The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-09-27

80. opooO VI CHc wraps Il
otner light articles on the seat and in
the rack.
AT this moment B~astable. who had
lodged them to the carriage, passed
its doors unseenland walked on toward
the cad of the platform, CRASHING his
teeth with the impotent fury of a
Gagged wild beast. If only he had at
that moment the revolver he had
bought to shoot this man W tn, he
could DO 1T now; but in a few min
utes more Munroe would be carried
Beyond the reach Of his re yenge, TAX
ing her with him as his bride.
Here he stopped opposite the ex.
press engine. and stood staring at it
without seeing it, his nostrlls dis
tened, his lips parted, his teeth
clenched, the nails of his hands
buried in the palms, while his eyes
glared with the lurid light of mad
ness. He was brought a little to
himself by being forced to step aside
TO allow the stoker to get off his en-
CINE in order to follow the driver into
n refreShment bar for a glass. This
called his attention to the clrcum-
stances that the engine Of the train
into winch, as yet, only the hatred
bride and groom had got, was utterly
deserted.
'By George! that'll do it," he al
most Shouted, and without looking
around even to see if he were OBJ
served, he jumped on the engine,
opened the regulator to the full, and
as she bounded forward leaped off at
the other side.
AS Arthus Munro had quilted the
carriage to look after the luggage,
the only soul in the runaway train
was poor Milly. Munro had not left
the train a minute when loud shouts
or alarm arrested him.
"What is it? What's the matter?:"
he asked, facing round with a horri-
BILE suspicion that Bastable had at
tackled Milly.
"The express has u away" ex-
claimed n porter.
Good heavens! She'll be into the
Bingham train at Lifford." cried an
other.
Milly was alone in the train, and
yet Munro did not lose his presence
of mind. Flying to the end of the
Platform, he jumped upon the en-
zine of the local, and withouta word
To driver or stoker put his hand out
and seized the regulator. Before he
could open it the driver stopped him.
Hold on, sir. Hold on. Bill, un-
hook the traln."
In a minute Bill had leaped down,
unlocked the engine from the train,
and was ba k again on the engine
plate just as she began toaglide out of
the station.
"Express.." shouted the driver.
pointing ahead to the runaway.
Couldn't catch her UP with a load
like that on" chucking his thumb
behind toward the train they had
been detached from by Bill.
But they lost nearly as much time
by the stoppage to unlock the train
as they gained by the tightening of
the load, for the runaway had got al
most a miles start ~ thc delay.
''HOw far is li.ra,>' shouted
Munro, lrantlca.ly.
DIN lllllcS.
My wife. Ny wife" - moaned
in blank despai
Then, wrenching the ShOrcl from
the stoker. he proceeded to feed the
furnace, with all an experts skill
iinging the coal far in and well to
the sides. Every other moment he
Strengthened himself to look ahead;
but though the engine was going now
at a rate that made it rock and pitch
violently like a boat in breakers, they
had not sighted the runaway vet.
Suddenly she slowed down from sew
enty to fifty miles an hour, and
Munro, looking up, saw the steam
shut off.
..What? Why?" he cried.
.'Litford distance" replied the
driver, pointing to the signal" GAIL
VI by this We should only pile up
the smash now"
Then Munro lost all heart and
hope, and sank in Il heap on the en-
CINE plate hiding his face with his
hands. Meanwhile. the driver, by
putting the }: AXE so hard on that
the wheels of the engine glOwed red,
had nearly got her under control as
he swept around the curve and came
in sight OF the stat on.
All clear. \ wire from Worston
..ad got the Bingham train into a
siding only Just IN time. AS they
glided past the platform the station
master shouted, -
They have wired to Pentham to
switch her into stop blocks at that
siding"
That was, Of course, to wreck the
train against the block.
Munro heard. and. starting up like
a mailman, he wrenched open the
regulator to the full, shouting only
'.My wife. My wife"