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The Great X. & A. Train Robbery
BY PAUL LEICESTER FORD
+The Hon. Peter Stirling.” &c.
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4. Miss 4 into the car, and I ting the rear door, took d Ve inchester from its rack.
I'm going forward,” L told her and will tell my boys to belt the front do so you'll be as safe in here as in ¢ Fa."
In a ! mipgute I was on my front platform Dropping dewn be- t he two cars, I crept along be- side—indeed, half und Mr. Cullen's special After my previous conclu- sion, my surprise can be judged when | at the farther end I found the two Britist s and Albert Cullen standing | there, in the most exposed position pos- sible I joined them, muttering to myself something about Providence and fools.
“Aw,” drawled Cullen, “ here’s Mr. Gordon, Just toa late for the sport, by Jove.”
“Well,” said Lord Ralles, “we've
had a hand in this deal, Mr. Superin- tendent, and haven't been potted. The scoundrels broke for cover the mo- ment we opened fire.”
By this time there were twenty pas- sengers about our group, all of them asking questions at once, making it dificult to learn just what had hap- pened, but so far as I could piece the answers together the poker-players’ curiosity had been aroused by the long stop, and, looking out, they had seen @ single man, with a rifle, standing by the engine. Instantly .arming themselves, Lord Ralles let fly both barrels at him, and in turn was the target for the first four shots I had heard. The shooting had bronght the rest of the robbers tumbling off the cars, and the captain and Cullen had fired the rest of the shots at them as they seattered. I didn’t stop to hear more, but went forward to see what the road agents had got away with.
i found the express agent tied hand and foot in the corner of his car, and, telling a brakeman who had followed me to set him at liberty, I turned my attention te the safe. That the di- version had not come a moment too
ridge already in place, and by the fuse that lay on ithe floor, as if dropped
3 s0on was shown by the dynamite cart. > &
Pye fess 1 shook my head
suddenly. But the safe was intact. fassing into the mail car, 1 found the clerk tied to a post, with a mail sack pulled over his head, and the wut- most confusion among the pouches and sorting compartments, while scattered ever the floor were a great many let-. ters. Setting him at liberty, I asked him if he could tell whether mail had been taken, amd, after a glance at the confusion, he said he could not know tl he had examined. Having takem stock of the harm *@ done, I began asking questions. Just after we had left Sanders two masked men had entered the mail car. and Shile one covered the clerk with a ‘evelver the other had tied and “ sack- «” him. Two more had gone far- Ward and done the sarne to the ex- press agent. Another had climbed "@ Wer the tender and ordered the run ferto hold up. All this was the regu-
«et la prograrnme, as I had explained to
Yiiss Cullen, but here had been a vari- ®jon which I had never heard of be-
‘ img done, and of which I couldn't 52m fathom the object. When the train 00m bad been stopped. the man on the 4 tender had orcered the fire-
Manito dump his fire, and now it was lying in the roadbed and threatenin to burn through the ties, so my first er was to extinguish it, and my cond was to start a new fire and get UP steam as quickly as possible. From
> 4 #4 I could iearn there were eight men
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concerns] in the attempt, and I con-
in puzzlement Ww y that number should have allow- pgct thermaelves to be seared off so > @ easily. ‘ My wonderment grew when I called og" the eonductor for his tickets. am There showed nothing but two from
Albuquerque, one from Laguna and
4 four from Coolidge. This latter would “ave looked hopeful but for the fact ug'hat it was a party of three women nd &mén. Going baek beyond Lamy Gidn’t give anything, for the conduc- OF Was able to account for every fare S either still in the train or as have a got off at some point. My only wiciusion was that the robbers had Meaked on to the platforms at San-
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Ound the express agent tied hand and Joct. i
> ae I gave the crew a good dress- : we for Seiy+mecheeness. Of
course, “hey Mhsisi? if was Thpdéssihle, but they were boun.a to do that. Going back to 97, I got my tele- graph instrument, though I thought it a Waste of time, the road agents be- ing always careful to break the lines.
[ told a brakeman to climb the pole
nd cut a wire While he was strug- ing up, Miss Cullen joined me. Deo you really e pect to catch them °" she asked. I shouldn't Like to be one of them,” I replied “But how can you do it ?” 1 could und tanc bett ‘ t ce } ery bi qi Wa 1 i in > \ . i i ’ ' ha n, \ : : ’ ad ‘ ’ | ’ . } 1 ’ y ak- ‘ p f I ve , ‘ \ n ct res t isked Ale bert iller \ ‘ ! loo! i ae i ‘ ol } t pa ned us. The road . us lumpour i f css ar et they haven't ‘ the ; S 1 either direction. I can’t s n ey can escape us \\ I Miss Cullen ‘TI don’t s what difference either makes in their chance of escaping,” s | Lord Ra a ‘hile he was speaking I ticked off news of our being held up, and Ked the agent if there had been any bout Sanders, or if he had seen yore board the train ~there. liis answer Was positive that no one could
have done so, and that settled it as to Sanders. I asked the same questions
1town and Wingate, which were the only Places we had stopped at af- ter leavimg Coolidge, getting the same answers. ‘That eight men could have remained concealed on any of the platforms ‘from that point was impos- sible, and I suspected magic. Then I called Coolidge and told of the hold- up, after which I telegraphed the agent at Navajo Springs to notify the com-
mander at Fort Defiance, for I sus- pected the road agents would make for the Navajo reservation. Finally I
called Flagstaff as I had Coolidge, di- rected that the authorities be notified of the facts, and ordered a special to bring out the sheriff and posse.
