Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 April 1897 — Page 5

CHAPTER VI

THE HAPPENINGS DOWN HANCE'S TRAIL. Miss Cullen was sitting ou a rock apart from lior brother aud Hance, as 1 had naked her to do when I helped her dismount. I went over there and said boldly: "Miss Cullen, I want those letters." "What letters?" she asked, looking me in the eyes with the most innocent of expressions. She made a mistake to do that, for I knew her innocence was feigned fuul so didn't put much faith in her face for the rest of the interview. "And what is more," I said, with a firmness of manner about as genuine as her innocence, "unless you will produce them I shall have to search you." "Mr. Gordon!" sho exclaimed. But she put such surprise and grief aud disbelief into the four syllables that I wanted tho earth to swallow then IU Mi-re. "Why, Miss Cullen," I cried, "look at my jMwitiou. I'm being paid to do certain things, and"— "But that needn't prevent your being a gentleman, sho Interrupted.

That made me almost desperate. "Miss Cullen," I said hurriedly, "I'd rather bo burned alivo than do what I'vo got to, but if you won't give me those lotters search you I must." "But how can I givo you what I haven't?" sho cried indignantly, assuming again her innocent expression.

Will you give me your word of honor that those letters are not oonoealed in your clothes?"

I will,'' she said. I was very much taken aback, for it would havo been so easy for Miss Cullen to havo said that before that I had become convinced she must have them. "And do you givo mo your word?" "I do," she affirmed. But she didn't look mo in tho face as she said it

I ought to havo been satisfied, but I wasn't, for in spito of her denial something forced mo still to believe she had

Cullen tea* gltting on a rock,

them, and, looking back now, I think it vrm her manner. I stood reflecting for a minute and then said, "Please stay where you IUV for a moment." Leaving her, I went over to Fred. "Mr. Cullen," I said, "Miss Cullen,

Ho n.we ni- once, "I told my father not to drag

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innocent of any real wrong as the day she WAN born." "I'll do everything in my power," 1 promitKKl. Then he and Hance went into the cabin, and I walked back to the culprit. "Miss Cullen." I said gravely, "you have thowe letters and most give them 1o me," "But I told you"— Rhe began.

To spare her a untruth I interrupted her by sarin*?. "I trapped your brother into acknowledging

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Dick Gordon, Yale graduate, goes In for bard work. From tbe Chicago & Alton railroad repair shops he is gradually promoted and finally works up to the position of superintendent of a western railroad—the Kansas & Arizona. The story opens with an account of a trip by rail of Mr. Cullen, a railroad vice president, over the lines of the K. & A. Gordon is asked to meet Cullen and party and pilot them through. In the party are Madge Cullen, with whom Gordon falls in love Lord Balles, an Englishman, in love with Madge, and Captain Ackland, brother of Lord Ralles. Talk turns on train robbers. Madge would like an adventure with hold ups. So would Rulles and Ackland. While horseback riding near Santa Fo, Gordon points out among"convicts working on a railroad grade Jack JDrute, a train robber under a fourteen year sentence. Madge speaks to the convict, who answers gruffly. CHAPTER II.—The party is Joined by Madge's invalid brother. On a special train all go on westward. While Mr. Cullen, his elder son and the two Englishmen play poker and Gordon and Madge enjoy the moonlight on the rear car the train is held up by bandits. III.— The robbers are fired at and frightened away, taking with them but three registered letters from the mail coach. Gordon telegraphs for help and starts the company's sleuths. He overbears Lord Ralles talking rudely to Madge and knocks him down. IV. —Mystery of thesearch for the robbers only four shots fired by the robbers, and yet six empty shells are found. Cullen antl party go on to the Grand canyon. Gordon remains to assist the sheriff. V.—Gordon, with the sheriff and posse, follows to Grand canyon, finds the party In camp, tells them he suspects them of complicity in the robbery and ia their effects. searches them anc

rather than be searched, has acknowl tidged that she has the letters and says Qnly the death of one of "the M. W. dithat if we men will go into the hut rector who held 8,000 shares of EL and she'll get them for me,"

in," he muttered sadly.

"I dun'tearo about myself, Mr. Gordon, but can't you keep her out of it? She's

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haw them." ou must have misunderstood him," «he said calmly, "or else he didn't know that the arrangement wan changed."

