New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-08-07
they saw the dominoes and revolvers Of

oet ms 70 be somethlDg the matter,
gentlemen" said the colonel, blandly, as
he opened the door. s.Won't you please
get out? Don't trouble yourself to draw
COS my friend here's got his weapon
cooked an his fingers is rather nervous.
Amt got a hand erchief, hev yer?" asked
he of the first passenger who descended
from the stage. s Hev2 Well now, that's
lucky. just put your hands behind you,
please so that's it, And the untor-
tunate man was securely bound in an in
instant.
The remaining passengers were treated
with like courtesy, and the colonel and
his friends examined the pockets of the
captives. Old Black rem. lined unmolest-
ed, for who ever heard Of stage driver
having monevs i:sa IS M
Boys said the colonel, calling his
brother agents aside and comparing re-
ceipts, ''tain t much of haul; but there
is only one wo nan, an she's old enough
to be a feller's grandmother. Better let
her alone, eh2'
"Like enough SMELL pan out more'n all
the rest Of the stage put together" growl-
ed Cranks, carefully testing the thickness
Of the case Of a gold watch. "Jest like
the low lived deceitfulness Of some folks
to hire an old woman to carry their money
so it'd go safer. Mebbe what she's got
amt nothin' to some folks that's got
bosses, that kin win 'em money at races.
but
The colonel abruptly ended the con-
versation and approached the stage. He
was very chivalrous, but Crank's sarcas-
tic reference to Tipsie needed avenging,
and as he could not consistently with
business arrangements put an end to
Cranks, the old lady would have to suffer.
II beg your pardin, ma'am," said the
colonel, raising his hat politely with one
hand while he opened the coach door
with the other, shut we're taking up
collection fur some deserving object. We
wuz agoin' to make the gentlemen fork
over the hull amount, but ez they hain't
got enough, we will hev to bother YOU"
The old lady trembled, felt for her
pocket book, raised her veil. The col
onel looked into her face slammed the
stage door, and sitting on the hub of one
of the wheels, stared vacantly into space.
"Nothin2" queried Perkins in whis-
per, and with face full Of genuine sym
patby.
"No-yes," said the colonel, dreamily
''Tnat is, unite 'em and let the stage go
ahead" he continued, springing to his
feet. ''I'll hurry back to the cabin"
And the colonel dashed into the bushes
and left his followers so paralyzed with
establishment that Old Black afterwards
remarked that s'ef ther'd been anybody
<o hn ~
hull crowd with his WHIP
The passengers, now relieved of their
weapons, were unbound, allowed to enter
the stage, and the door was slammed;
upon which Old Black picked upon his
reins as coolly as if he had lain them
down at station while the horses were
being changed; then he cracked his whip
and the stage rolled of, while the colonel:s
party fastened back to their hut, fondly
inspecting as they went certain TASKS they
had obtained while transacting their
business with the occupants of the stage.
| Great was the surprise of the road
agents as they entered their hut, for there
stood the colonel in clean white shirt,
and in suit of clothinp made from the
limited spare wardrobes OF the other
members OF the gang.
| But the suspicious Cranks speedily
subordinated his wonder 20 his prudence
as, laying on the table watch, tive
pistols, a pocket-book and heavy purse,
he exclaimed
"Come, Colonel, business before pleas
ure; let's divide an scatter. Eff any body
should hear about il an find our trial, an
ketch the traps in our possession, they
might
! s.Divide yourselves!" said the col mel,
with abruptness and q great oath. II
don't want none of it."
'sColonel," said Perkins, removing his
own domino, and looking axiously into
the leaders face, tsbe you sick? Here's
some bully brandy which / found in one
Of tho passengers pockets
II haint nothin','' replied the colonel
with averted eyes. sim goin', ana I'm
a retirin' from this business forever"
"Ain't a-agoin' to turn evidenced"
cried Cranks, grasping the pistol on the
table. If 1t 81; Il u
"1'm a-goin' to make a lead mine. of
you il you don't take that back !" roared
the colonel, with bound which caused
ECranks to drop the pistol and retire pre-
Ecipitately, apologizing as he went. I'm
goin 10 tend to my own business an
that's enough to keep any man bizzy.
Somebody lend me fifty dollars till see
them again. =
Perkins pressed the money into the
colonel's Land, and within two minutes
the colonel was on Npsie's back and gal.
Hoped on in the direction the stage had
taken.
/ He overlook il, he, passed it, and still