... It was the first time Denver Bill had come in without a cigarette in his mouth. They wanted to know why he wasn't smoking, but they didn't ask.
He ordered the same drink and took it fast.... He chucked the chair over, grabbed the tellfon off the table and gave "Hlo."
He said, "Horse up here in five minutes."
It was there.
He was out of town in a minute more.
Denver Bill stopped at a cabin where he had made ponmets[10] to rob a train at 7:45, and it was now 6:10. His friend was there. They jumped on their horses and rode a quarter of a mile. The train whistled around the curve.
There was a shout. Denver called: "Stop that engine!"
It stopped slow.... Bill murdered the engineer, and then flew thru the train of cars. He grabbed the fifty pound gold box and jumped thru the window. A shot rang out.
Bill was pincked.
The man that he had come with played dirt on him because he went off with the gold. Bill crawled across the field and laid in the hay stack.