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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 3110049" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Six, “The Bank Robbery“, Thursday, June1st , 1882, 8:00 P.M. </strong></p><p></p><p>Pinto takes two bundles of dynamite sticks, seven tied to each bundle, and carefully packs them into his duffle bag. He makes his way over to the fire station. He sees a light on up in the second floor of the building but no lights on the first floor. He realizes that releasing the horses out will attract undue attention, so chooses to disregard that he promised the others that he would let them out of the fire station stable first. He finds that the stable house door are the easiest and less visible ones to pry open so applies enough muscle power to get into there. </p><p></p><p>Pinto decides to go forward with the plan that his the least chance of him getting stopped by anybody, namely tossing the lit sticks of dynamite into the stable and then exiting. He throws them onto the hay bales and exits. He hops onto his horse and gets two blocks away before he hears the explosion behind him. </p><p></p><p>Across town, Mae and Deadeye are on the street near the bank when they hear the explosion. Sally stays a block away as lookout. They turn and walk towards the doors until Sally whistles to give them a signal that people are coming. They stop and chat with each other until the people are gone, then head to the bank door. Deadeye and Sally continue to look around while Mae picks the lock. Meanwhile, at the sound of the explosion Pamela and Mongo set off with the carriage from the hotel’s stable heading in the general direction of the bank. </p><p></p><p>Mae manages to get the bank’s door unlocked. Mae moves back while Sally and Deadeye move up to the door with their weapons out. The two open the door and step into the bank, getting the attention of one of the guards. Since the door is still open Deadeye decides not to fire, as the sound would be heard. So he charges towards the guard, who begins to draw his own revolver. Mae enters after them and quickly shuts the door behind her just as Sally discharges one barrel of her shotgun into the guard. The guard’s chest caves in as he crumbles into a heap on the floor. </p><p></p><p>Deadeye, Mae and Sally all look around for the other guard, not seeing him. Deadeye mutters, “I’m sure we’ll see him soon.” “Or at least his bullets,” Mae comments back. Mae heads directly towards the vaults. Sally goes with her to provide cover. Deadeye also follows but takes in more of the room, still looking for the other guard. The guard stands up from behind one of the teller windows pointing a loaded shotgun at Deadeye. He has the jump on the outlaws, except for the fact that Deadeye has lightening reflexes and manages to still get a shot off first, hitting the man in the chest. The guard falls. As the shotgun strikes the floor it goes off, but into the teller window rather than at the outlaws. Sally goes and confirms that the fallen guard is dead, picking up a nice revolver in the process. </p><p></p><p>Mae gets out her equipment and starts working on the first vault, it taking her less than two minutes to get the door open. The large metal room is filled with bag after bag of assayed silver. “Too heavy, I’ll try another vault,” she says. Sally looks to Deadeye and says, “Should we grab a few while we’re waiting? There‘s probably a million dollars worth of silver there!” He replies, “No, too much weight for the coach and too heavy to move. She got into the first one fast enough. We have time.” </p><p></p><p>Since the next vault is the exact same make and model as the previous one she is able to open it even faster than the previous one. They open up the vault doors and find it also filled with bag of silver, these in the form of silver dust. She moves onto a third vault and quickly gets into it as well. It is filled with paper currency, with stacks of money with denominations of $ 20 or higher!” She checks several of the stacks to make sure they are full and not dummies. She declares, “This is the one we want, each bundle has at least $ 2,000 in it! The remaining vault probably has all of the smaller bills.” </p><p></p><p>There is nothing in this room to put the money in. Deadeye suggests that they go back into the vault with the assayed silver and begins dumping the silver out of the bags in order to use those canvas bags to carry the currency. Mae says, “No, that will stir up dust and you’ll wind up with silver in your clothes. You don’t want to be all sparkly when we head outside.” </p><p></p><p>The carriage pulls up out front. They hear a bell ringing loudly from the direction of the firehouse. Mongo says, “That’s good, they’ll go that way. Pinto Joe also rides up. People are running by so they wait until they pass before sending Mongo up and inside. Deadeye calls Mongo over to the vault while Mae heads back to watch the door. Mae notices the thick drapes over the windows and suggests that Mongo pull some of them down to use to carry the money. Each drape is six-feet wide and twenty-feet long. With a quick pull he gets two large drapes and they place one onto the floor of the vault. Deadeye and Mongo start dumping