Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17

"a real, regular woman-on his
breast! The boys would swear he
was liar If he ever told.
Thrusting her inside, he ran for
ward to the figure that lay in the
road by the heads of the snoring
horses. AS he did so, the man raised
uncertainty upon one elbow, the
mask, a bandanna kerchief. still hid
ing his features. Blood trickled out
of his hair from a thin cash over
one ear.
He snatched the long neckcloth
from his own throat, and. rolling
the man roughly on his face drew
his arms together, knotting his wrists
at the back. He worked with fury,
glancing up the mountainside. where,
on the bare ridge, he saw the figure
of Black Bart running westward
along its crest. paralleling the direc-
ton they would take.
Disregarding his victims groans,
the dwarf swung him over his great
shoulders and rushed at the stage.
Hurting him abruptly in upon the
girl. he slammed the door.
He dashed the horses down the
dizzy trail, while above and far to
the right he saw the vanishing
outlaw Pickering through the scat
tered pines.
As they rocked around the nose of
the last bluff he yelled again, for
ahead of him and midway down the
zigzag sheep trail was Black Bart. lit
orally dropping off the vertical cliff,
from crag to crag.
Hope he gets me stead of a horse, -
thought the driver. IF he drops one
of them. we'll go over the mountain
side like a rocket"
Bart knelt, resting the weapon over
the crook of his folded arm. The
splinters hit off from the seat at
Shortys side. Then they both fired.
THANK God. he amt trying for the
team" thought the dwarf, and as they
drew together he beheld the others
face and saw that rage rioted there
so savagely that it blinded him to his
surer revenge. His mask was gone
and Shorty knew that he alone had
seen the features of the mysterious
road agent. AS they tore up abreast
the others gun belched again, and
Shorty felt the paralyzing stroke of a
missile, while the ribbons slipped from
his left hand.
Eye got mel" he beloved.
They sprung down on to the fiat
amid a spatter of gravel splashed
through the ford of the North Fork
and rushed serambling up the bank to
the Wire Bridge dollhouse. Old Char
ley Crane appeared, followed by Win
ters, the messenger.
What's up, Shortly" questioned
Winters. Sounded something like a
gun play back yonder. Who was it
Black Bart?"
Shorty nodded.
How'd you come out?"
ooh, not too bad. I got little
something to show fer it." He clam
bered down, finding it impossible not
to swagger slightly, for he felt an
overpowering satisfaction. The safety
of his lady. the capture of a desper-
ado, the preservation of the company's
bullion: all this he had effected single
handed-and against odds.
With the others crowding him he
jerked the door open; then his jaw
dropped,
The outlaw rested Imply on the
girls breast while she sopped at his
bleeding temple. Her clothes were
awry, her face tear-stained ano
swollen.
It was not this that abashed the
little man and shattered his COM
placency, leaving him gasping; il
was the look in her eyes, She flashed
upon him the glare of an animal al
bay, while she spoke words that left
him benumbed.
you've killed him, Oh, l hate
you." Then she addressed the
wounded man, unconscious of theil
presence: Link, speak to me. IT:
Nilly-Milly, your little sister"
Shorty slammed the door abrupt,
| in the faces of the Others.
cit some water and bandages
Charlie, quick"
AS the stocky wriver wallowet
forth and climbed the wheel for hi
three-mile Auburn drive, Winters
gazed at his companion solemflly
Then. without facial disturbance, on,
eyelid fell slowly in wink of grea
understanding, and delving into ;
pocket he drew forth the soiled ant
| bloody half of a bandanna. 1t hat
eyeholes and string at the uppe
corners forming a rude road agent
mask. This he tore up and tosse'
out of the window into the river
LAS | have ,allus observed" said he
Outside of wimmen folks there
nothin' more unreliable an deceivin
than circumstantial evidence-whel
it's destroyed"
(The End)