The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1906 Page: 8 of 8
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CHAPTER IV.—Continued.
"Perhaps If they had known the
danger us well as you, they would
have been lens con rag tous." she con-
tinued, and 1 rouId have bit used her
for the speech.
While we were still eating, the mall
clerk came to my car and reported
that the most careful search had fail-
ed to discover the three revisit red let-
ters, and they had evidently been
taken. This made me feel sober,
tllght as the probable loss was. lie
told me that his li i showed they w< re
all addressed to Ash Korku. Arizona,
making It improbable that their con-
tents could be of any real value. If
possible, I was more puzzled than
ever.
At six-ten the runner whistled to
show he had steam up. I told one of
the brakemcn to stay behind and then
went Into 218. Mr. Cull en was still
dressing, but 1 expressed my regrets
through the door that I could not go
with his party to the Grand Canon,
told him that all the stage arrange-
ments had been completed, and prom-
ised to .'oln him there In case my
luck was good Then 1 saw Frederic
for a moment, to sen how he was
(for I h'ui nearly forgotten him In
the exc men;), to And that he was
gaining all the time and preparing
even to get up When I returned to
the saloon, the rest of the party were
there and I bade good-bye to the cap-
tain and Albert. Then I turned to
Lord Italics, and, holding out my
hand, said:
"Lord Halles, I Joked n little the
other morning about the way you
thought road agents ought to be
treated. You have turned the Joke
very neatly and pluckily, and I want
to apologize for myself and thank you
for the railroad."
"Neither is necessary," he retorted,
airily, pretending not to see my hand.
1 never claimed to have a good tem-
per, and it was all I could do to hold
myself in. 1 turned to Miss Cullen to
wish her a pleasant trip, and the
thought that this might be our last
meeting made me forget even Lord
Kalles.
"I hope It Isn't good-bye, but only
au revoir," she snld. "Whether or no,
you must let us see you some time in
Chicago, so thnt I may show you how
grateful I am for all the pleasure
you have added to our trip." Then,
as I stepped down off my platform,
she leaned over the rail of 218, and
added, In a low voice, "I thought you
were Just as brave as the rest. Mr.
Gordon, and now ! think you are
braver."
1 turned impulsively and aaid, "You
^vould think so. Miss Cullen, If you
kn«w the sacrifice I am making."
Then, without looking at. her, I gave
the signal, the >ell rang, and No. 3
pulled off. The last thing I saw was
a handkerchief waving off the plat-
form of 21g.
When the train dropped out of
sight over a grade, I swallowed the
lump In my throat and went to the
telegraph instrument. I wired Cool-
ldge to give the alarm to Fort Win-
gate. Fort Apache, Fort Thomas, Fort
Grant, Fort Bayard and Fort Whipple,
though 1 thought the precaution a
mere waste of energy. Then I sent
the brakenian up to connect the cut
wire.
"Two of the bullets struck up
here, Mr. Gordon," the man called
from the top of the pole.
"Surely not!" I exclaimed.
"Yes, sir." he responded. "The bul-
let holes are brand new."
I took in the lay of the land, the
embers of the fire showing me how
the train had lain. "I don't wonder
nobody was hit," 5 exclaimed, "if
that's a sample of their shooting.
Some one was a worse rattled man
than I ever exoect to be DIk the
from which ih< >-.;ots had been tired
While l v is still cogitating over
this, .he sp< lai train I had ordered
out from Flat'st ift came In si^ht, and
in a few moments was stopped where
I was It consisted <>.' a string of
three Mats and a box car and brought
the sheriff. ,i dozen cowboys whom he
had sworn in as <l< | titles, and their
horses I u \s hopeful that with these
fellows' gi*i .it" i skli! in such matters
they could find what I had not, but
after a thorough examination of the
ground within a mile of the robbery
they were as much at fault as I had
been.
"Them cusses must have a dugout
nigh abouts, for they couldn't 'a' got
away without wings," the sheriff sur-
mised.
I didn't put much stock lu that idea
and told the sheriff so.
"Waal, rouud up a better one," was
l.is retort.
Not being able to do that, I told
him of the bullets In the telegraph
pole, and took him over to where the
mall car had stood.
"Jerusalem crickets!" was Ills com-
ment as he measured the aim. "If
that's where they put two of their
pills, they must have pumped the
other four inter the moon."
