In the Stronghold of the Piutes [pp. 583-593]

In the Stronghold of the Pi'tes.
In a short time Dawson realized his
exposed position and attempted to make
a dash to concentrate his men. As they
were about to start Click raised his head
and said, "Boys, don't go away and leave
me here alone."
Dawson asked if he were hurt, to
which Click replied "No."
"Then why don't you come on?"
"I can't."
the search was found one more Indian,
making three in all.
To the other wing of the party fortune was kinder. During the day Jim
Hall was shot. He was extended at full
length, firing from behind a rock, when
a ball ranged through his knee. Harg
Eskridge was shot through the foot.
Jordan Bean received a bullet wound in
the head, and lay for hours as if dead.
A RUN FOR LIFE.
Again a start was about to be made
when Click, with beseeching voice, cried
out: "For God's sake, boys, don't go
away and leave me here to die."
One of the Tartars, with a mistaken
idea of what he owed to humanity, said
he would stay; others followed his lead,
and only a few left. As stated before,
when the dead were found Click's surroundings gave no sign of a single shot
from him.
As the day wore on the firing from
this point grew less and less frequent,
and by three o'clock was silenced altogether. A man named Taylor, a brother
of the runner who came to Rico, stayed
in this arroyo with the doomed men,
was not with the dead, nor could his
corpse be found anywhere about. In
In the afternoon the position of his
party was changed, and Bean was left
as lifeless. He was only stunned, and
recovering found himself only a few
feet distant from a group of ten or
twelve Indians who were talking together. They also supposed him dead,
and he had enough quick wit to "make
no funny miotions," as he afterwards
expressed himself. As he lay there expecting momentaryattention from them,
his nerve was put to a severe test. Finally they moved away, and watching his
chances, he managed to join his men
by rolling into the arroyo, and crawling
down it.
After holding the Indians off until
nightfall, they made their escape under
cover of darkness, and by daylight sev
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