The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1888-06-30
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'Now, hold upyour handsr shouted
the captain. All hands went up, and
we assumed the attitude of the min
iSter at the closing of his sermon
when he says: Nov let us pray"
Tom. come around on this side,'
commanded the leader to his COM
rade
Tom, In endeavoring to obey orders
and at the same time keep his cooked
revolyers aimed at us. stumbled badly,
waving his firearms around with a
3ooseness that caused little drops of
cold perspiration to trickle down our
spinal columns.
Get down and unhitch your tea m,"
was the next order TO the driver, who
obeyed with promptness that was
admirable.
tom, attend to the passengers, &c
through that man." indicating the
inside passenger
Now, this was passing the bounda-
ries of the romantic and getting
serious. Your correspondent was moi
at all frightened. but she suddenly
remembered she had important bust.
ness in Lakeport md really could not
afford 10 be fooling away time in this
way. She wanted 10 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 buttonhole from the
slide down into the mysterious depths
unmolested. She thought of her
mother. and of childhooGs days in
the classic land of Missouri, when, in
order to train her up in The way she
should go that mother found it neces-
sary to clear almost half an acre of
hazel brush just back of the house,
switch by switch. Those days seemed
positively heavenly. CDIllu't she say
something to these men. TO change
their minds about going through the
passengers? OF course. Go thro Igh
that woman's handbag" was going to
be the next order Think of all the
mysteries of lady's toilet being
exposed to the cold gaz, of the un-
sympathetic road agent! Think of the
perfumery bottles. pow,ler-bo boxes. cold
creams. etc, left TO perish by the
roadside. A wild. despera' resolve
came in with the thought of her
mother. That mother ha never il
her life been to Lakeport. but she
would like 10 be if she knaw what
pretty place it was, so your corre-
spOndent pip9d out p'eldingiv:
Please, gentlemen. let us 90 o.. ].
have a sick mother at Lal1epor1 wait
ing for me. She may be dead before l
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 gun
barrels aimed at her head s. it was
not as huge lie a; it might have
been, although pretty large AMI un-
usual for newspaper correspondent.
At this point the driver added his per-
suasive voice, and our guards, may be
thinking they were consuming too
much time, gave him permission to
''hitch mp and drive on" which order,
you may be sure, was obeyed with
cheerful dispatch. the pistols and gun
keeping us in range until we had
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
growlej out:
This is the way to get 10 Lake Coun-
By, is it?"
Whereupon your correspondent, who
represents Lake County whenever and
wherever she can do so, snapped
back:
please RENE mber that this thing
happened in Sonoma County; they al
ways do occur outside of Lake Coun-
tvs borders"
Again silence reigned for another
mile or so. when again the Sonora
County man ventured to speak-this
time 10 the driver:
well, and what did become of your
oesky lizards, anyway"
And how does it seem to be "held |
lpP" Why, it seemed TO me that the
lick observatory had got away from
is rightful position. and that tall lead
sr was just aiming the big telescope at
ny head, while Tom was keeping
Up the procession with two of the
smaller glasses Since writing this
etter news has come to Highland |
Springs that the pursuit of the rob-
1ers om CloverdaIe resulted in the
Killing of the constable and one of the
'obbers. the one called Tom" Ah, |
fellow! was the game
worth the candleP eP"-San Francisco
Examiner.
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