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The Octopus

CHAPTER IV
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Jumped out with his repeating shot-gun, but the fellow had him covered before he could turn round.

Held him up and took his gun away from him.

Say, you know I call that nerve, just the same.
One man standing up a whole train-load, like that.

Then, as soon as he'd cut the express car off, he made the engineer run her up the track about half a mile to a road crossing, WHERE HE HAD A HORSE TIED.

What do you think of that?
Didn't he have it all figured out close?
And when he got there, he dynamited the safe and got the Wells-Fargo box.


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