The Grenada gazette., 1888-06-30
HOW IT WAS DONE.
A Lady Passengers Adventur Q
with Stage Robbers.

1t is debatable question whether /
woman has more curiosity than man.
or vice versa. However that may be
the writer Of this has always felt .
great curiosity as to just how it would
seem to be stood up by highwaymer
in the course of her travels. Duty ane
inclination calling her many time!
over the stage lines running into LAKE
County from Calistoga and Clover
dale she has heretofore felt somewha
injured and sighted that certain gen
tlemen of the road have always man
aged to arrange their little intervie W;
with the stages either just before ol
just after she has passed along. Every
other courtesy had been rendered mos
generously by the hospitable people
within the borders of this rom antic ant
charming region, Now, why did the
road agents use her so slightingly;
This question has troubled her very
much. Ii doesn't bother her any more.
Her curiosity is satisfied to her heart
content. WhyP Because she has been
there, knows just how it is done and
can now die happy.
The stage from Cloveraale TO Lake.
port swung around the corners of the
former village and took the road over
the mountains the other day, bca:tnE
three passengers besides the driver
The seat behind the driver was occu.
pied by lady with hand -bag-in
fact, between you and me-your mod
est correspondent. The other seat on
the upper deck was kept in place BY a
Santa R,sa gentleman, and one pas
sengcr was inside the coach. The air
was hector to our souls as it came
laden with all the odors of the meuat-
ain woods and blossoms. The sun
was as warm and ardent as one Of
Joaquin Miller's heroines. and. in
fact every thing was bowling along
after the most approved fashion. The
'only lady passenger was reeling off
mentally lot of verses suitable to
the occasion and half listening to the
driver and the other outside passenger,
who were swapping lizard stories.
The driver was in the midst of a
graphic account Of q section of
Arizona, where the heat was so in
tense tha. the lizards were compelled
to shed their caudal appendages to
keep cool Ths poem protoplasm had
reached the formation stage as far as
the line: "The glory OF an emerald
earth, o'erhung oy sapphire skies. "
The drivers lizards had, every
mothers son of them, dropped
his tail, the outside passenger
was getting green with envy that the
lizard story discounted his, when the
coach swung around little turn.
about three miles from CIoverdale,
and passed between two great rocks
called. from their position, the "Dev-
lis Gateway The name seemed to
us very appropriate on this occasion.
for just in the gateway we cncount-
cred, on either side of our whecers,
two gentlemen in black masks bear.
ing whole arsenal in their hands
and about their persons.
"Halt!n commanded the leader.
We're in for it." remarked our
driver.
However, we halted. 1t seemed
good place to do SO. The horses
were, perh APPS, tired, and would be
better for little rest. At any rate
we halted. 1t would, perhaps, make
one feel like doing SO 10 suddenly find
his gaze turned down the barrels of
three loaded and cooked guns, one Of
them being rifle, said barrels held
in range Of his head. 1t gives you a
queer little feeling, to be sure. and.
although it was my first appearance
on any stage in that role. tried not
to be awkward.
dump out the box commanded
the leader.
IAN right" replied the driver. who
realized that the horses might get
over the road better if they did not
have the express box to carry.
In getting out til G box he threw a
heavy mail bag on an upRer-deck sea
occupied by carefully-tended pack
age containing an extra hat freshly
trimmed with a bunch of buttercups.
belonging. Of course, to the lady
passenger.
"Oh," cried the owner, utterly OBJ
livous of circumstances, "whatever
you do, don mash my flower"
You may threaten n woman's life
with guns and pistols, you may bring