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La Nogalique! They might have been there " "Who were coming?" asked his wife quickly. "Rosemary and Floyd; They'd be there just about when was that raid, Billee Dobb?" cried Mr. Merkel. "Last Friday!" The ranchman whistled. "That's bad!" he murmured. "Bad!" "Would Rosemary and her brother have reached there by then?" asked Mrs. Merkel. "Just about," her husband replied slowly. "Just about!
"This is the life!" But as, just then, his pony slipped and he missed the throw he made for a calf, it is doubtful if Yellin' Kid felt as gay as he sounded. "Hot work; eh, boys?" asked Mr. Merkel, when Dick, Nort and Bud rode past to get drinks of water.
However they had started, and were making as good time as possible. Messages had passed between Mr. Merkel and those in authority at La Nogalique, and the probable route of the kidnapping Yaquis was indicated as well as could be. This saved a long trip to the border in order to get on the trail of the Indians from the time they had taken Rosemary and Floyd.
"But we'd hit the trail for the rescue whether they were our cousins or not!" declared Bud Merkel, as he kicked his heels against the flanks of his pony, and sent that steady-going animal forward with a rush. "Whoa there, son, whoa there!" advised Snake Purdee who was in leadership of the party. "That's right," chimed in Yellin' Kid, with his usual strident tones.
"I'm not afraid of any bunch of rustlers that Hank Fisher can scare up," he went on, "but it isn't a man's personal feelings we got to consider. It's for the good of this ranch. And, as Bud says, we want to make a clean-up this inning." "That's why I'm going to have help," Bud remarked, as he went to call his father on the telephone. Mr. Merkel whistled when he heard the disastrous news.
Merkel had, by utilizing an ancient underground water-course beneath Snake Mountain, and by making a dam in Pocut River, brought water to a distant valley he owned. This valley was originally called Buffalo Wallow, the source of the name being obvious.
Old Buck Tooth is doing a heap sight more than I ever dreamed a Zuni could." "Bud said that his old Indian helper was up to snuff!" commented Mr. Merkel. "I'm glad to know it. Heard anything from Double Z?" he asked, and there was an anxious note in his voice. "No, Hank and his gang seem to have quieted down after what I told 'em!" "Well, I hope he doesn't make trouble for Bud and the boys.
Merkel expressed himself as greatly disappointed in the character of the cowboy he had sent to his son. "Maybe you got off lucky, with only a cut tent," the ranchman observed. "But better be on your guard, son." "We will, Dad," replied the western lad.
Some of the regular troops have received orders to move, and they're on their way now. If there were only a scattered few of the Yaquis, Uncle Sam wouldn't be so anxious. They've raided one Arizona town, I heard." "They have!" cried Nort, Dick and Bud in a breath. "Why this must have happened several days ago," exclaimed Mr. Merkel.
"Who?" asked Bud, as he and his cousins came out to meet the cowboys. "Rustlers!" was the grim answer. "There's a lot of your steers missin' from that far herd! Rustlers, Bud! Rustlers!" For a moment Bud Merkel seemed unable to comprehend the bad news thus brought to him by his cowboy helpers and friends. Nort and Dick, also, were shocked by the intelligence. But Bud quickly recovered.
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