The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-13

and viewed the work of his mad hands. |
"Itll crush the Red Bird" he said, |
turning away, land put him out Of my |
path forever"
The last words, full of a DEVILS tri- |
umpb, still quivered on his lips, when |
Ytol stepped from the shadows and |
thrust the muzzle of her revolver into |
his face!
He started back with cry of horror
and muttered her name.
"This is your revenge, Morgan Duke"
she said, looking sternly in his eyes.
NOW, obey my commands, or there
will be lifeless body on this track, to
be mingled among the ruins of the night
express. To work at once Of with
your coat, and remove from the track
every obstruction your wicked hands
have placed there p'
He looked at her, and a curse fell
from bis lips.
"The train can't be saved now," he
said, and there was joy in his tones.
ut took me one long hour to Obstruct
the guard. In twenty minutes, or less,
perhaps, you'll see the Red Birds head
light up the cut.p
"Villain !" she cried, "if this track is
not clear when 1 see her headlight, Pll
drive bullet through your brain You
know what to do Pll talk no longer ~
Covered by her revolver as he was,
Morgan Duke, the station-master, doffed
his coat and fell to work.
Ytol never took her eyes from him,
and the silvery moon that rested over
the cut showed his every movement.
He was upon the pile of ties, hurling
them, one by one, with the strength of
a modern Sampson, upon the not over
wide grade. He worked for life, for he
knew when the laundering train was
due, and a glance at the girl on the
track told him that she would sternly
slay him if he did not do her bidding.
Once she said to him, as he paused
for breath, before attacking the ties
which he had driven into the guard:
81 never thought this of you, Morgan
Duke. When 1 rejected you, 1 thought
you would bear it like man,
He replied not, but glanced at his
watch.
"Halfpast twelve v' be said.
ITO work ~ was the stern command,
and Ytol, stepping forward, brought
the revolver nearer his head.
He tugged at the ties with great
strength, and large drops of perspira-
tion stood boldly out on his forehead.
~ can't move them," he said at last,
. turning upon I JOl.
"YOu must !'' was the reply.
81 drove them in with the sledge"
> ''I did not hear the sound"
. ''It was deadeBed with my coat"
The girls face grew paler than ever,
and she glanced fearfully up the cut.
3 Take them out p' she said, suddenly,
! ! "the train is coming. l heard it,"
The Villainous station u-master heard
the rumbling, and again turned to the
ties.
"You have your choice" Ytol said to
him: "a bullet, or an unobstructed
track p'
She watched him as woman never
> watched man before. She knew thai
he was doing all that could be done to
undo his wicked work, and while she
watched her heart grew still beneath
: the rumble of the express.
: ''He'll soon call me-" she said to her
self. "There there ~
The familiar shrieks cleft the cool
October air, but they brought no joy to
her heart. She was not at the old win.
: dow beside the light he loved to hail
1 from his engine. Perhaps she would be
t. the first to kiss his cold brow beneath
the stars in Gwynn's Cut. She almost
4 shouted for Joy when she saw the first
= tie drawn from the guard by the desper.
) ate man.
"Quick the sledge! break the guardr'
she cried.
l "I never thought of that" he said
and the next moment he was shatter.
ing the long guard with the heavy iron
hammer.
At last the last piece was broken, and
he thrust the other ties down into the
2 long opening he had made.
At that moment the train, rounding
the curve, dashed into the cut, and the
; flashing headlight, not twenty feel
away, almost blinded the eyes of the
twain.
Morgan Duke stepped from the track
and threw himself upon the heap O
disordered ties, utterly exhausted. He
saw triumph in the girls eyes, and
watched her as the train came on.
Oh, for strength to hurl her upon the
track and beneath the laundering train
7 Her revolver had ceased to cover him
4 but he could not have lifted child.
The train dashed by!
t YtOl saw her lovers face for a mo-
: ment, and an exclamation of thankful
:, ness welled from her heart. He wal
: safe, and the precious lives that he car
ried westward had escaped Morgan
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II "You're a worker, Morgan Duke
:, she said to him, smiling. 1--WE will
II separate here"
e He looked at her for a moment in 81
u lence.
p "Are you going to tell ?" he said, a
e last.
:, ''Such men as you are dangerous"
}, ''Hhen you are going to expose me p
d "I Iam.n
He did not reply.
o They parted forever there. Morgan
e Duke was never caught by the officer
q of the law; but justice afterward over
e took him. The iron wheels of a mat
: train crushed him on the track.
The company presented Ytol with
II beautiful house when her husband tool
l. charge of the car-shOps. 1 know sh,
% will never forget her night in Gwynn'i
Cut with her rejected lover.
l. "All that's Bright must fade" muse,