Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-14
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| you might" l laughed, a little nettled.
| / confess, by his speech, but I'm afraid
| II would be yourselves.
| Jaw. you fancy resistance impossible?"
| drawled Albert Cullen.
1T has been tried" / answered. "and
| without success. You can see it's like all
! surprises One side is prepared before the
| other side knows there is danger. Without
| regard to relative numbers. the odds are all
| in favor of the road agents..
But 1 wouldn't sit still, whatever the
| Odds" asserted his lordship. And no Eng
| lishman would"
well. Lord Rallies" / said. II hope for
| hold-up. for 1 should feel about you as the
] runner of locomotive did when the OLD
| lady asked him IL 1t wasn't very palnfui 10
| him to run over people. Yes, madam, ne
| sadly replied, there is nothing muses. an
| engine up So " 80
/ don't think Miss Cullen liked Lord
| Rallies comments on American courage any
better than l did, for she sa,d: 80 Cont
| Cant you take Lord Rallies ana Sapt.
| Ackland into the service of the K q A.
| Mr. Gordon, as special guard?
1.-The X. & A. has never had ROBBERY d:t
yet Miss Cullen" / replied. and L oon
! think that 1t ever will have
| "Why not?" she asked.
| EXPLAINED to her how the Canon OF the
! Colorado to the north, and the distance Vi
| the Mexican border to the south, made es,
cape so almost desperate that the ROAD
| agents preferred to devote their attentions
| to other routes eff we were boarded, MISS
|
| safe as 1t is in Chicago, for the robbers
would only clean out the express and mali
| cars but If they should SO FAR forget tnelI
manners as to take your trinkets, "a agree
| 10 return them to you inside OF one Week.
! THAT makes it all the jollier, she criea,
| eagerly. 1--WE could have the fun OF the
! adventure and yet not lose anyth ng. Can
| your arrange for it, Mr.. Gordon! ,
| .'J'd like to please you, Miss Cullen, L
! said land I'd like % give Lord Ralies
chance to show us how to nanoie lnoSe
| gentry; but it's not to be done. reany
| should have been glad TO nave tne ioau
| agents pay us call.
| We spent that day pulling up the haton
mass and so on over the Glorlettd pass
down to Lamy. where, as the parry rs ,~anned
| off the overland. and we ran up the prahGh
| line to the old Mexican city. II was WEI
! worn ground to me, but enjoyed showing
| the sights to Miss Cullen, for py tnat
| time had come to the conclusion that l
had never met a sweeter or Joiner girl her
| beauty too, was of a kind that kept sfVw
| ing on one, and before mad known own, he e.,
| twentv-four hours without quite being IN
| love with her was beginning TO nate Lor4
! Rallies which was about the same thlns, l
| sunnose Every hour convinced me tnas tne
two understood each other, no. nie thay Kent
| the little asides and condolences tney hSpl
exchanging but even more SO from t.e
way Miss Cullen would take ms lolus ny
down occasionally. Yet, IKE u ,,s sno
more I saw to confirm my nrst uae mss,
the more 1 found myself Dwelling 20, on
the dimples at the corners OF MISS Gui
lens mouth. the bewitching upHIt y. ne
upper lip, the runaway cu on,or of her
her neck, ana the curves or"
cheeks. ,,arv+b;no in
santa Fe worth looking at, put MI Suien
decided to spend there the uine my icy nar,v
wait fort his other son to join the pars.
To mass the hours l hunted up soine
monies, and we spent three DAYS m ions
rides ND the old Santa Fe tra1l ana u .ne
n.zlx Ar,o
outlying mountains only one iniei ,.o,, fomit
other than pleasant, and that was my Iaut..
AS we were riding back to our cars on t inc
second afternoon, we had to cross ths
branch road-bed, where gang happeheo
to be at work tamping the ties.
''Since you're interested In ROAD agents,
Miss Cullen" said, ''you may like to see
one. That fellow standing in the ditch is
Jack brute, who was concerned In the y.
& r G. hold-up three years ago
Miss Cullen looked where I pointed, ana
seeing man with a gun, gave a started
lump and pulled up her pony, eVIoehty
supposing that we were about 10 De atlach-
cd sShan't we run?" she began, but tnen
checked herself, she took in the facts OF
the drab clothes of the gang ana the Two
armed men in uniform They are con
victs?' she asked, and when nodded, she
said Poor things!" After pause, she
asked How long is he in prison for
Twenty years. / told her.
How harsh that seems!' she said. "How
cruel we are to people for few moments
almost have Justified She checked her
pony as we came opposite brute, and said,
Can you use money!?
Can l. lyedy?' said the fellow. leering
in an attempt to look amiable. wish
had the chance to try
The guard interrupted by telling her 1t
wasn't permitted to speak to the convicts
while out of bounds, and so we had to ride
on. All Miss Cullen was able to do was to
throw him little bunch of flowers she had
gathered in the mountains. 1t was literally
casting pearls before swine, for the fellow
did not seem particularly pleased, and
when, late that night, walked down there
with a lantern l found the flowers lying in
the ditch. The experience seemed to sad
den and distress Miss Cullen very much for
the rest of the afternoon. and / kicked my
self for having called her attention to the
brute, and could have knocked him down
for the way he had looked at her. 1t Is
curious that felt thankful at the time that
brute was not holding up train Miss Gull
len was on. 1t is always the unexpected
that happens. If / could have looked into
the future, what strange variation on this
thought I should have seen,
The three days went all too quickly
thanks to Miss Cullen, and by the end Of
that time / began to understand what love
really meant to chap, and how men could
come to kill each other for 1t. For fairly
sensible, hard-headed fellow 1t was pretty
quick work, l acknowledge; but let any
man have seven years Of western life with
out seeing a woman worth speaking Of and
then meet Miss Cullen, and IL he didn't do
| as l did. / wouldn't trust him on the fail.
board of locomotive. for should put him
| down as defective both in eyesight and in
| intellect. 80
eTo be continued MondayO
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Hawthorne and Emerson.