Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-02

The train almost slid 10 halt frol
> the pressure of the hard iamme
y brakes. vOlley of shots rang on
B. Curly slipped The mask over his fac
and rose with revolver In each hanC
He had been sitting M The end of IN
car. so that nobody noticed him unit
his voice rang Out win crisp order.
p "Hands up Don't anybody move .
An earthquake shock could mol have
alarmed the passengers more. The
color was washed completely from the
faces Of most of them.
"Reach for The roof Come. punch
a hole IN the sllyl" TO do IL thorough
ly. Curly flung couple of shots
through the ceiling That was enough
Hands went up without any argument.
most of them quivering as from an
Arkansas chin
Presently Crnnetrn herded the pas
sengers IN from The forward coaches
Win them were most of the rraln
crew.
Were cutting off the express car
and going forward 10 'Dobe Wells with
uninterrupted." Bad Bill explained
"You hero on the passengers here
from the outside ul you hear two
shots then hump Yourself forward ami
hop on The express car"
Fine Curly was 20 stand out there
in fhe mooniehl and let anybody in
the car thai hand the nerve pepper
away AT him. If they did NOT attend
to The job Of Kidding him, his false
friends would do Il while he was run
ming forward to ger aboard Nothing
'ould have been simpler-if he had not
happened to have had inside informa-
Jon of their intent
He had TO think quickly. for the
'lans Of him and his friends had been
eranged They had reckoned on the ex-
ress car being rGed on the spot. This
would have given Culison time TO
each the scene Of action. Now they
'ould be too late Unless Curly could s
top it, the holdup would go through
ccording to the program of Soapy v
nd not of his enemies.
The decision Of Flandrau was in c
He slid down beside the t
ack into the long grass. Whipping "
} one Of his guns, he fred AS if in II
swer to the first shot his revolver s,
acked twice. simultaneously, he let W
I a cry of pain. wriggled back for a pl
zen yards through the grass and
Dssed the track in the darkness. AS m
"a, 30
the sleeper some one came running sv
ok on the other side. d
What's up, Sam? You hit?" he could &C
ar Blackwell whisper. in
No answer came The paroled con- in
t was standing close to the car for ii
lr of being hit himself and he dared
I move. tn
SAM he called again; then, Hes
re got his" ET
That was all Curly wanted to know EII
ftly he padded forward. keeping a. NH
v as he could till he reached the lV
PITY sleepers. A brakeman was just 4
the express car when Curly III
ed underneath and nestled close to I'M
trucks. iii
from where he lay he could almost III
re reached out and touched Soapy hin
nding by the car. AVN
What about the kid?" Stone asked Ni
ckwell as the latter came up. NH
They got him. Didn't you hear him E
p?" INA
Yes, but did they put him out of III
ness? See his body?" MT
blackwell had no intention of going Nv
k into the fire zone and making "a
e. For his part he was satisfied. So gM
led. M
Yep. Blew the top of his head off
Good" Soapy nodded. That's Y
'ipt in full for Mr. Luck Cullison." III
efore many minutes the engine be-
to slow down. The wheels had
dly stopped moving when Curly
II out. plowed through the sand. up
rubble Of little hill, and into a
v where a bunch of scrub oaks Of
d cover.
voice from in front called to him.
then the moon appeared from be- '"'
drifting clouds.
Nh. it's you. Sam. Everything all ure
II" raI
tight as the wheat. We're blow cor,
open the safe now" Flandrau an onn
ed n,
wing c'oser' ne saw that his ques- stab
n was the man In charge of the az
rs. Though he knew the voice. he
not put name to its owner. ona
this was not the point that first noo
pied his mind There were only hott
horses for five riders. Curly knew \ n,
that he had not been mistaken. s.aht
y had expected one of his allies p,oo
VI '"t''e' nau pre- ing
10 - .i"'n 'ne oeslhhihg. The Bill
ledge of this froze any remorse arar,
Dung vaquero might have felt N,
pushed his revolver against the roa,''
Of the horse wrangler. go
mt move. you bandy-legeed 80,
rick. or TIL fl your hide fun OF g, -
And III Won want tO knan ~,