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The pull ia np hill for ulmost t.'irt OileH alon h.Te, and tho hur.scs pkxl ulun 8lowl. Tho dust in just aa h?ei. but now, insto;id of blowing oflf to U'c ward, as it did awhile ao, it han;p close aronnd the stage in a thick, dense, reddish yellow cloud, almost shutting off the view from the passengers inside, if they cared to look out. But the beau ties of nature hold their interest only elightly just at xresent. The dust occu pies their attention to a large extent. Jt tills their mouths and eyes and nostrils, and clings to their hair and ears in much profusion. It is disagreeable very; and the man who has enough spirits left to try and keep up the conversation is voted an ass by his fellow passengers. They were all very friendly only a short time ago, but they hate each other with a bit ter hatred just now all on account of the dust. Dust is a great destroyer of good humor. Back there a mile or so the sun shines brightly on the canyon road, making it look like a long yellow ribbon, but just ahead the shadow of the mountain on the west, which seems to close the np per end of the pass, cuts the light off in an odd, abrupt way, and presently wo shall be in comparative darkness, for the edge of the heavy timber is only a little distance before us. Somehow the dust doesn't rise very high, or else the driver and the passen ger on the box don't mind it, for we can near them talking. Old Ben, through some unseen but easily imagined influ ence, has relaxed from his usual taci turnity and is quite communicative to the beardless, boyish looking young chap who got on back at Alpena and is sharing the box with him. As the stage reaches the level, and rolls into the shadows of the mountain and the tall pines, Ben points with tho whip to the mouth of the narrow pasa leading out of the canyon a quarter of a mile away and remarks: "See them two big rocks? road runs b'tween 'em. Uh-huh. Wal, right thar mebbe a couple rods 'r so fu'ther on was whar 1 was belt up one day in th' summer of '76." "Yes?" said the passenger's pleasant voice interrogatively. "Would you mind telling me about it?" Ben chirped to his horses, spat impres sively and liberally, and began: "Wal, 'twuz this a-way. That morn in. th 'xpress box was loaded plumb full o' hard stuff, tht hed t go through that day. Now, jes'z luck'd hev' it, one o' the gyards we hed gyards them days turned up miwsin 'bout th' time we was ready t' start fr'm Eldorado in th' morn in. Berry McNeill, th' other gyard, goes arter 'im, an fin's Mr. Man laid up with a gash in th head fr'm a beer bottle be'n scrappin night b'fore. "Th' agent an me was thinkin pow'ful "bout who we c'd git t' take Hauser's place ef he was sick, w'en hyar comes Mac, whistlin. " 'Say, fellers, says he, 'Hauser got plunked -with a bottle las' night, an is layin on his downy couch with a head ache. Reckon I c'n go in b' my lone some; I got Hauser's sawed off gun.' "We both kicked a whole lot, but Mac, he'd made xip his min an was boun t' hev his own way; b'sides, we didn't hev no one right handy t' go 'long, so ws hed t give in. an Mac, whistlin one o' his everlastin toons, piles up on th' box an we pulls out. They wa'n't no pas sengers. "Wal, we kep our peepers skun right sharp, but ev'rythin went lovely till jes' long 'bout hyar. Then Mac says, 'Ben, I b'lieve they's some cusses layin fer us up b' them rocks I think I seen a feller'3 head, jes' now. Says I: 'Mac, y're full o' hop. I seen it, too, an 'twa'n't nothin but a hawk crossin the road. "1 stirred up the critters a bit, how- somever, but jes'z we turned th' rocks somebody jumps out fr'm both sides an nails th' leaders, an they was so many guns starin intuh my face th't it made me ashamed o' myself. Mac cut loose wi' th' sawed off shotgun an then begun wi' th' Winchister, gittin two fellers an skinnin up some more but they was too dern many of 'em, an they c'd shoot, too, so Mac he never got no chance t' pump that gun dry. He oughtn't t' hev shot, nohow, but he alius was a nervy cuss nore nerve 'n sense. I usetuh say. Mac' " Half a dozen dusky forms leap from the roadside the big cowboy who got aboard early in the afternoon, and has been dozing and swearing in a sleepy way about the dust, is suddenly wide awake, and we, on the inside, get a good look at the muzzles of his two big re volvers we hear Ben ejaculate, "Wal, this do beat hell!" and then we are in vited to get down into the road, where the pleasant faced, boyish looking young man, who got on back at Alpena, pro ceeds to business, and politely, cour teously, but firmly withal, relieves us of our spare change and more too. That is my part of the story. Of course there were quite a number of other people present, including the youthful highwaj-man and his capable assistants, and they, also, have a claim on the above narrative. I did not mean that I owned it; what I tried to say was that this is the only one of the events from which come this veracious tals that I took part in, and I think it has been shown that my part was entirely a passive one. Perhaps we had better call that portion of the story the gentlemanly road agent's, because he got about ev erything else there was to get. The rest is Hallegan's. Hallegan and I were traveling to gether, and it was his foresight or rather an odd notion of his that en abled us to resume our journey to Den ver after the road agent incident. This odd notion was in the form of a thin chamois insole which he wore in his left boot, and which, in addition to a card giving directions for the disposition of his body in case he should suddenly be called hence while among strangers, contained a fifty dollar bill. It was aa ordinary fifty dollar bill, but when Ter ence flashed it before my dazzled eyes is the hotel r Merrill that night I was , quite sure that it was