Jimmy Hayes and Muriel by O. Henry

Nearly a year afterward -- after many camping grounds and many hundreds of miles guarded and defended -- Lieutenant Manning, with almost the same detachment of men, was sent to a point only a few miles below their old camp on the river to look after some smuggling there. One afternoon, while they were riding through a dense mesquite flat, they came upon a patch of open hog-wallow prairie. There they rode upon the scene of an unwritten tragedy.

In a big hog-wallow lay the skeletons of three Mexicans. Their clothing alone served to identify them. The largest of the figures had once been Sebastiano Saldar. His great, costly sombrero, heavy with gold ornamentation -- a hat famous all along the Rio Grande -- lay there pierced by three bullets. Along the ridge of the hog-wallow rested the rusting Winchesters of the Mexicans -- all pointing in the same direction.