back to the car, Miss

after

old her of the good news I had to send, and she wanted to know if now we would try to catch the road agents. I set her mind at re

ing the wire

ing till we had just passed the Arizona line. It they had held

t will i

ngi

cried Mi

ng is not capital, but in

them they'll be

es

eems ve

trail of the fugitives. She said she would walk with me, if not in the way, and my assurance was very positive on that point. And here I wa

t or hoof within a half-mile of the cars! I had heard of blankets laid down to conceal a trail, of swathed feet, even of leathern horse-boots with cattle-hoofs on the bottom, but none of the

y come from nowhere, bullets touch them not, their lead hurts nobody

exclaimed. "One would a

y left their shells behind them." And I pointed to some cartridge-shells that

hollow as I feel,"

ds me that I am desper

o back and en

and just as they were ready Albert Cullen appeared, so we made a very jolly little breakfast. He told me at length the part he and the Britishers had borne, and only made me marvel the more that any one of them was alive, for apparently they had

id. "You fellows did a tremendously pluckly thin

lp too, Mr. Gordon,

, and, after a moment

d I didn't think I could do anything. I supposed whoever had pitched into

r life," she asked, "if yo

replied, "I didn't want you to think that

she would, laughing with me, and then sai

d, "I was frighte

ou, they would have been less courageous," she con

etters, and they had evidently been taken. This made me feel sober, slight as the probable loss was. He told me that his list showed they were al

Grand Ca?on, told him that all the stage arrangements had been completed, and promised to join him there in case my luck was good. Then I saw Frederic for a moment, to see how he was (for I had nearly forgotten him in the excitement), to fi

road agents ought to be treated. You have turned the joke very neatly and p

he retorted airily, pret

myself in. I turned to Miss Cullen to wish her a pleasant trip, and the t

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

fice I am making." Then, without looking at her, I gave the signal, the bell rang, and

ent. I wired Coolidge to give the alarm to Fort Wingate, Fort Apache, Fort Thomas, Fort Grant, Fort Bayard, and Fort

here, Mr. Gordon," the man c

not!" I

onded. "The bullet-

onder nobody was hit," I exclaimed, "if that's a sample of their shooting. Some one was a worse rat

be Winchesters, as I had expected, for they were

shooting was. When I got there and faced about, it was really impossible to believe any man could have done so badly, for raising my own Winchester to the pole put it twenty

ring of three flats and a box car, and brought the sheriff, a dozen cowboys whom he had sworn in as deputies, and their horses. I was hopeful that with these fellows' great

abouts, for they couldn't 'a' got awa

ock in that idea, an

a better one,"

he bullets in the telegraph pole, and took

the aim. "If that's where they put two of their pills

er four?"

replied se

only fired four t

pretty nigh together for a minute, t

ing along the edge of the road-bed for more shells; but, though I went beyond the point where the last car had stood, not one did I 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 seven discharges of the Winchesters had occurred up by the mail-car. I had