the bundles of money onto it. Once a decent pile is in it Mongo picks it up by the corners and drags it to the doors, while Deadeye starts to pile money onto the second one. </p><p></p><p>Pinto gets impatient so heads inside to see what is going on. He stops to look into the vault with the assayed silver but Deadeye calls him over to the other one. He and Deadeye continue to pile it high with money and it almost as full as the other when Mongo returns from the carriage. They have now collected about two-thirds of the money from this vault. Deadeye says, “Let’s leave.” Mongo takes the corner of this drape and begins to drag it out with him. Deadeye heads our with Mongo. </p><p></p><p>Pinto’s greed gets the better of him and he starts to grab bundles of cash still on the shelves and shoves then into his pockets and coat. “Hurry up, we’re leaving!” Deadeye yells. Pinto reluctantly follows, having collected a total of 15 more bundles of cash. As Mongo drags the drape out of the bank a number of passers by stop and point. A soldier then comes onto the scene, heading towards the firehouse and stops when he sees the robbery in progress. Sally raises her shotgun and shoots him, the soldier falling into the street. Pinto hops onto his horse while the others climb into the carriage, Deadeye climbing up top with Pamela. She urges the horses onward and gets the carriage up to a full gallop. </p><p></p><p>Unbeknownst to them, Pinto’s dynamite toss killed the horses and set fire to the firehouse stable but did minimal damage to the room with the fire wagons. The firefighters and summoned volunteers were able to use the wagons to then help put out the barn fire and are nearly done at this point. So instead of having to help with a blaze the battalion of soldiers are still at their posts by the train depot. A telephone call then comes in to the train depot from across town alerting the army troops to the robbery at Tabor Bank and saying that the robbers are heading towards the south road out of town. The Colonel dispatches a dozen infantrymen to go cut off that exit while he then goes to organize his cavalry troops. </p><p></p><p>Five minutes later Pamela is riding the carriage fast towards where the road exit’s the town when she sees the dozen troops charge forward and raise their rifles. Deadeye lies down on the carriage roof to brace for better aim and begins to shoot the soldiers, trying to incapacitate rather than kill. Shotgun Sally leans out the window and lets loose both barrels of her shotgun, dropping a few more. Pinto says, “I’ll distract them, go!” He charges directly at the soldiers, one of whom manages to shoot Pinto’s hat off of his head while still missing Pinto. </p><p></p><p>With the horse charging at them the six soldiers who are still standing start to scatter. Pinto then changes direction to follow the coach out of town. The soldiers stop and raise their rifles but then panic again when they see Pinto reach into his duffle bag and toss a bundle of dynamite back at them. The bundle is not lit and does not explode but the mere sight of it was enough to cause the remaining soldiers to drop their weapons and run. </p><p></p><p>The gang continues to ride hard out of town. Deadeye takes aim up and the telegraph lines and shoots out several of the wires. They are around two-thirds of a mile out of town when they see eight mounted soldiers coming up behind and gaining on them. Deadeye begins to fire back but the soldiers are still beyond revolver range. Pinto lights a bundle of dynamite and drops it. It goes off before the soldiers reach it but creates enough of a dust cloud to cause them to slow. Pamela picks up the wagons speed, making the horses go faster than they ever have before. </p><p></p><p>They soon reach the place where Flying Arrow is waiting with the horses. The carriage rides past while Pinto stops and lights the fuse. He helps Flying Arrow with the other horses and they ride on. The dynamite then goes off and a landslide follows, effectively blocking the road behind them. The saddlebags from the horses are given to those in the carriage to fill with money, those inside emptying out many of their own personal supplies to make room for the bundles of cash. Pinto also tosses his remaining bundles of dynamite onto the rain tracks to prevent pursuit by rail. </p><p></p><p>They ride on for another mile until they reach a spot where there is a sharp cliff. At that point the saddlebags are full. They stop and get out, putting the saddlebags onto the riding horses and backing the carriage up to the side of the cliff. They put the remaining dynamite inside the coach. The horse team refuses to ride over the cliff. Deadeye tells Mongo to just push the carriage over and let it pull the horses down behind it. Mongo says he does not want to, that the fall would hurt the horses. </p><p></p><p>Pinto and Sally solve that problem by drawing their revolvers and shooting the six horses in the team in the head. Pinto then lights some of the dynamite in the carriage as Mongo pushes the carriage off. It lands some 400 feet below just as the dynamite ignites. Deadeye says, “That’s it, they’ll think we all died in the crash.” Mae says, “Yeah, but we’d better get off the road before anyone coming