"What other four?" I asked.
"ShotB," he replied sententiously.
"The road agenis only fired four
times," I told him,
"Them and your pards must have
been pretty nigh togethei for a min-
ute. then," he said, pointing to the
ground.
1 glanced down ami sure enough,
there were six empty cartridge shells.
I stood looking blankly at them, hard-
ly able to believe what 1 saw; for
Alb.'ft Cullen had snld distinctly that,
the train robbers had fired only four
times, and that the last three Win-
chester shots I had heard had been
fired by himself. Then, without
speaking, I walked slowly back,
searching along the edge of the road-
bed for more shells; but, though I
went beyond the point where the last
ear had stood, not one did 1 find. Any
man who has fired a Winchester
knows that It drops Its empty shell
in loading, and I could therefore draw
only one conclusion, namely, that all
r.even discharges of the Winchesters
had occurred up by the mnll car.
had heard of men supposing they had
fired their guns through hearing an-
other go off; but with a repeating
rifle one has to fire before one can
reload. The fact was evident that
Albert Cullen either had fired his
Winchester up by the mail car, or else
had not fired It at all, In either case
he had lied, and I.ord Ralles and Cap-
tain Ackland had backed him up
in it.
I 1 at se' me whistling to myself,
II; ' I to think how i • ar I
i < ><t to giving nitroglycerin to a
who v< .i - only thammlui; heart
fji or 'hat it was Frederic Cul
• u .<> hi 1 climbed on tin- ta' '
iIlk slightest doubt, the I •
, net* In wet li the two brothers
>u ' «|ii|;e i inng enough to deceive
,ii mil wiio iiad nevt r seen them
'.-• tlier, i smiled a little, atid re
w tr! d to myself, "I think I can
.i kt nod my boast that I would
.itrli t!'i robbers, but whether the
Cul! u will II!.e my doing it, I ques
Hon. What Is ore. Ixird Kalles will
owe me a bottle." Then i thought of
Mad" i , and i. In't feci as pleased over
my sul ci ss ; I had felt a nioim nt be
fore.
By nine o'clock the posse and I
were In the saddle and skirting the
San Francisco peaks. There was no
use of pn sslng the ponies, for our
game wasn't trying to escape, and.
for tuat matter, couldn't, as the Colo-
rado river wasn't passable within
fifty miles. It was a lovely moonlight
night, and the ride through the pines
was as pretty a one as I remember
evir to have made. It set me think-
ing of Madge and our talk the evening
before, and of what a change twenty-
four hours hail brought. It was
lucky 1 was riding au Indian pony, or
1 should probably ha\« landed In a
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J3 Genuine Attraction.
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The Great and Genuine Attraction for Bastrop and Bustrop Count/
during the year is the People's Favorite,
Guse's restaurant and Bakery,
Which is known for and wide for its SQUARE DEALINGS with its patrons
all over Bastrop eounty. During the year we intend making the GU8K
RESTAURANT AND BAKERY a Greater Attraction than ever. Coll and
price our Goods and the low prices will astonish you.
V
Dry Goods andGnoeeries
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Je pride ournelrea upon the elegant DRY GOODS and GROCER-
IKS carried by our house, and when it comes to QUALITY and
PRICE, we invite the closest inspection, believing fair, honest,
square dealings will win golden opinions from the trading publio.
Palace Market.-g110^ Boef and I
Barbecued Meats. resh Sausage. IK
Six empty cartridge-shells
heap I don't know that I should have
cared particularly If a prahle doe bur-
tow had made me dash my brains out,
for I wasn't happy over the job that
lay before me.
We watered at Silver Spring at
quarter-past twelve. From that point
we were (dear of the pines and out of
the plain, so we could go a better
pace. This brought us to the half-
way ranch by two, where we gave the
ponies a feed and an hour's rest. We
reached the last relay station just as
the moon set. about three-forty; and,
as all the rest of the ride was through
coconino forest, we held up there for
daylight, gttnng a little sleep mean-
while.
(To lie continued.)
BEER and ICE.
We are also Agenis for the celebrated . . .
ANHUESER-BUSCH BEER.
And receive regularly Pure and Solid Ice
BY THE CAR LOAD.
We also have the agenoy tor the great Health Food,
MALT NUTRINE,
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(rise's Restaurant and Bakery.
CHAPTER V.