larger and mo. valuable than the opinions of a Nt t England hired man. It took us to Lead G rille, anyway, and that was all we coul reasonably desire: But for the rest of the story: It was about two years after the roan agent affair, in which we lost almost everything but our good namws and the clothing we wore, when one day J wat thunderstruck to receive Hallegan's wedding cards. It was the first time 1 had heard from him for a year, and had any one else told me Terence Hallegan was a marrying man I should have de rided him, but when Terence himself, in his own peculiar chirography, directed to me an envelope containing such star tling news, all set forth in the highest style of the engraver's art well, it was too much, and I went down into the camp, where surcease of sorrow was ob tainable in quantities to suit the pur chaser, and where there was a full 6core of Terence's friends and acquaintances to toast his memory and console with each other. And grief was our lot until the day Jewett "struck it" in that hole he had been pegging away at over on the other side of the gulch, and excita inent reigned supreme. In the midst of the confusion, tele grams came and went, flying brought and sent by special courier to and from the office at Sunrise, nine miles away; and one day came one for him who sits here burning the nocturnal kerosene. It was from Hallegan, who was now liv ing in Chicago, and summoned me to hasten to that city, where 1 was needed to assist in a transaction involving the sale of some mining property in which Terence and 1 were interested. Terence met me at the station. El-a looked remarkably well, even for a per son whose health and spirits had always been of the very best, and I told him so. adding that in deponent's opinion h must have drawn a capital prize in the matrimonial lottery. He smiled happily, and took my am to walk outside the trail inclosure a he said: "That 1 did that 1 did, me D03': jus; wait till you see her, and you'll be sn:v of it." He called a cab, gave the driver sou; brief instructions, and leaped in a'ter me. We rode several minutesin silent--1, then Hallegan turned to me in a r;;iivr embarrassed way, and said, ia a strain ; tone: "Billy, me boy it's very near dim:- 1 time at our house and there's no ti. . for explanations. Only if you thiui; you've 6een my wife if her face is miliar please don't mention it, or aci as though yon noticed it. I'll explain after dinner." I 1 acquiesced wonderingly, and won ' dered yet more after 1 had met Mrs. Hallegan, for I was quite positive that 1 had never seen her before, and there was ample opportunity during the course of the excellent dinner we presently sat down to, to study her. She was slightly above the medium height, and of a per fect, though rather slight figure. Her hair and eyes were dark, setting off ex cellently her clear olive complexion, and her features were all that an artist could desire. . She was hardly what one would call a beautiful woman, however. "Handsome" would be the better word or, perhaps, "striking." There was something about the firm set of her mouth when not speaking, and ' the strong, rather masculine chin in which, oddly enough, there was a charmingly feminine dimple that caused this effect, I think. One would never have taken Mrs. Hallegan for the daughter of the little, white haired, sweet faced old lady who sat opposite me, and whom she ad dressed as "mother." No, I had never seen her up to half an hour ago, so I gave up studying her and fell to wondering what Hallegan wa3 going to "explain." Dinner over, the ladies rose to leave us, smiling over the broad hint Terence had just thrown out concerning a desire to smoke. As they reached the door Mrs. Hallegan titrned and bowed mockingly to her husband, whose hand was just reaching for the bell. "I hope, Sir Ter ence, that the cigars may prove dry company." Then, with a bright smile, she vanished. I flopped into my chair breathlessly. Where had I seen that mocking bow? Then suddenly there came before me that little scene in the mountains two years since tho dust, the heat, tha sleepy cowboy inside the coach, the dap per little chap who so politely took our money and watches. He bowed just that way when he finished his work and departed. "Her brother," I thought "black sheep, blot on family escutcheon. How much they resemble" "Well, me boy?" Hallegan was looking at me quizzi cally through the smoke, we having lighted our cigars meanwhile. I sup pose I looked embarrassed. Of course it was all rot. The idea of there being any connection, however remote, be tween the stately creature who had just left us and the little rascal who en gineered that holdup! Hallegan spoke: "Billy, me boy, I won't make a short story any longer than is necessary. You. remember the little fellow who held ua up two years ago?" "Of course I do." "Yes, very likely. Well, 1 fancy I'd better begin at the beginning. "Three years ago a young fellow named Wilson, who had been employed as cashier by the L. and A. Stage and Express company, got into trouble over his accounts. The manager, Robinson, charged him with a shortage amounting to several thousand dollars. There was an investigation, and on the strength of certain circumstantial evidence which need not be stated, as it is immaterial, backed by the testimony of Robinson, the manager; Tweedy, the superintend ent, and Frank Robinson, son of the manager who, by the way, had always been Wilson's bosom friend the cashier was convicted on trial and sentenced to a long term at Canyon City. Strange to say, he offered no testimony and mads no defense except his plea of 'not gnflty.' "Well, it killed him. . Inside of a year the worry and difrrace, alone; with tbs hard work and close confinement ha had never lem very strong had wasted him to a shadow, and when at last ho knew he couldn't live very