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JOSE, - 107 CHAPTER VIII. A NEW MEXICAN FORT. In the very vastness of the south-eastern promon- tories of the Rocky Mountains lies a broad and far- stretching valley, through which the lttle Moor carries its clear waters to the Canadian River; and here are combined whatever amenities nature has created in the vast desert through which the Santa Fe trail extends; so that the traveler who emerges from the savage and deserted sandstone valleys and the fierce mountain regions along the Ocate and Canadian Rivers, gazes in a transport of delight upon the fresh green carpet, dotted with darker groups of trees, which covers the plain; the acres of cultivated corn-fields that intersperse it at inter- vals, and the artificial irrigating canals that form the first returning evidences of the ingenious hand of civilization. | A short distance west of the trail a small stream converges with the Moor, and here, at the time of the incidents related in this story, stood a large square building, surrounded by cultivated fields and meadows dotted with flocks of sheep. The building consisted of a main wing, whose exterior presented but one row of small windows in the upper story and a solid gate for the entrance; two side wings joining it at right angles—like the other, supplied with but few windows near the roof—and a strong, high wall, which connected the two side wings and completed the square. Even from the court-yard the basement derived its hight from narrow open- Eomichbooks (Eo)