Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-06-02


enough 10 match the three. Before the
meal was OVER came to the conclusion
that Lord Rallies VS. in love wi h Miss
Cullen, fo- he kept making low asides
10 her and from the fact that she allow
cd them, ard indeed responded, ] drew
the conclusion that he was "A lucky beg
rar, feeling, l confess, little plng that
a title was going 10 win such nice
American girl.
One Of the fist subjects spoken Of
was train robbery, and Miss Cullen, like
most CaS;crrCrs. sccmCd 10 take great
interest i'll it and had any quantity of
questions TO ask nc
1--WE left all my jcwclry behind, cx-
cCpt my watch, " she said, land that !
hide every night. 80 really hope we'll
be held up, it would lo such an CdvCn-
turc. a"
There isn't any chance Of it, Miss
Cullen, told he, land if wo We're,
you probably wouldn't even lnow that
it was happening, but would sleep right
through it. "
"Wouldn t they try to Get our money
and our watChcs?" she demanded
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
il was done; so l described to her how
sometimes the train was Tagged by
danger signal, and when it had slowed
down the ruVuCr found himself covered
| by armed mon, or how n gang would
board the train, ono 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 on the road. She
made me tell her all the details of such
robbcries as knew about, and, though
! had never been concerned i'll any,
| was able to describe several, which, as
they were monotonously alike, l confess
| colorcd up bit here and there, in IN
attempt to make them interesting to
her. | seemed 10 succeed, for she kept
the subject going even after we had left
the table and We're smoking our cigars
i'll the observation saloon. Lord Rallies
had Il lot TO say about the American
lack Of courage IL letting trains con-
| tanning 20 and so men be held up by
half dozen robbers.
"Why," he calculated, "both my
brother and l have Il double express with
us, and do you think we'd sit still in
our seats? No. Hang me if we wouldn't
pot sOmething!'
You might" l laughed, little
ncttlcd, / confess, by mis- speech, but
I'm afraid it would be yourselves. "
law, you fancy resistance impossi-
ble?' drawlcd Albert Cullen.
at has been tried, II answered, land
without success. You can see it's like
all surprises-Onc side is prepared be-
fore tho other side knows there is dan
ger Without regard to relative num-
bcrs, the odds arc all i'll favor of the
road agents.
But wouldn't sit still, whatever
the odds, said his lordship. And no
Englishman would.
"Well, my lord, >" l said, Il hope, for
your sake, then, tina. you'll never be in
hold up fer l should feel about you
as the runner Of 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. IN engine up so. >"
don't think Miss Cullen liked Lord
Rallies comments on American courage
any better than l did, for she said:
Cant you take Lord Rallies and
Captain Ackland into the service Of the
K. and A.. Mr.. Gordon, as special
guard"
The K. and a. has never had rob-
berry yet, Miss Cullen" replied, land
don't think that it ever will have"
"Why not?" she asked.
explained to her how 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 their
attentions to other routes. IF we were
Boarded, Miss Cullen" I said, your
iewelry would be as safe us 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 1t all the jollicr, " she
cried eagerly. 1--WE could have the fun
of the adventure and yet not lose any
thing. Can't you arrange for it, Mr..
GOrdOn?"
"Id like to please you, Miss Cullen"
l said, land I'd like to give Lord Rallies
a chance to show us how to handle those
gentry, but it's not to be done" I real
" should have been glad to have tho
road agents pay us call.
We spent that day pulling up the Ra-
ton pass, and SO on over the Glorietta
pass down to Lamy, where, as the party
wanted to see 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 enjoyed showing the sights to
Miss Cullen, for by that time l had
come to the conclusion that had mover
met swceter or jollier girl Her beauty,
too, was of kind that kept growing on
one, and before I had known her "a
hours, without quite being in love with
her. l was beginning to hate Lord
Rallies, which was about the same
thing, l suppose. Every hour convinced
me that the two understood each other,
not mercly from the little asides and
condolences they kept exchanging, but
even more so from the way Miss Cullen
would take his lordship down occasion
ally. Yet, like fool, the more saw to
confirm my first diagnosis the more I
found myself dwelling on the dinlplcs
at the corners Of Miss Cullens mouth,
the bewitching uplift of her upper lip,
the runaway curls about her neck and
the curves and color Of her cheeks.
Half q day served to see everything