Her steadiness rather shook my oon~

viction, but I said, "You must give me those letters or I must search you." "You never would!" she cried, rising and looking me in the face.

On impulse I tried a big tyLuff. I took hold of the lapel of her waist, intending to undo one button. I let go in fright when I found there was no button—only an awful complication of hooks or some other feminine method for keeping things together—and I grew red and trembled, thinking what might have happened had I, by bad luck, made anything come undone. If Miss Cullen had been noticing me, she would have seen a terribly scared man.

But she wasn't, luckily, for the moment my hand touched her, and before she could realize that I snatched it away, she collapsed on the rock and burst into tears. "Oh, oh I" she sobbed. "I begged papa not to, but he insisted they were safest with me. I'll give them to you if you'll only go away and not''— Her tears made her inarticulate, and, without waiting for more, I ran into the hut, feeling as near like a murderer as a guiltless man could.

Lord Ralles was swearing over his trousers by this time and was offering the cowboy and Hance money to recover them. When they told him this was impossible, ho tried to get them to sell or hire a pair, but they didn't like the idea of riding into camp minus those essentials any better than he did. While I waited they settled the difficulty by strapping a blanket round him, and, by splitting it up the middle and using plenty of cord, they rigged him out after a fashion, but I think if he Coald have seen himself he would have waited till it was dark enough to creep into camp unnoticed.

Before long Miss Cullei* called, and when I went to her she handed me, without a word, three letters. As she did so sho crimsoned violently and looked down in her mortification. I was so sorry for her that, though a moment before I had been judging her harshly, I now couldn't help saying: "Our positions have been so difficult, Miss Cullen, that I don't think we either of us are quite responsible for our actions.

She said nothing, and, after a pause, I continued: "I hope you'll think as leniently of my conduct as you can, for I can't tell you how grieved I am to have pained you."

Cullen joined us at this point, and knowing that every moment we remained would be distressing to his sister I said we would start up the trail. I hadn't the heart to offer to help her mount, and after Frederio has put her up we fell into single file behind Hance, Lord Ralles coming last.

As soon as we were started I took a look at the three letters. They were all addressed to Theodore E. Camp, Esq., Ash Forks, A. T., one of the directors of the K. and A. and also of the Qreat Southern. For the first time things began to clear up to me. When the trail broadened enough to permit it, I pushed my mule up alongside of Cullen and asked: "The letters contain proxies for the K. and A. election next Friday?"

He nodded his head. "The Missouri Western and the Great Southern are fighting for oontrol," he explained, "and wo should have won but for three blocks of eastern stock that had promised their proxies to the G. S. Rather than lose the fight we arranged to learn when those proxies were mailed—that was what kept me behind—and then to hold up the train that carried them." "Was it worth the risk?" I asked. "If we had succeeded, yes. My father had put more than was safe into Missouri Western and into California Central. The G. S. wants control to end the traffic agreements, and that means bankruptcy to my father."

I nodded, seeing it all as clear as day and hardly blaming the Cullens for what they had done, for any one who has had dealings with the G. S. is driven to pretty desperate methods to keep from being crushed. And when one is fighting an antagonist that won't regard the law, or rather one that, through control of legislatures and judges, makes the law to suit its needs, the temptation is strong to use the same weapons oneself. "The tcmghest part of it is," Fred went on, "that we thought we had the whole thing 'hands down,' and that was what made my father gb in so deep

A., got us in this hole, for the G. S. put up a relative to contest the will, and so delayed the obtaining of letters of administration, blocking his executors from giving a proxy. It was as nieAn a trick as ever was played." "The G. S. is a tough customer to fight," I said, and I asked, "Why didn't you burn the letters?** really wishing they had done «x "We feared duplicate proxies might get through in time and thought that by keeping these we might cook up a question as to which were legal, and then by injunction prevent the use at either." "And those Englishmen," I asked, "are they real?" "Oh, certainly," he said. "They were visiting my brother and thought the whole thing great larks. Then he told me how the thing had been done. They had suit Miss Cullen to my car so as to get me oat of the way, though she

hadn't known it. Then he aud his brother got off the train at the last stop, with the guns and masks, and concealed themselves on the platform of the mail car. Here they had been joined by the Britishers at the right moment, the disguises assumed, and the train held up, as already told. Of course the dynamite cartridge was only a blind, and the letters had been thrown about the car merely to confuse the clerk. Then, while Frederic Cullen, with the letters, ha/1 stolen back to the car the two Englishmen had crept back to where they had stood. Here, as had been arranged, they opened fire, which Albert Cullen duly returned, and th ^n joined them. "I don't see now hjw you spotted us,' Frederic ended.

