The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-11-26

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"Let me say a aDord before you pull"
port, ana the other covering her heart.
1t was too far for me to see her face,
but the whole attitude expressed such
suffering that it was terrible to soc.
What was more, her position put her in
range of every shot the cowboys might
fire at the five as they charged. If I
could have stopped them, would have
done SO; but, since that was impossible,
cried:
"Mr. Camp, I'll surrender the let
ters."
"Hold on, boys" shouted Baldwin.
"Wait till we get the property he stole. "
And, coming through the crowd, he
threw the moose off my neck.
Don't shoot, Mr.. Cullen" I yelled,
as my friends halted and raised their
rifles, and fortunately the cowboys had
opened up enough to lot them hear NE
and see that was free Of the rope.
Escorted by Camp, Baldwin and the
cowboys, l walked toward them. On
the way Baldwin said in q low voice:
Deliver the letters, and Well tell the
boys there has been mistake. Other
wise
When he came up to the five, called
to them that had agreed to surrender
the letters. While was saying it Miss
Cullen Joined them, and it was curious
to SEE how respectfully the cowboys
took off their hats and fell back.
lyon are quite right" Mr. Cnllen
called "Give them the letters at once"
ooh, do. Mr.. Gordon" said Madge,
still white and brvathless with emotion
'The money is nothing. Don't thing
It was all she could say.
felt pretty small, but with Camp
and Baldwin, now re-enforced by Judge
Wilson, l went to the station, ordered
the agent to open the safe, took out the
three letters and handed them to Mr.
Camp, realizing how poor Madga must
have felt on Hance's trail.
Just as he took them we heard out
side the first note Of bugle and as it
sounded by tours, column left" my
heart gave a big jump and the blood
came rushing to my face. Camp, Bald
win and Wilson dashed out of the door,
and | wasn't two feet behind them.
There was squadron Of cavalry swing
ing q circle round the station, and We
had barely reached the platform when
the bugle sounded "Halt," quickly fol-
lowed by forward left" As the ranks
wheeled and closed up as solid line
about us could have cheered with de-
light. There was q moments dramatic
hush, in which we could all hear the
breathing of the winded horses, and
then came the chatter Of sword and
spurs as an officer sprang from his sad,
die.
II want Richard Gordon" the Off
Ger called .'''
said, "At your service and badly
in need of yours, Captain Singer"
"Hope the delay hasn't spoiled
things" said the captain. 1--WE had
cursed fool Of a guide, who took the
wrong trail and ran us into Limestone
canyon, where we had to camp for tho
night"
Icxplained the situation as quickly
as could, and the captain s eyes gleam-
ed. "Id have given bad quarter to
have got here ten minutes sooner and
ridden my men over those scoundrels,"
he muttered II saw them scatter rs
we rode up, and if I'd known what
they'd been doing we'd have given
them a volley." Then he walked over
to Mr.. Camp and said, "Give me those
letters"
81 hold those letters by virtue Of an
ORDER Camp began
"Give ME those letters" the captain
interrupted.
'Do you intend a high handed inter
ference with the civil authorities?"
Judge Wilson demanded.
Come come" said the captain.
"You lave taken forcble possession Of
the United States property Any talk
about civil authorities is rubbish, and
you know it.
II will never cried Mr.. Camp.
Corporal jackson, disnount a guard
Of six menu rang the captains voice,
interrupting him.
Evidently something in the voice or
order convinced Mr.. Camp, for the let
ters were hastily produced and given to
Singer, who at once handed them to me.
] turned with them to the Cullcns, and,
laughing, said, "Alls we'll that ends
well
But they didn't seem to care bit
about the recovery of the letters and
only wanted to have handshake all
round over my escape. Even Lord Rallies
said "Glad we could be Of little serv.
ice and didn't refuse my thanks,
though the deuce knows they were bad
ly enough expressed, in my conscious
ness that had done an ungentlemanly
trick over those trousers of his and that
he had been above remembering it when
I was in real danger. I'm ashamed
enough to confess that when Miss Gull
len held ont her hand | made believe
not to see it, I'm bad hand at PRETEND
ing, and saw Madge color up at my
act.
The captain finally called me off to
consult about our proceedings. I felt no
very strong love for Camp Baldwin Or
Wilson, but didn't see that military
arrest would accomplish anything, and
after little discussion it was decided
to let them Alone as We could well af-
ford to do, having won.
This matter decided, said to the
captain: "I'll be obliged if you II put
guard round my Car. And then, if you
and your officers will come inside, I
have a-something in bottle recon-
mended for removing alkali dust from
the tOnsils."
VERY happy to test your prescrip-
tion," said Singer genially.
started to go with him, but could
not resist turning to Mr.. Camp and his
friends and saying: