Show A SHOCKING HOOKING john warner sat by his telegraphic table a trifle paler perhaps but seem egly cool abdin sad in no way disturbed by b the extraordinary situation the thy e stranger who wore a wide brimmed hat ami affa was dressed in the rough costume of a frontiersman leaned over the counter his right elbow resting 0 on n it which enabled him to bold th tbt 4 heavy six shooter without a tremble the lie six shooter covered warner alib the following was the conversation conversa tioU that ensued what time does the night express pass saes due in about half an hour but she is over an hour late an hour late eh yes besides she dont stop here yo aill have to go to bloomville Bloom ville if you want to take the express I 1 but adbul it if you telegraphed to bloom vl ville ile for or her to stop here shed stop she no she she ever flopped here once or twice what made her orders irom from the train dispatcher where does he live it center city well thee the messages from center city to must pus pass through this office they of course all right then you could send a message from here that the bloomville Bloom Bloon ville iville folks know but what it come from center city cit you 1 I could coald but I 1 1 oh you not if I 1 asked you well young man ill be plain with you it you dont send just what I 1 tell teli you to ill send a couple of bullets through y a weve torn up the track just round the bend so the train will stop anyhow and there will by an eternal smash ww now we dont want to bother anybody we just ast want a tain package in the exar express a car we know its on the train we expect to have to kill the express express mantor manjor there will likely be an extra man to guard the package its valuable it is it you dont stop that train you will perhaps kill fifty people and get silo sao yourself if you do 0 the ithe folks in the ale sleeping aping car will never know out of the way and we will have the cash without any bother sam 1 I understand let me think a moment 11 1 1 swell hurry up dp theres no time to lose Is the track torn up now or are you going to do it it I 1 dont stop the train the tracks torn up now all right ill stop tae express express now look here young fellow I 1 want you to understand this itsou try any tooling fooling you wont catch us as and get shot yourself nobody can come here tor for my friends are around this shanty and wont let anybody near 11 nere nobody comes here anyhow at night or in the daytime either for abr that matter all right I 1 want you yon to understand last just the fix youre in we all have last fast horses and even if you yon brought a regiment on that train they catch us and you would have a bullets in you before I 1 got on my horse 1 I understand all right light again then go ahead the operator put his bis hand band on the key but sat there thinking and did not press it enow now see here you yon hurry up t there here I 1 I 1 dont want any monkey business the operator turned so shar sharply p ay round on him that the other instinctively raised his bis revolver a little I 1 I 1 kill will yo you a 0 oblige blige me by keeping your cussed mouth shut ill start when I 1 get ready and dont you forget it im running tais machine and dont you forget that chat it you dont like it shoot and be hadged to you and then do your own telegraphing the way to talk desperado with admiration business darned if ever a man talk like that with a gun pulled on him you go right ahead and it if you do this thing square well whack up on the swag its rather tiresome standing here so ill just take this chair inside I 1 wont inter interfere tere all right said the operator I 1 make yourself your ell at home then TIM he be turned tarried to the table and began telegraphing klick a lick klick a lick klicka klick a lick klick a lick lick I 1 went the instrument rapidly idly forgetting his bis vow of noninterference interference non of a moment before it seems to be ad the same thing it Is I 1 am calling the ofte office at Bloomy ille 11 kllc a lick klic a lick chuck there lh ere ive got lem em now dont in erratt me ill tell you yon what to Is said when im through anh the outlaw leaned forward with a puzzled expression and doubtless wished be knew as much about tele gra graphing ning as he did about shooting is ifs Is biekens there asked the in strument ment at bloomville Bloom Bloon ville iville tell him warner wants him anere was a pause and then the theia in sti avent u ent at tte treone ione y way station answered warner rapidly rattled out the following desea mese deseae ae this shanty to is in possession of a who his has a pistol pointed at me while I 1 work I 1 expect it is the zama county gang that is round the place aney are going got to rob the express im supposed ased to be 0 orders for it to here now cant journake you your make nake up a ther s and nd get toe the sheriff sul an la a st strong rong p colbe 0 t to 0 come down and gather in the ga banfe 11 til dolt do it theres Theresa a freight engine here now and ill put the boys in some box cars no dont do that make a train up of passengers put pat a on behind it you have it and make it look as lldean express train as you can then taen send pend her down anthe on the time of the express and hold the no 9 there til lathey get back good idea sow how what are yo you u going giu todo to do shoot you aman can you make a connection with the town arc light and get them koput to jui their full current on ill connect it in some way with the fellow here and hell never know what struck him we time tor for that we wb would have to go down to the dynamo office and get them to turn off all the city lights and then aben make connections it would take too long and it would burn out every switch board on the circuit but I 1 can give you all the cell currents we have here and that will paralyze par alize any rough from zama and perhaps kill him aim anyhow you could get his run gun before he be recovered when youre ready call the office ground your curf current eat and ill send it along on the big wire seems to take a lot of telegraphing ina to stop a train said the desperado uneasily it does you see the train brain is behind time and they dont want to stop her I 1 told them there was a special al that would pass her here they want to know all the particulars now ill have to move about a bit I 1 must cut off the wire to center city it if I 1 dont they may telegraph to the dispatchers office IL abbot 4 out that special and then it would be all up with us right go ahead fjell well dont let that revolver go off 99 it never goes off till I 1 tell it 0 and then its sure death As afi long as agyon you set act square it wont go off 21 T the b e telegrapher went to a drawer and took out a piece of wire and to one end attached a pair of scissors the other end he connected with the big wire from bloomville Bloom ville he tugged around the switch board and then took a pall of water and said look 0 ak out for bour feet I 1 must da damp mp the floor so se will be no dust to interfere inter ferA with the instruments water wont hurt anything outside i of we ire said the man pd hate to try it inside though having wet the floor the operator sat down to his table again 1111 klick lick 6 lick went the instrument axt in instant there was a blinding flash of greenish light in the room the man started to his bis feet thunder he decried cried that you struck it the first time thunder 11 I 1 im afraid it will interfere with us but I 1 can fix it haud hand me that screw driver qui quick ek 11 the screwdriver was handed banded but all the pistol covered him the visitor was not a man to be taken off his bis guard witmer warner W arner worked with the screwdriver a moment and then said sharply gilme them scissors hurry up va the outlaw reached for the scissors and the next instant with a yell he be sprang toward the ceiling and fell in a heap on the floor throw up your hands you villair 21 cried warner pointing his wn pistol pistol at him the whole gang were induced to return to bloomville Bloom ville with the sheriff shortly after luke sharp in detroit press |