Connecticut western news., 1890-05-07
A Wedding in the Cab.

you, Harry, old boy know there is. for I've seen look of worry in your face for the last two days. You know you haven't truer friend on the whole road, or a man that would go further for you than your old chum, Bob Omanw
 1T know it, Bob, I know it. We have sat in the same cab these three years, and driven the old girl over many 2 thousand miles of iron road and never had falling out. know I ought to tell you, but there's some things man hates to talk about even to his chum, and this is one of them. This much l may say, we are about to start off on what will probably be our last trip together p
 "Our last trip together :? What do you mean, Harry ?"
 "Just this: The old man has got tired of my services, and is going to give the engine to Hank Peters to-mor- row morning."
 "Then he may give the firing to the Devil, or some other of his friends, for I'll never shovel pound of coal along side of Hank Peters But what have you been doing to get the old man down on you ?"
 For moment the engineer sat in silence, then with heavy sigh which seemed to break the poor fellows heart, he replied
 "I love his daughter"
 "What Is that all 3 Why, the old gent ought to be proud to have the best man that ever opened throttle, love bis daughter. But what does the little one say fudge she aint turned 'in you for I notice of late she's taken an amazin sight of interest in old | Twenty One I'll bet she could tell her whistle from here to Little Neck Bridge, that is if there was dozen others | blowing"
 | 'sYes. Bob, Kitty has promised to be my wife. And now, Bob, don't give your old companion away, she is going down with us on this nights trip and we are to be married as soon as we reach Springdale.
 | "Hy ah! that's fine !" exclaimed the enthusiastic fireman, skipping the engi- neer on the shoulder and grasping him heartily by the hand. That's fine! But what Is there in that to give ye the sulks. old man? Why, if it was me I'd be kicking up my heels and like enough break my neck falling out ot the cab. Phew How the Super will swear when he finds that his daughter has taken seat in Twenty-One's cab, and that the handsomest driver betwixt this and the Mississippi has his hand on the throttle, making 'spurt for the Parsons
 "But here, Bob, there's one thing that you forget. We've got to run oul train 'on time, and there's four stops
 between this and Springdale. If the
 Super misses Kitty he will be dashina after us with an 'extra' and can easily
 pick us up.'
 Yes i; but who will he get to drive it? There aint no engineer here in this
 one horse place. You know the whole
 gang went down the road this afternoon
 to Walville to the dance tonight. Ther
 again there's only one machine in the
 round-house and she aint fired up."
 "Oh, the Superintendent will find {
 way" returned the other, gloomily.
 Then the big-hearted fireman scratch
 ed his head and thought.
 "We've just ten minutes afore WI
 pull out. Now I'll tell you what I'll do
 I'll just make myself scarce and let yoI
 and the girl go off without me. The1
 I'll swear by the smoke-stack of Satan
 that my old mother fell down stairs ane
 broke her leg or something, and
 couldn't leave the house in time t,
 catch the train. I've got good heat ol
 now, he continued, throwing open tn
 furnace door, "which will make stean
 enough to last you few miles, ant
 then you'll be we'll out on the road ant can look out for her yourself The ol, 3 man will be hopping mad, but what d.
 l care. I'll hang around the round l house, and when the Super calls fo
 some one to take out Nineteen, I'll b ! on hand don't ye see, and you can jes
 make up your mind that if I'm in tn
 cab, Twenty One with you and the gi1 ! will be safe and snug in Springdal , afore Nineteen gets to the Know-Noth 8 in at the edge of the town. Now, then
 don't you say nothin' about it" as tn , engineer essayed to prevent his leavin ] the engine.
 - "Hist, there comes some one, now : but they don't look much like a woman . I judge it's your new fireman, and wit D low, chuckling laugh, Bob Oma
 swung himself from the cab and hurrie 8 away in the darkness, while the seat b i, had just vacated was occupied by > form scarcely larger than boy of fou a teen years. ra T Kitty, darling, do you realize th r. seriousness of this step ?" whispere > the engineer tenderly bending his hani
 some head close to the fair cheek of th l. maiden beside him in the cab. a Yes, Harry, I do." she answere
 firmly. "But feel that in followin
 the promptings of my heart I am doin
 what IS right in the sight of God, if nc , in the sight of man So sav no mo,