I told hi™, and his disgust was amusing to see. "Going to Oxford maybe all right for the classics," he growled, "but it's destructive to gumption."

We rode into camp a pretty gloomy crowd, and those of the party waiting for us there were not much better. But when Lord Ralles dismounted and showed up in his substitute for trousers there was a general shout of laughter. Even Miss Cullen had to laugh for a moment. And as his lordship bolted for his tent I said to myself, "Honors are even."

I told the sheriff that I had recovered the lost property, but did not think any arrests necessary as yet. And as he was the agent of the K. & A. at Flagstaff he didn't question my opinion. I ordered the stage put and told Tolfree to give us

I told the sheriff that I had recovered the lost property. a feed before we started. But a more silent meal I never sat down to, and I noticed that Miss Cullen didn't eat anything, while the tragic look on her face was so pathetic as nearly to drive me frantic.

We started a little after 5 and were clear of the timber before it was too dark to see. At the relay station we waited an hour for the moon, after which it was a dear track. We reached the half way ranch about 11, and while changing the stage horses I roused Mrs. Klostermeyer an) succeeded in getting enough cold mntton. and- bread to fi&ake two rather decent looking sandwiches. With thes6' and a glass of whisky and water, I went to the stage, to find Miss Cullen curled up on the seat asleep, her head resting in her brother's arms. "She has nearly worried herself to death ever since you told her that road agents were hung,'' Frederic whispered, "and she's been crying tonight over that lie she told you, and, altogether, she's worn out with travel and excitement.

I screwed the cover on the traveling glass and put it with the sandwiches in the bottom of the stage. "It's a long and a rough ride," I said, "and if she wakes up they may give her a little strength. I only wish I could have spared her the fatigue and anxiety." "She thought she had to lie for father's sake, but she's nearly broken hearted over it," he continued.

I looked Frederic in the face and said, "I honor her for it," and in that moment he and I became friends. "Just see how pi .* she is!" he said, with evident affection and prids, turning back tho flap of the rug in which she was wrapped.

She was breathing gently, and there was just that touch of weariness and sadness in her face that would appeal to any man. It made me gulp, I'm proud to say. And when I was back on my pony, I said to myself, "For her sake, I'll pull the Cullens out of this scrape if it costs mo my position."

CHAPTER VH. A CHANGE OF BASE.

We did not reach Flagstaff till 7, and I told the Btageload to take possession of their car, while I went, to my own. It took me dome time to get freshened up, and then I ate my breakfast, for aft* er riding 72 miles in one night even the most heroic purposes have to take the side track. I think, as it was, I proved my devotion pretty well by not going to sleep, since I had been up three nights, with only such naps as I could steal in the saddle, and had ridden over 150 miles to boot. But I couldn't bear to think of Miss Cullen's anxiety. When I had finished eating, I went into 218. .The party were all in the dining room, but it was a very different looking crowd from the one with which that first breakfast had been eaten, and they all looked at me as I entered as if I were the executioner come for victims. "Mr. Cullen," I said, "I've been forced to do a lot of things that weren't pleasant, but I don't want to do more than I need. You're not the ordinary kind of n^l agents, and, as I presume your address is known, I don't see any need at arresting one of our own directors as yet. All I ask is that you give me your word tar the party that none of you will try to leave the country.** "Certainly, Mr. Gordon," he responded. "And I thank you far your great consideration." "I shall have to report the case to our president, and I snppose to the postmaster general, bat I shan't hurry about eithee What they will do I can't cay.

