The sun., 1896-08-02

room and ont into the night.
Having done his duty in removing the red
man 6sde the 6srkeepcr good might and d. passed
ont by the back door. The three men at the
An this occurred in tho last half of the clos.
Ing hour Of the week. Thirty minutes later,
the Black Rear Correi. e was @ Sunday away but % tRo
| people OF Ruby Camp took no note of time.
s POUND tSe Gn Sars ss San an
his eompnnions at the top of the range over
.Soy 1ss wr ,D %
across the park and disappeared at the en-
An night they had ridden single file, but now,
as they entered the broad valley, they punched
The dark man Kept his eyes upon a barren
peak that stood at the foot of the valley, where
mesa. seemed to tumble into the caion as swift
| Niagara tumbles over the falls. at that point
PSF{ S The f SaGe
able TO read both print and writing. Ind no.
,iced 2 paragraph in the Denver TtibIne n uS to
TO-. lie had been assured by hi. own banker
First National Of Denver: Being "a a man ma OF
funds for the new bank would in ali probability
leave Denver SATURDAY nisht. and 20 up from
That was Why he wished to take the train.
| =, When they had crossed the valley and entered
e o sae canon ana Which Rsg MSd
them down to the main Gulch. Having found
2 proper r"yine they watered and grasscd their
horses and had breakfast.
man made out from the tim, card which he
r, n. 1t tive would probably be 5:oo or s:l5
when It passed the mouth of the little rill,
Having SresEtastod Hf GMSSi and Smoked, the men
stretched themselves upon the ground, all save
| The leader. leaning aQNinst n covered
| spruce tree, watched a black storm that was
brewing in the hills TO the north. Presently
waterfall. and the dark man knew that cloud
| had given way but, as the main gulch was be-
tween him and the storm, he gave the matter
| no serious thought.
leaving their horses, descended TO the mali
gulch. only TO find that there was no railroad
Of the rather severe temperance, lectures he
| had received the evening before. looked at the
seoEed and
| try and knew that the road had been there.
they y'sasn so e 'S eSd
track and knew for surety that no train
would come up the sulch that day =, s,.o
pointment. but quietly dismissed his men and
watched them ride away toward the sunset.
ever ready rifles resting across their saddles.
For himself he would have no rifle. Only a
ca ry cannon M to do the " work t Of IA fort forityfye
When the Others had passed out OF sis ht the
dark man reined his "wn horse down the caIon
intending. since he near, TO visit his
wife at the junction. The recent washout had
lef; the bed OF the gulch alm9st impassaeMle, d
lying IKE living thing that had fallen asleep
pick which he found on the engine, The little
moved all the explosives from the car this ex-
perienced mountaineer quietly blew up the
was no money in it. By the light Of the en-
gneer's torch he managed 70 read letter that
Left asrs t by , the aRe
the explorer finished reading II he gave low.
soft thistle Of surprise: not much :, 40! above a
From the car he returned to the engine, and
with the clinker hook hshed an old clay-
had cached the sack in the bed OF the river he
hurried away in the direction OF the junction.
though though h he were were bent ben. up upon T new and i'm
| portant mission.
There was great excitement when we arrived
at the junction without the express, mes
| senRer, who acted as postal clerk as well.
When the local express agent learned that
the messenger was not with the rescued party
him. and that no one could remember having
seen him since we stopped. and he was seen
pouch ana some packages Of express matter
bearing red seals. he began to wire in al! di,
! rectlODe. IN u ltLle WHllt HCuHteu Lltii NtIc
dasning out toward the hills SO as 10 he ready
to take the trail at dawn. ,
the Pss ad h.n the
| cumstauces. and cleared out with the wealth
in his possession, A thousand dollars reward
| was offered for the capture of the messenger.
including, himself and put out for the ,. scene .
leave town. and as they all Knew tho country.
were soon upon the ground where the, the open Pa
| safe they argued, had been blown up by tho
messenger for a blind, but they would not be
fooled
The messenger. it would seem. had remained
in the vicinity OF .ne washout until the train i
and ths1 Iet 0H Hill
With these he filed his pockets: The gold he
must leave, for the journey would be u tire
him. was extremely rough. :,
At times he found himself at the bottom of
deep gorge and again at the top Of steep
blun and saw before him black and appar-
the frehSs Stars Wond sude Rm
PEAK Sspd S1E high sast ASas' %as while at fy
I Greenhorn range rose rough and abrupt to the
west. But when he had been upon his journey
less than an hour gray cloud , hung 81, IKE ga
lisht from the heavens and obscrred the earth.
Instead OF waiting for the mists TO clear away.
so so FAR far as any knowledge Of the points Of the
compass was concerned. He might. for ii,. Tha,
| the States prison.
At last having reached what appeared to be
| the summit OF a little hill, he sat down upon a
hinge rock to rest. As he sat there he h thought ought
stenninp abont on n stone floor Present. y
the cloud rolled away. and although the valley ;!s
above and the craRs OF the main range stood
out clean cut against & the weSteTn S SKY bofnTe It
lie way below him, hid in the mist lay the
junction.
h,ited tn a small basin and were waiting for
the clouds TO clear away The sheriff insisted e d
that he had heard man cough. and now the
iitrie marty were sitting their horses In silence,
which was broken only by the nervous tramp a5 tbs
SheriT, pointing tn the rock above them. II
should It was bear sitting on ms t haqnSG ia
With a cart ridge" continued the last speaker.
at that moment one If the u h9Fses 5s 5,s gave
sanaer rose from the rock and stood out against
dark blue Ky Cni now he had S Sfs9 sI1
SnSab,, lonk ~ "a bear but when he stood III