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The Great K. & A. Train Robbery

BY PAUL LEICESTER FORD

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The Hon. Peter Stirling,” &ce.

sht, 1896, by J. B. Lippincott

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W there had been any use, f shoufa hi ve replied, The rignt.” but | knew that they ia omy think I was pus. ing if I saic .t instead, I replied

VN < ! pa has the stock ma- j ! ir, and would have v : f you had played fair. Sin t, I'm doing my best to put ght

‘ \ more foot’... bt : te ; h \ by £ay- ing

“That only shows what a mean cuss Cullen is i ought to give you $19.,- @o if he gives you a cent,”

Yes ' a *troece letters are ¥ money, Whether he’s offered it or ni

Mr. Cullen ver £0 much as hint- ed ! 5 nn § if

*¥ M Gordon,” said Baldwi suavely, “we'll show you that we can be liberal. Though the letters rient- fully beloig to Mr. Camp, if you'll de- liver them to us we'll see that you don’t lose your place, and we’)! give

you $4,000."

I glanced at Fred, whem I founa

woking at me anxiously, and asked him :

“Can't you do better than that °” “We could with anyone but you,”

said Fred.

I should have liked to shake hends over this compliment, but I ont;

“You'll find we are not built that ed, and, turning to Mr. Camp. said:

“You see how mean they are.” way,” said Baldwin. “ Five thousand isn't a bad dav's work. eh ?”

“No,” I said, laughing, “but you just told me I ought to get $10,000 if [ got a cent.”

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“It’s worth $10,000 to Mr. Cullen, but "— I interrupted by saving. “If it’s

“orth $19,000 to him, it’s werth $1009,600 to me.”’

That was too much for Camp. First he said something best omitted, and then went on, “I told you it was waste time irving to win him over.”

The three stood apert for a moment whispering, and then Judze Wilsen talled the sheriff over and they all went cut together. The moment we were alone Frederic held out his hand ond said:

“ Gordon, it's no use saying anything, but if we can ever do"’—

I merely shook hands, but I want-

€d the worst way to say:

“Tell Madge.”

Ash Forks, like all western railroad towns, is one tong line of buildings

running parallel with the railway tracks. Two hundred feet, therefore, brought me to the edge of the town, and I wheeled my peny and rede down behind the rear of the buildings. In turning I looked back and saw hal’ a dozen mounted men already in pursuit, but I lost sight of them the next mo- ment. As soon as I reached a street leading back to the ratlroed I turned again and reéle toward it, mv one thought being to get back, if possible, to the station and put the Wtters into the railroad agent's safe.

When I reached the maim street, I saw that my hope was futile, for an- ether batch of cowboys were coming in full gallop toward me, wery thor- oughly heading me off in Ghat direc- tion. To escare them I headed up the street away from the station, with the pack in close pirsuit. They yelled at me to hold up, and I expected every moment to hear the crack of revolvers, for the poorest ‘shot ameng them would have found no _ difficulty in dropping my horse at that distance if they had warted to stop me. It isn’t avery rice sensaticn to keep your ears pricked wp in the expectation of

hearirg the shooting begin and to krcw that amy mecment mey be your last. I don’t suppose I was on the

ragged edge more than thirty seconds, but they were enough to prove to me that to keer one’s back turned to an @imy as cne runs away takes a deal Mere pluck than to stand up and face bis g¢un. Fortunately for me, my bursuers felt €0 sure of my capture that rot one of thern drew a bead on re

The moment f saw that there was ne efeape I put my hand in my breast Pocket and took out the Jetters, in- tending to tear them into enc hundred Tieceg, But as I did so ! realized that destroy United States mail not mere- ailed criminal liability, but was

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I turned across the railroad track,

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of colour morally. 1 faltered, bal- ‘Ncing the outwitting of Camp against Plate prison the doing mv best for

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“tetany, t Whee ee ddd Lace atihigg Gh al. i think I'm as honest a fellow as the av- erage, but [I have to confess that I couldn't decide to do right till I thought that Madge wouldn't want me

to be dishonest, even for her.

