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The Great K. & A. Train Robbery

BY PAUL

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«The Ilen. Peter Stirling.” &c.

Copy it, 1896, by J. B. Lippinoott Company. (Cor mine >

GHAPTER VL

THE HAPPENINGS DOWN HANCE'S TRAIL.

M ‘ullen was sitting on a rock | : he. brother and Hance, as [ had asked her to do when I helped h smount. I went over there and said, boldly :

- ; Cullen, I want those letters.’

“What letters ?" she asked, looking me in the eves with the most innocent of expressions. She made a mistake to do that, for I knew her innocence was feigned, and so didn’t put much faith in her face for the rest of the interview.

“And what is more,” I said, with

a firmness of manner about as genu- ine as her innocence, “ unless you will produce them I shall have to search you

“Mr. Gordon!" she exclaime4. disbelief imto Iwanted the earth to swallow me then and there.

“Why, Miss Cullen,” I cried, “look at my position. I'm being paid to do certain things, and—”’

“But that needn't prevent your be- ing a gentieman,” she interrupted.

That made me almost desperate “Miss Cullen,” I said, hurriedly, “I'd rather be buried alive than do what I've got to do, but if you won't give me those letters, search you I must.”

“But how can I give you what I haven't ?” she cried, indignantly, as- suming again her innocent expression.

“Will you give me your word of hon- our that those letters are not conceal- ed in your clothes ?”

“I will,” she said.

I was very much taken aback, for it would have been so easy for Miss Cul- len to have said that before that I had become convinced she must have them.

“And do you zive me your word ?”

“TI do,” she affirmed. But she didn't look me in the face as she said it.

I ought to have been satisfied, but I wasn't, for in spite of her denial something forced me still to believe she had them, and, looking back now,

Miss Cullen waa sitting on a rock,

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I think it was her manner. I stood reflecting for a minute, and then said, “Please stay where you are for a Moment.’ Leaving her, I went over to Fred.

“Mr. Cullen,” I said, “ Miss Cullen, Tather than be searched, has acknow- ledged that she has the letters, and Says that if we men will go into the hut she'll get them for me.”

He rose at once. “I told my father hot to drag her in,’” he muttered, sad- ly. “I don’t care about myself, Mr. Gordon, but can’t you keep her out of it ? She’s as innocent of any real Wrong as the day she was born.”

“T'll do everything in my power,” J promised. Then he and Hance went into the cabin, and I walked back to the culprit.

“ Miss Cullen,” I said, gravely, “ you have those letters and must give them to me.”

“But I told you’’—she began.

To spare her a second untruth I tin- terrupted her by saying, “I trapped your brother into acknowledging that you have them.”

“You must have misunderstood him,” she said, calmly, “or else he Cidn’t know that the arrangement was changed.”

Her steadiness rather shook my con-

viction, but I said, “You must give me those letters or I must search you.”

‘Ycu never would!” she cried, ris- irz ard lookiug me in the face.

f puise I tried big bluff. I tcok hold of the lapel of her waist, in- tending to undo one button. I let go in fright when I found there was no tutton—oniy an awful complication of | hecks or some other feminine metho for keeping things together—and I gr red and trembled, thinking what Might have happened had I, by bad luck, made anything come undone If uM ‘ n had been noticing me, she would » seen a terribly scared man.

But wasn’t, luckilv, for the tno- Ment my hand touched her, and be- fi he auld realize that I snat : Ly collapsed cn the rock and i t in re. “ Oh, oh !”’ she sob- : "a seed papa not to, but he : 1 thev ere safest with me ri, 2 hem to you ff you'll only go a i i Her tears made her fr ind, without waiting for ni . I ran into the hut, feeling as hesr like a urderer as a guiltless man could.

Lord Ra us swearing over his uy :

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LEICESTER FORD |

ing the cowboy anc mance meney ww recover them. When they told him this was impossible, he tried to get them to sell or hire a pair, but they didn’t like the idea of riding into camp minus those essentials any better than he did. While I waited, they settled ‘he difficulty by strappping a blanket rourd him, and, by splitting it up the .aiddle and using plenty of cord, they rigged him out after a fashion, but I think if he could have seen him- self he would have waited till it was dark enough to creep inte camp un- ncticed.

Before long Miss Cullen called, and when I went to her she handed me, without a werd, three letters. As she did so she crimsoned violently, and lcoked down in her mortification. I

ing : “Our positions have been so diffi- | eult, Miss Cullen, that I don’t think we, either of us, are quite responsible

But } she put such surprise, and grief, and | g look at the three letters. They were the four syllables that |

| things began to clear up to me.

was so sorry for her that, though a mcment befcre I had been judging her barshly, I row couldn’t help say-

for our actions.” She said nothing

: ; g, and, after a pause continued :

“TI hope you'll think my conduct as you can, tell you how grieved pained you.”

Cullen joined us at this point, and, knowing that every moment we re- mained would be distressing to his Sister, I said we would start up the trail. I hadn’t the heart to offer to help her mount, and after Frederic had put her up, we fell into single file behind Hance, Lord Ralles coming last.

As soon

as leniently of for I can’t I am to have

as we were started I took

all addressed to Theodore FE. Camp, Esq., Ash Forks, A.T., one of the di- rectors of the K. and A., and also of the Great Southern. For the first time When the trail broadened enough to permit it, I pushed my mule up alongside of Cullen and asked :

“The letters contain proxies for the K. and A. election next Friday ?”

