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Sunlight's Last Raid
TOWNSEND BRADY
Cast of characters in the play as produced by the Vitagraph Company :
Capt. Sunlight— Victor Howard Janet Warned— Mary Anderson Jack Conway— Alfred Vosburgh (Whitman)
The Fourth Episode The Riding of the Lovers
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ND so that afternoon the three lovers of Miss Warned were riding, Captain Sunlight may now be counted in the category, in addition to Conway and Twitchell. His daring venture up the pass that day was for the purpose of accomplishing the endeavor in which he had so lamentably failed a month before. He had heard that Warned, who had recovered from his wounds, was to be away. The desperado had been lying quiet for the intervening period until the raid on the border which had aroused so much excitement at this critical juncture. He trusted by the very boidness of his utterly improbable and unexpected advance to effect his purpose this time. He had been seen, however, and, as has been
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noted, the posse was on his trail, while his quarry had for the present again escaped him.
As he rode up the pass a glance backward disclosed that posse far down Wild Cat Canyon, toiling slowly upward. Ikhad found the break in the trail caused by the washout. He, too, had resorted to the hog-back, and now he calmly blew it up behind him. He had intended to blow up the ranch-house and had brought explosives for the purpose. He could use them to better advantage on the hogback. This would stop the pursuit for an hour or so, give him more time to get the girl and get back to the o w 1 a n d thru other and more difficult trails which he knew all about, so he rode on w i t h his companions with a heart full of pleasant anticipations and utterly free from care. If he could only have put a bullet t h r u Conway, whom he had recognized as he passed him, life would have been col ored with rosy
hues, indeed. As it was, he
promised himself that he would attend to that later.
One peculiarity of Captain Sunlight's disposition was the persistent inveteracy of his hatred. He neither forgot nor forgave, and there were many people, the number constantly decreasing thru untoward "accidents," who realized their lives would never be worth much so long as Captain Sunlight was alive. They were all anxious to get him, and not a few of them were in the posse now stopped at the hog-back; which had been tern tc pieces by the explosion of dynamite. The gap was almost impassable. The next practicable ascent was miles away. They would have to bridge it, or fill it in, or make it passible for their