The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-02-17

men discovered that she had learned
their secret her life would not be worth
rush, for Disk Jones was several de-
grees lower In the scale of morality
than Moore; she could or would not
denounce them, even if she had the
opportunity, and thus be the means of
sending the father of the Moore chill
dren to Jail.
She thought long and earnestly, and
scarcely slept through the dresry hours
of the night, so intense was her excite
ment, and it was wanfaced little girl
who sat down to the table the next
morning. But Mrs. Moore was not
very observing, and made no comment
Suppose something happened to pre-
vent her from stopping the train, as she
had planned, and 1t went to destruction2
No wonder she turned pale with feari
She heard distant whistle, and taking
off her red flannel petticoat, ran toward
the train, waving it frantically. The
| engineer, always on the alert in that
wild district, saw her and whistled for
down brakes, and the cars came to a
standstill. Passengers and crew came
out eagerly to question Katie, and she
pointed down below. She had been nut
ting, and seeing the obstruction, has
tened to warn them.
They praised her warmly and went to
remove the ties; but she asked for the
4 ~. Al.
exacting promise not to betray her.
She told of the plan to wreck the even
ing train, but refused to give any names,
though her listener made a shrewd
guess as to that part of it but she would
not admit its correctness.
81 want 10 save the train and l want
to save him." she reiterated; "and j
thought if you only knew you could
avoid the danger. The rails are to be
torn up in the gulch. Have the cars
run slow and watch, so that no one will
get hurt"
The conductor was a man with chill
dren of his own, and the courage of this
young girl struck him forcibly. BY
few well chosen questions he learned
her history. He promised not to reveal
what she had told him, and the train
went on, leaving the child alone. She
picked up all the nuts she could find and
went home. The hardest thing for her
, to do was to tell what she had found on
the track, and how she had stopped the
6 train.
. "'Twould have served them right to
| let them 60 to perdition,n growled Jack !
"but thou art brave lass for an
n He little knew how bravel
+ That night, when the express thun-
: dered through Lone Gulch, it stoppe d
d suddenly in the middle of it, and num-
o Der of armed men with lanterns exam
:. ined the track They found the rails
y torn up for several rods and many strong
I men shuddered at the thought of what
I. might have been.
$ No one knew why the train stopped
/. at that particular place or the reason
Z. therefor except the conductor, and he
r said that the occurrence of the morning
d ha2 made him suspicious, and two men
e skulking away in the darkness said the
a same.
Some fool tried to ditch the morning
i train with no money aboard and spilled
e our game. They'll be suspicious now
r we'd better get clear of this"
e A fortnight later a man came to the
village inquiring for Ned Rose, and came
l. to the cabin of the Moores to learn all
}, the particulars of hts death. He stated
/ that an uncle of Ned's In New York had
Il learned of his death and had sent for
It his daughter to educate and care for
70 AID took Kate away with him.
r. Judge Of her surprise, when she en-.
g tered her uncle's house, to ind the con
n ductor of the train she had stopped q
n fortnight before He shook her hand
d warmly and introduced her to his wife
81 and children.
.e "You are brave, noble little woman,
d he said, "and l trGst you will forgive
y the little fiction of the uncle
ID "You are not my uncle, then97 she
s questioned.
u ''No, my child, but the president O
: the road felt that you must not be lef
with that family longer, and he asked
Is me to see that you were properly edu
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