I turned acress the railroad track and cut in behind some freight cars that were standing on a siding. This

put me out of view of my pursuers for & moment, and n that instant I stood up in my égtirrups, lifted the broad leather flap of the saddle and tucked the letters underneath it, as far in as I could foree them. It was a des- berate place in which to hide them, but the game was a desperate one it best, and the very boldness of the idea right be its best chance of success.

IT was row heading for the station Over the ties and was surprised to:see Fred Cullen with Lord Ralles on the tracks up by the special, for my mind had been so bury in the last hour that

I had forgotten that Fred was due. The moment I saw him I rode toward him, pressing my pony for all he was

worth. My hope was that I might get time to give Fred the tip as to where the letters were, but before I

was with™ speaking distance Baldwin came running cut from behind the sta- tion, and, seelng me, turned, called tack, and gesticulated, evidently to summon son ys to head mé off, Afraid to shout anything which should corvey the clue as to the wlereabouts of the letters, as the next

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best thing I pulled a couple of old see- ;

*ion reports from my pocket, intend- ing to ride up and run into my car,

for [ knew that the papers in my hand would be taken to be the wanted letters and that if I could only get in- side the car even fer a moment the Suspicion would be that I had been able to Lide them. Unfortunately the plan Was no sooner thought of than I heard the whistle of a lariat, and before I could guard myself the noose settled over my head: I threw the pavers toward Fred and Lord Ralles, shout- ing, “Hide them!” Fred was quick as a flash, and, grabbing them off the ground, sprang up the steps of my car and ran inside, just escaping a bullet from my pursuers. I tried to pull up my pony, for I did not want to be jerked off, but I was too late, ard the next moment I was lying cn the ground in a pretty well shaken and jarred condition, surrounded by a lot ef men.

CHAPTER XII. +t AN EVENING IN GAOL.

Before my ideas had had time te straighten themselves out I was lifted to my feet and palf pushed, half lifted, to the station platform. Camp was already there, and as I took this fact in I saw Frederic and his lord- ship pulled through the doorway of my car by the cowboys, and dragged out on the platform beside me. The reports were now in Lord Ralles’ hands.

“That's what we want, boys,” cried Camp, “those letters.”

“Take your hands off me,” said Lord Ralles, coolly, ‘“‘and I'll give them to you.”

The men who had hold of his arm let goa of him, and quick as a flash Ralles tore the papers in two: He tried to tear them once more, but before he eould so so half a dozen men were holding him, and the papers were forc- ed out of his hands. Albert Culien— for afl of them were on the platform of 218 by this time—shouted, “ Well done, Ralles!" quite forgetting in the excitement of the moment his English accent and drawl. Apparently Camp didn’t agree with him, for he ripped out a string of oats, which he im- partially divided among Reatlies, the cowboys, and myself. I was decided- ly sorry that I hadn't given the real letters, for his lordship aparentlv had no scruple about destrwying them, and I knew few men whom I would have seen behind prison bars with as little personal regret. However, mo one had apparently paid tre slightest attention to the pony, and the probabilities were that he was already headed for Bald- win’s ranch, with no tikelihood of his stopping tiil he reached home. At least that was what I hoped, but there were a lot of ponies standing about, and, not knowing the mark- ings of the one I had ridden, T wasn’t able to tell whether he might mot be among them.

Just as the fragments of the papers were passed over to Mr. Camp he was

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cvthcu OF Aetiunit ana the Juage, ana ' Camp held the torn pieces up to ther, Bavine ; “They've torn “Don't let that trouble you,” said the judge. “Make an affidavit be- fore me, reciting the manner in which they were destroyed, and I'll grant you a mandamus compelling the 4ij-

the proxies in two.”

rectors to accent them as bona fide proxies. Let me see how much in- jured they are."

Camp unfolded the papers, and TI

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(To be Continued. )

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