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M ght was right 10 an 10every anevery mevery every sense of the word meanwhile meanwhileall all sortsf sorts f gyp artists card sharps sharpsconfdence sharpscont'dence sharpsconfdence confdence cont'dence contdence ' men and she shell ) game gameI gamecrooks gamecrooks gamecrooks I crooks robbed and plundered right rightand rightand . and left keeping out of trouble be because because I Icause cause Soapy the Big Boss had hadarranged hadarranged hadarranged arranged the pol ce cc and judIciary judIciaryI judiciaryto I to suit swt himselfSoapy himself himselfSoapy i iI iSoapy Soapy and his lieutenants lieutenantsplanned lieutenantsplanned ' I planned and executed hundreds of ofrobbenes ofrobberies ofrobberies robbenes robberies and swindling swindlmg schemes schemesI schemesgrowmg schemesgrowing schemesgrowing growmg growing richer and more schemesI powerful powerfulthe powerfulthe I . I the while whl1e Then came news the theNorthwest theNorthwest , Northwest Mounted Pol ce cc were wereabout wereabout i iabout about to escort about $200 200 $200000 200000 $ 000 In Innotes Innotes mnotes notes and gold from Lake Bennet Bennetpost Bennetpost Bonnetpost InI I post to Victoria Vlctona British Bntish ColumbIa Columbiavia I IvIa vIa the port at Skagway Surely Surelythis Surelythis Surelythis this was too uicy JUICY ] a plum forSoapy forSoapy for forSoapy forI I Soapy and his Ius gang to mIss mIssMoreover missMoreover missMoreover Moreover up to th s t me bothSoapy both bothSoapy ' Soapy and his henchmen had hadbalked hadbalked hadbalked balked at any job that might mightmake mightmake mightmake make them step into mto Canadaian Canadalan Canadajan mightI ter terrltory ternitory terntory I rltory nitory Even the reputedly dar ngSoapy ngSoapy ng ngSoapy Soapy entertained entertamed a healthy re respect respect respect spect for the Men of the MountedI MountedHere Mounted MountedHere I Here was a Job ] ob they could pullright puU pull pullright i iright right on American Amencan soil where by byrights byrights byrights rights the Men of the Mounted had hadno hadno hadno no bus ness And so Soap and andIus andhis andhis Ius his brain bram trust sat down and andschemed a andschemed n d dschemed schemed planned and arranged for forevery forevery forevery every emergency This was to be bethe bethe bethe the Job ] ob of the decade As Ag Soapy Soapyorganized Soapyorganized Soapyorganized organized an army of 100 well wellarmed wellarmed wellarmed armed men engaged boats and andplanted andplanted andplanted planted scouts here and there the thecommissioner thecommissioner thecommissioner commissioner of the Yukon tern terntory terntory terntory tory bade goodby good by and good luck luckto luckto luckto to three Men of the Mounted In Inspector Inspector Inspector spector Wood and two constables constablesTheir constablesTheir constablesTheir Their load consisted of their own ownpersonal ownpersonal ownpersonal personal kits and the $200 200 $ 000After 000 000After After many anxious miles dur dun durIng dunhg durIng Ing hg which the three Men of the theI theMounted theMounted theMounted I Mounted folio follo ved the Skagway Skagway'Wlth Skagwayvith Skagway'with Skagwaywith 'Wlth Wlth \vith vith ' \ ' furtive eyed rascals who whoI whowcre whowere whowere I wcre were evidently Soapy s scouts In Inspector Inspector Inspector spector Wood and his men arnved arnvedI arrived arnvedat arrivedat arrivedat I ' at Dyea where they Immediately immediatelyboarded immediatelyboarded boarded a waiting rowboat and andwere ' \ ' , ere soon ro roving vmg out across the theba thebal theba ba bal ; ) Half Halfvay vay across acrose several well wellarmed wellarmed wellarmed armed men m 10 in a rather large row rowboat rowboat rowboat boat manned by half