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CHAPTER I.
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wes to find in what a work of ltevature it aside unread. At \ have got the sack in
and English composition, let tudies, had it not been hat 1 played half back on
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have ranked That was tweive my life since Il received has hardly been of a kind iroprowe me in either .style or gremmal lt is true that cne woman tells me I write well, and my directors id fault with my compositions,
he likes my letters r else they may say to suy in some form, my board approves because thus far lI been able to end each with “I
; mend the declaration of a divi- dend of per cent from the earnings
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kK W be- we, Whatev her, they always love you,”” while
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of the current vear.”’ I should there- fore prefer to reserve my writings for such friendly <ritics if it did not seem recessary to make public a plain
ement comscerning an affeir over
rich there anpears to be much con- fusion. I nave heard in the Jjast five years not less than 20 renderings of what is commonly called “the great K. and A. train robbery,”’ some 80
twisted and distorted that but for the intermediate versions I should never have recegnized them as attempts to narrate the series of events in which I played a somewhat vdrominent part.
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gisted, the pseudo hero captured a@ dezen desperadoes; that he was one ef the road agents himself; :that he
was saved from lynching orly by the tinely arrival of cavalry; that.the ac- tion of the Umited States Government in rescuing him ‘from the civil authori- ties Was a mest high-handed imterfer- «nce with State rights; that he receiv~ ed his reward from a grateful railroad by being prometed: that a lovely wo- men, aS recompense for his villainy— but, bother; it’s my business ‘to tell what really oecurred and net what the world chooses to invent. And if any man thinks the would hawe done ctherwise in my position I can only say that he is a better or a worse man than Dick Gordac.
Primarily, it ‘was football which fiaped my end. ‘Owing to my skill in the game, I took a postgraduate at the Sheffield Scientific school, that the team might have my services for an extra two years. That led te my knowing a little about mechanical en- gineering, and when I left the “quad” for qood I went texto the Alton rail- Toad shops. It waeen’t long befere I was foreman of a section; next I ‘be-= came & division swuperintendent, end after I had stuck te that for a time 1 was appointed superintendent of the Kansas and Arizona railroad, a time extending from Triniéad, in Kansas, to The Needles, in Arizena, tapping the Miseouri Western system at the first piace agi the Great Southern at the “her. ‘With both Times we had im- fortant traffic agreements, as well at the closest relations, which sometimes Were a littie difficult, az the two roads
board, in which they fought like cats Indeed, ft would only be a question of lime when one would oust the other and then absorb my read. My head- quarters were at Albuquengue, in New Mexico, and it was there, in October, B89), that I received the eommunica- fien which was the beginming of all that followed.
This initial factor was a letter from the president ef the Missouri Western, telling me that their first vice-presi- dent. Mr. Cullen (who was also a di- tector of my road), was coming out to &ttend the annual election of the K. and A.. which under our charter had to be held in Ash Forks, A. T. A se- cond paragraph told me that Mr. Cul- Ien’s family accompanied him, and that they all wished to visit the Grand fanyon of the Colorado on their wav. Finally, the president wrote that the tarty travelled in his own private car, end asked me to make mvself gener- ally useful to them. Having become quite hardened to just such demands, kt the proper date I ordered my super- tendent’s car on to No. 2, and the Mext morning it was dropped off at Tinidad.
The moment No. 3 arrived I climbed into the president’s special, that was the last car on the train, and intro- “uced myself to Mr. Cullen, whom, though an official of my road, I had Rever met. He seemed surprised at My presence, but greeted me very Mensantly as soon as I explained that the Missouri Western office had asked 2 to do what I could for him, and that I was there for that purpose. His herty were about to sit down to break- fast, and he asked me to join them. : Wwe passed into the dining-room at the forward end of the car, where I Was introduced to “ My son,” “ Lord Ralles,”” and “Captain Ackland.” The : was a junior copy of his father, 2 4ll and fine-looking; but, in place-of @¢ frank and easy manner of his sire, 7g" Was so very English that most peo- 7) would have sworn falsely as to
Ns native land. Lord Ralles was a bile, well-built chap, not half so Eng-
: i, as Albert Cullen, quick in man- ™ “' 8nd thought, being in this the op-
Posite to his brother, Captain Ack- nd, who was heavy enough to rock- -allast a roadbed. Both brothers “Ve me the impression of being gen- ‘emen, and both were decidedly good-
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Mr. Cullen and his re- to the fact was one more place at the there were people assem- had barely noted this when ee Said, “ Here’s the truant,” ~. urning, I faced a lady who had -: entered, Mr. Cullen said, *“* Madge, a Ine introduce Mr. Gordon to you.” m=’ bow was made to a girl of about
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vere anything but friendly. And we had | drectors of each on the K. and A }
dressed so nattily as to be to me, after my four years of Western life, a sight for tired eyes. She greeted me plea- santly, made a neat little apology for
having kept us waiting, and then we all sat down.
