The Great K. & A. Train Robbery

BY PAUL LEICESTER FORD

«The Hon. Peter Stirling.” &c.

by J. B. Lippineott ; i} nv ‘ Lie ied ) CHAPTER IV. RATHER QUEER ROAD AGENTS

“yy ! etter me back to the ‘ M Cu mr ked Lord Ra '

lo sé saying } x a 2s going And h left us, for w wasnt sort 1 told her of t . 3 : I had to send, and she ' w if ow we would try ' h ud agents. I set her i ore k they'll give us very little ‘ ag l added, “ for they are s hat i almost pitiful.” itzing the wires ?"’ she askK- eu In evervthing.” I replied. “ But the worst botch is their waiting till we had just ssed the Arizona line. if i held us up an hour earlier, it wou rky have been State's prison.” 4nd what will it be now 7?’ H ring.”

“What ‘ried Miss Cullen.

“in New Mexico train robbing its not capital, but in Arizona it is,” I told her .

And if they catch them they'll be beng ” she asked.

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‘That seems very hard.”

The first signs of dawn were begin- ning to show by this time, and as the sky brightened I told Miss Cullen that I was going to look for the trail of the fugitives. She said she would walk with me, if not in the way, and my gesurance was very positive on that yoint. And here I want to remark that it’s saying a good deal if a girl can up all night in such excite- ment and still look fresh and pretty, and that she did.

lf ordered the crew to look about, and then began a big circle around the train. Finding nothing, I swung @ Ligger one. That being equally un- availing, I did a larger third. Nota trace of foot or hoof within a haif rile of the cars! I had heard of blankets laid down to conceal a trail of swathed feet, even of leathern horse boots with cattle hoofs on the bottom, but none of these could have been used for such a distance, let alone the en- tire absence of any signs of a place where the horse had been hobbled. Re- turning to the train, the report of the men was the same.

“We've ghost road agents to deal with, Miss Cullen,” I laughed. “ They some from nowhere, bullets touch them not, their lead hurts nobody, they take nothing, and they disappear with- out touching the ground.”

“How curious it is [" she exclaimed. “One would almost suppose it a dream.”

“Hold on,” I said. “We do have something tangible, for if they disap- peared they left their shells behind them.” And I pointed to some cart- ridge shells that lay on the ground beside the mail car. “ My theory of aerial bullets won't do.”

“The shells are as hollow as I feel,” laughed Miss Cullen.

“Your suggestion reminds me that I am desperately hungry,” I said “Suppose we go back and end the famine.”

Moet of the passengers had long since returned to their seats or berths, and Mr. Cullen’s party had apparent-

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jy done the same, for 218 showed nv signs of life. One of my darkies was awake, and he broiled a steak and

made us some coffee in no time, and just as they were ready Albert Cul - len appeared. So we made a very jolly little breakfast. He told me at length the part he and the Britishers had borne, and only made me mar- vel the more that any one of them was alive, for apparently they had jumped off the car without the slight- est precaution, and had stood grouped together even after they had called attention to themselves by Lord Ral- les’ shots. Cullen had to confess that he heard the whistle of the four bul- lets unpleasantly close.

“You have a right*to be proud, Mr. Cullen,” I said. “You fellows did a tremendously plucky thing, and, thanks to you, we didn’t lose anything.”

Mr.

‘But you went to help, too, Gordon,” said Miss Culien.

That made me colour up, and after ® moment's hesitation, I said :— “I'm not going to sail under false colours, Miss Cullen. When I went forward, I didn’t think I could do any- thing I supposed whoever had pitch- ed into the robbers was dead, and I

} the same inside of ten

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told him What all (ie stagé*afrhnge- ments had been completed, end pro- mised to join him there in case my luck was good. Then I saw Frederic for a moment to see how he was (for 1 had nearly forgotten him in the ex- citement), to find that he was gaining

al! the time and preparing even to wet up When I returned to the sa- loon, the rest of the party were there, and I said good-bye to the captain ind Albert, Then I turned to Lord Ralles, and, halding out my hand, said Lord Ralles, I joked a little the other morning about the way you thought road agents ought to be treat- ed You have turned the joke very neatly and pluckily, and I want to apologize fo myself and thank you ailro: I Nei ras l l, air- ily } tere, , ; \ } nel I never « ) \ i tem- i t ‘ I ’ hold ' f I tu n to h i t nd the thought that tl might b uur last rms ade me forget even Lord R : 4 t isn’t gcod-by, but only au said * Whether or no, ist t us see you ne time in { } I? vy s) vou how ratet ! am for all the pleasure you ve added to our trip.” Then, as I 1 4 bet ny platform, she

the rail of

218 and said in

ned over il “TI theught vou were just

a low voice,

as brave as the rest, Mr. Gordon, ané@ new I think you are braver.”

