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He just sort of rolled off the mule, in front of the Forest Queen, and went in to the bar and got four drinks in him before he could speak a word and then he said he'd been held up at the Barranca Grande by about two hundred road-agents who'd opened up on him and killed all the mules except the one he'd got away on; and his getting away at all, he said, was only because he'd put up such a fight he'd scared 'em and after that because they couldn't hit him when once he was off, and had the mule going on a dead run.
"Yes, I am known to all solely as Doctor Dick; but let me answer your question by replying that we believe the poor fellow has lost his life by falling over a cliff." "Such is not the case, sir," was the reply that startled the doctor. "Mr. Brandon is now a captive of the road-agents." Doctor Dick gazed at Celeste Seldon in amazement.
The horses stopped as suddenly as if it was a matter of common occurrence, Old Black dropped his reins, crossed his legs, and stared into the sky, and the passengers all put out their heads with a rapidity equaled only by that with which they withdrew them as they saw the dominoes and revolvers of the road-agents.
Three miles outside of Tombstone stood an adobe building wherein a venturesome saloon-keeper had installed himself, a barrel of that remarkable whisky known as "Kill Me Quick," and sufficient arms to maintain possession against road-agents. The sign on this establishment's front wall said: LAST CHANCE It was a lucky chance for Johnny Behind the Deuce.
Sleepily the miners crawl back to their respective couches; the moon smiles down on mother earth, and nature once more fans itself to sleep with the breath of a fragrant breeze. Deadwood magic city of the West! Not dead, nor even sleeping, is this headquarters of the Black Hills population at midnight, twenty-four hours subsequent to the rush of the daring road-agents through Camp Crook.
"I came over to learn the object you have in view, in invading our little valley, if you have no objections in telling." "Certainly not. As you may have guessed already, we are a band of road-agents, whose field of action we have lately confined to the Black Hills country.
While riding Pony Express the road on Buffalo Billy's run became infested with road-agents, who were wont to halt every rider they could catch, and also rob the stages. The chief of these outlaws was noted as a man of gallantry, for he never robbed a woman, no matter what the value of her personal effects might be.
"Do you know the motive of the road-agents in making that poor crazy fellow a prisoner?" "Money." "How do you mean?" "They doubtless captured his baggage, and discovered by it papers that went to show that a big ransom would be paid for his release." "Ah! they will demand a ransom for him, then?" "Assuredly." "The miners will hardly pay it if it is a large sum." "I do not ask them to do so."
"Do you know how much?" "Ther agent at W told me he thought about forty thousand, and so I made a rush, ter git through." "And did it grandly." "That's what I'm paid fer." "I have heard the story of your running the gantlet and surprising the road-agents." Old Huck laughed and replied: "Waal, I calkilate as how they was astonished.
"I was told by Harding, the driver, that you were on your way to Last Chance, to look up a friend who had come here on a mission for you, and who you had feared was in trouble?" "Yes, and my fears were realized when I learned that the coach in which he was a passenger had been held up, I believe that is what you call it, by road-agents, and Mr.
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