the other direction sees us.” So at 9:00 P.M. they get onto their horse and Flying Arrow leads the group off into the woods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 3110049, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Six, “The Bank Robbery“, Thursday, June1st , 1882, 8:00 P.M. [/B] Pinto takes two bundles of dynamite sticks, seven tied to each bundle, and carefully packs them into his duffle bag. He makes his way over to the fire station. He sees a light on up in the second floor of the building but no lights on the first floor. He realizes that releasing the horses out will attract undue attention, so chooses to disregard that he promised the others that he would let them out of the fire station stable first. He finds that the stable house door are the easiest and less visible ones to pry open so applies enough muscle power to get into there. Pinto decides to go forward with the plan that his the least chance of him getting stopped by anybody, namely tossing the lit sticks of dynamite into the stable and then exiting. He throws them onto the hay bales and exits. He hops onto his horse and gets two blocks away before he hears the explosion behind him. Across town, Mae and Deadeye are on the street near the bank when they hear the explosion. Sally stays a block away as lookout. They turn and walk towards the doors until Sally whistles to give them a signal that people are coming. They stop and chat with each other until the people are gone, then head to the bank door. Deadeye and Sally continue to look around while Mae picks the lock. Meanwhile, at the sound of the explosion Pamela and Mongo set off with the carriage from the hotel’s stable heading in the general direction of the bank. Mae manages to get the bank’s door unlocked. Mae moves back while Sally and Deadeye move up to the door with their weapons out. The two open the door and step into the bank, getting the attention of one of the guards. Since the door is still open Deadeye decides not to fire, as the sound would be heard. So he charges towards the guard, who begins to draw his own revolver. Mae enters after them and quickly shuts the door behind her just as Sally discharges one barrel of her shotgun into the guard. The guard’s chest caves in as he crumbles into a heap on the floor. Deadeye, Mae and Sally all look around for the other guard, not seeing him. Deadeye mutters, “I’m sure we’ll see him soon.” “Or at least his bullets,” Mae comments back. Mae heads directly towards the vaults. Sally goes with her to provide cover. Deadeye also follows but takes in more of the room, still looking for the other guard. The guard stands up from behind one of the teller windows pointing a loaded shotgun at Deadeye. He has the jump on the outlaws, except for the fact that Deadeye has lightening reflexes and manages to still get a shot off first, hitting the man in the chest. The guard falls. As the shotgun strikes the floor it goes off, but into the teller window rather than at the outlaws. Sally goes and confirms that the fallen guard is dead, picking up a nice revolver in the process. Mae gets out her equipment and starts working on the first vault, it taking her less than two minutes to get the door open. The large metal room is filled with bag after bag of assayed silver. “Too heavy, I’ll try another vault,” she says. Sally looks to Deadeye and says, “Should we grab a few while we’re waiting? There‘s probably a million dollars worth of silver there!” He replies, “No, too much weight for the coach and too heavy to move. She got into the first one fast enough. We have time.” Since the next vault is the exact same make and model as the previous one she is able to open it even faster than the previous one. They open up the vault doors and find it also filled with bag of silver, these in the form of silver dust. She moves onto a third vault and quickly gets into it as well. It is filled with paper currency, with stacks of money with denominations of $ 20 or higher!” She checks several of the stacks to make sure they are full and not dummies. She declares, “This is the one we want, each bundle has at least $ 2,000 in it! The remaining vault probably has all of the smaller bills.” There is nothing in this room to put the money in. Deadeye suggests that they go back into the vault with the assayed silver and begins dumping the silver out of the bags in order to use those canvas bags to carry the currency. Mae says, “No, that will stir up dust and you’ll wind up with silver in your clothes. You don’t want to be all sparkly when we head outside.” The carriage pulls up out front. They hear a bell ringing loudly from the direction of the firehouse. Mongo says, “That’s good, they’ll go that way. Pinto Joe also rides up. People are running by so they wait until they pass before sending Mongo up and inside. Deadeye calls Mongo over to the vault while Mae heads back to watch the door. Mae notices the thick drapes over the windows and suggests that Mongo pull some of them down to use to carry the money. Each drape is six-feet wide and twenty-feet long. With a quick pull he gets two large drapes and they place one onto the floor of the vault. Deadeye and Mongo start dumping the bundles of money onto it. Once a decent pile is in it