of scarcity, no one ever sought his aid to be turned away empty-handed; his granaries were always open to the hungry, and his purse to the poor. When on their road to Turley's, the Pueblos murdered two men, named Harwood and Markhead. Markhead was one of the most successful trappers and daring men among the old mountaineers.
Two others escaped and reached Santa Fe in safety. The mill and Turley's house were sacked and gutted, and all his hard-earned savings, which were concealed in gold about the house, were discovered, and, of course, seized upon by the victorious Mexicans. The following account is taken from Governor Prince's chapter on the fight at Taos, in his excellent and authentic History of New Mexico:
There's a wee girl in my class now.... Lizzie Turley's her name!..." "John Turley's child?" "Yes. God knows she's the stupidest child in the world!" "Her da's a match, for her, then, for he's the stupidest man I've ever known. That fellow ought not to have been let have children!..." "It's not her fault, I know," John continued, "but you forget that when you're provoked.
It made him feel very warm and comfortable. His face almost relaxed into a smile when he bade Burlingame good-day. Burlingame had said nothing about the letter from the late Michael Turley's kinsman in Montreal and the question of the legacy. This was deliberate on his part. He wanted an excuse to visit Tralee and see its mistress with his own eyes.
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