Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-10
az shall have to report the case to O,

have to fear, provided time is given
me-"
II have dismissed the sheriff and his
posse, and I gave them 500 for their
work and three bottles Of pretty good
whisky I had on my car. Unless they
get orders from elsewhere, you will not
hear any further from them"
"You must let me reimburse what
expense we have put you to, Mr.. Cor
don. T only wish I could as easily repay
your kindness"
Nodding my head in assent as well
as in recognition Of his thanks, I con-
tinued, "It was my duty as an official
Of the Z. & A. to recover the stolen
mail, and I had to do it.
"We understand that" said Mr.. Cul-
len, land do not for moment blame
you"
But" I went on, for the first time
looking at Madge, 1T is not my duty
to take part in q contest for control Of
the K. & A., and I shall therefore act
in this case as I should in any other loss
Of mail"
"And that isl asked Frederic.
''I am about to telegraph for instruc-
tions from Washington, said "As
the G. S. has tied up some Of your
proxies, they ought not to object if we
do the same, and think I can manage
so that Uncle Sam will prevent those
proxies from being voted at Ash Forks
on Friday"
If galvanic battery had been applied
to the breakfast table, it wouldn't have
made bigger change. Madge clapped
her hands in joy. Mr.. Cullen said
"God bless youp' with real feeling.
Frederic jumped up and slapped me on
the shoulder, crying, Gordon, you're
the biggest old trump breathing" while
Albert and the captain shook hands with
each other in evident jubilation. Only
Lord Rallies remained passive.
"Have you breahasted?" asked MIR.
Cullen when the first joy was over.
Eyes" said .'T only stopped in on
my way to the station to telegraph. "
"May I come with you and see what
you say?" cried Fred, jumping up.
nodded, and Miss Cullen said ques-
tioningly, "Me too?" making me very
happy by the question, for it showed
that she would speak to me. In q mo-
ment we were all walking toward the
platform. Despite Lord Rallies, I felt
happy, and especially as I had not
dreamed that she would ever forgive me.
took a telegraph blank, and, put
ting it so that Miss Cullen could see
what I said, wrote:
Postmaster General, Washington:
hold, awaiting your instructions, the three
registered letters stolen from No. Overland
Missouri Western express on Monday, Oct. IA.
loss Of which has already been notified you
Then I paused and said: $50 far,
that's routine, Miss Cullen. Now comes
the help for you" And I continued:
The letters may have been tampered with,
and recommend special agent. Reply Flag
staff, Arizona. RICHARD GORDON,
ST. oerintendent K. and A. R. r.
"What will that dor" she asked.
"I'm not much at prophecy, and we'll
wait for the reply" said.
All that day we lay at Flagstaff, and
after good sleep, as there was no use
keeping the party cooped up in their
car, drummed up some ponies and took
the Cullens and Ackland over to the In
dian cliff dwellings. don't think Lord
Rallies gained anything by staying be-
hind in a sulk, for it was a very jolly
ride, or at least that was what it was to
me. had to tell them all how I had
settled on them as the criminals. To
hear Miss Cullen talk one would have
inferred I was the greatest Of living de-
tectives.
"The mistake we made" she said,
"was not securing Mr.. Gordon's help to
begin with, for then we should never
have needed to hold the train up, or,
if we had, we should never have been
discovered.
What was more to me than this i'll
deserved admiration were two things
she said on the way back when we two
had paired off and were bit behind the
rest.
"The sandwiches and the whisky
were very good, she told me. "And I'm
so grateful for the trouble you took. >"
''It was q pleasure, I said.
"And, Mr.. Gordon" she continued,
and then hesitated for a moment, my
Frederic told me that you-you said
you honored me for"-
II do" exclaimed energetically as
she paused and colored.
"Do you .really?" she cried. Il
thought Fred was only trying to make
me less unhappy by saying that you
did,
"I said it, and I meant it, I told
her.
II have been so miserable over that
lie" she went on, "but thought if I
let you have the letters it would ruin
papa. I really wouldn't mind poverty
myself, Mr.. Gordon, but he takes such
pride in success that I couldn't be the
one to do it. Iought to have known you
would help us. y
thought this a pretty good time to
make a real apology for my conduct on
the trail as well us to tell her how sorry
I was at not having been able to repack
her bag better. She accepted my apology
very sweetly and assured me her be-
longings had been put away so neatly
that she had wondered who did it. l
knew she only said this out of kindness
and told her so, telling also of my strug-
giles over that pink beribboned and be-
laced affair in way which made her
laugh. Ihad thought it was ball gown
and wondered at her taking it to the
canyon, but she explained that it was a
dressing sack That made me open my
eyes, thinking that anything so pretty
could be used for the same purposes for