Omaha daily bee., 1886-12-22
SHE WAS A PRETTY GIRL.
n Stage Coach Adventure Which Sur
prised a NiGi!ant Guard.

'Wel!, what [ started out to say was
that Jimmy had n deal with mighty
pretty girl once said Il resident of Dl
Ion, Nj. Il. to a New York Sun CORE.
Spondcnt. "He was down in Virginia
City and was to escort 4 treasure coach
through to Helena. The country was full
OF tough citizCns-that was before the
boys tied up the gang by the neck--and it
was known That stages with money
aboard were almost certain to be at
tackled. On the coach coming up was n
young lady IN deep mourning, about the
prcttiest girl that we had ever seen here,
and rs there was no treasures aboard
Jimmy got pretty well acquainted with
her. She could not have been more than
tWenty-slX or twenty-seven years old and
she was that handsome that when she rot
to the tavern at Virginia City the boys
went into the dining-room and ate an
extra supper all around Just for
the chance of seeing her,
Jimmy had learned something
about her. She told him that she was a
widow and that her crrand was to find
Colonel Savage, who was said to be in
this section. He was her uncle and the
administrator of her fathers estate, and
business matters made it necessary that
she should see him. Jimmy didn't know
any such man, but he said he might be
around for all that. That evening he was
very attentive to her and most of the boys
hung about the place half inclined to be
jealous.
"Ihe next morning Just as the stage
was about to start and Jimmy with his
shot gun was standing by its side, the
treasury box having been screwed on and
the driver being in his seat, the young
woman came running up, eXClaiming
that she wanted to return and would be
ready IN ten minutes if the stage would
wait. The driver grumbled, but Jimmy
yielded, and the girl soon made her ap-
pcarance. There were no other passen-
gers. After she had been seated the boys
stepped up hat in hand, and said good
by while some OF thcm-Jack Fergus
was one of them, | remember-went so
far rs to express regret that she was not
to stay longer. She laughingly replied
that she might return, and waved little
handkerchief out of the coach window as
1t rolled away. That was the last we ever
saw of her. Jimmy was inside of the
he was the luckiest chap that ever struck
Montana
But let me tell you something Less
than six hours after that pretty little
darling sailed ont of Virginia City look
ing as sweet and gentle as lamb, she
was holding one Of Jimmy's big pistols
to his ear, and he was looking two ways
III Duliisll. i iHl dltuIu Ilt WISH ! WaLtH-
ing things as close as he ought to .lave
done, but nobody blames him in those
days. We'd see II woman like that about
as often as we would a flock of angels,
and Jimmy was only Il man. lie rode ON
the inside Of the coach most of the way
until about the middle of the afternoon,
when he got out. Then she complained
of loneliness and fear, and after while !
he got inside again, Not many minutes |
after there was yollcy and yell, the |
Jimmy's hama was on his gun,
and was Just on the point OF |
making a jump, when the fair one by |
his side raised one of his reyolvers, which |
she quickly removed from his belt, and |
at his head. For second Jimmy didn't |
know which way to turn, but it was only |
n second. The driver was a good one, |
and ne was already at work with Cots |
revolver. Without hcsitating Jimmy
tried a dangerous experiment, AS he
held his shotgun, its mullle pointed to
the window where the girl sat, he saw at
2 glance that to fire it wou id not kill her,
bat it could be discharged so as 10 scare
the life out OF her, providing she was not
a regular wildcat, which he didn't believe
she was. A good deal quicker than can
tell he pulled the trigger, M the same mo.
ment reaching Tor the revolver which
The Young woman held, knocking it out
If hand. The crash of the gun was
terrific, and as it went'oH not more than
eighteen inches from her nose il para.
yzed her. She fell back on the scat IN
lead faint and Jimmy grabbing his irons
was on the ground in a jifiy. Well. the
minute the agents saw him in hghting |
rim they took to cover and ne after
hem. They kept up lively firing for
lew moments and then .immy went back
o the stage, expecting to find the girl
here but she had disappeared. The
iriyer, who had mounted ms box and
vas holding the lines in Es teeth whilc