Mongo picks it up by the corners and drags it to the doors, while Deadeye starts to pile money onto the second one. Pinto gets impatient so heads inside to see what is going on. He stops to look into the vault with the assayed silver but Deadeye calls him over to the other one. He and Deadeye continue to pile it high with money and it almost as full as the other when Mongo returns from the carriage. They have now collected about two-thirds of the money from this vault. Deadeye says, “Let’s leave.” Mongo takes the corner of this drape and begins to drag it out with him. Deadeye heads our with Mongo. Pinto’s greed gets the better of him and he starts to grab bundles of cash still on the shelves and shoves then into his pockets and coat. “Hurry up, we’re leaving!” Deadeye yells. Pinto reluctantly follows, having collected a total of 15 more bundles of cash. As Mongo drags the drape out of the bank a number of passers by stop and point. A soldier then comes onto the scene, heading towards the firehouse and stops when he sees the robbery in progress. Sally raises her shotgun and shoots him, the soldier falling into the street. Pinto hops onto his horse while the others climb into the carriage, Deadeye climbing up top with Pamela. She urges the horses onward and gets the carriage up to a full gallop. Unbeknownst to them, Pinto’s dynamite toss killed the horses and set fire to the firehouse stable but did minimal damage to the room with the fire wagons. The firefighters and summoned volunteers were able to use the wagons to then help put out the barn fire and are nearly done at this point. So instead of having to help with a blaze the battalion of soldiers are still at their posts by the train depot. A telephone call then comes in to the train depot from across town alerting the army troops to the robbery at Tabor Bank and saying that the robbers are heading towards the south road out of town. The Colonel dispatches a dozen infantrymen to go cut off that exit while he then goes to organize his cavalry troops. Five minutes later Pamela is riding the carriage fast towards where the road exit’s the town when she sees the dozen troops charge forward and raise their rifles. Deadeye lies down on the carriage roof to brace for better aim and begins to shoot the soldiers, trying to incapacitate rather than kill. Shotgun Sally leans out the window and lets loose both barrels of her shotgun, dropping a few more. Pinto says, “I’ll distract them, go!” He charges directly at the soldiers, one of whom manages to shoot Pinto’s hat off of his head while still missing Pinto. With the horse charging at them the six soldiers who are still standing start to scatter. Pinto then changes direction to follow the coach out of town. The soldiers stop and raise their rifles but then panic again when they see Pinto reach into his duffle bag and toss a bundle of dynamite back at them. The bundle is not lit and does not explode but the mere sight of it was enough to cause the remaining soldiers to drop their weapons and run. The gang continues to ride hard out of town. Deadeye takes aim up and the telegraph lines and shoots out several of the wires. They are around two-thirds of a mile out of town when they see eight mounted soldiers coming up behind and gaining on them. Deadeye begins to fire back but the soldiers are still beyond revolver range. Pinto lights a bundle of dynamite and drops it. It goes off before the soldiers reach it but creates enough of a dust cloud to cause them to slow. Pamela picks up the wagons speed, making the horses go faster than they ever have before. They soon reach the place where Flying Arrow is waiting with the horses. The carriage rides past while Pinto stops and lights the fuse. He helps Flying Arrow with the other horses and they ride on. The dynamite then goes off and a landslide follows, effectively blocking the road behind them. The saddlebags from the horses are given to those in the carriage to fill with money, those inside emptying out many of their own personal supplies to make room for the bundles of cash. Pinto also tosses his remaining bundles of dynamite onto the rain tracks to prevent pursuit by rail. They ride on for another mile until they reach a spot where there is a sharp cliff. At that point the saddlebags are full. They stop and get out, putting the saddlebags onto the riding horses and backing the carriage up to the side of the cliff. They put the remaining dynamite inside the coach. The horse team refuses to ride over the cliff. Deadeye tells Mongo to just push the carriage over and let it pull the horses down behind it. Mongo says he does not want to, that the fall would hurt the horses. Pinto and Sally solve that problem by drawing their revolvers and shooting the six horses in the team in the head. Pinto then lights some of the dynamite in the carriage as Mongo pushes the carriage off. It lands some 400 feet below just as the dynamite ignites. Deadeye says, “That’s it, they’ll think we all died in the crash.” Mae says, “Yeah, but we’d better get off the road before anyone coming the other direction sees us.” So at 9:00 P.M. they get onto their horse and Flying Arrow leads the group off into the woods. [/QUOTE]
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