At least Frank Reade, Jr., thought so, and did not hesitate to risk the trip.
His only traveling companions upon his famous trips were two faithful servants, a jolly Irishman known as Barney O’Shea, and a comical moke of a negro called Pomp.
Barney and Pomp were unique characters to a certainty.
While the best of friends in reality, they were constantly engaged in badgering and teasing each other.
One was as well gifted in this direction as the other, so they generally came out about even.
The object of Frank Reade, Jr.’s proposed trip to the West was a thrilling one.
His attention had one day been claimed by a singular statement in a newspaper.
The statement read thus:
“The Mystery of a Marked Bullet.”
“A strange incident for which a man is now languishing in Silver City jail awaiting the execution of a sentence of death for murder.