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The Great K. & A. Robbery

Chapter 1: THE GREAT K. & A. TRAIN-ROBBERY
By Paul Leicester Ford
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A railway superintendent narrates a sequence of events after a private-car party traveling west becomes embroiled in a bold train robbery. As suspects emerge among the visiting family and their companions, the narrator confronts conflicting accounts, leaked secrets, and stolen letters whose possession changes hands repeatedly. The plot moves from highway ambushes and desert nights to a perilous canyon excursion, arrests, an evening in jail, and delicate negotiations that test loyalties and manners. Tension between reputation and truth, the mechanics of railroad life, and the contrast of civilized etiquette with frontier violence shape a suspenseful, character-driven account that resolves through confession and exchange.

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Title: The Great K. & A. Robbery

Author: Paul Leicester Ford

Release date: May 5, 2008 [eBook #25333]
Most recently updated: January 29, 2022

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT K. & A. ROBBERY ***

THE GREAT
K. & A. TRAIN-ROBBERY

The
Great
K. & A.
Robbery

By

Paul Leicester Ford
Author of The Honorable Peter Stirling


New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1897

Copyright, 1896,
By J. B. Lippincott Company.

Copyright, 1897,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.



University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.

TO

MY TRAVELLING COMPANIONS

ON SPECIALS 218 AND 97

THIS ENDEAVOR TO WEAVE INTO A STORY SOME OF OUR
OVERLAND HAPPENINGS AND ADVENTURES

IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.



TO MISS GEORGE BARKER GIBBS.


My dear George:

At your request I originally inscribed this skit to our whole party. In its republication, however, I can but feel that the dedication should be more particular. Written because you asked it, first read aloud to beguile our ride across the great American desert, and finally printed because you wished a copy as a souvenir of our journeyings, no one can so naturally be called upon to stand sponsor to the little tale. Should the story but give its readers a fraction of the pleasure I owe to your kindness, its success is assured.

Faithfully yours,

PAUL LEICESTER FORD.

Contents

Chapter
I THE PARTY ON SPECIAL NO. 218
II THE HOLDING-UP OF OVERLAND NO. 3
III A NIGHT’S WORK ON THE ALKALI PLAINS
IV SOME RATHER QUEER ROAD AGENTS
V A TRIP TO THE GRAND CAÑON
VI THE HAPPENINGS DOWN HANCE’S TRAIL
VII A CHANGE OF BASE
VIII HOW DID THE SECRET LEAK OUT?
IX A TALK BEFORE BREAKFAST
X WAITING FOR HELP
XI THE LETTERS CHANGE HANDS AGAIN
XII AN EVENING IN JAIL
XIII A LESSON IN POLITENESS
XIV “LISTENERS NEVER HEAR ANYTHING GOOD”
XV THE SURRENDER OF THE LETTERS
XVI A GLOOMY GOOD-BY

THE
Great K. & A. Train-Robbery