Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-10

''Then I'll have TO serve an attach.
ment on the OUTFIT; that's ALL" said the
man.
"Let us see your papers," said Fisk,
stepping up TO the side of the buggy.
The man unbuttoned his coat and he.
gan 10 tumble In his pockets. AS ne
did so ] noticed sherifTs shield pin
ned on his vest front
"Confound the luckw he exclaimed
angrily. '1've left them back ut Fort
Scott. But never mind. It's all straight
enough anyway. don't think you will
doubt my authority" And he exposed
his shield TO us.
"Well," cried Fisk wrathfully, II
don't think you will attach anything
here without the papers, perhaps not
then"
"Forewarned, fOrcarmcd,' laughed
the sheriff as lie glanced at the steam
kissing from the crack around the cyl
inder head. Il don't think that you
will be APP to run away with the prop
erty before can serve the papers"
And then he drove quickly away in the
direction OF Fort Scott.
Say. sheriff" called after him. He
stopped his horse and looked back. "ls
this bin of Gleason's all straight or Is
It n game OF his to fleece usY'
The sheriff laughed a little at this,
and then he said: well, to tell the
truth. his ways are a little dark. |
know him. lie likes 10 catch n tender
foot occasionally. but he's got the adj
vantage OF you fellows all right be-
cause he's got the law on his side"
Fisk was about TO make some sharp
reply, but shook my head warningly
at him. and the sheriff went on.
at won't do TO make him mad" l
said. I'VE are In bad fix. and 1t will
only make matters still worse to get
the officials down on u.s."
But" grOaned Fisk, ito think what
q precious pair of fools we areg'
Eyes. it's pretty tough. old man." I
remarked sadly, "all our money and all
our prospects gone at one sweep and All
owing to the rascnlIty Of that Glea.
son and our greenness."
"Clayton." exclaimed a moment
later, sprnging up electrified with an
idea, bring me your rubber boots, and
step quick too"
lie brought them wonderingly. and
quickly slit open the legs and then
drew several circles upon the rubber
and began cutting them out with my
knife.
81 guess this will work all right for
little while. II il does" | cried. Eve
may give them the slip yet. Break up
that old tar barrel and stick II In the
fire box. If | can get the cylinder to
hold its steam, I'll bet five to four that
We can outtravel that apology Of
horse the sheriff had"
Not u breath Of mir was stirring. and
the dense black smoke from the burn
Ing tar barrel rose from our funnel
perpendicularly In the clear morning
sunshine. giving our pursuers an ink
ling Of our intentions before they could
have otherwise imagined It possible for
US to escape. The smoke could be
plainly seen at Fort Scott, which was
about three miles away. ! soon had the
packing rings cut out and the cylinder
heads bolted back into place again,
and all we could do now was TO
wait for the steam to rise before we
could start. and II seemed rs II the In
dicator never moved so slowly before.
II we could only get back over the line
Into Missouri, the laws there would
protect us and we would save the
Comic, Only ~ miles lay between us
and the border line. Could we reach
II before they overlook usf
The gauge showed 100 pounds pres
sure. I threw the governor belt Off. so
that we could travel TO the full ca
paclty OF our power without being au-
Dramatically checked. Then | pulled
open the throttle. and the next mo-
ment we were rolling out across the
open prairie toward Missouri In race
with the stake of $1,000.
The Comic did nobly. With n roar
like small thunder she bclched up huge
clouds of black smoke and steam and
fairly Qulvered with the full pressure
upon her as she rolled along. Now
and then we ran afOul n line of barbed
wire fence, but We tore through II like
q network o Irvine.
looked back just after We had got
well started and saw on II knoll about
a mile back the pursuing party-thrpe
Of them, the sheriff and two men with
him In his buggy. and their horse nj Il
run-and then opened the throttle n
little wider. II was now all II ques-
ton of speed. II they overlook US be
fore We reached the state line, they
might take Us and our machine too.
If, however we crossed first, we
should he beyond their Jurisdiction,
end they could not serve the attach
ment One, two, four miles we passed
over, our engine nj full speed. with an
average of DO pounds OF steam on. AMI