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Probably you know how far you can keep them quiet." "I think the local authorities are all I have to fear, provided time is given me." "I have dismissed the sheriff and his posse, and I gave them $100 for their work and three bottles of pretty good whisky I had on my car. Unless they get orders from elsewhere, you will not hear any further from them." /£.. 'You must let me reimburse what expense we have put you to, Mr. Gordon. I only wish I oould as easily repay

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Nodding my head in assent as well as in recognition of his thanks, I continued, "It was my duty as an official of the K. & A. to 'recover the stolen mail, and I had to do it" "We understand that," said Mr. Cullen, "and do not for a moment blame you." "But," I went on, for the first time looking at Madge, "it is not my duty to take part in a contest for control of the K. & A., and I shall therefore act in this case as I should in any other loss ofmaiL" 'And that is"— asked Frederic. "I am about to telegraph for instructions from Washington," I said. "As the G. S. has tied up some of your proxies, they ought not to object if we do the same, and I think I can manage so that Uncle Sam will prevent those proxies from being voted at Ash Forks on Friday.''

If a galvanic battery had been applied to the breakfast table, it wouldn't have made a bigger change. Madge clapped her hands in joy. itx. Cullen said "God bless you!" with real feeling. Frederic jumped up and slapped me on the shoulder, crying, "Gordon, you're the biggest old trump breathing,'' while Albert and the captain shook hands with each other in evident jubilation. Only Lord Ralles remained passive. "Have you breakfasted?" asked Mr. Cullen when the first joy was over. "Yes," I said. "I only stopped in on my way to the station to telegraph.'' "May I come with you and see what you say?" cried Fred, jumping up.

I nodded, and Miss Cullen said questioningly, "Me too?" making me very happy by the quesion, for it showed that she would speak to me. In a moment we were all walking toward the platform. Despite Lord Ralles, I felt happy, and especially as I had not dreamed that she would ever forgive me.

I took a telegraph blank, and, putting it so that Miss Cullen could see what I said, wrote: Postmaster General, Washington:

I hold, awaiting your instructions, the threb registered lotters stolen from No. 8 Overland Missouri Western express on Monday, Oat. 14, loss of which Las already been notified you.

Then I paused and said: "So far, that's routine, Miss Cullen. Now comes the help for you." And I continued:

The lotters may have been tampered with, and I reoommend a spoeial agent. Reply Flagstaff, Arizona.

RICHARD GORDON,

Superintendent K. and A. R. R.

"What will that do?" she asked. 'I'm not much at prophecyt and we'll Wait for the reply," I said. i£ All that day we lay at Flagstaff, and after a good sleep, as there was no use keeping the party cooped up in theii car, I drummed up some ponies and took the Cullens and Ackland over to the Indian cliff dwellings. I don't think Lord

Ralles gained anything by staying behind in a sulk, for it was a very jolly ride, or at least that was what it was to me. I had to tell them all how I had settled on them as the criminals. To hear Miss Cullen talk one would have inferred I was the greatest of living detectives. "The mistake we made," she said, "was not securing Mr. Gordon's help to begin with, for then we should never have needed to hold the train up, or, if we had, we should never have been discovered."

What was more to me than this ill deserved admiration were two things she said on the way back when we two had paired off and were a bit behind the rest. "The sandwiches and the whisky were very good," she told ma "And I'm so grateful for the trouble you took." "It was a pleasure," I said. "And, Mr. Gordon," she continued, and then hesitated for a moment, "my —Frederic told me that you—you said you honored me for"— "I do," I exclaimed energetically as she paused and colored. "Do you really?" she cried. "I thought Fred was only trying to make me less unhappy by saying that you did." "I said it, and I meant it," I tolil her. "I have been so miserable over that lie," she went on, "but 11

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let you have the letters it would ruin papa. I really wouldn't mind poverty myself, Mr. Gordon, but he takes such pride in success that I couldn't be the one to do it. I ought to have known yotx would help us."

I thought this a pretty good time tr make a real apology for my conduct on the trail as well as to tell her how sorry I was at not having been able to repack her bag better. She accepted .my apology very sweetly and assured me her belongings had been put away so neatly that she had wondered who did it I knew she only said this out of kindness and told her so, telling also of my struggles over that pink beribboned and belaced affair in a way which made her laugh. I had thought it was a ball gown and wondered at her taking it to the canyon, but she explained that it was a dressing sack. That made me open my eyes, thinking that anything so pretty could be used for the same purposes for which I use my crash bath gown, and, While my eyes were open, I saw the folly of thinking that a girl who wore such things amid ever get along on my salary. In that way the incident was a good leaion for me, tor it made me feel that even if there had been no Lord Balles I 11 should have had no chance.

On our return to the cars there was a telegram titan the postmaster general awaiting me. After a glance at it as the rest of the party looted anxiously

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