The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-20

E5IIlSI dilytllihS Ilt HSKCu presently
Of IFS companion.
E mo" answered the brakeman, draw.
INK lis head from Iiia curtain hood t,ndcr
which iio had been looking out into the
stDl'i,i.
s's,oinctlilAs horc don't hincll right" said
Francis shortly, sorting Ills tickctsst
"Whcre arc we2" Ss.i#
Getting o,,t or the gorge" #tSt
Francis Looked ut his watch. us JuEh
holding his owt7"4 ventured tho brakes
man. 8 ~.
1892 q. A1te,l,e,pe, to.nIsht7" II
ggp"Eed Clo,ld7''
3@"ltoW about the pusher7'
AN l,..'ti'e way over the Horseback to-
2 ! !.rhnts ,bcl .,,,rfvsE
."iiat's Bucks. Bucks Is the stuff
said Pat Francis,5 arbitrarily picking up
his lamp Ito 50 forward. Two minutes
ilater8h was IN the smoker, bending over
the italian and sinking him.
Got your ticket. Tonyf'
" "Eo got,,aa ticket"
nNo gotta nun. !.
BY the collar.
nNNhuta do?"
"rhrow you Oft ''sra i.
The italian drew back to resist. They
parleyed a moment longer. only becausee
Francis was blufflng n he had meant
to stop the train Mt any point he would
hayo said nothing-simply dragged tho
fe Aiss et . by r tf produced three dol
lars and a half. 1t was only enough to
check him to Rod Cloud. He wanted
to 30 through and the fare was eleven,
'G he s nsn fep stuck Ii. money
In l1is pocket and drew his cash faro slips.
Just then the. pusher. wh!stled a stop
signal. Francis started. suddenly furious
pocket. lie hurried TO the vestIbtle and
but his head angrly out. Ahead no
saw only old John Pnrker's lamp and
strcamers. John had slid his door before s
was why the conductor, loved him. be.
cause nobody. not even himself. ever got
ahead OF John. When Francis poke g, n his
er's head was already in the wind In
spccting the trouble. which came this tine
from TIE Kind end. Looking back. Fran.
els saw blaze lea ping from a journal
e ':Iust as / expected : he ,muttercd. With
.. freezing word THAT hind end man
couldn't smell tar bucket II YOU stuck
h. head Ino ~ Get yH Hu graase Jen
a raIr OF bra.ses. Hustle =
There was hardly time for the crew to.
sin into their overcoats when Moore
aae susn Eating a1 Ra Of the as step
with can OF grease. because John didn't
have any overcoat; He hustled bad nights
without an overcoat: for his tWo girls
John picked up enough every month car
rying dogs to buy an overcoat. but the
dog money went flarRely for music and
French which we're extras In Illinois,, 81
the girls par1ez vousd and John plea
out without any orercoat.
4 Pat Francis stormed worse than the
mountains as lie followed him. All the
scheming to save a single stop was bla%-
TIC head engine. was too angry to leave
his cab. It was Just: a. bit too gexaspe rat
Ing. The pvsher crew stood bH. and tho
second engineer helped Just little, -,
the safeties screaming bedam In their
ears. with the sleet creeping con1dingly
down their backs, and With the water
soaking nnawares up tneir ises-,t6 Vas
dug bitterly at the sizzling box flung out
'hc blazing waste. set the screw. twisted
IT. hooked out the smoking brasses
showed new and ra,ee
la nps for Moore be fore the last Of the
bad words had blown out OF the head cab
and down the canon. With q squca King
and grooming and Jerking. with a vicious
vera pair of drivers let go Moore got
his enormous load rolling up the grado
again, and kept her rolling hour after
,,niir along curve and tangent to tho
Horseback, and across.
At the crest dav broke and the long. 4
heavy train, far above the night and the
storm. screa med for the summit yard.
slowed up. halted. and every, nan-jack
Ut the train crew and engine crews
tumned of TO shake hands with himself
IN the pucky run---in spite of3it ALL
schedule and hair better.
How'd YOU ever do It. Jark?"Sasked Tat
cra w.led out OF his Sindersides
How late arc we returned the en-