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Updated: May 18, 2025
He was shore mysterious, they said, an' told nobody where he was goin'. A week or so after he left camp some Greaser give it away that Rojas had a prisoner in a dobe shack near his camp. Nobody paid much attention to what the Greaser said. He wanted money for mescal. An' it was usual for Rojas to have prisoners.
Cal Warren was the first of the two to wed, and he had established a post along the trail, a rambling structure of 'dobe, poles and sod, and there conducted the business of "Two for One," a calling impossible and unknown in any other than that day and place. The long bull trains were in sight from horizon to horizon every hour of the day.
The Mission of San Juan, built of brown 'dobe blocks, covered with yellow plaster, that at many points had dropped away from the walls, stood on the crest of a low rise of the ground, facing to the south. A covered colonnade, paved with round, worn bricks, from whence opened the doors of the abandoned cells, once used by the monks, adjoined it on the left.
Tuesday evening had found him miles away from that spot, in a deep arroyo in the Sierra foothills to the eastward, while Wednesday he had slept in an abandoned 'dobe on Osterman's stock range, twenty miles from his resting place of the night before. The fact of the matter was that the old restlessness had once more seized upon Vanamee.
Dobe promptly caught the change of his rider's mental attitude and stepped out briskly. Bartley patted the horse's neck. It was a pleasure to ride an animal that seemed to want to work with a man and not against him. The horse had cost one hundred dollars a fair price for such a horse in those days. Yet Bartley thought it a very reasonable price. And he knew he had a bargain.
Apparently one man was detailed to search out a certain crevice between the logs. Harris threw himself flat against the lower log which barely shielded him. One rifleman covered a crack breast-high, another the one next below, drilling it at six-inch intervals. Shreds of 'dobe chinking littered the room.
And I figure this here deal ain't even started to make trouble yet. Wait till the T-Bar-T outfit gits a-goin'; and mebby the Concho, and the Blue Range boys." "Hand over your canteen a minute," said Brevoort. "I lost mine in the get-away." Dawn found them inside the south line fence. In an hour they were at the 'dobe and clamoring for breakfast.
A saddle lay near the corral bars. Several horses moved about lazily . . . The hero of the recent gun-fight was riding into the yard . . . Some one was coming from the 'dobe. Pete almost gasped as a Mexican girl, young, lithe, and smiling, stepped into the foreground and held out her hands as the hero swung from his horse.
Unaccustomed to riding a horse that neck-reined at the merest touch, and one that stopped at the slightest tightening of the rein, Bartley had to learn through experience that a spade bit requires delicate handling. He was jogging along easily when he turned to glance back at the town now a far, huddled group of tiny buildings. Inadvertently he tightened rein. Dobe stopped short.
In 1897 I quit the Sanford foremanship after working for my employer seventeen years, and turned the ranch over to Amos Bloxton, another son-in-law of Sanford. I rented agricultural land from Sanford and fell to farming. Near my place Crazy John, a Chinaman, had his gardens, where he made 'dobe bricks besides growing produce.
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