Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-21
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crowd, and no one really regarded such scene as at all imminent.
 "Well," exclaimed New York lady, who was with her husband on the journey, "I do hope I won t faint so I will have something to tell the folks back east--that is, if we are held up, T and she shuddered as the words came from her lips.
 But that the subject was timely one the events of the next few hours proved beyond all doubt.
 The drivers of the stages, three old time frontiersmen, had seen many hold ups in their days, but of late years such a thing was almost unknown. When the driver of the leading coach saw two men riding close together and coming at great speed through the mesquite and sagebrush towards the coaches he thought perhaps they were messengers from the mine or friends coming to meet the Doctor; therefore he paid lit tie attention to them.
 The riders were almost upon the coaches before he noticed them again, and they were separating. A few mo- ments later one of the men was ap- preaching the head stage leisurely and the other had cireled out and was evi- dently riding to meet the second stage, which followed four or five hundred yards behind.
 "Put 'em up, pard," demanded the rider, and the driver of the old days instinctively set the brakes and held his arms above his head.
 Better get down. guess tn hosses II stand" continued the desperado. '' No ones to get hurt" said he, "as the driver opened the coach door, "but if there s any money in the crowd, bet ter come up with it. Gents, don't be backward or slow, fur it's gettin late and you II miss supper in camp. An you Il want to hurry and see tn fine ore at Espenooza. It's sure comin : your way in burro loads, Doc," con. ,luded the desperado.
 the coach and alighted as though he was accustomed to hold-ups.
 "I m afraid you won t find much, !" exclaimed the doctor, holding a small satchel out to the robber. Here's a roll of bills, all the money in the crowd, and the satchel has all our other valuables. Take it and go.
 The robber took the roll of bills and showed them down his boot, then open ing the satchel, glanced quickly at its contents.
 "Take this back, pard,' he exclaim- ed, with half-smile showing beneath his hardened features. "It's no good fur me, and I reckon it s bad sort of paper for any man to touch who has the sense of a yearling.
 'Take it back, or m put a hole in you big enough for q rat to crawl through, " ard the doctor quickly ,beyed cts mighty purity paper, :" continued the robber, "but we can t ash it in fur two bits in Arizona"
 Putting spurs to his horse the desper ldo rode off, riding halfturned in his 'addle, and two six.shooters pointed at The little group standing at the side of the coach. His partner, who had stop ped the other coaches, joined him and the two rode on towards the valley at full speed
 Dr. Rose, who was as cool as the driver that stood at the wheels of the coach during the hold-up, became nerv- )us when the robbers left, and his usual ruddy face took on an ashen pallor. The hold-up was conducted so quietly, and no one but the doctor being dis turbed, the other members of the party rather enjoyed the scene. As the des- perados disappeared in the undulating mesa they crowded about Dr. Rose and talked excitedly about the experience. But the doctor only laughed half heart edly, and his friends concluded that he vas really frightened
 "And did you notice how he threw back the satehel with all our stock eer- .ifcates and took that little roll of bills" exclaimed member of the par ty. "How lucky we were that he did not know the real value of the stock. "