It was @ very jolly breakfast table. Mr, Cullen and his son being capital talkers, and Lord Ralles a good third While Miss Cullen was quick and clever
enough to match the three Kefore the
meal was over I came to the conclusion
that Lord Ralles was in love with
ALisSs « ion, Lor ae ty
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She allowed then . ,
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though I had never been concerned in any, I was able to describe several, which, as they were aonotonously like, I confess I coloured up a bit here and there, in an attempt to mate them anteresting to her. I seemed to suc- weed, for she kept the fubject going even after we had left the table and wwere smoking our cigars in the obser- mation salaon. Lord Ralles had a lot to-'Ssay about the American lack of
and 30:mer be held up by half a dozen robbers. “ Why,” te ejaculated, “ both mry
lrother and I have a deuble express with us, and.do you think we'd sit still in our Seats? No. Hang me, if we wouldn't pot something !"”
“You might.” 1 laughed, a litte Mmeitled, I comfess, by his speech, “bat i'm afraid if would be yourselves.”
‘Aw, you Taney resistance impossi- ble?” drawled Albert Cullen.
“Itt has been tried,” I answered, “and without success. Yem can see it’s like all surprises—one wide is pre- Pared before the other side knows there is danger. Without regard to relative numbers, the odds are all in favour of the woad agents.”’
“But I wouldn't sit still, whatever the odds,” said his lordship. “ And no Englishman would.”
“ Well, my lerd.” I said, “TI hope, for yeur sake, then, that you'll never be in a hold-up. for I should feel about you as the runner of a locomotive did when tthe old lady asked kim if it Wasn't very painful to him to run over people. ‘ Yes,” madam,” he sadly replied. ‘There is nothing that muss- es an engine up so.’”’
I don’t think Miss Cullen liked Lord Ralles’ eomiments em American cour-
age any ‘better tham I did, fer she said: “Can’t weu take Lord Ralles and
Captain Ackland into the service of the K. and A., Mr. Gordon, as a spe- cial guard ‘?”’
“The K. and A. has never had a robbery yet, Miss Cullen,” I replied, “and I dom’t think that it ever will have.’’
“Why net? she asked.
I explained to her hew the canyor ef the Colorado to the north and the district of the Mexican border to the south made eseape so almost desperate that the road agents preferred to de- vote their attentions to other routes. “If we were boarded, Miss Cullen.” It said, “ your jewellery would be as safe as it f« in Chicago, for the robbers would only clean out the express and mail cars. But if they should so far forget their manners as to take your trinkets, I’d agree to return them to you inside of one week.”
“That makes it all the jollier,”’ she «ried, eagerly. ‘‘ We could have the fun of the adventure and yet not lose anything. Can’t you arrange for it, Mr. Gordon 7?”
“T’'d like to please you, Miss Cul- len,”’ I said, “and I'd like to give Lord
Introduced mipelf to Mr. Cwllen.
Rallies a chance to show us how to handle those gentry, but it’s not to be done.” I really should have been Slad to have the road agents pay us a call.
We spent that day pulling up the Raton pass, and so on over the Glori- etta pass down to Lamy, where, as the party wanted to see Santa Fe, I had our two cars dropped off the ores- land, and we ran up the branch line to the old Mexican city. It was well-
worn ground to me, but I enjoyed showing the sights to Miss Cullen, for
ed, 1 drew the conclusion that he.was a lucky beggar, 1 ing, 1 I oa ttl bang tha ; i was going to Win such a ni \ rl nh giri
One of the first subj spoken of
was traim robbery, and Miss (\ n, most Mast 8, od | a] Ke at inters had ny quantity of quest isk } ? “Ove left all my jewellery behind, mt my » , h Meoe’ idl
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‘The isn's y chance of it, Miss
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you probably wouilda’t even Know that
it Was happenings, but weuld = sleep richt through it.
