Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-21

his a%ffectionate four footed friend and
galloped after the train. At the top of
the grade the ambushed robbers halt
ed the express with AN obstruction on
the track too great to be risked by the
engineer endeavoring to pass through
it. re-
When Arthur arrived upon the scene
two robbers were in the express car
and two were going through tthe Pull
mans. Another had compelled the fire.
men to uncouple the locomotive and,
covering the engineer, had made him
drive the detached machine up the
track some distance from the standing
train.
Scarce knowing what he did, Arthur
galloped by and, mounting the engine
at the end Of the tender from his
horses back, grappled with the lone
robber covering the engineer.
A desperate struggle followed by the
furnace door. Selling a large wrench,
the engineer aimed a blow at the rob-
Der struggling with Arthur, but the
blow missed foe and hit friend, and Ar
thur was stretched senseless on the
firing board. The robber, with a curse,
jumped from the engine and ran, re-
joining his companions.
In Of the Pullmans Vivian Mars
ton, who was now Mrs. Blair Stanley
the two travelling as "Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Peyton'-were among those held
at pistols point. An envious woman
passenger to whom Vivian had shown
the diamond from the sky had betray-
ed the fact she possessed it. Despite
her pleadings, cajolements and even
curses-curses that were chorused by
the chagrined Blair-the chuckling rob-
bers bore off the great gem with their
other booty. Laden with a sack Of
valuables, and, taking also 500, 600 in
bank notes from the express messen-
ger, the robbers decamped. =
Within a few hours the sheriff and
his posse of deputies and railroad de-
teetives were hot on the trail, and
"John Powell" sheep herder, after be-
ing lionized a few brief moments. was
back at his lonely occupation.
Vivian, despoiled Of the jewel for
which she would have riskcd her soul,
reproaches herself and her raging
bridegroom that they did not die glori-
ously in defending it. In her bitter
rage Vivian taunts Blair by telling him
she only married him to gain the dia-
mond, and, now that it is gone, he
must go and regain it. or see her no
more. -, ..r, ,,.,aau, ,s,s ,,r,, '" =
I'M vain he protests. She threatens to
give him over to the. police and deserts
him at Los Angeles and wires to ABE
Bloom In Richmonid telling 33f The loss
Of tile diamond and asking for funds.
The deserted andyraging, Blair paWns
what possessions g. thee4y vro bbcrs
have left him. and under his assumed
name of Peyton hides in, mean no
tel after writing to his. relative; Mrs,
Burton Randolph, to interceade for him
| with his mother. 'A' ":'"11~ % .r =,
Far off inSthe desert fastnesses the
pursuit Of the posse hitter the train
robbers IS hotly on.tI'A shetland the
rearmost saddle OF the fleeing outlaws
lis empty. But as the OUTLAW falls the
diamond FROM the sky that he'Shas
clawed out from the SACK, Of yal9abaes
flies from IFS, now ,nerveless. hand and
1ies g.litterihp hit unnn1oticed by d Ccluup
Of tccaacti al; the posse thulnders BY. 49,
! Another Shot goessa home,' and the
foremost outlaw drops from His sad
die: Another shot and his rideriess