The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-04
rnat was more puzzled owe, uvnl than
was over the robbery.
CHAPTER Nv.

But she declined to do so, saying she
wanted TO know what l was going TO
telegraph. And he left us. for which
wasn't sorry. i told her of the good
news had TO send, and she wanted TO
know if now we would try to catch the
road agents. I set her mind at rest on
that score.
II think they'll give us very little
trouble to bag, added, ''for they are
so green that it's almost pitiful."
lin not cutting the wires?" she asked.
"m everything, replied. but the
worst botch is their waiting till we had
just passed the Arizona line. If they had
held us up an hour earlier, it would only
have been states prison.
"And what will it be now?"
Hanging.
"What?" cried Miss Cullen.
SIN New Mexico train robbing is not
capital, but in Arizona it is 4" 1 told her.
"And if you catch them they'll be
hung?" she asked
Eyes"
"That seems very hard"
The first signs of dawn were begin
ming to show by this time, and as the
sky frightened told Miss Cullen that
was going to look for the trail of the
| fugitives. She said she would walk with
me, if not in the way, and my assurance
was very positive on that point. And
here / want to remark that it's saying a
good deal if girl can be up all night
in such excitement and still look fresh
and pretty, and that she did.
l ordered the crew to look about, and
then began big circle around the train.
Finding nothing, / swung bigger one,
That being equally unavailing, I did a
larger third. Not trace of foot or hoof
within half mile of the cars had
heard of blankets laid down to conceal q
| trail Of swathed feet, even of leathern
horse boots with cattle hoofs on the bot
tom, but none of these could have been
used for such distance, let alone the
entire absence of any signs Of place
where the horses had been hobbled. Re-
turning to the train, the report Of the
men was the same.
We've ghost road agents to deal
with, Miss Cullen" laughed. "They
come from nowhere, bullets touch them
not, their lead hurts nobody, they take
nothing, and they disappear without
touching the ground
"How curious it is'' she exclaimed.
Zone would almost suppose it a dream I"
"Hold on, !" said. 1--WE do have some
thing tangible, for if they disappeared
they left their shells behind them P"
And pointed to some cartridge shells
that lay on the ground beside the mail
car. My theory of aerial bullets won t
do"
1.-THE shells are as hollow as I feel, {"
laughed Miss Cullen.
"YOur suggestion reminds me that
am desperately hungry" / said. Sup
pose we go back and end the famine. "
Most of the passengers had long since
returned to their seats or berths, and
Mr.. Cullen's party had apparently. done
the same, for 21S showed no signs of
! life. One of my darkies was awake, and
he broiled steak and made us some
coffee in no time, and just as they were
ready Albert Cullen appeared So we
made very jolly little breakfast. lie
told me at length the part he and the
Britishers had borne and only made me
marvel the more that any one of them
was alive, for apparently they had jump
ed OF the car without the slightest pro-
caution and had stood grouped together
even after they had called attention to
themselves by Lord Rallies shots Cul-
len had TO confess that he heard the
whistle of the four bullets unpleasantly
close
"You have q right to be proud Mr..
Cullen" / said. lyon fellows did a
tremendously pluclzy thing, and, thanks
to you, we didn't lose anything"
But you went to help, too, Mr.. Cor
don, F." said Miss Cullen.
That made me color up, and after q
moments hesitation | said:
I'm not going to sail under false
colors, Miss Cullen. When ! won't FOR
ward, 1 didn't think l could do any
thing. supposed whoever had pitched
into the robbers was dead and expect.
ed to be the same inside of ten minutes. u
"Then why did you risk your life, u
she asked, eff you thought it was use
less?"
/ laughed, and, though ashamed to
| tell III, Sdlu, Il ultlu WANT you VI tnlllh
that the Britishers had more pluck than
I had
She took my confession better than
hored sAe would saqghing with me,
and then said, "Well. that was cou.~
! geous, after all. +"
Eyes" 1 said. Twas frightened into
bravery"
Perhaps if they had known the dan
ger as well as you, they would have
been less courageous" she continued
And could have blessed her for the
speech.
While we were still eating, the mai
clerk came to my car and reported thai
the most careful search had failed II
discover the three registered letters, ant
they had evidently been taken. This
made me feel sober, slight as the prob
able loss was. He told me that his lis
showed they were all addressed to Ash