The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-02

in the cracking OF two pistol shots that
sounded like one loud report San
| Brown had taken one step forward and
nred from each hand. The two masked
| men covering the emigrants with mis-
lois rell two ways, both dead before they
struck the ground. Crack. His right
hand pistol spoke again and one of the
searchers, as he started up. sank back
/ and lay still. The man who had start
| ed to search the little banjo pIaver
turned at the sound and held the child
before him as shield, so that Sam
could not fire without hitting the girl.
he drew his pistol as he did so. In an
instant more Sam had closed in upon
him, reached above the girls head and
smashed the robbers skull with his
heavy revolver. The fellows pistol ex-
ploded, sending the ball into the ground
as he dropped down senseless. AS he
fell the mother sprang forward and
drew the shrieking girl away.
sam fired a pistol ball into the
mans head as coolly as he might have
shot snake on the prairie. Then he
turned round to survey his work.
STOPPING over. he pulled each one of
the robbers up from the ground by the
hair or collar and tore the mask off
and looked at his face. He nodded his
head and through the dark 1 thought
o.
ton on his lips.
L knew 'em ALL he said, talking to
himself, as If no one had been round.
1t was bound to come, but | didn't
think 'twould come so SOON Four at a
lick! That's high! Reckon 1 won't
have to go to Lone Pine! I'll take a
drink now He turned to the emf
grants. where's your whiskey? Damn
it, the jugs upset.
THE emigrantS were most foo A.
moralized-and no wonderful attend
to anything, but by good luck one of
the young men found a quart bottle
that had been overlooked by the rob
bers. The stopper was sealed and Sam
Knocked off the head against the
wagon wheel, and drank from the bot
tie. He took two or three deep gulps
That's good he said. I'll take the
rest of it along with me- and he slid
the bottle into the rear pocket of his
long tailed frock coat. Il wonder if
these fellows have got anything about
'em that | want he continued, and :
went through the pockets of the dead
men. He looked their weapons over,
but threw them down. They're not up
to mine he said.
Then he turned over the canvas bag
that the robbers had put their plumber
in and picked up the money.
" There's $50 sure enough he said
I'm little short. Reckon I'll borrow
half of it. Call 1t $50 for even change
There's the rest. And he handed the
old grayhaired patriarch what was
left with an air of great considera-
ton.
I'D been working back towards my
wagon, but still could see him and hear
what was said at the emigrants' camp.
thought Sam had got through there
and would come back. and I'd rather
he'd think / didn't know all that had
been going on. But nobody could ever
tell what Sam Brown would do next at
any place or time, except that it would
pc something cussed. He had one more
hing to say to make himself agreeable
20 the migrants.
Won't we sing me that niger song
again" / heard him ask the banjo
player; asked it in that camp after
what had just happened, with four
lead men lying there, and the girl
in Mysteries. Sam gave up
MS point for once and came over to
where l was sitting by my wagon. 1t
ISN'T as a rule best to say much to a
nan that's been having a shooting
;crape until you find out whether he's
got all off the idea of killing. But 1 !
saw that Sam was in high good hui
nor -
Likely you heard some shooting | ;
,ver there he remarked. 9
Yes, | said L allowed you might
De concerned in 1t, and thought / had |
better stay to look after the outfit here. !
Hope you had good luck. 1t seems all {
luiet now over there
You bet it's quiet he said. I've ;
rot some whisl1ey. Have drink?'
Il drank some whiskey out Of a tin
up and he took a long pull from the
leck of the bottle.
Recgon I'll turn in now and get
'ome sleep. Picket my horse out to
eed. will you, if you wake in the morn ,
ng before l do.
II said certainly and he rolled him
elf in the blankets and slept as peace
ully as child until high sunrise The
migrants pulled out in the early morn '
ng, by starlight and at sunrise the I
'uzzards We're settling down on the 7
lace where they'd camped. When s
tam Brown woke he was still in good [
lumor. and | would never have be- [
ieved he could make himself so agree a
BILE. / had breakfast ready, and while I
We were eating he talked of what had {
the night before in n matter I
f-fact sort of way, but with a little {
pride. After breakfast we 8
ode different ways. 1 never saw Sam '
Brown again"
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rom the London Lancet. c