![]() ![]() We reached over and hoisted him up, then Navarro. Three minutes later they came rushing back. I heard one little gravel crunch but otherwise they were smoke. Milsap spit and said, "got dang," and went too. King went over with his blanket under his arm. ![]() ![]() Milsap went up at dark out of the firelight to get his night eyes. Two of the Greys had bootheeled a big circle out in the plaza and were trying to get bets about how many cannonballs would be inside it by morning. We ate dinner and listened as the sun fell. "I could stick him," said one of Davy's boys, but nobody moved. Just two wrens in a treetop rasping back and forth. Esparza called out to the man in a voice you could hear in the downtown plaza but nobody came and never an answer. A whole company marched around the East end of the fort past the trees. Quite a debate about putting another ball in him, but it wasn't enough to shoot at. Then we would check again and see that leg move. Milsap and King rolled up in blankets and slept, faces to the wall. He'd lie still and silent and we would decide he had travelled and then that leg would slide up and he'd start whispering again. Not much to see but you could make him out plain enough. "He's calling his mother and his God."īy the time the sun came over the East ridge half the fort had been up. Navarro listened with his hands behind his ears. You could hear him wheezing and see his leg slide up for a minute, then back down. Knocked him off in some muddy weeds."ĭawn began to pick out some treetrunks and King pointed out the place. It'uz either shoot him or let him under the blanket. I thought they might come for him, but they never. "Mexican Scout." King let out a deep breath and shook himself from the chill. Milsap handed him the cup of broth he was sipping. Couple people rose from around the glowing firecircle below. He came over the wall and flowed down the ladder. Right barrel was faintly warm and you could smell a trace of Dupont. Umph."Ī pebble bounced off the adobe with a click and King stepped out of a blue shadow and passed me the shotgun up. One of the Greys came over and checked his watchface on a blown coal off the fire now and then. The blue gun bunch edged the cannon around. Not as the stars swung around and Jupiter dipped low. King'll be up in a minute." Milsap was whispering.īut he wasn't. The water was gurgling down at the river. The parapet filled up with low eyes watching the dark. Stay down.Ī fringed deerskin rifle sock hung off the top ladder rung. We ran to the wall but on top I could see Milsap motioning with his hand. Last night he wasn't over the wall an hour when we heard Rutherford's shotgun. Says he sits a different place every night so the Mexicans won't puzzle him out. He slides over the wall like a shadow and you don't hear a thing until he tosses a pebble on top to let you know he is back. He wears two deerskin shirts, moccasines and carries Rutherford's double gun. The light fades and the pickets go over the wall to watch the night. ![]()
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