Cañon City record., 1901-11-21
THE GREAT K & A.
TRAIN ROBBERY,
(Continsed from paee seven.l
T'And that is''- asked Frederic.

ANA Indt aSkeu r r60erlC.
II an about to telegraph for instruc-
tions from Washington, / said. "As
the g. .. has tied up some Of your
proxies, they ought not to object If we
do Ire same. and think / can manage
80 that Uncle Sam will prevent those
proxies from being voted at Ash Forks
on Friday"
II y gaivanic battery had been applied
to the breakfast table, it wouldn't have
made bigger change. Madge clapped
her hands in joy. Mr.. Cullen said
''God bless your' with real feeling.
Frederic jumped up and slapped me on
the shoulder, crying, Gordon, you're
the biggest old trump breathing, !" while
Albert and the captain shock hands with
each other in evident jubilation. Only
Lord Rallies remained passive.
Have you breakfasfeds" asked Mr..
Cullen when the first joy was over
Yes said II only stopped in on
my way to the station to telegraph.
May come with you and see what
you say?" cried Fred. jumping up.
nodded, and Miss Cullen said ques-
tioninRly. ME too.'' making me very
happy by the question, for it showed
that she would speak 10 me. In mo
ment we were all walking toward the
platform Despite Lord Rallies, l felt
happy, and especially as / had not
dreamed that she would ever forgive me
took a telegraph blank. and, put
ting it so that Miss Cullen could see
what i said, wrote:
Postmaster General. Washington:
bold. awaiting your instructions. the three
Registered letters stolen from No. Overland
Missouri Western express on Monday, Oct. IL
loss of which has already been notified you
Then l paused and said: so far,
that's routine. Miss Cullen. Now comes
the help for you And 1 continued:
I The letters may have been tAmpered with.
and recommend special mt Reply Flag
stat, ArixonA. RICHARD Gospos,
Superintendent X. and A. II. r.
what will that dos'' she asked
I'm not much at prophecy. and wen
wait for the reply. !" said.
All tha, day we lay at Flagstaff. and
after n good sleep. AS there was no use
keeping the party cooped up in their
car, / drummed up some ponies and took
the Cullens and Ackland over TO the In
dian cliff dwellings don't think Lord
Rallies gained anything by staying be-
hind in q sulk. for it was a very jolly
ride. or at least that was what it was to
me had to tell them all how / had
settled on them ~ the criminals To
hear Miss Cullen talk one would have
inferred WAS the greatest Of living de
tectives-
''The mistake we made. - she said.
twas not securing Mr.. Gor,lon's help TO
begin with. for then we should never
have needed TO hold the train up, or.
II we had. we should never have been
discovered I"
What was more to me than this i'll
deserved admiration were two things
abe said on the way back when we two
had paired Oh and were bit behind the
rest
THE sandwiches and the whisky
were very good. " she told me. ''And I'm
30 grateful for the trouble you took .
''If was a pleasure. l said
.Apd. Mr.. Gorion. she continued.
and then hesitafed for a moment. my
l-Frderic told me that you-you said
you honored me for
II do. exclaimed energe,icslly as
she paused and colorcd.
DO you reallyy'' she cried Il
thought Fred was only trying to make
me less unhappy by saying that you
did"
II said it. and I meant it. y told
her.
II have been 70 miserable over that
lie," she went on, ''but thought if /
papa l really wouldn't mind poverty
myself, Mr.. Gordon. but he takes such
pride in success that i couldn't be the
one to do il. fought to have known you
would help us
thought this pretty good time TO
make a real apology for my cenduc, on
the trail us well MS TO tell her how sorry
was at not having been able to repack
her bag better. She accepted my apology
very swcctly and assured me her he
longings had been put away 80 neatly
that she had wondered who did it. /
knew she only said this out of kindness
and told her 80. telling also of my strug
giles over that pink bcribboned and be.
laced affair in way which made her
laugh. had thought il was a ball gown
and wondered at her taking il to the
canyon, but she explained that il was \
dressing sack. That made me open my
eyes, thinking that anything so pretty
could bc used for the same purposes for
which use my crash bath gown. and,
while my eyes were open. l saw the fol
ly of thinking that a girl who wore such
things could ever get along ON my sal.
ary, In that way the incident was n
good lesson for me. for it made me feel
that even If there had been no Lord
Rallies still should have had no chance.
On onr return to the cars there was a
telegram from the postmaster general
awaiting me. After glance II, il. rs
the rest of the party looked anxiously