The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-12


Bui Superintendent Savage was not
4 quite as good as his word. Ii was only
\ little while after the Norman-pel.
chelon mule episode that ! came upon
Broncho Peie Longing in the public
room OF the Hotel de Bunque in Gold
Hill, lhc mining camp at the mountain
terminus Of thc extension.
HOW are YOU, retr| said |. Hay
ing y our lay OF at This end of The ran
/ now"
He smiled ioylessly. More % them
I dcrned mules q Seth Byram's. Mistah
Graves. Seems like cayn't take Il
train over Whisky now thout KILN
some of en-
ooh, 50 It's vacation without pay,
is IL"
"Ycp--thirty days Thought | might
1 rs we'll wear 'em out up here as down
/ yondcr,"
rhe autumn frostS were yelloWing
the aspens on The great hills when
| Broncho Pete took his RIM again BUSH
ness was booming on The extension. a
new gold strike in the gulch above the
! terminus camp brought an influx Of
poepectoIs, miners ana spectators,
ana with The industrial army came It's
| camp followers, calrion birds and
| birds Of prey. the desperate casto1
| drift tllat the law abiding east filings
upon the shores Of the unpolccd west.
4 We If the transportation line, reioic-
| lug la crowded trains and We'll loaded
express ears. called it an era Of pros
| perity. paying the cost Ia siecpless
! nights and unresting days ~ best we
might But among All HE hungcrclS
ANA thirStercrS after overtime" none
was more avid than lironcho petc
First III. INST ont" was HE train
crew rule on the C. and c. H., aal he
never missed Il call, moi even when The
working pressure rose to ihirty-SiX
hours on of forty-eight
1t was in the white heat OF the rush
that he Got his blue envelope. In lhat
day the c. and g. r. paid in good hard
money from the pay ear. catching the
men wherever they were to he found,
and so il happened that Pete got his
pay aud the fatal envelope ut The cold
lliil end If his run.
don't know why he came 10 me
with bis grief, but he did, and the look
in his lackluster eyes was that OF n
man suddenly stricken with death
The old man thinks Il heap o you
All, Alistah Graves. Don't We reckon
We could get him 10 take me on again
Just Tor another month";" he said gen
ly And then. with courteous shake !
in his voice I'm a-needin' that other
months pay nightly bad, and lis all |
I'm askin'
| explained that my influence with |
the superintendent was only that of Il |
friendly outsider But he begged so |
hard that | finally consented to do
what | could when | should see Mr.
Savage.
Thank We Yc can see him right !
now" he cut in eagerly. He came up !
in the pay wagon with Mlstah Bos-
suct And So | fell neatly into my
own trap.
Now, apart from Broncho Pete'S EN-.
hassy / was vary nuyiot,s tn son NIr
Sovnue in my own behalf and IN con.
ter Win hin, Thn n.ina mapaoara on
IN uev srril,o b,d boon fooIlsI,Iv eto,,.
no n,nir slnonuns in the lnc,I bgp,
untiI nav thnrr v,s mar S5auunn
worth Of yold hairs ond hulIion await
inc, tr,ussl,i,,mcnt !, was IN ,r,.,,.,n
i'm. Tho .,,rn transit or mis- .sold fb,t
had rouo to the comn
oraiu,rily uo snaci,I orranoemcnt
v,,,lu havr hnau NECESSARY Inn with
I'm :, FORTNIGHT thc.c had heau ta-o stnp-
n,.n.. af trains an inc main line bv u
lar,re ..pd vell or.ganiznd g,ng Of train
robbers. ana. though there was no hint
of The pre>cnco of the hrigands in Gold
Hin. we were DISPOSED TO be wary
Arrived AT the pay ear. which stood
OH a suGr track at The station. | found
the superinten.lcnt and Mr. Eoeeuct,
with the president Of the bank in which
the gold was held. and Blenkinsop. II
government secret service man. hold
ing "a conference over lhe movement Of