"I thought you were Just at brave as
the rest, Mr. Gordon, and now I
think you are braver."
bullets out, Douglas, so that we can
have a look at them."
He brought them down In a minute.
They proved to be Winchesters, as I
had expected, for they were on the
aide from which the robbers must
have fired.
"That chap roust have been full of
Arizona tangle-foot, to have llred as
wild as he did," I ejaculated, and
walked over to where the mall car
had stood, to see just how bad the
shooting was. When I got. there and
faced about, It was really Impossible
to believe any man could have done
•o badly, for raising my own Win-
cheater to the pole put It twenty de-
frees oat of range and nearly forty
degrees In the air. Yet there were
the cartridge shells on the ground
*• show that I was In the place
A T.'lp to the Grand Canon.
I stood pondering, for no explana-
tion that would fit the facts seemed
possible. I should have considered
the young fellow's story only an at-
tempt to sain a little reputation for
pluck, If in any way I could have
accounted for the appearance and dis-
appearance of the robbers. Yet to sup-
pose— which seemed the only other
horn to the dilemma—that the son and
guests of the vice president of the
Missouri Western, and one of our own
directors, would be concerned In train
robbery was to believe something
equally Improbable. Indeed, I should
have put the whole thing down as a
practical Joke of Mr. Cullen's party,
If It had not been for the loss of the
registered letter Even a practical
Joker would hardly care to go to the
length of cutting open government
mall pouches; for Cnele Sam doesn't
approve of such conduct.
Whatever the explanation, I had
enough facts to prevent me from
wasting more time on that alkali
plain, netting the men and horses
back onto the cars, I jumped up on
the tail-board and ordered the runner
to pull out for Flagstaff. It was a
run of seven hours, getting us In a
little after eight, and In those hours
I had done a lot of thinking which
had all come to one result- that Mr.
Cullen's party was concerned In the
| hold-up.
The two private cars were on a
I siding, but the Cullens had left for
the Grand Canon the moment they
I had arrived, and were about reaching
there by this time. I went to 21S
! and questioned the cook and waiter,
I but they had either seen nothing or
! else had been primed, for not a fact
I did I get from them. Going to my
own car, I ordered a quick supper,
and while I was eating it I questioned
tny boy. He told me that he had
heard the shots, and had bolted the
front door of my car, as I had order
ed when I went out; that as he turned
to go to a safer place, he had seen a
man, revolver in hand, climb over the
off side gate of Mr Cullen's car and
for a moment he had supposed It a
road agent, until he saw that It was
Albert Cullen
"That was Just after 1 had got nit?"
1 asked.
"Yls. Bah."
"Then It couldn't have be^n Mt
Cullen, Jlrn," I declared, "for I found
him up a' the other end of the car."
"Tell you It wu ., Mr. Gordon," Jim
Insisted. "I done seen his face clar
In de light, and he done go into Mr
Cullen's ea* whar the old gentleman
wni slttln' "
the Mind of a Child!
"Say, Mister, do you s'pose they's
goln' to be some wind soon?"
"I really couldn't say," replied the
old gentleman, smiling benevolently
down upon the spick-and-span small
boy who had strayed away from the
other Sunday school plcknickers to
this remote side of the lake.
"I've been standln' here- oh, most a
year, wultln' for the wind to blow,"
said the boy, looking wit fully at. the
water.
"Is that so? But why an you so
anxious about wind?"
"W'y, I want to go In swiminin' aw
ful bad."
"But you don't need wind in order
to go swimming- Isn't the water suf
ficlent for your purpose, my little
man ?"
"I guess it's a long time since you
was a boy!" remarked the "little man,"
contemptuously.
"Well, yes, it is a considerable p<
riod," admitted the old gentlernnn, with
an air of candor. "1 certr.Inly recall
no vital connection between wind and
swimming - just explain. If you
please."
"W'y, It's like this," said the boy,
returning to his trouble. "Ma won't
let. me go In swimmln' she never
does! But If a big wind 'ud conn along
and blow my new hat off into the
water, w'y, I'd have to gwin fer the
hat."
Wh n Man Becomes a Sprout.
When all reforms have been real
lead and everybody's life is trained up
In the way It should go on the govern
pent trellis and every little sprout
with an Instinct to branch off In a
I new direction is gently drawn back
and tied with the other vines then,
says the New York Globe, a man need
only shut his eyes and grow In his al-
lotted place in the trim human garden
maintained by the state He will be
come a useful human vegetable In this
Utopia so many social philosophers
are now striving for.