| i turned, impulsively, and said. “ You |} woule think Miss Cullen, if you knew _ the sacrifice I am making.”’ Then, without looking at her, I gave | the signi the bell rang, and No. 3 | pulled off The last thing I saw was }a handkerchief waving off the plat- i form of 218,

When the train drorped out of sight | over a grade, I swallowed the lump in | my throat and went te the telegraph | instrument ! wired Coolidge to give the alarm to Fort Wingate, Fort Apache, Fert Thomas, Fort Grant, Fort Bavard, and Fort Whipple, though I thought the precaution a mere waste of energy. Then I sent the brakesman up to connect the cut wire,

“Two of the bullets struck up here,

Mr. Gorcon,” the man called from the ton of the pole. “Surely not !" I exclaimed.

“ Yes, sir,’ he responded. tet-holes are brand new.”

I took in the lay of the land, the em- bers of the fire showing me how the train had fein. “I don’t wonder no- bedy was hit.” I exclaimed, “if that’s

“The Sul-

So we made a very jolly little breakfast.

a tample of their shooting. Some one wes a worse rattled man than I ever expect to be. Dig the bullets out, Douglas, 20 that we can have a look at them.”

He brought them down in a minute. They proved to be Winchesters, as I had expected, for they were on the side from whick. the robbers must have fired.

“That char n-ust have been full of

Arizona tarzlefcot to have fired as wild as he dis,” I ejaculated, and walked ever to where the mail-car had stood to see just how bad the

When I got there and faced about, it was really impossible tao believe any man could have done so badly, for raistng my own Winchester to the pole put it twenty degrees out of range and nearly forty degrees in the air. Yet there were the cartridge shells on the ground to show that I was in the place from which the © .,c% tad heen fired.

While I was stiil cezTiating over ‘his, the special train I had ordered out from Flagstaff came in sight, and in a few moments was stopped where I was. It consisted of a string of three flats and 2 box car, and brought the sheriff, 2 dozen cowboys, whom he had sworn in as deputies, and their horses. I was hoveful that, with these fellows’ ereater skill in such matters, they deould find what I had not, but after a thorough examination of the ground within a mile of the robbery they were as much at fault as I had been.

“Them cusses must heve a dugout nigh abouts, for they couldn’t ’a’ got away without wings,” the sheriff sur- m‘*: ed.

| didn’t put much stock in that idea and told the sheriff so.

“ Waal, round up a better one,” his retort.

Not being able to do that, I him of the bullets in the rele and took him over to

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“WM other four ?” I asked. lied, sententiouslyv. onty fired four

sy SI ‘ ts . he ret as “The road agents times,”’ I told him. “Them and your pards must have on } ty nigh together for a min- ute, then,” he said, pointing to the

and, sure enough, six empty cartridge shells. stood locking blankly at them, hard- able to believe what I saw, for Al- t Cullen had said, distinctly, that the train robbers had fired only four | times, and that the last three Win- chester shots I heard had been fired by himself. Then, without speaking, I Walked slowly..back, searching along

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the ecoe Of the ruaaved Lor More snes, but, though I went beyond the point where the last car had stood, not one did 1 find. Any man who has fired a Winchester knows that it drops its empty shell in loading, and I could therefore draw only one conclusion

namely, that all seven discharges of the Winchesters had occurred up by the mati car. I had heard of men sup-

posing they had _ (fired their guns through hearing another go off, but with a repeating rifle one has to fire before one can reload. The fact was evident that Albert Cullen either had fired his Winchester up by the mail car or else had not fired it at all. In either case he had led, and Lord Ralles and Captain Ackland had back

(To be Continued. )

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