Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-11-09

naQ started again anu JUG hne" tneJ
were taking the car down the road
to where they could work with great
er freedom. They were climbing a
grade, and while they were headed
for the top the other cars were prob
ably slipping back.
Presently there WAS another jerk as
the engine slowed down and the two
robbers turned to Joe. Where's the
key to the safe?" they demanded.
81 haven't any," was the cool re-
sponse. That's the through safe,
I'm not supposed to unlock it.
He must have the key somewhere,
suggested the second man. LEND a
hand.
They knelt beside him on the floor
and unceremoniously rolled him over
as they searched his pockets. So Oc-
cupied were they that they gave heed
to nothing else until stern command
of drop that T. rang through the car
and they sprang to their feet to con-
front double. barreled shotgun in Jes-
sizes hands.
Instinctively they threw up their
hands, while they commented upon
the situation with vigor Of language
that led Jessie to remark that she
would shoot anyway unless they kept
silent.
Still covering them with gun, she
moved forward to where Halliday lay,
and with one hand cut the cords which
bound him. 1t was an easy task after
that to bind and gag the two men,
and together she and Joe, who had
armed himself from the outlaws belts,
dropped from the car and got to the
aid of the fireman and engineer, who
were under the guard of the third
member of the party.
Here they were four against one,
and 10 minutes later the engine and
car were backing down the grade to
pick up the train, while Jessie, now
that the danger had passed, sat in
Joe's chair, her girlish frame alter
nately shaken with laughter and tears.
1T was easy" she explained. Il
was asleep until the train stopped.
That woke me up, aud was just 60
ing to ask what was the matter when
l heard the two men.
II thought it would be best to wait
a moment and see what was happen
ing; then l remembered how you
jumped for that shotgun in the rack.
at was right over my head, and
they were so busy with you that they
never thought that there might be
second person in the car"
weren't you afraid ?" he asked
ouriously.
lawfully" she confessed frankly.
"You see l was afraid might have
to shoot them, and l never shot any
one, and l knew it would be horrid."
"It's a wonder they didn't take
chances of you missing and make
try anyhow" suggested Halliday.
"Huh," came voice from out of the
darkness, cher hand shook 30 that Bill
and l couldn't tell what she was going
to shoot at. She was waving that gun
around so shed have blown the whole
side of the car out if che had fred.
If it had been man we'd plugged
him, but we haven't been used to fem
inine society lately, and We were kind
er taken aback."
Sage, the superintendent, took much
the same view of it the next morning,
when he had Halliday in the Office.
"Of course" he said, "it was dis
tinct violation of the rules to have the
girl aboard, and yet it was the fact
that woman was holding them up
that did the trick"
81 didn't let her come on the car,
protested Halliday, to whom viola
ton of the rules seemed more impor-
tant than the capture of the outlaws.
"Well," said the superintendent,
with just the suggestion of a smile,
"the best way to stop that is to get
you place as express agent and keep
you in the station. That ought to
keep your wife from breaking the
rules about strangers in the cara
With the larger salary and the Sl5,-
600 reward you ought to make
pretty fair start.
Cant start any too quick for me,
muttered Halliday. and he proved it
the next morning by getting married.
Sluggish Liver a Foe to Ambition.
You can not accomplish very much
il your liver is inactive as ycu feel dull,
your eyes are heavy and slight exertion