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"Not that, either," said Ted, laughing. "I manage to get all the
amusement that's coming to me."
"I'm still gropin' fer enlightenment."
"Here goes, then. For a couple of months the trains on the Union
Pacific, in Nebraska and Wyoming, have been running the gantlet between
bands of train robbers. If a train missed being robbed at one place, it
was almost sure to get it at another, especially if it carried wealth of
any description."
"But ther railroads is erbout ther biggest chumps ter stand fer all this
monkeydoodle business o' train robbin' ez long ez they hev. Why don't
they get inter ther exterminatin' business, an' clean up ther last o'
them?"
"Too busy making money, I guess. But this time it is not the railroads
who are going after them."
"Who is it, me an' you?"
"Almost. By orders of the government."
"That's more like it. I don't hev no love fer a train robber, fer all I
ever come in contact with wuz a bunch o' cowardly murderers, who fight
like rats when they're cornered, an' kill innercent express messengers
fer amoosement er devilment.


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