The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-30

scars showed both hands in his trous-
ers pockets and said: The hell you
say; you don't think we r going
outdoors in a rain like this, do you?
Not on your life. You just run along
homo and leave us in here: we can't
run ava with your little old depot
Well have to get out. ch? said
said 1; the company won't allow me
to leave the depot open and you will
have to get OUT
well have to get out, en-" said
scarface. Huh, I'd like to see you
make us get out. Now. you get. and
we will be here when you come down
in the morning
well, I want to tell YOU that l
was never so scared in my life. but
l vas bound no to how it if l could
only hold my legs still. and keep them
from shaking my body loose from
that leaned against the wall. and with
this weapon. that was perhaps -four
feet long and an incl or SO thick, to
make good my statement l said, Yes,
you are going. and you r going
id quick, too, or | will smash your
head with this. Now get And do
you believe it. he got up like a little
a and walked out.
When 1 had turned out the one
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that was as dark as pitch l was
afraid they might come pack and
grab me. But they didn't; they rang
ed themselves in a semicircle around
the door, and when 1 tried to lock
the door 1 pushed M Of them away
with my shoulder, with the COM
mand. Get out of the way. can't you?
What's the matter with your
Il was handicapped some by hav-
if0 INV ripht hand IL, o1,o~rD,,%
pocket and the revolver pointed di-
rectly at them and ready to go off If
one of them had raised mis- hands
high enough to blow his nose. For
tunately they made no such move.
and no blood was shed.
1T was raining quite hard when 1
left them on the platform. and the
night was as black as a nigger's. pock-
ct, but l had travelled the route so
many times that I could find my way
all right on the narrow sidewalk that
led to town on one side of the street.
On the other side there were no hous-
es and no walks, so they had no diff
Guilty in running on the grass in such
a quiet manner that l did not hear
them, and was not aware that they
were not on the depot platform until
a flash of lightning showed them
ranged across the sidewalk under
"A H"e bilSCh ANCI d1lSdu
of me. Say. what is the record, for
the longest side jump that was ever
made by anybody? Well. l beat that
record by at least ten feet when I
landed out into the middle of the
road and started for homo through
mud that reached half way to my
ankles. Did I run? Well. l should
say l did run. Huh. say. Star P'oin-
ter. Joe Patchen and a few other
horses are supposed to have made
fairly good time in their day. but l
had them all skinned forty ways for
Sunday. I don't suppose 1. made a
mile a minute. but 1 got as close to
that mark as ] could. let me tell you.
And the beauty of it all was that I
don't think I fell down over a dozen
times all together. although. of course.
! didn't keep accurate count. and
1t may have been two dozen. I pre-
empted more real estate that night
than I have aver owned since. and
1t took me two hours to scrape it off
my clothes. and to tighten the load
on my No. IL shoes. But I didn't
mind a little thing like that, and was