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Learn more- Several men in the Red Dog saloon knew the outlaw's face. One man ran for the sheriff, while the other ran to the back door to prevent the outlaw's escape that way. Neal saw the sheriff. When the man at the rear door put his head through, Neal's gat got him, and he made his getaway with the sheriff's posse in hot pursuit. He just escaped by plunging over a cliff, but he had been wounded. Mary Moore, who occupied a little homestead with her husband, took him in, and although she suspected that he was an outlaw, she ministered to his wounds. The couple were very poor, and their larder had been replenished by Joe Ramon, a gambler who had conceived a guilty admiration for Mary. This same Joe Ramon was a demon. He promised to give John Moore a job, and told him to meet him at the saloon next day. While John was away Joe came to the cabin, and Mary's attempt to conceal Neal convinced him that the outlaw was in the back room. Neal realized that his position there would endanger the Moores, and after Joe went away he made a break for the open, but was overtaken by Joe, and was promised his liberty if he would rob a stage coach the following day. The alternative was the exposure of his being shielded by the Moores. Joe then sent John Moore to the rendezvous agreed upon. When the posse, which had been warned, overtook Neal and John, Neal turned to John, "You make a break over there in that direction, and I'll get out the best I can." He threw the money in the brush and rode directly in the opposite direction. His furious riding and a maneuver outdistanced the posse, and Neal had a free road to Cactus Center, where he demanded to know where Joe Ramon was. "Oh, he went up to the Moore cabin half an hour ago," said one of the men in the saloon. Another furious ride, and Neal dashes open the door just in time to see Mary desperately struggling. Without a moment's hesitation Neal sends the worthless gambler into eternity. But the posse is on his heels. "Quick," he said to John Moore, who had Just stepped into the cabin. "You hold me up and turn me over to the police. It's the only way." And with a smile on his face, and tears in the eyes of John and Mary Moore, Neal surrenders himself to the sheriff. He had squared it.
Moving Picture World, August 25, 1917
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