The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03

look a BIT pretty on our walls, Too green.
9ss.s ss!d Nj: Enrisht. too Jolly green And
xAN Ell NET IN TEE HILLS.
How Il Feels % Be for a. Hoar or Do Under
the Eye Of Q Chap win . Gan.
.Oncs upon q time said . Colorado mining
expert, 7 went rummasins around my State
looking for cool that was supposed to exist
and after Q long tip in . wagon I was nearing
the railroad station where I was TO resume
onoe mora q faster mode Of trave and ono
less dissgreeable and dangerous. As I drove
along the side Of Q wooded hill from which l
could catch occasional glimpsos OF the rail-
road three or four miles across the valley. and
was thanking my good fortune for 80 soon de-
uyerins mo. I was suddenly brought up with q
round turn by q man stepping out OF the bushes
and sticking an ugly looking gun straight at
me. I pulled UP my horses with great prompt
itude and the man told me TO throw up my
hands. The only thing TO do under such cir
cumstances IL 10 do as you are bid. and that
is what I did. The man did not oner TO 60
through my clothes for what I possessed, which
would have hardly paid him for the effort.
but he told me TO move up past him ill ne TOLD
me to stop. This I also did, his gun covering
me all the time. Then he climbed into the
wagon and sat on q box Of mineral specimens
I was taking back 10 Denver with me. He
never said a word after he told me TO drive
on when he had seated himself. and I didn't
say anything at first. but II wasn't hong Until
I couldn't stand It with him sitting there 40
dead still behind me. so I ventured to speak.
Excuse me. partner. said I as pleasantly
a I could, but I would like TO say to you that I
am getting mighty uncomfortable sitting here
With that gun Of yours pointing into my back
and II It's all tho same TO you. l weh you would
ait here on the seat With me. The d. gun
may 60 oil. and while I don't think you want
to hurt me intentionally you know that wouldn't
mako II any ~plessanter for me to got . bullet
In the small Of the back
''Huh!' he grlnted. arc you armsdr
I told him l was not, and he moved up and
sat down beside me. keeping his gun ready for
business. We talked some after that, but he was
not overly communicative and I felt under some
restraint and as the wagon topped the last ltse
In the road from which we. could see the station
aecpt half ala a mile niles Sy Ss,s ne ei IGoE ken nsra az fs me;
be said, on a little business. and II you say any.
thing about me 70 anybody or speak Of me at
a. and ID any Id disturbance tan nns.f cSmeSs Up I'll SHOOT you
IInk III IN 1Vu
L told him ! did thoroughly and l made up my
mind positively that l meant 10 do what prom
ised. He was silent for tho rest OF the way.
n ms Z. ~h rsme Ms bssGp sSnd f I nodded, He stroiIed
over onto the platform and went, to
the stable with my horses and came back TO
the station. knew the telegraph operator,
and when | stepped up TO the window he noticed
that something was the matter with ma and
asked me what II was. | lied str nisht BY sssur.
ing him that | never felt better in my lie; My
lata ConnapioD WAS standing list outside the
door looking in every now and then. and the
thought OF what he might be thinking meant
by talking TO the operator made me 80 nervous
air. He had moved down TO the far end. and
| concluded that / would move of in the other
direction toward : va mD the 1 1TsCt E E
struck me. If anything happened, though l
hadn't the faintest idea what y was going 70 be,
] would dodge in behind the tlmbers OF the tank
and possibly escape the bullet that was intended
TO settle the mans. account with me About
the time ] had my plans made a handicap came
down with six section hands on u who had
seen me drive up to the station with the man
and his gun. They had seen him loafing about
the platform. and right away wanted TO know
who my friend was. told them didn't
picked him up on the road and given him a
lit, They informed MI that TO their notion
he was a train robber and they proposed TO
E so~. R'm and an; t !hsyy i TsIs T sR''te'iE L % %ss1%' TO-
tackle a fellow with a gun, so they began TO
calculate among themselves how, TO get their
fast as | could 1Is and in in such a way that the Object ct
Of their suspicion could see that was not IN
their miI:up.
than ever, and tie report that the train was
two hours late only made matters worse. ]
might be shot 30 full Of holes In that, Ian 9Th Of
time, they could strain gravel through me. and
/ didn't know what kind OF trouble those sec
ton hands were negotiating, for themselves
and more especially for me who had had bis
notification OF what would happen when the
too, aud as faithful to my trust as II the fellow
had been the best man on earth.
The section hands moved down to the plat
their dinner buckets and began looking around
for q good place to spread their lunch. l had
come back 70 the platform after them and the
dred yards TO an old corral and was walking
around there as II that was all he had TO do. One
Of the section hands suggested that they might
get sss1 him n S d .Ss,s e 5.s9ss O. s sDs, rsrSsp NH Il n ,u Ssd
been hiding In the hills very long he was hungry
enough to AJAX to Join them. The proposition
was accepted At once. and, the crowd went over
IN 60 along. but wasn't a bit hungry, though I
was a. hollow inside as an empty barrel, Under
the circumstance / couldn't have eaten am
ever. wasn't feeling that way. for as soon as he
saw the food spread ont temptingly before him
he went right up and asked II he couldn't have |"
DUO Nlul lHt udulilOlldl IbrUllhIlIN VI tHt
plains, the entire gang Of section hands insisted
on his sharing their dinner, and he set TO with n
will. He ate ike a man who hadn't eaten for a
long time and he was soon 80 absorbed in IL that
he forgot his caution and let 60 of his gun, In n
minute a section hand had It and in another min
ute they piled on top Of him, and while some
held him others tied him and then they stood
him on his feet and started him over To the plat
form TO walt for the train which was reported at
tho next station below. was a good deal easier
In my mind when I saw the ugly cuss fixed 40 he
couldn't train his gun on me, but II did not add
TO my comfort to have to listen 10 the fearful
way in which he cursed me for everything vile
and shameful in having betrayed him. told
him I had not and all the others did the same,
but he would not listen and kept II up. adding
all kinds Of f~rightiul threats until the train
came and they tied him in the baggage car and
] got n seat as close Ia the far end OF the train as
] could. Who he was or what he was nobody
knew then, and ! never did find out, but | g,ess
he was a train robber all right and got his dose.
for I never saw or heard Of him agnin, and I was
on the lookout for a good many years, because /
knew II We ever met there was going TO be shoot
ing to kill"