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The Red Mustang

Chapter 10 THE TARGET ON THE ROCK.

Word Count: 2127    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

the old hacienda the sun shone hotly down upon the rugged slope of a spur of a range of mountains. At the bottom of the slope ran a wide trail which had been used by wagons, and was almost li

What is a sombrero? It is any sort of very wide-brimmed, low-crowned hat, and can be made to carry much tinsel and feathers. As for a serape, one can be made out of any blanket by cutting a hole in the middle of it, so that it will hang gracefully around the man or w

the trail, a great bowlder of gray granite stood out promine

d, so that two red stocking-legs spanned his broad chest; his silk hat, with a green-veil streamer, was cocked on one side defiantly; his attitu

my, horseman after horseman lifted carbine or revolver and blazed away at the Mescalero leader. Bullet after

difficult to hit, even at short range and in shadow, and t

ble to express his opinion of the marksmen. He had much to say concerning his own great and good qualities and those of his people, but declared that all the unpleasant reptiles and insects and quadrupeds he could name were serving as Mexicans that afte

f granite stood upon the outer rim of a wide, ragged, bushy ledge, and at no great distance there began a shadowy growth of forest. The broken level behind Kah-go-mish was peopled by scores of braves and squaws and younger people, proving that the two sections of his band had reunited. D

retty as her black eyes flashed with admiration of her father's magnificent heroism and oratory. At the left of Wah-wah-o-be, the boy in the Reservation trousers stood sturdily erect, but nothing could make him handsome or take from his broad, dark face the look of half-anxious dulness which belonged there. His beady eyes glittered, and he showed his white teeth, now and then,

and the sound was caug

eard the whiz and thud of the deadly missiles which were coming up from the va

he uttered a loud whoop, as if of pleasure. At the same breath he came

e, look!" he

he ragged edge of the bit of lead had made a deep scratch

as if the sound had a

d Kah-go-m

ion at having been so nearly hit, actually grazed, by a rifle-ball. His sister c

. A Mexican bullet had found its way through the furze bushes, and Tah-nu-nu had

t to their squaws than do some other tribes, and the chief's wif

eat an exploit to lose his temper at once. He was beginning to say something about Mexican marksmanship when he was interr

s and squaws seemed to agree with that of Wah-wah-o-be. All had fallen back from the dangerous margin, and it would have looked a little like a council if a squaw had not been the speaker. There was very little red upon the ear of Ping, bu

, and his hand arose to his mouth to help out the large

sh is a gr

h his hands. Warriors and squaws, boys and girls, they at once seemed to arran

a mean-looking, undersized, disreputable pony, upon w

veil-plumed silk hat and the red stocking-legs. He ostentatiously called attention to the fact that he retained nothing but his heavy bowie-knife. Armed with only that weapon, and mounted upon his worst pony, he, the great chief, the hero, was a

obation. Wah-wah-o-be seemed to overlook any possible peril of losing her husband

e-men make it so difficult for green white men in blue uniforms to catch red runaways. Uniformity of color in quartz and granite, or other ledges, provides for a part of the mystery. Shrubs and trees and distances help, and so, often, does their absence. A great break in the side of that spur of the Sierra was as invisible from the pass as if it had been hidden by snow or midnight. It was a chasm which

evidently well satisfied with the course which affairs were taking. She had picked up the weapons so heroically laid upon the ground by her husband, and she had helped Tah-nu-nu and Ping t

d Sam Herrick and the drove of horses. Lodge-poles had been cut, now that there were ponies to drag them. Hardly anybody was on fo

band went in the other, and both were shortly bur

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1 Chapter 1 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER.2 Chapter 2 HOW CAL EVANS RODE FOR HELP.3 Chapter 3 THE BAND OF KAH-GO-MISH.4 Chapter 4 THE GARRISON OF SANTA LUCIA.5 Chapter 5 CAL AND THE CAVALRY AND THE RED MUSTANG.6 Chapter 6 THE PERIL OF SANTA LUCIA.7 Chapter 7 BOUND FOR THE BORDER.8 Chapter 8 GETTING READY TO CHASE KAH-GO-MISH.9 Chapter 9 THE HACIENDA OF SANTA LUCIA.10 Chapter 10 THE TARGET ON THE ROCK.11 Chapter 11 THE STORY OF A LOG12 Chapter 12 PING AND THE COUGAR.13 Chapter 13 THE RETURN OF KAH-GO-MISH.14 Chapter 14 THE FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERT.15 Chapter 15 LOST IN THE CHAPARRAL.16 Chapter 16 AN INVASION OF TWO REPUBLICS.17 Chapter 17 HOW PING AND TAH-NU-NU GOT TO THE SPRING.18 Chapter 18 HOW DICK PLAYED SENTINEL.19 Chapter 19 BAD NEWS FOR WAH-WAH-O-BE.20 Chapter 20 HOW CAL STARTED FOR MEXICO.21 Chapter 21 THE MANITOU OF COLD SPRING.22 Chapter 22 ACROSS THE DESERT BY NIGHT.23 Chapter 23 AT THE RANCH AND IN THE CHAPARRAL.24 Chapter 24 CAL'S NIGHT UNDER A TREE.25 Chapter 25 A STRANGE LETTER FROM MEXICO.26 Chapter 26 CAL'S VISITORS AND HIS BREAKFAST.27 Chapter 27 THE POST-BOY THAT GOT AWAY.28 Chapter 28 THE MYSTERY OF THE STICKS.29 Chapter 29 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE FIRE 30 Chapter 30 THE MANITOU WATER.31 Chapter 31 PULL STICK AND THE HURRICANE.32 Chapter 32 UNDER A FALLEN TREE.33 Chapter 33 LEAVING THE BAD-MEDICINE CAMP.34 Chapter 34 TAH-NU-NU'S DISAPPOINTMENT.35 Chapter 35 HAND TO HAND BY FIRELIGHT.36 Chapter 36 HOW CAL WAS LEFT ALL ALONE.37 Chapter 37 RESCUED BY THE RED MUSTANG.38 Chapter 38 HOW THEY ALL REACHED SANTA LUCIA.