says: 'It's a wonder you wouldn't let a man get a little rest.
That dinky little safe in the corner hasn't got anything in it to
speak of.' And then we blow up the little safe first, and maybe
find all we want, and we hurry up, so the boys can go on about
their business as quietly as possible. It is all reduced to a
system, now, like running a railroad or pipe lines, and I am
contented with my lot, and there is no strain on my conscience,
as there would be if I was robbing poor instead of the rich. Of
course, there are some things that I would like to have the
government do, like building us a house and furnishing us steam
heat, because these caves are cold and in time will make us
rheumatic, but I can wait another year, when we shall send a
delegate to congress from this district who will look out for our
interests. The Mormons are represented in congress, and I don't
see why we shouldn't be."

[Illustration: I Say to the Engineer--"Charley, Turn Her Off and
Stop Her!"]

"Well, you have got gall, all right," said Pa to the bandit. "You
mean to tell me you had rather pursue your course as a train
robber, away out here in the mountains with no doctor within a
hundred miles of you, and no way to spend your money after you get
it, sleeping nights on the rocks and eating canned stuff you pack
in here after robbing a grocery, than to enter the realms of high
finance and be respected by the people, and be one of the people,
with no price on your head, one of the great body of eighty
million men who rule a country that is the pride of the earth? You
must be daffy," said pa, just as disgusted as he could be.