Gun Runners
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“Some of the gang,” he continued, “were real bad men, and those that weren’t Cartina scared into doing whatever was wanted, like that poor little devil I picked up in the desert. He was a spy in the Cibola mine, sending reports when high-grade ore was coming out. Giving him one of those Government model rifles was a mistake.
“Webb and Shafter caught on to what was going on, particularly Shafter, and Chadwick wiped them out. It was seeing those different sized loops on Chadwick’s cartridge belt that cinched my case on him. Well, sir, I guess that about clears up everything, doesn’t it?”
“Uh-huh,” agreed Cap. Bill, “excepting what you’re going to do with that little saddle-colored Indian you brought along with you.”
“Oh, Pancho,” grinned Hatfield. “Pancho’s the best tracker to ever come out of Mexico, and he sure is dependable.”
“Better take him with you where I’m sending you next, then,” remarked Captain Bill drily. “From what I hear, there isn’t much dependable in that district, and you’ve got a tough job ahead of you, if you ever had one!”
“Yes, sir!” replied the Lone Wolf, his eyes sunny with pleasurable anticipation. Then the Ranger’s eyes turned somber, but with a quiet satisfaction in their depths.
Jim Hatfield was thinking of a lonely grave on a hillside overlooking the Huachuca Trail where the winds whispered softly through the cathedral aisles of the pines and a tall yucca lifted high on its single stem a great cluster of drooping lily-white blossoms that swayed gently in the breeze like a swung censer.
He knew that Ed Shafter could sleep peacefully now.
THE END
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