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¥ he - SPIDERS CHAPS. _A Tale of the Cattle Thieves of Agua Caliente. Capyright, 1900 by W. LcC. Beard. "Dunno," he said candidly 'The 'boys was kinder mad. an'if we hadn't found you I reckon they'd 'a' give Agua Caliente a little shake up. whether I'd let 'em or not. Min," he added. with his usual scrupulous regard for the truth, "I didn't say I wouldn't er let "em. Where's Hollis?" ; : I had no idea where Hollis was: was about to ask the same question myself. The foreman went about among the | men, making inquiries, but no one had seen him or apparently felt much trou- bled about his absence. "He drawed all the pay that was a-comin to him, didn't he?' asked one of the men. 'Well, then, he jus' took an skipped over to Lorena an his gang. where he belongs: that's all.' That seemed to be the generhl opinion. and there was a decided feeling of relief that he was no longer with us The cattle moved along merrily. each man doing his best to hurry them Never before had 1 imagined that 4 wodden leg could be used to advantage in driving cattle: but. when wielded by the Ballet Girl, I found that it had a wonderfully accelerating effect. When at last we reached the camp, 1 was thoroughly tired out. My ankle -and wrist ached, and there was nothing I desired so much as rest. I started at ax¢s for my tent, and as I did so Spider rode ¥p to the foreman and asked what orders $kese were for the day. Orders? Why, you little fool, your pony can't kg8ly stand on his legs, an you'll tumble cater the saddle in a lit- ttle more," replied the foreman, with a sgruffness assumed t3 esver his approba- 'tion of the boy. "Go'R §&xn your pony wut an turn yourself iw rick. now fore I make you." Tumbling on my cot, &vusssd as 1 was, I slept for hours. On waking I be: came conscious of the rumble of distant thunder. The brilliant sunlighd that wgually lit the desert until it was wear- 4y as dazzling as snow, had disappearsd, ideaving the sand cold and gray. 1 thought that dusk had fallen, but my 'watch told me that the middle of the afternoon had barely passed. +«Reckon we're a-gonter have a little 'weather,' remarked the foreman, who met me as I came out of my tent. *'Jus' ..0ok over yander."' He pointed to the eastern horizon, where mas<fes of dark «clouds, veined here and there with red lightning flashe piling 1 Firl,' none ur men were in th camp. Some distance away the cattle. that had been brought in the night b& fore and had failed to wander off toa sufficient distance during the absence of the men, were gathered on the mesa, guarded by Spider 'and Lee. who were riding around them at a steady lope in opposite directions. The two thunder clouds rose higher 'and higher. spread: fing around the horizon and narrowing tthe strip of blue sky that still shone be- tween them. «It ain't common ter have one thun- «derstorm round here, let alone two.' -gbserved the foreman. 'The cattle feels 'the thunder, too--they're gettin oneasy 'Reckon I better go'n give the boys a than." The tattle were uneasy, I could see 'that from where I was standing. They tossed their heads and lowed and moved lhere and there among themselves. It grew darker each moment and the cat- tle became more restless. Sometimes, when cattle are in this condition, the sound of the human voice will tend to quiet them. Spider began to sing: i "Ther was an ol' geezer, An he had a wooden leg, But he never bad terbacker, So terback he had ter beg. Another ol' geezer Was as sly as er fox, 'An he alw's had terbacker ; In his ol' terbacker box. " \ ' "Spider's voice rang shrill and clear over the desert, his song measured by 'the regular hoof beats of his horse. He passed back of the herd, and only an :occasional note above the lowing and .muttering of the cattle could one hear. The air had been still, but now little: :puffs of .wind began to arise, and ghost- 'ly little whirlwinds careered over the desert. The strip of blue sky was Te- duced toa mere thread; the darkness became thicker: the herd was an indis- 'tinct mass, except when the lightning showed everything in an instantaneous "photograph, The foreman, riding at ifnll speed, had nearly reached the herd. out. 'as 'shown by the lightning, his horse seemed to be standing still in an umgainly pose on the desert. Then ev- cerything was darker than before. Ounce more Spider came to the front «of the herd. Hehad increased the speed of his horse, for in quicker time than before his song went on: '+ Jus' stop drinkin whisky An save up yer rocks. "Then you'll alw's have terbacker In yer ol' terbacker"-- "The two storms met. For a moment "there was blinding:light. followed by a werash that split the sky. A dozen shad- -owy horsemen, that seemed to rise out 'of the ground, charged down on the vherd, shouting and waving blankets. I saw six flashes from .the foreman's A dozen shadowy horsemen charged down on the herd. pistol. The Ballet Girl, who was stand- ing near me, lurched toward a rifle that leaned against the wheel cf the cook wagon. The herd tossed and surged like boil- ing water. Spider darted forward to try and hold it. For a moment it hesi- tated. Then, with a roar of galloping hoofs, it broke and rushed madly away The thieves had stampeded the cattle. The lightning gave one more vivid flash and ceased. The crash of thunder that followed seemed to tear open the « gky, for the rain descended like a liquid curtain that concealed everything. CHAPTER V. IN WHICH SPIDER RETURNS IX TRIUMPH. I had never seen rain fall as it did then, It seemed to come in streams. It beat through the heavy canvas of my rent forming a mist on the inside. The continuous Crash of the talllng wate: would have drowned the report of a mortar. It rained and rained and kept on rain- ing. Little brocks formed on the plain, then came together and made larger ongs that finally tumbled over the edge of the cliff in a series of 'cascades.' When an hour later the foreman and Spider returned to the camp. there were no signs of a let up. One by one our disheartened cowboys straggled in and repaired to my tent, where the nearest approach to shelter was to be found. None of them seemed particular- ly surprised when told of the disappear- ance of our cattle. They had expected it all along, they said. "I don't never remember seein rain ¢ as this aroun here," said tried vainly to light a damp he sole of /his soaked boat in fenite the wet tobacco with 4d filled his pipe 'Them fellers must 'a' seen the storm comin up an then come over a purpose ter stam- pede the herd. Course we can't do noth- do some huntin, I reckon. This rain'll have washed out all the tracks "We'll fin' the tracks again without much trouble,' replied the foreman. "Ther ain't no dcubt but what we got ter do sunthin. though Question is what?" . "Looks to me as though we were in something of a scrape,' htobserved. try- ,ing hard not to speak despondently. "None so bad as what it might be,' replied the foreman philosophically "We got ter make a plan, that's all." We held a disconsolate council with the water drumming over us on the strained canvas so that we had to raisy our voices in order to make them heard. The plan, when finally decided upon, was a very simple one. That the thieves had made a clean sweep was evident, for none of the men who had come in had found any cattle. They had all been driven away. Now, to cover so much ground in so short a time argued that our enemies had a force much larger than ours--one that we could hardly hope, unaided, to defeat. Therefore it was decided that as soon as it stopped raining some of the men would scatter over the desert to find, if possible, some trace of the missing cat- tle, while we would send a 'messenger to some ranches tat lay on the other | side of the river sesame 30 miles below us, with instructioms to bring back all the men that could be mustered. Cat- tlemen are usually ready to help each other in cases of this kind, for ro one knows when his own turn to require help may come. In this instance, too, the community of catsle thieves had long been a menace to the men on whom we called. All of them probably had suffered from this or another raid. The rain ceased as suddenly as it be- gan. 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