As is known, the attack on the prairie traders was not so much an affair of the Horned Lizard as his confederate, the military commandant of Albuquerque.

The summons had come to him unexpected, and after he had planned his descent on the Texas settlement.

Sanguinary as the first affair was, it had been short, leaving him time to carry out his original design, almost equally tragical in its execution.

Here and there, a spear standing up, with a tuft of light-coloured hair, blood-clotted upon its blade, is proof of this.

Quite as successful, too.