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And when this hold-up comes off I beat it till that Cuban rummy with the medals on his dicer rides a live horse up my back." "You don't appreciate the honor," explained his employer; then turning to the others, he announced: "Will you allow me to introduce Mr. Lawrence Glass? He isn't really a valet, you know, Miss Chapin, and he doesn't care for the West yet. It is his first trip."
He's rustled everythin' from a bunch of ponies to the mail-bags, an' is nothin' but a hold-up who needs hangin' every hour. Whatever takes him to where I lays by my bayonet-bush I never knows. He don't disclose nothin' on that p'int afterward, an' mebby he tracks up on me accidental.
How are we to know that in another couple of hundred feet of the reel Buck will escape the officers of the law who have him for that hold-up of the Wallahoola stage of which he was innocent leap from a second-story window of the sheriff's office onto the back of his old pal, and be carried safely over the border where the hellhounds can't touch him until his innocence is proved by Estelle St.
But along comes this yere hold-up business, an', all inadvertent, tips my hand; which the same I stands, however, jest the same. "'It's all right, says Enright, some disgusted though; 'but the next time you makes them foundlin' asylum trips, don't walk in the water so much.
"The first men on the ground after that hold-up were me and Lee. We covered the situation thorough and got hold of some points right away." "That's right funny too. When I asked you if you'd been down there you both denied it," commented the officer. "We were protecting the girl. Mind you, we didn't know who had done it then, but we had reasons to think the person had just come from this ranch."
It was only a "hold-up." She did not suppose the Arabs had even really meant to hurt any one, but they were excited and some one's shot, aimed wide, had found an unexpected billet. It could only be that. It was too near Biskra for any real danger, she argued with herself, still straining on the reins.
"But then they may come back again." "If they do we'll arrest 'em!" declared Jed Monty, cracking his stage whip. As had been expected, the posse could get little trace of the hold-up men. They had disappeared after having cast aside the rifled mail pouches. It developed, however, that a few pieces of registered matter, and some express stuff had been taken, in addition to the bogus letters.
"Did you see a lady hold-up among those shooting at me?" he inquired anxiously. She shook her head. "And just when the biscuits were flying thickest the wall opened and Mr. Fraser appeared. He caught you and the sheep by the back of your necks, and flung you in. Then the wall closed, and I awoke." "That's about as near the facts as dreams usually get."
But when I got home to La Chance the bald story I told Dudley was wasted. He swore I was a fool, first, for burying two skulls with no faces and imagining they belonged to Dunn and Collins; and next that they were still alive and meaning to run a hold-up on us. From where, or how, he couldn't say.
Baker stared at him, one chubby hand on each fat knee. "Why, everybody," said he; "the people who can make use of it. You and I and the other fellow." "Especially the other fellow," put in Bob drily. Baker chuckled. "It's like any business," said he. "First-come collect at the ticket office for his business foresight. But we'll try out this hold-up before we lie down and roll over."
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