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Updated: June 29, 2025
The temptation to do something startling is almost irresistible; robberies will be planned, hold-ups thought of, abductions contemplated; the life of a desperado entertained. The moral character seems to be in a state of eruption. On the other hand, his sympathies and affections may be appealed to as never before.
She stood before them cool and imperious and unwavering, but her face was bloodless and the pulse in her beautiful soft throat fluttered like a caged bird. "Who's doing this job?" demanded one of the hold-ups, wheeling savagely on the impassive officer "Did I say we were going to bother the lady? Who's doing this job, Mr. Sheriff?" "You are.
A flick of the memory may have carried him back to the old days in the mining camps when Casey drove stage and hold-ups were frequent. "What 'r yuh tryin' to pull on me now?" he bawled, and rushed headlong toward them, pushing them forcibly out into the open with a collision of his body against Joe.
So that first day was a specimen in the matter of hold-ups and arrests. From the time that we started across the level plains which approach the city until we got through the double sector of forts, we were stopped, questioned, and searched by thirteen different groups of soldiers.
He had read of highwaymen and hold-ups; but he had believed that such things had gone out of fashion with the coming of farmers into the Panhandle, the building up of the frequent settlements, and the extension of the railroad lines. Pratt's heart was warmed by the girl's evident desire that he should not run into danger.
So the upshot of it was: first Hart's nephew stopped his squirming; and then he took to telling what a holy wonder he was at mule-driving; and then he went to blowing the biggest kind till he got so he couldn't talk no longer about what he'd do in the shooting line if any road-agents come around trying their monkey-shine hold-ups on him!
"'My hands is already up, for I'm an old stage-driver, gents, an' you-alls can gamble I knows my trade. I'm hired to drive. It ain't no part of my game to fight hold-ups an' stand off route-agents that a-way, an' get shot dead for it by their pards the next trip; so, as I says, the moment that Winchester goes off, I clamps my fingers back of my head an' sets thar.
But we are nearly all of us seeing to-day. We have stood by now these many years through strikes and rumours of strikes, and we have watched the railway hold-ups, the Lawrence Mill strike, and the great English coal strike.
"What are the Riverside robberies?" inquired Donaldson, with a faint remembrance of the name. "You been out of town?" "No, but I don't read the papers much." "I should say not. Four hold-ups in three weeks, all within half a mile of one another on Riverside Drive." "Riverside Drive?" He remembered now. The Arsdale home was near Riverside Drive. Barstow had spoken of these crimes.
"Talk about 'benefit of clergy," exploded the younger man; "that mediaeval bonanza isn't to be mentioned in the same week with the ministerial half-rates, donations, and hold-ups we moderns put up with. This pulpit pounder's shrew pays me no more than she pays the doctor, the grocer, the butcher, and the rest. What a ukase I could issue if I were Czar of these United States."
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