Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-31

brown hair, the bluest Of eyes, fresh
skin aud a fine figure, dressed so nattily
as to be to me, after my. four years Of
western life, sight for tired eyes. She
greeted me pleasantly, made neat lit
tie apology for having kept Us waiting,
and tt IN we all sat down.
It AS a very jolly breakfast table,
Mr.. Cullen and his son being capital
takers and Lord Rallies a good third,
while Miss Cullen was quick and clever
enough to match the three. Before the
meal was over I game to the conclusion
that Lord Rallies was in love with Miss
Cullen, for he kept making low asides
to her, and from the fact that she allow
ed them, and indeed responded, drew
the conclusion that he was q lucky beg
gar, feeling, confess a little pang that
q title was going to win such a nice
American girl.
One of the first subjects spoken Of
was train robbery, and Miss Cullen, like
most fasteners, seemed to take great
interest in it and had any quantity of
questions to ask me.
"I've left all my jewelry behind, ex-
cept my watch" she said, "and that I
hide every night. So really hope we'll
be held up, it would be such an adven-
ture.
"There isn't any chance Of it, Miss
Cullen" I told her, land if we were,
you probably wouldn't even know that
it was happening, but would sleep right
through it."
"Wouldn't they try to get our money
and our watches?" she demanded.
I told her no and explained that the
express and mail cars were the only
ones to which the road agents paid any
attention. She wanted to know the way
it was done; so described to her how
sometimes the train was tagged by
danger signal, and when it had slowed
down the runner found himself covered
by armed men, or how gang would
board the train, one by one, at way sta
tions, and then, when the time came,
steal forward, secure the express agent
and postal clerk, climb over the tender
and compel the runner to stop the train
at some lonely spot Oh the road. She
made me tell her all the details Of such
robberies az I knew about, and, though
I had never been concerned i'll any, l
was able to describe several, which, as
they were monotonously alike, confess
I colored up bit here and there, in an
attempt to make them interesting to
her. I seemed to succeed, for she kept
the subject going even after we had left
the table and were smoking our cigars
in the observation saloon. Lord Rallies
had lot to say about the American
lack of courage in letting trains con-
tanning 20 and 80 men be held up by
half dozen robbers.
"Why," he calculated, "both my
brother and have double express with
us, and do you think we'd sit still in
our seats? No. Hang me if we wouldn't
pot somethingl'
"You might" I laughed, little
nettled, confess, by his speech, "but
I'm afraid it would be yourselves.
cav, you fancy resistance impossi-
ble?" drawled Albert Cullen.
"It has been tried, answered, "and
without success. You can see it's like
all surprises-one side is prepared be-
fore the other side knows there is dan
ger. Without regard to relative num-
bers, the odds are all in favor Of the
road agents.
But I wouldn't sit still, whatever
the odds," said his lorlship. "And no
Englishman would"
"Well, my lord," said, II hope, for
your sake, then, that you'll never be in
hold up, for I should feel about you
as the runner of a locomotive did when
the old lady asked him if it wasn't very
painful to him to run over people. Yes,
madam he sadly replied. There is
nothing that muses. al engine up so. ,"
don't think Miss Cullen liked Lord
Rallies comments OH American courage
any better than did, for she said:
Cant you take Lord Rallies and
Captain Ackland into the service of the
K and A., Mr.. Gordon, as a special
guard?"
"Thc K. and A. has never had a rob-
berry yet, Miss Cullen" replied, land
I don't think that it ever will have"
"Why not?' she asked.
| I explained to her no Y the canyon Of
the Colorado to the north and the dis
tance of the Mexican border to the south
made escape so almost desperate that
the road agents preferred to devote then
attentions to other routes. IF we We're
boarded, Miss Cullen" I said, your
jewelry would be as safe as it is in Chi
cago, for the robbers would only clean
out the express and mail cars. But if
they should so far forget their manners
as to take your trinkets I'd agree to re-
turn them to you inside of one week. "
"That makes it all the jollier," she
cried eagerly. "We could have the fun
of the adventure and yet not lose any
thing. Can't you arrange for it. MIR.
Gordon?"
"I'dlike to please you, Miss Cullen, I"
said, land I'd like to give Lord Rallies
chance to show us how to handle those
gentry, but it's not to be done. " real
" should have been glad to have the
road agents pay US call.
We spent that day pulling up the Ra-
ton pass, and so Oh over the Glorietta
pass down to Lamy, where, as the party
wanted to Sc Santa Fe, had our two
cars dropped off the overland, and we
ran up the branch line to the old Mexi-
can city. 1t was well worn ground to
me, but I enjoyed showing the sights to