Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-11


-, They were not brought there
Is ilP,' INIT by sense OF the long night
BY is a,iness that lay before MIN. Jep
Of quickly from his seat on the door
step aPPiet me go with you, father, - he
+, "I'd like to 20.
sa 1s. man looked down on him in aston
sinner sinner lsd!'' ne exclaimed. "w'at be
.s,,iin' of? w'at'd ye be doin VII
y n-sef q night?''
y0 lapoin wat 20 do, father" replied
len, stOutly. :.
.P 1t was evident that the propo-
' i.;oS did not strike him unpleassntly.
lSSWsll, - be said at last, 81 like the
md Of it. Here, motherP" he
SUITED suited, turning in the doorway, "put
1p III n dinner in my pail for Jep. He
AS VII me the night. -
ty lens mother hurried to the door in
'' miWbat's that2" she exclaimed.
nJep goes VII your"
SStye, Jep goes VII me-
,,Well. who ever heard the like?''
.T want to go, mother,'' said Jep;
d."
-.,5.naturedly. Tha's no time to lose.
En- zoe that no harm comes till i'm. -
ca Il cane about that Jep went that
-,rbt with his father. 1t was good
,1If mile to the breaker and il was quite
To-, when they reached their destins-
shOn.
:, The north wing Jep's father looked in
, ~ enough to say good evening to the
rnmnman, and then they passed on down
,bs side of the long building and around
me southeasterly corner to the breaker
when the dinner pail was hung up and
che lantern lighted they made the tour of
,bs breaker, man and boy together. This
.aok long time, Tor the building was a
rory large one and had many wings.
outside it had begun TO rain and it was
Tsrv dark, SO dark that the outlines of
tba massive structure could not be dis
t,npuisbed against the blackness OF the
sky,
the engine room, Jep said:
OTIS q bad night to watch, ain t it,
isther?"
"why?' asked his father.
"Well, it's so dark an rainy, you
know.
can " at has that to do VII it?"
nOh! it's good night to hide,' re-
plied Jep, looking anxiously off into the
dark corners of the engine-room. GA
man might jump out from somewhere
an you never see him till he was onto
you. ="
$50 he might any night an there was
any object in it. -
owen, you know they've threatened
10 burn the breaker. an they"
"Ah, nov! Don't be scarin' your
set, en- don Il be talkIn' trash. No
body'll fire the breaker warrant ye, an
nobody II be botherin US WI this in ma
pocket, - and he placed his hand signif-
cantly on the but of his large revolver.
From somewhere in the great building
came dull noise as of pounding, fol-
lowed by a slight rattle, and then all
was still.
"what was that?" asked Jep, in a
whisper.
"Oh, no mon knows what the noises
be. hear 'em every night. No harm
comes % 'em.''
He picked up his lantern. nevertheless,
aud they went up into the screen room
aud looked about, but finding nothing
out Of place, they soon came back again.
Later on Jep grew sleepy. 1t was long
past his bed time. and though he had
bravely determined to stay awake with
his father, he found it impossible now to
keep his eyelids from dropping and his
head from dropping forward. Back of
the big fiy-wheel, and partly hidden by
it the breaker engineer had bench,
with a folded coat on it for q head
cushion, on which he sometimes re-
Clined.
"Lay down on the bench tn s'ut your
eyes an go to sleep like man," said
Jsp's father, "an' don't be noddn'
your head off. -
"I'd ruther stay up with ycu," re-
piled Jep.''
but ye can't keep your eyes open,
lad. -
''Well, will you stay here? shouldn' It
Ike to wake up in the dark alone.
"Oh! that's all right. If 1 have to go
out II leave the lantern here. IN git