a dozen stout stoutmusc1ed stoutmuscled stoutmuscled musc1ed muscled oarsmen did their best to tointImidate toIntimidate tointimidate intImidate the Northwest Mounted Mountedand Mountedand Mountedand and made several attempts to brmg bring brmgthe bringthe bringthe the two boats into mto a collision In InI Inspector Inspector Inspector I spector Wood handlmg handling the steer steerIng steerIng steering Ing oar warned the ruffians to keep keeptheir keeptheir keeptheir their d stance or he would fire upon uponthem uponthem uponthem them and thus arguing argumg back a1 and andforth andforth ! . forth the t vo boats finally crossed crossedthe crossedthe crossedthe the bay without any shootings shootmgs or ordrownmgs ordrownings ordrownmgs drownmgs drownings Upon arrival at the thev.harf thetharf thevi v.harf vharf tharf . , hart however Inspector Wood Woodand Woodand Woodand and h s men received a rough and andtumble andtumble andtumble tumble reception from almost a ahundred ahundred ahundred hundred readyfor rcadyfor ruffians 1ned Ined 1 I ned up and rcady ready for the b g robbery As the Men of ofthe ofthe ofthe the Mounted stepped to the v . wl 1 I arf arfcarry arfcarry artcarry carry ng their $200 200 $ 000 they were weretripped weretripped weretripped tripped and Jostled ] ostled and pushed pushedabout pushedabout pushedabout about hither and yon as they tried triedto triedto triedto to make the r way toward a small smallsteamer smallsteamer smallsteamer steamer that lay alongs de await awaitmg awaiting 109 mg the r coming commg K I\ I \ . Icked eked cked and andpushed andpushed andpushed pushed and tripped and oil otl oti erw se held seheld beganto up and delayed things began to look leok really serious The grea great greatrobbery greatrobbery t trobbery robbery was imminent immment And then thenJust thenjust thenust Just ] when it seemed that the Men Menof Menof Menof of the Mounted Mountrd Mount'd Mountd Mountedsere Mountrdere Mount'dere ' \sere sere \\ere ere \ \ ere about to besmothered be besmothered besmothered smothered by the mob the captam captain captain-board captain board captain.board board .board . - the steamer tooted the ves yes vessel yessd vessel sel sd s horn and instantly a score of ofarmcd ofarmed ofarmed armcd armed members of the Royal naval navalreserve navalreserve navalreserve reserve were over the side and 1 1down down anddown among Soapy s gang In Inno Inno Inno no time tame the Men of the Mounted and their andtheir fromthe $00 00 $ ? ' OO 00000 000 were snatched from 1 1the the mob and were aboard the thesteamer thesteamer thesteamer steamer atleast Ewao S-yoy S yoy " - 't t " ' > t Smith surrounded by at least trustedgunmen a score ol of his most trusted gunmen had witnessed the whole wholeshow wholeshow wholeshow show from the deckof deck of a tug that thatwas thatwas thatwas was treading treadmg water nearby Al though Although he had seen scen his best plans plansgo go haywire he was still stl1l smiling or sneermg sneering orsneering orsneermg when he opened up con versahon yersation conversation conversahon conyersation with Inspector WoodLike WoodLike Wood WoodLike Like tcr ter have yer yen stay round Skagway roundSkagway a 11 day er two Spector Spectorsaid said nicetown Soapy it s a mighty nice town y km kin have yerwant erwant enwant anyt ng , ) er en want Name Itan it an it s syores yores How bout It if ? ' Spector ? Thank Tharuji you Mr Smith the 10 in mustbe spector inspector 10spector replied coolly but I must be about my busiress bUslress I dadVIse d advise f01 advisef01 you adVIseyou to .eep eep keep ! . off of ! Canadian " a " terntory territory in territoryin the future .keep keep . as have you done so aHernoon aIternoon atiernoon very sovery v . well ell e1l in m ira the past . . Good aIter a-tier a tier - noon sir |