The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-04

passing out oflIthe private detective
stage; Just getting over dental begin
e ff6s KY ana q month devoted 70 As
rules passed like a limited = ain. Pre-
ylous to the coming OF Bullhead. no
Goose River man had tried study Of tie
the unmeasured contempt or Nellie Cas-
sidy. She. scorned Bullhead unspeak-
hhoiy. and ID her only uneasiness was that
However, the little Goose River girl
had no idea OF letting him escape that
way. When scorn became clearly USE
Bullhead. Not til then did he give up;
her smile was his undoing It was SO
absolutely novel to Bullhcad- Bulihead,
smiles, jddclously administered, Bull
h neaa melted Ike the sugar she began to
Re IL ms wSe oe +. That what
gradually cold; bahead fpS Became m ms.
II was then that Bullhead began to sit
up all day, after working ali night, to
ist. 1,t single smile from the direction OF
able, around the lunch room ali day,
while Nellie. made ilnpersonal remarks
a tas the eolorless life Of a; mere opera.
va aS compared WIN lie IN the cab or
q ten wheeler: She admired the engineer,
Nellie-Was there ever q doughnut girl
who didn't? And whom One or Two rose
smoking out Of the akai east or the al
its gray string OF sleepers at the Junction
platform. and Bat Mullen climbed down
to oil 'round..-as he always d.d-there
were the livcliest kind of heels behind
the counter.
Such were the moments when Bullhead
sat In the lunch room, unnoticed, some.
what back, where the flies were bad, and
maple syrup--Nellie rustling back and
forth for Engineer. Mullen, who ran In
for q quick cup, and consulted. after each
watch. thin as a double eagle; for Bat at
and carried the best And with Bull
ie nd Se III assdv oakng quite
her smartcst, Mullen would drink his
coffee In an Impressive rusn MEYER s,, even en-
nightman. anyway? Then Mullen would
take as much as minute OF his running
time to walk forward to the engine Win
the drivers chatting with her. While Bull
head went completely frantic.
1t was being ignored In that way, after
her smiles had once been his, that crushed s,.te
schemes for obtaining recognition a. an
hazards. He began by quarreling violent
ly with Nellie. and things were coming
tho Klondike business struck the Noun,
tain Division. 1t came with rush ano
-.hen they began running through 1relsht
Inc. day and night, the Junction station
caught the thick OF 1t. It was some.
thing new altogether for the short line
rails and the short line operators, ana 10
Became anne p straightway a busy and import
ant post. Tho added work kept nm
kept him from loafing daytimes around
the lunch counter and running hiInseH
on fermented syrup ~,
the November nights that had gone be-
fore, the night operator sat alone IN; IN
the office facing resolve. GOOSE isiYs,
had become intolerf NE. Medicine Bena
was not to be Thought of, FOR Bullnead
now had suspicion, due to Callahan.
that he was good deal OF chump, and
he wanted to get away from the ridiculc
that had always and everywhere made
life q burden. There appeared to Bull
head nothing for It but the kiondlke.
On the table before the moody operator
lay his letter OF resGna ton, addressed
il. due form to j. S. Bucks, superintend-
ent. Near It, under the lamp, lay
well-thombed copy of the book Of rules,
open at the chapter on designations,
with subheads on
resign. who should.
Resign. how to.
Resign, when to. (See also Timed
The fact was 1t had at last painfully
forced itself on Bullhead that he was
not fitted for the railroad business. Pat
Francs had unfeelingly told him so.
Callahan had told him SO; Neighhor had
told Sim so; Bucks had told MIN 50.
On that point the leading West End au.
thorities were agreed Yet IN spite OF
these dlscouragements he had persisted
and at last made a show. Who was 1t
now that had shaken his stubborn con-
viction? Bulhead hardly dared confess.
Blu. 1t was undoubtedly one who put up
ow be no ra seyrvse 5s en M9s
was Matt Cassidy's girl.
While ne re-read his formal letter and
compared on spelling, with his pocket
Webser, a train whistled. Bullhead
the local freight Thirty. coming In from
From the East, Number One had not ar
rived. snc was SIN hours late, ana Bull
mead Looked out at his light. for he had
orders for the freight. 1t was not often
that such a thing happened, because
ono rarely went off schedule badly enough
to throw her into his turn. He had ms
orders copied and O. KID, ana waited
only to deliver them.
pulling Thirty that, night, wheezed IN e the
gale like a man with the apople%y. Sno
had new fireman on, who was burning stn
the life out of her, and as she puteed
painfully down on the scrap rails OF the
flrst siding and took the y; her over
When the conductor Of the nv, Number per
Thirty train opened thn H., sta,ion no tou
The stove puffed open E S,itI q s dGwn
Ing smoke The lamp blaze flew, UP the
Chimney left :, the es nish'mrIhe e
t arninm maj With swear showed to the
door and a nnlheaa the Pftan au tFnG IN
the dark, felt for a match and reighted
his lamp, Swearing again at tod Bu dnne g.
his table, felt in all the operators peck
cts for cigar, tumbled all the papers nip
around, and once more, on general prih-
ciples, swore, ,,,,,,,
Eult he Watched teI ' oloss and Was deter
mined te fight Il the brute be asoGSy e t4a ms
man could think of no further indgnl-
M he eok b, 9 3Ss 90 m Station eas
az Goose River. After he had gned,