The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07
Everybody Wants
Good Tea
Try
Great American Importing Tea Co.
Big Presents Free.
S45 Main street, Salt Lake City.
$40 Twenty-fifth street. Ogden
345 Main street. Salt Lake City.
$40 Twenty-fifth street. Ogden

sition was enshrouded in dense gloom.
We advanced cautiously, but without
fear, to the very breach.
The engine had been backed away
from the hole, the broken pilot had
been replaced by a new one, and she
now stood facing us, with her head
lamp lit. but turned down low. The hole
was there, no obstacle presented, and
yet, for some unaccountable reason,
our courage oozed out at the ends of
our bare toes, and we were in danger
of returning from whence we came.
Neither of US cared to take the lead
From the shape of the building and
the fact that an engine stood at either
side of the hole, our view of the prem
ises was extremely limited. A man
might pop on us at any moment. What
the consequences of discovery might
be we dared not think. Joe said that
as 1 knew the lay OF. the land, and was
the inStigator of the enterprise, [ ought
to lead.
Unable to deny it, and too proud to
back down, / stipulated that they
should follow me in case 1 survived.
Having received their assurances of
fidelity / entered, apparently without
fear, but really shaking like jelly
fish.
l trod on the sharp corner of brick;
it rolled under my foot, and, in reach
ing out to save myself, l knocked down
a crowbar. 1t fell against the cylinder
of the engine and rolled away on the
cement floor. making noise that re-
verberated through the gloom like
cannonade. A voice in the distance
asked sharply: Whats that?'
With my heart in my mouth. darted
blindly between the engines. 1 fell over
a spirit jack, barking both shins pain
fully, but dared not cry out / crouched
behind the big stove that stood be-
tween the stalls and listened in breath
less fear to the tramp of approaching
feet. The sound grew rapidly nearer.
The wavering flicker from a lantern
shone through the engines wheels. A
man came round the pilot directly to-
ward me. My first impulse-as he
seemed to look right at me-was to
throw myself on his mercy. He turned
his head and lodged round the stove.
He climbed on the engine and l heard
him try the water. Then he raised the
lantern above his head, looked at the
steam gauge, muttered something to
himself and got off the other side.
/ made a dive for the hole. 1 had had
enough, and was determined to get out.
1 met Pete coming in. Where was
YEP" he asked, in what sounded to me
like tones of thunder. Reassured,
drew back, allowing them to enter.
After whispered consultation we de-
cided to go in the opposite direction to
that taken by the man. The roundhouse
was so big it was hardly possible that
we should ever see him again. eau
tiously, like mice in a strange kitchen,
we started. There was but little to be
seen in the obscurity. The front ends
of the engineS-whose outlines doomed
indistinct and ghostly-all looking alike.
We noted their numbers and tried to
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longed. The smallness of the continu-
ally receding curve ahead made us for
get that we were advancing. Sudden
ly we came upon the foremanS office.
Old Jack Dowd, the night foreman,
stood in the door looking right at us.
AT the same instant an engine that was
being turned on the table flashed her
headlight upon us.
We listened with bullying eyes when
he said: Hurry up, now, and git thin
ingines turned. You kids better dig for
home; if your fathers and mothers
ketches We out till this time O. night
yell walk the carpet sure
We thought so. too. and legged it for
home with scant ceremony.
Mother had been to a meeting of
| "Rebeccas," and was awake when l
came in. 1 was horror-stricken when.
| in reply to the squeak of the third step
of the back stairs, she called: rs that
! you, Franky?'
Yes, ma am
What's the matter, dear are you
sick?"
No ma am"
Then what in the world are you do
ing up at this time O. night? Go right
back to bed again."
Yes, ma am
1 heard her tell father that she be-
lieved 1 was beginning to walk in my
| sleep. but he only said: Nonsense; he
probably got up to get a drink of
water; young ones are always dry in
the night" Fortunately. she forgot all
about it next day, so 1 escaped embar-
RAISING questions.
| (To be Continued.)