[Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood]@TWC D-Link bookPhilip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police CHAPTER XVI 3/15
It's horrible! Two hours ago you'd 'ave heard their screams from where you're standing--the hurt, I mean. They won't leave the wreck--not a man, and I don't blame 'em." A pretty, brown-haired young woman had come to the door and Billinger ran to her. "Good-by," he cried, taking her for a moment in his big arms.
"Take care of the key!" He turned as quickly to the horses, talking as they mounted.
"It was robbery," he said--and they set off at a canter, side by side.
"There was two hundred thousand in currency in the express car, and it's gone.
I found their trail this morning, going into the North. They're hitting for what we call the Bad Lands over beyond the Coyote, twenty miles from here.
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