The Forrest City times., 1908-06-12

l t2Tls1. yer Ge could test-See-those the grueSCme spectacle behind What eo-i6 be Geaee How should they be disposed of2-but there was ao time for question.
 Can you beah a hand hyah Yin. ] cent. and quick He turned. The driver had already flied the shoulders of one; Alfred took the feet.
 Right toward hyah. round the point"
 ~TOu-yOu aren't going toto 1 leave"
 Yes. we'll have to. if we don't want 10 look the same way mighty soon."
 Cant we put them in the stage. It's awful 10 leave them"
 It may be worse 10 take them: and m afraid we'll need the stage for the living if-if We get through
 Alfred said 10 more; and Uncle Billy warmed to him as he saw the clear-cu. jaw SCI and steely light creep into l the dark violet eyes.
 Hes gane," Uneie Billy whispered to himself.
 Gently they disposed Of the poor. mutilated bodies. and hurried back 10 the stage. The driver armed each passenger with a rife and revolver: and ordering Alfred beside him. and | PhI1eas 10 keep the lookout from the top. he swung his team into the road and drove forward through the GU, w..th slash and cath.
 Dark was stealing on. yet the suD.s goodnight glory sill fingered. its flaming banners striking into the over. head darkness. flooding earth and heavens with strange. sinister color. Alfred thought Of what lay behind. and gripped his gun sharply. The team slowed, and Uncle Billy no longer piled the lash.
 See that light there. away yon to tue left2"
 Yes"
 That's Anshony's. the nert station. Some ones alive there. and that some one is white. or there wouldn't be a candle light: the whole place would l be alight.' Relief unsseaEsh1a breathed in his words. and half mile passed in silence.
 This IS terrible way 10 earn living" Alfred said al last.
 Yes; but this jobs easy com5area to the trick the pony express boys used 10 play
 This is dangerous enough. ven. der the company can induce men 10 undertake the work. Don't you find 1t wearing 2@
 Oh. yes. suppose 1t is. It's right smart skeery sometimes. specially al night when l make the trip alone. And wondeh passengehs don't buck against being sent across without es. cort. like now"
 They would If they knew what they'd see. But it's infinitely worse for you drivers"
 Well, l reckon tle Lord knows his business, an mine, too. figger sIl I got 10 do is 10 see he don't catch ne asleep on the box
 4 sudden admiration for this hero Of the desert warmed Alfred's heart.
 This time I'd hated to let them bacon-colored critters get me before I got 10 Anthony's. Those tracks are all from AnchoaF's: and there's more than men and progerty-there's An. l thony.s little gal. and
 Alfred sAivered al the significant pause.
 "Antheny's had hard luck. He's one of Gods best, If he is set up a mite queer"
 Does he live aloneo Oh. TO; I sup pose he has Q helper as they have at other stations. hasn't he?e Alfred hoped the driver would tell him more of the station agent. not because of his owp interest in the agent. but that he might be saved from thinking.
 Yes, he has a helper, Gid Ingram; but hes only boy. fl he is big. And Stella, pore little chicken, She"
 Alfred waited discreetly.
 Away back in the ifties Anthony struck f rich oyeh Washoe way" Un- cle Billy began again in a steadier tone. Struck t powerful rich: banned out money fasteh'n he could count 1t. And what cid he do but put up the durndest biggest palace this side Of FIisce-put f up right there where he struck tin. Il was a bangup place to' sho'; big rooms with floweh gyar- dens in the carpets. and foweh gyar- dens on the walls; gold chairs. and looking glasses till yod see yo'self so many times yo'd think yo'd got 'em again"
 That there house" he continued presently, stood in a little artificial t looking gyarden. just as sassy as a jay bird. setting there on the bare flank of the Si-eery NeYaydys. But the whole blamed outfit looked awful lone some in spite Of bein SO grand and handsome. T. seemed durned out Of Hlace. Ike realowl in full spread on q saew1aak.',
 Didn't Nr. Anthony have fam.