The Great K & A Train Robbery and Gambling With Fate Check Price Now

Price : Product Description Presenting two short novels with a western setting. In the first, Richard Gordon, a young superintendent of the Kansas and Arizona railroad, has been asked by his superiors to  “make himself generally useful” to one of the company director’s, his family, and friends as they travel to a stockholders’ meeting in Albuquerque. He does so, and as it happens during conversation at supper one evening the topic turns to train robberies. Now the K & A has never been robbed and Richard points this out while explaining the details of such activities. But amazingly later in the trip the train is held up! Richard takes charge of matters and during the course of his investigation comes to the undeniable conclusion that his guests are the culprits! What makes the situation extremely delicate is the fact that Richard has fallen in love with the director’s daughter. With much regret and embarrassment he finally recovers the stolen articles. When he finds out the reason for the theft he promises his assistance in solving their dilemma even to the point of risking his life. The second tale concerns the struggles a man faces when he relies on his luck to guide him through life. Nate Darrel, gambler, has arrived in Sandy Bar to settle a score with an old enemy. His first night there he observes a young man fleeced of all his money by a pair of crooked gamblers. Giving the dishonest men a taste of their own methods Darrel wins back the boy’s funds. Later that night one of the disgruntled losers attacks Darrel and is killed. All the evidence points to Darrel and with the help of the youth he befriended barely escapes being lynched. Later after being reported killed in an explosion he dons the identity of a man he found lying dead in a cabin – or so he thought. Returning to town he finds himself pressed into service to help the family of the man he supposedly murdered. If that is not complicating matters enough the youth he befriended, who does not recognize him in his new disguise, has evidence to prove that someone else did indeed kill the dishonest gambler --- unfortunately it is the man whose identity Darrel has assumed!. Through it all he relies on his luck to carry him through, but in the long run is it wise to gamble with fate?