Bill Briggs Tells a Tale Tinkletown fairly bubbled with excitement.

At last the eyes of the world were upon it.

News of the great sensation was flashed to the end of the earth; every detail was gone into with harrowing minuteness.

The Hemisphere Company announced by telegraph that it stood ready to hand over the ten thousand dollars; and the sheriff of Bramble County with all the United States deputy marshals within reach raced at once to Tinkletown to stick a finger in the pie.
The morning after the "great pavilion robbery," as it was called in the _Banner_, Anderson Crow and Bonner fared forth early to have a look at the injured desperadoes, all of whom were safely under guard at the reincarnated calaboose.

Fifty armed men had stood guard all night long, notwithstanding the fact that one robber was dead and the others so badly injured that they were not expected to survive the day.
A horseman passed the marshal and his friend near the post-office, riding rapidly to the north.