Melville Davisson Post

Name: Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw
Author: Melville Davisson Post

Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

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“Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw”, published in 1924, is a work by Melville Davisson Post. It explores elements such as Mooney, water tank and mechanic.

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ The money of the Mexican government would be on a train that would stop here for water, and, like the pirates of the Spanish Main, it was our affair to capture the treasure.
We stopped. Mooney got down and removed from the car a bundle upon which he had been sitting. White and I upended the hand car and sent it down the embankment into the thick bushes; then we moved around behind the water tank to prepare for the undertaking.
The night had long ceased to be dark. There was no moon, but the sky was sown with stars, and there was a sort of faint white light in the world. ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ I had noticed him at the end of the alley when I arrived, precisely in this posture, as of one worn out with some exertion.
I was looking at him as I had looked at the painted signs when the canvas of the big tent was thrust up and a man came out. He was a big young man in the overalls of a mechanic and he had some device in his hand like a dome-shaped metallic box.
He went directly to the man in the canvas chair.
“Mooney,” he said, “there’s something wrong with this damned thing; make it go.”
The little man opened his eyes without moving a muscle of his body. ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ For a long time we continued to move south, White and I at the pump handles of the car and Mooney, as I have said, squatted on the platform.
Suddenly in the silence he swore softly.
“What’s the matter?” said White.
The little nervous man replied, drawling out the words.
“It’s an ax,” he said. “We ought to have an ax.”
“That’s easy,” replied White. “We’ll pull up at the next house and send our young friend to borrow one.”
And they followed that plan. At a turn of the road we made out a house a few hundred yards above us on the slope of the hill. The car stopped and I went to borrow an ax. ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ Mooney leaned back in his chair and regarded me for some time, his hand moving about his face.
“You will be a stranger here,” he said, “and a reliable person or White would have passed you up. He has the eye of the devil for seeing through a man. Here’s a dollar.”
He took a paper dollar out of his waistcoat pocket and handed it to me.
“Do two things,” he said, “and don’t talk; go out and get something to eat and after that hunt up a piece of quarter-inch pipe about two feet long; slip it up your coat sleeve and be at the entrance of the big circus tent at eight o’clock.” ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ We waited until the engine had taken water and the conductor and porter had made their round of the train; then we slipped out of our hiding place as the train pulled out. We swung on to the rear platform of the express car precisely at the moment that the porter climbed on to the steps of the same platform at the other side.
Mooney jammed his gun into the man’s face. ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ Then I told him that they wanted such a piece of iron out at the circus, and had promised to give me a ticket in if I could find it. He laughed.
“I’m glad,” he said, “that there’s something else they want, if the elephant ain’t thirsty.”
He flung me the rod and wished that I might enjoy the circus.
I had it in my sleeve when White appeared in the grass alley before the circus entrance.
I got out of the crowd and followed him. It was now dark. We went around the big tent, through the stables for the horses, then struck out across the meadow in a direction opposite from the town. ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ There was a wood fire dying down in the fireplace, and a ladder leading to the loft. The person who lived there was evidently in his bed above. The man’s coat and boots were on the floor by the ladder, and beside the chimney there were some tools—a mattock, a hoe, and the ax for which I was looking. It was a hinged window secured on the inside by a button. The ax was safe from any method that I knew, and I went back to the hand car.
I told the men what I had found.
Mooney got up from his sack on the platform.
“My son,” he said, “I will show you something useful; let us go back for the ax.” ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ We could see distinctly what we were about, even in the thicket behind the water tank, shaded somewhat by the wood. Here Mooney untied his bundle.
It contained three suits of overalls such as are worn by railroad men, blue trousers and a sort of blue coat; they were not new. Mooney was too clever a person, as I came afterward to realize, to make his party conspicuous by any new article.
This was the disguise for our bodies. For head covering Mooney had three sugar sacks dyed black, with round holes for the eyes and mouth. These we pulled over our heads. ”

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Melville Davisson Post, Walker of the Secret Service — I. The Outlaw (1924)

“ He was smoking a cigarette; the tiny point of light had been visible to us as we approached.
“Young man,” he said, “did you bring the piece of pipe?”
I drew the rod out of my sleeve and handed it to him. He struck a match and examined the door ”

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