About that time the Wells-Fargo Express Company feared a hold-up on the railroad, and Jenkins and Tex, glad to leave the scene of their water-cure adventure, secured positions as guards and soon dropped out of polite society in Horse Head as represented by the gang around the "Bucket of Blood" and its immediate vicinity. [Illustration: "_They gave the money to Jackson, the Cross J wagon boss_"] The next time they came to town the "Cross J" boys chipped in a dollar each and gave it to old "Dad," the cook, counted the luckiest "wheel" player in the bunch, who took the coin and with a burst of good luck soon ran it up to something over a hundred dollars at the roulette wheel. This entire amount he gave to Jackson the wagon boss, who went down to Chinese Louie's place, and poured it out on the counter before the heathen's astonished eyes, as a peace offering from the "shoot 'em up" crowd that had wrecked his place. That night about midnight Louie and his assistant set out to the boys the very swellest "feed" his culinary abilities could prepare, and the affair of the shooting up of Horse Head and the putting of the marshal and his aid-de-camp to soak under the bridge in the cold nasty waters of the Rio Puerco was thus amicably settled over the viands that the Chinaman furnished. [Illustration] [Illustration] Transcriber's notes: The following is a list of changes made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one. she's a-grazin' and' it's a sure shot the calf's hid away in she's a-grazin' an' it's a sure shot the calf's hid away in It was the end of the road for the blue roan. It was the end of the road for the blue-roan. like videttes on guard over the canon. like videttes on guard over the cañon. deep box canons impassable for miles. deep box cañons impassable for miles. It brought very man in camp to his feet, for high above It brought every man in camp to his feet, for high above the Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the Canon the Little Colorado River 'bout the mouth of the Cañon "I'll never miss them spurs, said Bob pointing to an "I'll never miss them spurs," said Bob pointing to an steer round up" he asked of the new comer. steer round up?" he asked of the newcomer. burst from my eager lips." burst from my eager lips. I sent one of the boys back with the hoss, an tole him to I sent one of the boys back with the hoss, an' tole him to "Then the captain he sort of grins an' sez. 'That's "Then the captain he sort of grins an' sez, 'That's Then the captain, he bein' a fine old sojer man, with "Then the captain, he bein' a fine old sojer man, with iver seen in all his life. 'Twas sure no fault wid thim steers iver seen in all his life. ''Twas sure no fault wid thim steers