"Have you heard anything more about the show, Harry?" asked Jim Borum.
"Is she sure to be here?" What did Tinkletown care about the train
robbers when a "show" was headed that way?
"Sure. The press comments are very favourable," said Harry. "They all
say that Miss Marmaduke, who plays Rosalind, is great. We've got a cut
of her and, say, she's a beauty. I can see myself sitting in the front
row next Thursday night, good and proper."
"Say, Anderson, I think it's a dern shame fer Mark Riley to go 'round
pastin' them reward bills over the show pictures," growled Isaac Porter.
"He ain't got a bit o' sense."
With one accord the crowd turned to inspect two adjacent bill boards.
Mark had either malignantly or insanely pasted the reward notices over
the nether extremities of Rosalind as she was expected to appear in the
Forest of Arden. There was a period of reflection on the part of an
outraged constituency.
"I don't see how he's goin' to remove off them reward bills without
scraping off her legs at the same time," mused Anderson Crow in
perplexity. Two housewives of Tinkletown suddenly deserted the group and
entered the store. And so it was that the train robbers were forgotten
for the time being.
But Marshal Crow's reputation as a horse-thief taker and general
suppressor of crime constantly upbraided him. It seemed to call upon him
to take steps toward the capture of the train robbers.
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