Frontier Boys in Frisco

icket against the pane of glass in the door of the coach, that the conductor was made willing to admit him. But when he was

ight have blushed at finding himself a hero, but if so he was perf

er, "I'm afraid of that big

on yesterday." Jim laughed and the only show of white about him was his teeth. "I don't

ductor, as they went on their way through the train; "that was when Bo

g leap," returned Jim, "but

d the conductor, "but I guess he will be all

red without hurting anybody," remarke

t the tall young fello

re no tenderfoo

that is if experience counts.

e them fellows lying close to the floor of the car, when the shooting was going on. It ain't a d

; "I would have been trying the s

; "you would have been busy trying to get a line on s

said Jim

ckened-looking individual entering through the plush portières into the main body of the

hey yelled; "C

started to back out hastily, but was stopped by t

d. This young man is no desperado, but he has been fighting t

rose the faces of the two sto

"this is a jolly shame. Can't we travel in peace in this beast

ech, and that testy individual was more upset than ever. Jim went quickly to his section, g

ng and talking in bragging tones of what they had done during the recent fight. Jim wa

ow, when we was held up ba

hortly. He did not take especi

er to laugh, or to throw the fellow out of the window. He had not noticed the cond

belligerently. The man addressed feebly indicated

ad, he could turn you up simultaneous and paddle whack both of you. Why you

od-naturedly b

in their praise of Jim. Wanted him to drink with them and all that sort of cheap

de, James went forward to join

ch like the Vice-president of this railroad instead of the t

to my back and my moccasins polished if that is wh

it was no use for me to try and slow up then, besides I had time to make up, and the e

ed," admitte

n to," remarke

us to go on. You take Bill's side of the cab and watch me drive her int

Jim. "I'm in for some trouble there I'm afraid, and you ar

ut you see there's a girl at the Junction and we are to be marrie

ld boy, and may it be a

dubious moisture in his eyes, which vanished i

aylight was creeping in to take its place. The train was now puffing along just below timber line, and in the w

w at a distance of several miles, in a snow lined basin in the hills, the dark patch of the Junction. As they neared it, Jim's keen eye saw the figure of a girl standing on the porch of a small white cottage. There was somethin

not wanting to go to Ca

redly but was content to let

to get his neck under the yoke. It's a terrible thing to see a young fellow like him bent on taking responsibilities he don't know the heft of." Ketchel only grinned at Bill

train slowed to a halt on a long level platform