long he sent for his mother and sisters to come to him. "His mother was too ill herself to trttvel, and one of the sisters a cripple was obliged to remajn with her, but , the elder sister went. "She found him dying dying in prison. It was the first she had known of his trouble and, naturally, she waa terribly shocked. "He told her the true history of the affair that young Robinson, between whom and himself had existed a sort of Damon and Pythias friendship, was th guilty one; and how, when some of tha stockholders got wind of the shortage, the two Robinsons and Tweedy, who was a brother-in-law of old Robinson, had conspired to shield the guilty man by sacrificing an innocent one, who would not defend himself. The confession made by the dying man was not alto gether a voluntary one. His sister, who had known nothing except that he was innocent, caught a hint of the truth from him when he wsis raving in delirium the rest she made him tell her. "After young Wilson's death, his sis ter went quietly to work to see what could be done to prove her brother's in nocence and to place the guilt were it belonged, but soon found that nothing could be proved. Tho Robinsons were too strong for her. "About this time Mrs. Wilson and her younger daughter were obliged to go south on account of ill health, leaving ths elder daughter, who was studying medi cine, here in Chicago. Notlongafter this the holdups on the different lines of the L. and A. began. For the first few times there was only one road agent a little chap, but a nervy one, who got talked about by the papers a good deal; but pretty soon there were others, until a band of about eight or nine had organ ized under the little fellow's leadership, and they made life a burden to the L. and A. people. "It made no difference what precau tions the company took or how many guards it employed; the road agents were too smart, and the boldest kind of holdups were successfully made and, by Jove! it 'busted' the company's busi ness. The L. and A. wasn't a heavy concern, of course, but had always mad a a good deal of money. The frequent holdups on its lines, though, proved a settler. It wasn't long before nobody would ship or travel over any of the L and A. company's lines unless actually obliged to, and the company was kept pretty busy settling . the losses of its customers. Then came the crash, and somehow people began to suspect that the Robinsons had not run things as they should have been handled, and the stockholders investigated. Old Robin son died in disgrace shortly afterward. The young man took all he could lay his hands on and skipped, but was caught at Sante Fe. He's where he should be at Canyon City. Tweedy got off on a technicality. "About seven or eight months after we were held up a stageful of fellows, including inj-self, were stopped and re lieved one afternoon about ten miles from Milliken, on the old Muleshoo trail. The young fellow was one of the robbers 1 knew him in spite of hi mask. There were only four of the road agents on this occasion. "They pulled out, leaving us orders not to touch our arms (which they had stacked on the ground) for twenty min utes, under xenalty of getting shot. But one of our party was a devil-may-care chap, and no sooner were the bandit3 gone than he walked right over to the pile of guns and picked his out, remark ing that he 'didn't believe there were any road agents around just then.' And there weren't. "Well, the result of this fellow's fool hardiness was that we concluded it would be money in our pockets to get on the trail of those four road agents, so we started after them, separating a little distance from each other. We followed them all the afternoon, but couldn't find a trace. "You knoiv how the old Muleshoe trail is? Weil, the driver had gone on. agreeing to meet us on the other side of the shoe it is only three or four miles across. "I was just about making up my mind to join the other fellows, and had stopped to think of the best way to cross the creek, when I heard a queer sound, like a woman sobbing. I looked cau tiously around, and there, within two rods of me, was the young road agent, crying as if his heart would break. There was nobody else there, it waa plain to be seen, so I quietly sneaked up and requested him to throw up hij hands. "Did you ever hear a woman scream at the sight of a mouse? That's just the way this young fellow screamed when he saw the muzzle of my gun and I, an soon as I saw the scared turned to mine, knew as w now that the famous bandit Foxey was only a woman "She seemed to trust me, somehow, and pretty soon I had the whole story from her. Then I sat down and talked to her like a brother; and the result was that next day the road agents missed their leader, and inside of a fortnight Miss Jean Wilson was back here in Chi cago at her studies again. "I need not say that this gentle ban dit, who ruined the business of the L. and A. company, took not one cent of the proceeds, and never permitted any of the band to interfere with Uncle Sam's mail. The latter fact accounts in a measure for their success, for Uncle Sam is a bad man to interfere with. The former fact, I think, had to do to some extent with the strong hold which Foxey had over his subordinates, al though they must have had a good deal of faith in his demonstrated ability as an executive. The band was broken up not long after Foxey's disappearance and three of the men were caught, but they didn't know any more concerning their mysterious ex-chief than did the public at large." "And ana Miss Wilson is" Hallegan's eyes twinkled: "Iswaitinc for us. Let us join her," he said. R. L. Ketch um in Argonaut. PLACES OF WORSHIP. Catholic t. raul's Church, ak, trtwa runt ana rixui. miliar t aiiit-y. i-antor Hfrvtces : AIunm nt 8 nntl 10 :.' a. m. 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