Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . rived there, at least thirty men were collected in andabout the tent of the dark man I have been describing, and he him-self it was who had given the alarm. His partner and companionhad been murdered and robbed, he himself had been slightly cutacross the face, and gashedon the left arm, and was allexcitement, lamenting h i sdearest friend, and vowingvengeance against the assas-sin. It was sometime beforewe could get at the particu-la
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . rived there, at least thirty men were collected in andabout the tent of the dark man I have been describing, and he him-self it was who had given the alarm. His partner and companionhad been murdered and robbed, he himself had been slightly cutacross the face, and gashedon the left arm, and was allexcitement, lamenting h i sdearest friend, and vowingvengeance against the assas-sin. It was sometime beforewe could get at the particu-lars, and then we learnedthat both had been sleepingside by side, when an un-known robber had crawledunder the canvass, stabbedone to the heart, and takena large bag of gold from a despairing shriek came from the lips of THE GUILTY WRETCH. under his head. With this he was escaping, when the present narrator awoke and seized him,and received the wounds which had compelled him to relinquish hishold. Lights were brought, and there, sure enough, was the bloodyconfirmation of all that had been shall make no attempt to portray the intense excitement; the. 366 THE murderers ORDEAL. wild rage and consternation which this daring murder man felt that, if the assassin escaped without his just punish-ment, there would no longer be security for any one in our hithertoquiet and peaceful valley; and solemn oaths were taken to hang thewretch, if found, on the nearest tree. A large reward was offeredfor his detection, and every gambler that had ever been seen aboutthere, was more or less suspected, and I believe, that, had any manbeen arrested on the following day, he would have been hung first,and tried afterward. I said less than any, for I had my own suspi-cions, and I contrived my plot in secret, and made a confidant of noone. The murdered young man was as decently buried as surroundingcircumstances would permit, and his companion, my superstitious friend, grew more
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