We left La Paz early in
the morning and arrived at Tyson's Wells at nine o'clock. Remaining
there until six o'clock in the evening, we watered our animals, and
with freshly filled kegs started for Hole-in-the-Plain, where we
stayed until the following evening, the animals passing the day on
grass without water. A second night-drive brought us to Cisternas
Negras, and the third to Date Creek, from which last point we resumed
travelling by daylight.
At Skull Valley, at the earnest request of Miss Brenda Arnold, Henry
was allowed to remain for a few days' visit. He promised to join the
next incoming mail-rider, and to ride back to the fort by way of the
mountain-trail.
XVI
APACHES IN SKULL VALLEY
It was near midnight, four days after my return from La Paz, that I
sat by my open fire, absorbed in a recently published popular novel. I
was suddenly aroused by a distant and rapid clatter of horse's feet.
The sound came distinctly through the loop-holes in the outer wall of
the room--loop-holes made for rifles and left open for ventilation.
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