The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-04-18

Is0H dn1nSCanI, CdLcn1f1g a glimpse Oh the
appalled, faces and the waiting crowd.
Then we were in the fields again. The
speed now became literally GREATNESS,
the furnace glared red hot The heat,
| the velocity, the terrible nervous strain
of the man beside me seemed to weight
the air. 1 found myself drawing long,
stertorous breaths, like one drowning.
/ heaped in the coal at intervals as
he bade me,,e L did it, because~I was OPP
| pressed by an odd sense of duty which
| 1 never had in my ordinary brain-work.
Since then have understood how it is
that dull, ignorant men, Without1a spark
of enthusiasm, show such heorism as
soldiers, firemen, and captains Of wreck
ed vessels. Pass
It is this overpowering sense Of
| routine duty. It's finer thing than
sheer bravery, in my idea. However,
began to think that MarkleY was mad
-laboring under some frenzy from
drink, though I had never seen him
| touch liquor.
He did not move hand or foot, ex-
cept in the mechanical control of his
engine, his eyes going from the gauge
| to the time-piece with steadiness that
was more threatening than any. CLEAN
of insanity would have been. Once he
glared back at the long train sweeping
latter the engine with headlong] speed
that rocked it from. side to side. .t
One could imagine he saw a hundred
men and women in the cars, talking,
reading, smoking, unconscious that
| their lives were all in the hold Of one
man, whom 1 now suspected to be mad.
I knew by his look that he remembered
that their lives were in his hand He
glanced at the clock.
| Twenty miles, he muttered Throw
on more. coal, Jack; the fire is going
out @i@1 &. .*..aiis u =
did it. Yes I did it. There was
something in the face of that man /
could not resist Then / climbed forward
and shook him roughly by the shoulder.
''MarkIey," I shouted, you are run
ming this train into the jaws Of death!''
EH'T know it," he replied, quietly ~ :
'fYour mother is on board. ~ .H9s#
"TIeaNens" :.ste. &..t~t5.f.t-ifs4 zoo
He. staggered to his. feet, But even
then he did not remove his, eyes from
Iithe gauge. 5.i1 ,ss'>1*@ '5'i@ -@-st 0Sss'41
u. Make up the fire. he commanded,
and pushed; in the throttle yalve.-@4z
Il will mot 4a14i.H4g,4 #l.gru 9ees
Make up the fire, Jack very
| quietly
T'T will not You may Kill yourself and
your mother but you shall not murder,
me!'
He looked at me. His kindly gray eyes
glared like those3of a: wild beast, but
| he controlled himself in a moment. a}E
81 could throw you off this engine,
and make short work Of you,'' he said.
fBut look here, do you, see. the station
yonder?"
[ saw a faint streak in the sky about
five miles ahead. 4
| ''I was told to reach that station. by
| g. O'Clock" he continued. "The express
lttrain meeting us, is due now, ! ought
| to have laid by for it at Dufrerne, I
was told to come on. The track is a
single onej1 Unless can make the Sid
Hing atetfle, stationsin6fhree minutes, S we
Shalt meetin yender holloW,i'9fF ~~f4wa
lG g7'fSomebodys blunder?" I said. ryerrr4sy
Eyes, / think So <t.f, g.>......s,
| L said nothing. + threw on coal. II 7
| had petroleum, should have thrown
t1t on; but III newer was calmeri inlmy
Fife. WhenedeathTaot uau " sstares man
in the face, it often frightepst him into
y
pushed the waive still farther: The. en-
l'gine began to agfHe saE STRANGE painting
soundgaFraf offato7the sodthIj cotl4d see
tthe dense black smoke of a. train. 1t
blocked at Markley inquiringlW@q<r He
= ~ e,s = GAR e e lS 7t9RS3RheHH
s9@tNo more, ''bhe9 said.iE shT7 a9IEoq 10 Z
7 II 1Qokedl across the clear summer sky
at the gray smoke Of the, peaceful little
/ village, and, beyond that a+t "a black line
looming closer, closer. across the, sky,
| Then 1 turned to the watch. In one
minEfe mofeAweIl,t Confess I sat down
and buried my face if1l my hands, 4 don't
think 4 tried to, fpray.rI, had "a confused
thought Of mangleda dying. men, and
omen-rnothers and their babies. :,
There was a terrible Shrek from the
engine, against which i leaned, another
| in my face. hi Abbot, g kissing tempest
| swept past me. looked up. We were
| on the siding, and the express had gone
by 1t .grazed our end car in passing.
In a sort Of deErfous JOY, I sprang up
and shouted to Markley. He did not
speak. He sat there fimmovable. and cold
as a stone. I went to the train, and
brought his mother to him, and, when
he opened his eyes, and took the, old
ladys hand in his, turned hastily
away! ~ I'm -'4j&5' '@'ii- 71'@'' s. t2~''
/ Yes, gentlemen, 'I9haVye7 been in many
Eaerailway accident, but Il have always
considered that the. closest shave sever
had. .. ~ - f.4sui.ft uGnI :Eratr
I@a''What was the blunder?" il
Z5sI don't know. Markley made light
of it ever afterward, and Kept it a Sc
cret; but no. man on the line stood SO
high in the confidence of the company
after that as he, By his GOODNESS and
nerve he had saved a hundred lives. =
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