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"Will ye give me a dollar fer the apples?" asked Pop Lundy. "A dollar!" ejaculated Whopper. "Humph! I can get a barrel of these apples for a dollar!" "No, yeou can't! I'm a-goin' to git six dollars fer 'em -they're the best in these air parts. Make it a dollar an' I'll let ye go." "This is a regular hold-up," muttered Shep. "Offer him twenty-five cents."
Captain Funcke was, by instinct, a student of that continuous logic which constitutes the science of the chase, whether the prize of pursuit be a mountain sheep's horns or the scholar's need of praise for the interpreting of some half-obliterated inscription on a pre-Hittite tomb. After long and silent consideration the captain gave his views. "It isn't bunco. It's a hold-up.
Down the middle of the broad valley they came, flying like the wind before their pursuers; at sight of Creede and his cowboys and the familiar hold-up herd they swerved and slackened their pace; then as the half-circle of yelling cowmen closed in from behind they turned and rushed straight for the box cañon, their flint-like feet striking like whetted knives as they poured into the rocky pass.
We were trailing him on word from Denver described the car and said he 'd pulled a daylight hold-up on a pay-wagon for the Smelter Company so when the car went through Golden, we took up the trail a couple of blocks behind. He kept the same speed for a little while until one of my deputies got a little anxious and took a shot at a tire. Man, how he turned on the juice!
"Twenty-five thousand dollars. Billington Rand," repeated Holmes, firmly. "If you don't believe it come along and see. He doesn't know you, does he?" "Not from Adam," said I. "Very good then you'll be safe as a church. Meet me in the Fifth Avenue Hotel corridor at five to-morrow afternoon and I'll show you as pretty a hold-up as you ever dreamed of," said Holmes.
It was a hard country and too close to Williams Cache for comfort, but Dan got on with everybody because the toughest man in the Cache country could get a meal, a feed for his horse, and a place to sleep at Baggs's, without charge, when he needed it. Ed Banks, by hard riding, got to the crossing at five o'clock, and told Baggs of the hold-up and the shooting of Oliver Sollers.
The despatcher at "X" had regained his equilibrium, and in his usual crisp manner he replied: "Take this for Conductor Bedford: "Bedford: Hold-up apparently planned between Broken Gap and Hadley Corners. Probably on one of the grades of the Little Timbers. Gather a posse quickly, and make sure of capturing them. Report at HC.
Sandy went out a moment ago to steer away one of the detectives who came in from Chicago last night." The hold-up man got softly to his feet and began moving out of the light of the fire. Tommy urged him by look and a motion to remain where he was for the present. "I didn't know that there were any detectives from Chicago in here," he said. "They must have made a quick jump to get here!"
He was a sort of half outlaw from that time, and was killed finally in the train hold-up of '97. But the others we tried for rustling. We didn't have much of a case, as the law went then, and they'd have gone free if the woman hadn't turned evidence against them. The killin' was too much for her.
Some of the troopers grabbed up their guns and cut loose at random, and these hold-up people returned the compliment with deadly effect. "That isn't all," he continued moodily. "I stayed there till daylight, and then gathered up their stock.
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