* Wouldn't the y try to get our money and our waitcehes 7 she demanded.
I told her ne, and explained that the express and mail cars were the only ones to whieh the road agents paid any attention She wanted to Know the way it was dene; so I de- ecribed to ‘her how sometimes the train
flagged by a danger signal, and When it had slowed down the runner found himself coverea@ by armed men,
r how a gang would board the train, | yne ‘by one, At way stations, and then, when the time came, steal forward, |
)} secu the <xpress agent and postal |
, clerk, climb over the tender and com- pel the rmumner to stop the traim at
some lonely spot on the road. She |! made me tell her all the details of such robberies as I knew -about, and,
courage in Jetting trains containing 20 !
ST > wae NENt Orwwn air, tne pruest py thit time £ ma come to tne con- . wih ] of eyes, a fresh skin, and a fine figure, | clusion that T had never met a sweet-
er or joliier girl Her beauty, too, was cf a kind that kept growing on one, and befere Il had known her twenty- four hours, without quite being in love with her, I was beginning to hate Lord Ralies, which was about the same thing, I suppose. Every hour con- vinced me that the two understood each other, not merely from the little asides and confidences they kept ex- changing, but even more so from the vay Miss Cullen would take his lord- ship down occasionally. Yet, like a fool, the more I saw to confirm my first diagnosis, the more I found my- self dwelling the dimples at the corners of Cullen's mouth, the bewitching uplift of her upper lip, the runaway curls about her neck, and
on Miss
the curves and colour of her cheeks. Half a day served to see everything in Santa Fe worth looking at, but Mr. Cullen decided to spend there the + time they had to wait for his other e0n to join the party. To pass the hours, I hunted up some ponies, and Wwe spent tliree days in long rides up
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Fe trail and to the out- mountains, Only one incident was Other than pleasant, and that was my fault. As we were riding back to vur cars on the second afternoon we had to cross the branch roadbed, where a gang happvened to be at work tamp- ing the ties.
“Since you're’ interested in agents, Miss Cullen,”’ like to see one. That in the ditch is Jack
road I said, “you may fellow standing Drute, who was | concerned in the D. and R. G. hold-up three years ago.”’ Miss Cullen looked where I pointed, | and, seeing a man with a gun, gave a | | }
startied jump and pulled up her pony,
evidently supposing that we were about to be attacked. *Shan’t we run ?” she began, but then checked
herself as she took in the facts of the drab clothes of the gang and the two
|! armed men in wniform. “They are |} ecnvicts ?” she asked. And when If ncdded, she said, “Poor things !”
| Then, after a pause, she asked, “‘ How , long is he in prison for 7”
“Twenty years,” I told her.
“How harsh that seems’ she said. “How cruel we are to people for 2 few moments’ wrongdoing, which the circumstances may almosi have justi- fied!" She checked her pony as we came oppesite Drute and said, “ Can |} you use morey 7?” “Can I, lyedy ?” said the fellow, ' leering in an attempt to look amiable. “Wish I had the chance to try.”
The guard interrupted by telling her it. wasn’t permitted to sneak to the |eenvicts while out of bounds, and ‘so |we had to ride on. All Miss Cullen | was able to do was to throw him a
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little bunch of flowers she had gather- ed in the mountairs. It was litcral- ly casting pearls before swine, for the fellow did not seem particularly pieas- | ed, and, when, late that night, I walk- ed down there with a lantern I found the flowers lying in the ditch. The é>perience seemed to sadden and ¢is- tress Miss Culien very much for the | rest of the afternonn, and I kicked my- | self for having cailed her attention to the ibrute and sould have knocked him dewn for the way he had looked at her. It is curitour that I felt thankful at the time that Drute was not hold- ing up a train Miss Cullen was on. It ts always the unexpected that hap- pens. If I could have looked into the future, what a strange variation on this thought I should have seen!
The three days went all too quickly, thanks to Miss Cullen, and by the end ct that time I began to understand What love really meant to a chan and how men could come to kill each other for it. beaded fellow it was pretty quick work, IT acknowleége, but let any man have seven years of Western life without seeing a woman worth speak- ing of and then meet Miss Cullen, and if he didn’t dw as I did I wouldn't trust hirn on the tail-board of a lo- comotive, for I should put him down as defective both in eyesight amd ir ir:tellect.
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