The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-02

revOlvers aimed 0t us, etuM oleQ OAoly waving his firearms around with a looseness that caused little drops of cold precipitation to trickle down our spinal columns.
 @Get down and unhitch your team,D 7 was the next order to the driver, who obeyed with a promptness that was admirable.
 "Tom, attend to the passengers; go through that man," indicating the in side passenger.
 Now, this was passing the bounda- ries of the romantic and getting seri- ous. Your correspondent was not at all frightened, but she suddenly re- membered that she had important business in Lakeport, and really could not afford to be fooling away time in this way. She wanted to go home. She reached for her watch to see what time it was, when & sudden sense of the position of things caused little chills to wander around in various places over her, and instead of taking out her watch she let go its moorings from the second button-hole from the collar of her dress, and allowed it to slide down into the mysterious depths unmolested. She thought of her mother, and of childhood's days in the classic land of Missouri, when, in order to train her up in the way she should go, that mother had found 1t necessary to clear almost halt an acre of hazel- brush just back of the house, switch by switch. Those days seemed posi- lively heavenly. Couldn't she say something to these men to change their minds about going through the passengers? Of course, "Go through that woman's handbag" was going to be the next order. Think of all the my steries of lady's toilet being ex- posed to the cold gaze oI an unsympa- thetic road agentl Think of the per- fumery bottles, powder boxes, cold creams, etc, left to perish by the roadside! A wild, desperate resolve came in with the thought of her mother. That mother had never in her life been to Lekeport, but she would like to be if she knew what a pretty place it was, so your cor respondent piped out, pleadingly;
 "Please, gentlemen, let us go on. I have a sick mother at Lakeport wait ing for me. She may be dead before I can get there."
 The dear old mother, by the way, enjoys excellent health, but she would have been dreadfully sick could she have seen her child at this moment gazing into the depths of three gum barrels aimed at her head. So 1t was not as huge a lie as it might have been, although pretty large and un- usual for newspaper correspondent. At this point the driver added his persuasive voice, and our guards, maybe thinking they were consuming too much time, gave him permission to "hitch up and drive on," which or der, you may be sure, was obeyed with cheerful dispatch, the pistols and guns keeping us in range until we turned the first curve in the road, which took us out of sight of our friends.
 We drove on in silence for some time. Then the Santa Rosa man growled out:
 "This is the way to get to Lake county, is it?"
 Whereupon your correspondent, who represents Lake county whenever and wherever she can do 30, snapped back:
 "Please remember that this thing happened in Sonoma county. They always do occur outside of Lake county's borders"
 Again silence reigned for another mile or 30, when again the Sonoma county man ventured to speak-this time to the driver:
 "Well, and what did become of your pesky lizards, any way?"
 And how does it seem to be "held up?" Why, it seemed to me that the Lick observatory had got away from it's rightful position, and that tall leader was just aiming the big tele- scope at my devoted head, while "Tom' was keeping up the procession with two of tine smaller glasses. Since writing this letter news has come to Highland Springs that the pursuit of the robbers from Cloverdale resulted in the killing of the constable and one of the robbers, the one called "Tom."
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