Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-18


aft again.
Bradshaw suddenly broke off his Woody
address by firing shot out of the window
That he explained, means that you
jumpers kin sit down ag in for a minn1t
SO, but whenever you all hear pop
from back this-away, all you've got t do
is t find your toes ag'in right lively, and
turn this-a-way. I'm in powerful bad need
jes' now O. havin people look at me ev'ry
few mnutes-I am, FIR fac
Then they all resumed their seats, and
a few of them began to buzz each other in
low tones.
".stop a-talkin',' commanded Bradshaw
when he noticed this. L never could mach
ully abide havin' people a-talkin' round
Were I am. l kin do all TIL powwowin'
Jes think an let it go at that
ut may seem queer, but it wasn't a little
bit queer, that they ALI shut up like clans
as soon as this drunken desperate ordered
them to do so. They saw the kind of an
edge their man had on them, and they all
wanted to see their folks at home again,
reckon. -,-
Shortly after this enforced silence fell
upon the car young chap who wore eye
glasses and who was stoop-shouldered and
frail looking got Up and started down the
aisle. A bullet from Bradshaw's gun just
barely nicked the young mems left ear be-
fore he had taken two steps.
Son. demanded Bradshaw were you
all a-goin' dye think?
ITO get a drink of water responded the
young man with the Eyeglasses. sulkily,
feeling of his nicked ear.
Emptied the Bottle.
: '.tY'are y?'0dnauiredasthe Desperate
Don't you b'ieveS nothin1 like that, bud.
You're a-goin' t drink, what's left in this
bottle O. mine-dont you worry, got sew
raj others-an' you're goin t. drink it all
without battin' a eye, or you'll drink hot
lead and Bradshaw pulled from one of his
sack-coat pockets a pint flask of whisky
that was about three parts full. The young
man looked sullen, but he wisely stretched
forth his hand and accepted the proffered
bottle and placed the mouth of 1t to his
lips. He shuddered a good deal over the
job, but he got it all down. Then Brad
shaw permitted him to take a drink of
water as a chaser and to pass to the next
car behind.
Now, the thing that happened probably
never would have come off if that young
man with the eyeglasses hadn't acquired
lot of Dutch courage through that huge
drink of red liquor that was forced upon
him. 1t took effect upon him almost i'm
mediately, and when he got back to the
next car behind he was feeling his oats
a-plenty.
II couldn't make out what he had in
mind when l saw him pull out penknife
and deliberately cut the bell rope at both
ends of the car, and coil the rope around
his arm, and the other folks in the car
put him down as lunatic.
1.-The lad was almost staggering under
his three-quarters of a. pint of vicious mes
quite booze when he came out on the plat
form with his cars length of bell rope,
and there was queer gleam in his eye
for tenderfoot.
Il asked him what was coming off, but
he only stared at me in a booty sort of
way and peeked into the smoker to see
what Bradshaw might be'doing. Bradshaw
was sitting back in his rear seat, glover
ing and half asleep. The tenderfoot who
had had his ear nicked sneaked into the
smoker like cat, making a slip loop in
the bell rope before he started.
Something Of Surprise.
Bradshaw was gazing out of the window
when the tenderfoot suddenly sprang upon
him from behind, throwing the loop of
his rope around the desperados neck and
pulling it taut with jerk; and the swift.
kick that Bradshaw got in the stomach
right on top of that was SO sudden that
both of his guns, that had been resting
on his lap while he Illuminated further mis-,
chief, were Jared onto the floor of the
car The tenderfoot, now fully as drunk
on BradshaW's bad whisky as Bradshaw
himself kept yanking and pulling back
ward on the rope, drawing the desperados
head against the back OF the seat, until
Bradshaw was llvid.
.' Hustle along here and give me hand,
you fellows sang out the tenderfoot to
the others in the car. h I've got nun l. roped
up, one of you, and then We'll get him
dashed together
''They all hesitated for about half a min
ute, but when they saw how thoroughly
the young fellow with the eyeglasses had
the bad man cinched they rushed aft and
threw themselves on Bradshaw, and in a
jiffy they had him. triced np with his arms
firmly bound, and the loose ends of the
rope tied in many hard knots to the hand
rails of the seat.
Then the tenderfoot with the eyeglasses
turned the next seat forward over, deposit
ed himself there conn ortably, gave prelimi
nary Ahemv and grinned at all hands.
.'Then he began making address to
Bradshaw. who was choking with wrath as
well as with the rope sit
His Candid Opinion.
you'd never have thought a tenderfoot
could possess such vocabulary as that
young man with the eyeglasses let out on
bad man Bradshaw. He just slid ahead.
easy-like, and called Bradshaw all the
things that mean sudden death and burial
down in that country through which the
train was passing, and all hands in the
car cheered him to the echo and encour-
aged him to keep on.
1.-THE tenderfoot took glass of water 10
relieve his hoarseness, and then he began
all over again on the desperate. The bad
man foamed at the mouth, but he had
to stand for it,
..The tenderfoot was still cussing Brad
shaw out and back to the forty-second
generation when the train pulled into Al
buquerque Then the tenderfoot lifted the
ice cooler up in his arms. removed the cov
er, and deliberately poured the contents,
ice and all, on top of bradshaw head, just
to keep him from feeling excited when some
body turned him loose. said the tenderfoot.
youth in the glasses. got out on the station
platform at Albuquerque to walt for what
ever might happen.
Three brakemen ana the conductor