The National tribune., 1901-04-04

significance, score of women, dancing
and ogling with every manner of man.
| robbing them while embracing, cheering
| and drinking with them; the whole form
! ing a scene viler than imagination or the
pen OF man can conceive or picture; group
ing OF wild orgies and terrible debauch.
cries, such as would put Lucifer to q
blush.
TIMELY RESCUE.
Kuhn had strolled through the place,
and now, out of compliment to general
custom, purchased cigar and was just
turning to depart, when he suddenly found
himself being hustled back and forth
| among several hard-looking fellows, who
evidently knowing his business, and sur.
| missing that he carried large sums OF
money upon his person, had determined
| to provoke him to resistance, when there
| would, according to the social codes then
in existence at Laramie, have been Aust
cause for either robbing and beating him,
or numbering him outright and robbing him
afterwards; when a tall, fnely-fOrmed
| man suddenly stepped into the crowd and
in very decided tone Of voice said:
Il say, gentlemen, that won't do. You
must stand back"
Then taking the terror-striken ammuni-
| ton dealer by the coat collar with his left
hand, but keeping his right hand free for
quick use and certain work, IL necessary,
he trotted him through the now-excited
throng and out into the open air, hastily
telling him to .'cut for the botel." which
was quite unnecessary, as he made for
that point at as lively gait as his rather
dumpy legs could carry him.
The person who had thus prevented the
merchants being robbed. and had also
possibly saved his life, was a tall, comely
young man Of about 2S years, and with
complexion as fair as a woman's, pleas
ant, though determined, blue eyes, and a
long, reddish, luxuriant beard, all of
which, with decidedly military cut to his
gray woolen garments, and long, fair hair
falling upon his shoulders-the whole
crowned, or rather slouchec over by a
white hat of extraordinary width of brim,
gave him the appearance of an ex-Con-
federats officer, and right good fellow, as
the term goes, perfectly capable of caring
for himself wherever his fortune, or mis-
fortune, might lead him; which proved the
case as he turned and confronted the des-
peradoss, who had Immediately followed
him in threatening manner, and whom
he stood ready TO receive with "a navy re-
volyer half as long as his arm, mysterious
ly whipped from some hiding place, in
each steady hand.
A critical examination of the man as
he stood there, and a very casual survey
OF him, for that matter, would have in
stantly suggested the fact to an ordinary
-
ends of two navy revolyers huge enough
| to have been mounted for light artillery
service was something well calculated to
check the mounting ambition on the part
of anybody to punish him for the char
acter of his interference shown; and tho
leader Of the gang contented himself with
remarking: "See here, Capt Harry, il
It wasn't you there'd be a reck ming here
lively, too, I'm tellin' yep
ell, but ii is me; and so there Won't
be any reck' ming. VIII there, now, ehT
The rufilans made no answer, but sui.
lenly returned to the dance-house, when
Capt. Harry, as he had been called
| rammed the two huge revolvers into his
boot legs, which action displayed d small.
| er weapon OF the same kind upon each
| hip; after which he nodded a plessan:
good night" to the bystanders, and
walked away leisurely In the direction Mr.
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" or "The StaI
| Spangled Banner" as best suited him.
The moment that Mr.. Kuhn's protector
appeared at the hotel, the former gentle.
| man expressed his liveliest thanks for the
opportune assistance he had been rem.
dered, and introduced himself to the Can.
| tain, who already knew of him, and who
In return gave his nano as Harry G.
Taylor, the man from somewhere" as he
| himself expressed It with a pleasant
| laugh.
1t was easy TO DO seen that there was
stroke Of business In Mr. Kuhn's eve
which his escape from the dance-house
had suggested, as he told Taylor that he
had intended to return to Cheyenne that
night but he further stated that as he
had SO unexpectedly been befriended he
should certainly be obliged to remain an.
other day in order to secure further ac-