The Coldest Yet.
In I'rjiiefying helium, the last of the
gases that have been thought to be
permanent. Olszewski has reached a
temperature of 271.3 degrees below
>:ero Centigrade. This is a cold about
11 degrees greater than Dewar ob-
tained three years agn In liquefying
hydrogen, and Is within about 2 de
green of the supposed absolute zero
The question has now been raised
whether 27.1 7 degrees below the freez-
ing point of water Is really the abso-
lute zero
A Secret Worth Learning.
"You poor man." said Mr Hen peek,
who was for the first time seeing the
inside of a lunatic asylum, "how long
have you been here? Can you remem-
ber?"
"Oh, yes; very well," replied the pa-
tient; "seven years. You s(e, they let
me do pretty near as 1 please because
I'm harmless."
"Are you married?"
"Sure. I have a wife who used to
throw things at me every time I came
In the house."
"How sad! Ho you know how she
manages to live?"
"She's getting along all right Mcr
brother, who Is a rich bachelor. Is
takin' care of her. He never would
give up a cent, though, as long as I
was able to work, confound him."
"And what do you do here?"
"Sit around mostly, smokln' and
waltln' for the next meal time."
"Say," said the visitor, speaking
softly, and drawing a little nearer to
the patient. "Just between ourselves,
how did you get them to send you
here?"—Chicago Record-Herald.
A Good Club.
"The weather man said It would
rain to-day and 1 am glad I carried my
umbrella "
"But it didn't rain at all to-day."
"I know It didn't, but 1 met the
weather man on the street and I used
the umbrella to swat hltn good and
hard "
Calcium Carbide in Blasting.
Acetylene Is being used as an ex-
plosive In Germany, where It has
proven disappointing as an illumlnant.
Each cartridge contains an ounce and
tlirce fourths of calcium carbide,
yielding about Hi quarts of acetyleni,
and after wetting the carbide the con-
fined mixture of generated gas and air
I Is exploded by an electric spark In
J blasting the rock Is not thrown out.
j bttf iu broken up Into pieces smal'
enough to be readily removed
K'ng Rides for Health.
King Edward ha- taken to eques-
trian exercise as a means of ! eeping
j down Ills weight. Since the ilildt
i hole mishap which lamed him he ma-
jesty has been limbic to fake walking
j exercise. His liver began to show
| signs of rebellion, and the best his
] physicians could do wa: to o'der their
royal patient Into the sadrfle Kqnes-
i trli.nistn so far h.ir not reclined the
! king's waist measurement.
Stuck Too Long.
"That rich Mr Spooner Is tie most
provoking thin.:' H< a.-d-el me If I
was 33." "And what did you sny?"
"I said. 'Mercy no" And be said be
didn't think any woman ahonld marry
until she was 33 1 Gracious! What
did you do then?" I called after
hlm thnt I was 33 my next birthday,
hut he didn't seem to hear me.'--
Cle, i land Plain I)eah r
Encourage Fancy Skntir.g.
The governor general of Canada, to
show his Interest In and eicouraf ■
figure skating. Iia- offered hand ex-
trophy. to be compel d for next se.i
son The commission for tin trophy
has been ulven to a f'anidlan 1 ilpto
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-MUSIC.-
Vocal • and • Instrumental.
MISS MARY LOU MOSBY
la prepared to give Vocal end Instrumen-
tal M usic, at home. Terms, $3.00 per
month. Pupila solicited
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COTTON SEED
will pay the Highest Price, in
Cash, give Honest vVeights. and
buy at any time, winter or summer,
all Cotton Seed offered to us at our
Mill.
Bagging and ties.
To exchange
for Seed only
We buy and sell
everything for
CASH.
Pocuell Oil JVIill Co.
^ Blaeksmthing.
BEN MARTIN
Located at KBHAKD OLD STAND,
Is prepared to do all kinds of Hlscksuilth-
ing in the best style, carefully and with
dispatch.
A WOOD HHOr is connected with my establishment whers
all kinds of Carriage anil Wagon work is done under strict guar-
snles. Special Attention given to Horse Shoeing.
You Patronage Respectfully Solicited.
Ben Martin.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1906, newspaper, June 23, 1906; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205655/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.