“I den‘t think,” said Miss Cullen, “that I am a bit more curious than most peeple, but it has nearly made me frantic to have you tick away on that little "nachine and hear it tick back and not understand a word.”
After that I had to tell her what I hae said and learned,
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counting the tickets, and finding out where people got on and off! TInever should hkawe thought of either,” she
said.
“It hast ‘helped me much.” Ttaugch- ed, rather grimly, ‘“ except to elimin- ate every possible clew.”
“They probably did steal on at one of the stops,”” said a passenger.
I shook my head. ‘There ien’t a stick of timber nor a place of conceal-
ment on these alkali plains,” I re- plied, “and it was bright moonlight till an howr ago. It would be hard
enough for the man to get within a mile of the station without being seen,
and it would be impossible for seven Or eisht.”’ “How de you know the number ?”
asked a passenger.
“| don't,”” I said. “ That's the num- ber the crew think there were. but I mvrself don’t believe it.’
“ Why don't you believe the men 7” asked Miss Cvillen.
“ First, Leeause there is always a tendency to macnifv, and, next, be- cause the road agents ran away so quickly.”
“1 counted at least seven,” said Lord Ralles.
“Well, Lord Ratles,” I said, “TI don't want to dispute your eyesicht, but if they had been that strong they would never have bolted, and if you want to lay a bottle of wine I'll wager that when I csich those chans we'll find there weren't more than three or fomr of them.”
“Done !”" said he.
Leaving the group, I went forward
fo get the report of the mail agent. He had put things to rights, and told me that, though the mail had been
pretty badly mixed up, only one pouch at worst had been rifled. This, the one fer registered mail, had been cut open ; but, as if to increase the mys- tery, the letters had been scattered, un- opened, about the car, only three out of the whole being missing, and those very probably had fallen into the pigconholes and would be found on a more careful search.
I confess I breathed easter to thirk that the read agents had got away with nothing, and was so pleased that I went back to the wire to send the news of it, that thefact might be in- cluded in the press desnatches. The moon had set, and it was so dark that
I had some difficulty in findine the pole. When I found it, Miss Cullen wes still standing there. What was
more, a man was close beside her, and
es I came up I heard her say, indig- nantly :
“TT will not allow it. take such advantage of me. your arm away or I shall call heln {’*
That was enough for me. One step carried my 160 pounds over the inter- vening ground, and using the momen- tum of the stride to help, I put the fiat ef my hand against the shoulder of the man and gave him a shove. There are three or four Harvard men who can tell what that means, and they were braced for it, which this fellow wasn't. He went steggering back as if struck by a cowcatcher and lay down on the ground a good fifteen feet away. His having his arm around Miss Cellen’s waist uneteadied her so that she would have fallen, too, if I hadn't put my hand against her shoulder. I longed to put it about her, but by this time I wanted to do only what I thought she would wish and so restrained myself.
Before I had time to finish an apo-
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the Wrists ".os fe “closed,” and’ hé had no chance after that against a fellow o? my Weight.
*“ Oh, don't quarrel !” cried Miss Cul- len. Holding him, I said,
what Miss
“Lord Ralles, I Cullen was say-
overhead
ine, and supposing some man was in- sulting her I acted as I did.”’ Then I let go of him and, turning, said, ‘I am very sorry, Miss Cullen, if I did anvthine the circumstances did not werrant,” While cursing myself for my nrecipitancy and not thinking that Miiss Cullen would never have been eaught in such a plight with a man unless she had been half willing, for a i sirl Goes not merely threaten to call ' for help if she really wants aid.
Lord Ralles wasn’t much mollified by my explanation. “Youre too much in a hurry, my man,” he growled, speaking to me as if I were a ser- vant ‘** Be a bit more careful in the
| future.”
I think I should have retorted—for his manner was enough to make a faint mad—if Miss Cullen hadn't snoken.,
‘You tried to heln me, Mr. Gordon, and I am deeply rateful for that,”’
said. The words look simple en- ough set down here. But the tone in
and the extend-
fry] lit¢] Sve e7
Which she said them | ed hand and the grat l Zz she gav2 my fingers all seemed to ex- | press so much that I was more puzzled \ over them than I was over the robbery.
(To be Continued. )
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