Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1915-01-22

twenty thousand dollnrs-in there!
Cant YOU start up and run for ~"
Betty asked %anxiously.
III ! did they'd be cut OF the car
and up here before we'd get ten yards,
II Phelps was only alive. he could go
back and hold them with his un-
III I got her going so they couldn't
jump. But"
I'm here" said Betty quietly. She
bent over the body on the floor and
fumbled for an instant, When she
Strengthened up she held the dead
mans revolver.
you can't" began Bell. but Betty
interrupted him with n gesture.
81 can and I WILL" she said deter
minedly. Even II you could walk,
your duty IL here. You can't leave
the engine. II those men get clear
away, there's no telling whether
they'll ever be caught. can shoot
Ii ! have to. You watch. When you
see me in the car door, start, and
don't stop short OF the mine"
BELL reached out his uninjured hand,
and she took II In both Of hers.
God bless YOU he said simply.
The girl turned away without a
word. and began to make her way
over the tender. The door OF the ex-
press car was open on n crack.
One OF the hlghwaymen stood with
his back to II, the revolver In his
hand covering the express messenger,
who was backed up In "A corner. The
other man knelt In front OF the safe,
transferring notes and gold to n
gunny-sack on the floor beside him.
Cautiously the girl descended the
perpendicular ladder at the back Of
the tender and stood at last on the
platform. She raised the revolver.
Through the stiffness her voice rang
clear and steady:
Hands up. or I'll shoot"
Instantly the man with the gun
wheeled and sent n bullet in the d.
rectlon of the voice, II whlstled harm
lessly over the girls shoulder, and
as the report Of her own revolver
rang out, the man slowly doubled up
and slumped down into a heap on the
floor. The train started.
with an oath the man at the safe
sprang forward. Then he stopped.
The blue eyes OF the girl In She doo-'
way we're blazing into his, me steady
barrel OF the revolver neTer wavered.
A pair OF arms sdddenly went
around him from behird, and he was
hurled backward to the n9or, where
he struggled in the powerful grasp
OF the express messenger.
Take his gun away frCm him, Joe,
and tie him up" suggested Betty,
catching up a coil Of rope from the
floor and moving iGta the car.
The train rolled over the long tres
tie and into the woods beyond.
Through the DARKNESS there came q
rapid series Of short blasts from the
whistle.
The girl hesltated. Ed must want
her help, but dared she go?
Can you hold him, Joe?" she asked
Sure. I'm all right was the re
ply.
pp the steep ladder and over the
tender she climbed, s~teadying herself
against the rock and reel of the fly
ing train. while the whistle shrleket
again and again,
on the narrow seat Bell was sway
ing unsteady back and forth. Hi
eyes we're half closed. his clothes
stained red with the blood tina
dripped from his wounded arm.
Betty" he murmurcd.
She could not hear, but In the din
light she saw the movement OF hi
lips.
Pm here, Ed; it's all right" sh'
treasured him.
"Tm-rm all ln-I-" mis- hand fel
forward on his breast. "Stop-her-
at-the-" his voice trailed on int
, silence.
, The light OF the station was cominI
into view. On the little platform Bet
ty could see n knot Of men gathered
| Again the whistle sent It's clarloI
! warning into the night, but this tim
y It was Betty who pulled the cord. Sh
, shut on steam and applied the brakes
. As the engine came TO a standstill, sh
. tottered to the gangway. She coul
see the crowd surglng into the e'
I press car; one or two sprang towar
| her. The lights OF the station dance
madly-grew dim, and went out alto
a gether.
Doing nicely-just fright an
o overexertlon-be all right In a day O
two"
The disIointed sentences SCENE
TO mean nothing at all; but Betty wa
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