He nodded his head. ‘‘ The Missouri Western and the Great Southern are fighting for control,” he explained, “and we should have won but for three blocks of eastern stock that had promised their proxies to the G. S. Rather than lose the fight, we arrang- ed to learn when those proxies were mailed—that was what kept me be- hind—and then to hold up the train that carried them.”

“Vas it worth the risk ?” I asked.

“If we had succeeded, yes. My fa- ther had put more than was safe into Missouri Western and into California Central. The G. S. wants control to end the traffic agreements, and that means bankruptcy to my father.”

I nodded, seeing it all as clear as day, and hardly blaming the Cullens for what they had done, for anyone who has had deal'ngs with the G. S. is driven to pretty desperate methods to keep from being crushed. And when one is fighting an antagonist that won’t regard the law, or rather one that, through control of legislatures and judges, makes the law to suit its needs, the temptation is strong to use the same weapons oncself.

“The toughest part of it is,” Fred went on, “that wethought we had the whole thing ‘hands down,’ and that was what made my father go in so deep. Only the death of one of the M. W. directors, who held 8,000 shares of K. and A., got us in this hole, for the G. S. put up a relative to contest the will, and so delayed the obtaining of letters of administration, blocking his executors from giving a proxy. It Was as mean a trick as ever was played.”’

“The G. S. is a tough customer to fight,” I said, and I asked, “Why didn’t you burn the letters ?” really wishing they had done so.

“We feared duplicate proxies might get through in time and thought that by keeping these we might cook up a question as to which were legal, and then by injunction prevent the use of either.”

“And those Englishmen 7” I asked, “are they real ?”

“Oh, certainly,” he said. “ They were visiting my ,brother and thought the whole thing great larks.” Then he told me how the thing had been done. ‘They kad sent Miss Cullen to my car so as to get me out of the way, though she hadn’t known it. Then he and his brother got off the train at the last stop, with the guns and masks, and concealed themselves on the platform of the mail car. Here they had been joined by the Britishers at the right moment, the disguises as- sumed, and the train held up, as al- ready told... Of ¢ecuzse, the dynamite

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Carriage Ve ad Waray sie & t14a,) Gesaka basd letters had been thrown about the car merely to confuse the clerk, Then, while Frederic Cullen, with the let- ters, had stolen back to the car, the two Englishmen shad crept back to

where they had stood. Here, as had been arranged, they opened fire, which Albert Cullen duly returned, and then joined them. “TI don’t see now how you spotted us,”’ Frederic ended. I told him, and his disgust was amusing to see. Going to Oxford may be all right for the classics,’” he growled, “but it’s destructive to | gumption.”

We rode into camp a pretty gloomy crowd, and those of the party wait- | ing for us there were not much better, But when Lord Ralles dismounted and

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I told the sheriff that I had recovered the lost property.

A., at Flagstaff, he didn’t question my opinion. I ordered the stage out, and told Tolfree to give us a feed before we started. But a more silent meal I never sat down to, and I noticed that Miss Cullen didn’t eat anything, while the tragic look on her face was so pathetic as nearly to drive me frantic.

We started a little after five and were clear of the timber before it was too dark to see. At the relay station we waited an hour for the moon, after which it was a clear. track. We reached the half-way ranch about eleven, and while changing the stage horses I roused Mrs. Klostermeyer, and succeeded in getting enough cold mutton and bread to make two rather decent-looking sandwiches. With these and a glass of whiskey and water, I went to the stage, Miss Cullen curled up on the seat asleep, her head resting in her bro- ther’s arms.

“She has hearly worried herself to death ever since you told her that road agents were hung,” Frederic whispered, ‘‘ and she’s been crying to- night over that lie she told you, and, nitogether, she’s worn out with travel and excitement.”

I screwed the cover on the travelling

giass and put it with the sandwiches in the bottom of the stage. “It's a long and a rough ride,’ I said, “and if she wakes up they may give her a little strength. I only wish I could have spared her the fatigue and anxi- ety.”

‘She thought she had to Ife for father’s sake, but she’s nearly broken- hearted over it,” h2 continued.

I looked Frederic in the face and said, “‘I honour her for it,” and in that moment he and I became friends. ‘Just see how pretty she is!” he said, with evident affection and pride, turning back the flap of the rug in which she was wrapped.

She was breathing gently, and there was just that touch of weariness and sadness in her face that would appeal to any man. It made me gulp, I’m preud to say. And when I was back on my pony, I said to myself, ‘“ For her sake, I'll pull tne Cullens out of this scrape if it costs me my position.”

(To be Continued. )

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The master of Frohsdorf, since he could not be king of France, was content to be Count de Chambord. He judged the title to be worthy of him. The magnificent chateau of Chambord had been offered to him by national subscription the year of his birth, and be could not have bornea name more truly French. In speaking to him one addressed him simply as tmon- seigneur. He did not like to be designated as Henry V, albeit he had been proclaimed king in 1880, and several acts had even been executed under his authority. He never permitted in speaking or writing the words “‘sire’’ cr ‘‘your majesty.’’ In all such matters he showed tact as well as wisdom, but his foliowers would have pre- ferred a bolder and less scrupulous chief. They sought perpetually to push him be- yond legal limits.

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