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Once rid of Cochise and out of the Hole with Slade and Elsie, he felt certain of his ability to save the girl from a forced marriage. In keeping with his assumed indifference to the affair he changed the subject by inquiring when the start for Triple Butte would be made. "Daybreak," muttered Slade, and he fixed an intent gaze upon Elsie. "I'll be ready by then. I'll bunk with you to-night, Dad.
Elsie's fate in the hands of Slade was fearful enough without the added horror of what she would suffer in the hands of Cochise. "Carmena!" he cried. "Carmena, are you mad? Think of Blossom! What does it matter if we are tortured? Surely you can't intend " "Why not?" cried back the girl, her face aflame with vengeful anger. "That big beast first ruined my father; now he has murdered him.
From a ceiling beam of the room had been hung a crudely stuffed horned owl with wide-spread wings. At sight of the big gray-white bird and of the mummies even Cochise advanced less than a step inside the entrance. Carmena went in with the candle and methodically peered among and behind all the heaps of rubbish.
Something in her pocket thrust up the fold of her skirt. Cochise muttered a word or two that sent the other Apaches loping off down the valley. When they were some distance away, Carmena nodded almost gaily: "Well, boys, I suppose the pie is all gone. So, if you feel you have to go, too.... Good-bye, Pete.
Cochise and Pete must have ridden over around and come down Hell Cañon. Ours was Devil's Chute." Lennon frowned at the pair of riders who were racing swiftly down aslant from the head of the valley. "We'll be ready to pick them off," he said. "There's no cover under here." "Too late for that," sighed Carmena. "Dad won't let us. Besides Pete " "But when the murderers have tried to kill you!
You shall have your ten thousand as soon as you rid the Farleys of Cochise and his gang. That was the agreement." The trader thwacked his beefy hand down on Lennon's shoulder. "That's a go, pard. I own up honest I figgered your talk of copper was all bunk. But I aim to stand by my bargains. Only you're sure now this here lode ain't no blind, are you?
Finally he died by his own hand and his friend Curly Bill left the country. In the meantime new secessions were taking place in the Earp following. The county of Cochise had been established. Tombstone was made the county seat. Johnny Behan, an old-timer and an Indian fighter, was the first sheriff. He was hostile to the city administration from the beginning. Nor was that all.
Lennon had not stirred in his saddle or made the slightest attempt to struggle. "Who's the liar now, Cochise?" reproached Carmena. "You said you'd wait till Slade came." "I catch your pard. I keep him till Slade come. Then I have my fun. You swap my woman for him, I let him go now." The girl smiled. "Maybe you'll let him go anyway, amigo.
They lived there, during the lifetime of Cochise, in peace and quiet. There were thefts and there were cases of whisky-peddling with their inevitable accompaniments in the way of murder.
The Sierra Bonita ranch is situated in the famous Sulphur Spring valley in Cochise County, Arizona, which is, perhaps, the only all grass valley in the Territory. The valley is about twenty miles wide and more than one hundred miles long and extends into Mexico.
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