Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-21

CONn nlll, llQ him Tn raVlne pear 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 tC ,. 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: Thefe's one way to work it, Lug. and just one" iiH
 Lug. like another Watson. stared at his companion until he should hear more. We 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 a 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 ters then rested.
 The conductor, deciding there was no use waiting longer for the box car, : was making ready to go without 1t. 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 CT cable and with jerk started down the siding. Approaching the switch, as it's momentum increased, it sprung the connecting reds and swung in on the main line contact, as Bill had in tended, between the two sections of the train.
 When the engineer shut of to coast 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 step of the way tc 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 a Win chester rife. Helen sprang to a team and empty wagon, waiting for load. and climbing up to the seat seized the reins at the moment Storm, rife in hand, ran out of the office to join her. She iashed the horses forward and headed with very different load from what they had expected. for Valley.
 Bill and his confederate in the boz car, elated by their huge success. looked out of the side door for oh- servers and seeing none, began to dump the sacks of precious quartz ons after another out on the right of way
 But it was day of surprises far everybody. The agent at Valley-rlo had asked to be sent out to the desert on account of his rheumatism-Hs peacefully lighting his pipe, after me one great event Of the day-the as- partuTe of the local freight-when he heard somewhere out of doors an uo- wonted rumble. It grew and stil, it grew and the next moment team. hel- ter skelter on the run dashed down the road from the Superstition mine toward the depot. In a moment he was dumbfounded to recognize in the man behind the threatening rife as he drew close, his old acquaintance in the Oceanside yards, George Storm, the eX-engineman.
 Could George Storm have turned bandit? Was he running amuck? Would he take the life of an old and unoffending friend without provoca- tion? These and similar queries raced through his head when Storm, addressing him with a shout by an old-tine familiar nickname. asked where the box car of ore was, that had stood on the siding.
 The agent now saw everything dcu- ble but look as he would he could see DO car. Not until now had he given the presence If the box car thought. He knew the train had not taken it be- cause it was not ready. He knew the conductor had started without it-but where was it? The car of ore had disappeared completely.
 Storm was talking fast ana the sit uation was made clearer to the star tied agent when he learned the wagon guards had been held up. To Helen, who thought in tremendous ellipses and reached the end of situations be- lore others had charted their begin nings, there was only one possible so-