The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-16

the side track. The two then hiding
in turn, watched the train as it
stopped at the station below. The
agent came out of the Office after few
minutes. When the conductor asked
about the car the agent and he walked
together over to it. They saw it would
not be ready to start for some time.
The predicament in which the
thieves now found themselves was an
awkward one. They knew full well
that Storm. the minute the escaped
guard reached the mine, would be af-
ter them with men as fast as horses
could travel.
But Bill, the craftier of the pair,
thought that by working quick they |
still might make it. Between the sid |
ing and the main line were two cables
used by the teamsters to switch cars
with and they gave him an idea. Point
ing to the cables on the ground, he out
lined his suggestion to Lug: There's
| one way to work it, Lug, and just
| one"
Lug, like another Watson, stared at
! his companion until he should hear
more. I'VE must drop this car into
| the train,' explained Bill. Throw the
ore out on the right of way as we
run along and pick it up afterwards
with the machine. See?"
! Together they crossed over to where
the train stood, pulled pin in the
| middle of the swing and attached the
longer of the cables securely between
| the two sections of the train thus cut
in two. The second cable was at
tached to the hind end car of the first
cut, and fastened to the partly loaded
| box car on the side track. The plot
tiers then rested.
| The conductor, deciding there was
no use waiting longer for the box car,
was making ready to go without it.
The head-end brakeman signaled the
cab and the train pulled out. AS the
slack was taken up the box car an
swered first to the strain on the short
er cable and with jerk started down
the siding. Approaching the switch.
as it's momentum increased, it sprung
the connecting rods and swung in on
the main line contact, as Bill had in
tended, between the two sections of
the train.
down the grade the three sections
came together and the train, except
for the absence of air in the hind end
of the train line pipe, was complete.
The escaped guard, running every
4 step of the way to sound the alarm,
had by this time arrived exhausted at
the mine. At the foot of the aerial
railway he found Storm with Helen
watching, the ore come down. Grasp
ing the situation from the disconnect-
ed words the man was able, to utter,
Storm dashed into the chemists Of
flee close at hand and seized Win
chester rifle. Helen sprang tc a team
and empty wagon, waiting for a load,
and climbing up tc the seat seized the
reins at the moment Storm, rife in
hand, ran out of the Office to join her.
She dashed the horses forward and
headed with very different load from
what they had expected, for Valley.
Bill and his confederate in the box
car, elated by their huge success,
looked out of the side door for OBJ
servers and seeing none, began to
dump the sacks of precious quartz one
after another out on the right of way.
But it was day of surprises for
everybody. The agent at Valley-who
; had asked to be sent out to the desert
ON account of his "Reminiscences
, peacefully lighting his pipe, after the
one great event of the day-the de-
, parture Of the local freight-when he
, heard somewhere out Of doors an I'M
wonted rumble. It grew and still it
grew and the next moment team, he'll
ter SHELTER on the run dashed down
, the road from the Superstition mine
toward the depot. In a moment he
, | was dumbfounded to recognize in the
y man behind the threatening rifle as he
y drew close, his old acquaintance in
. the Oceanside yards, George Storm,
: the ex-engineman.
r Could George Storm have turned
q bandit? Was he running amuck?
f Would he take the life of an old and
: unoffending friend without provoca-
/, ! ton? These and similar queries
n raced through his head when Storm
addressing him with a shout by an
a old-time familiar nickname, asked
j. where the box car of ore was, that had
: stood on the siding.
r The agent now saw everything dou
BILE but look as he would he could see
s no car. Not until now had he given
n the presence Of the box car thought
q | He knew the train had not taken it be
" cause it was not ready. He knew the
g conductor had started without it-but
o where was it? The car Of ore had
e disappeared completely.
Storm was talking fast and the sit
l. uation was made clearer to the star
q tied agent when he learned tho Wagon
t. guards had been held up. To Helen
|. who thought il tremendous ellipses
q and reached the end of situations be
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