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Updated: June 23, 2025
The rapid fire caused the road-agents to believe that there was a coach full of soldiers, that a trap was prepared for them, and ere they could rally and their leader could convince them that it was not so, the coach had gone by the Dead Line and was going along the pass at the full speed of its horses, the reins now in the hands of old Huck once more.
Then followed two other road-agents bearing the baggage of Celeste Seldon, and soon after the coach started upon its return. Buffalo Bill could not have reached a point to head it off had he tried, and he felt that he must still be cautious.
The road-agents had, in the mean time, circled off to the right of the fissure, and formed into a compact body, where they halted and watched the rallying of the savages in the valley. Fearless Frank and his lovely companion remained where they had first halted, awaiting developments. They had stumbled into Paradise and were both surprised and bewildered. Redburn approached them first.
When, however, the time for his arrival came, and no stage appeared, men looked anxiously at each other and wondered if the old man was another victim to the road-agents' hunt for gold. When an hour passed and there was no stage in sight, Doctor Dick said that he would mount his horse and go to see what was the matter.
Next morning, having pretty much slept himself sober, Hart's nephew went cavorting around Palomitas that little runt did like he was about ten foot tall! He had the whole thing over, in the course of the day, a dozen times or more; and as he kept on telling it now he was sober enough to add things on it got to be about the biggest fight with road-agents that ever was.
I also know that five horsemen, whom I have reason to believe to be road-agents, left W ahead of me for the purpose of robbing the coach." "Have you much of value with you?" "I have considerable money in bank-notes for miners at Last Chance." "Is it too bulky for me to hide?" "I think not, miss." "Then let me try it." A halt was made and the money taken from its hiding-place.
As they had found nothing to take, the road-agents had doubtless visited their vengeance upon old Huck, especially to repay him for having run the gantlet on a former occasion.
If he'd been a little older, I'd have bet he was in league with some road-agents to watch the coach. Just my luck to have him light out as I was beginning to get some talk out of him." He paused, looked at his watch, and straightened himself in his stirrups. "Four o'clock. I reckon I might as well try the woods and what that imp calls the 'bresh; I may strike a shanty or a native by the way."
That Doctor Dick was the right man to send out with the ransom all felt assured, for if there was any trickery on the part of the road-agents, he was the one to meet it. Doctor Dick had even offered to go out upon horseback alone, but it was thought best that the coach should be sent for the visitor, and Harding should drive, he having met her.
He was a man disposed to silence, for he did not speak often, unless Doctor Dick addressed him. But he would ask now and then about the trails, and showed some interest in the gambler-king's stories of the different road-agents' attacks upon the way to Last Chance.
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