The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-28
A PEG-LEGGED ROMANCE.

Under my advice. Miles disposed of some vacant lots
and bought neat little house put in thorough or
der and made the best of his opportunities with
Marie
Marie came to our house regularly, and had good
opportunity to study her. She a sensible little
creature, and, 10 my mind Just the girl for Miles
Miles Was just the man for her But she had con-
fded TO my wife the that she never never could
consent to- marry and settle down in the regulation
humdrum way; she wanted marry a hero some
one she could look up to-a king among men
Ny wife told her that kings and heroes were scarce
Just then and that lot Of pretty good women man
aged to be comparatively happy with common rail-
road men, But Marie wanted hero, and would hear
nothing less
1t was during one of her visits to my home that
Miles took Marie out for ride and accidentally of
course) dropped around b. his house, induced
her 70 look at it and told his story asking her to
make the home complete 1t would have caught al
any girl; but when Miles delivered her at our
door and drove of knew that there would be For
Rent card on that house in few days. and that
Marie Vehot was bound have a hero or nothing
Miles took his repulse calmly, but it hurt He told
me that Marie was hunting for different kind of man
from him; said that he thought perhaps IF he would
enlist and go out fight Sitting Bull and home
in new bFass-bound uniform. with poisoned arrow
sticking out of his breast. she would fall his feet
and worship him. She told him she liked him better
than any of the town boys; his calling was noble
enough, and hard enough, but she failed to her
ideal hero in with blue overciOthes on and
cinders in his If any of Miles competitors had
rescued drowning child killed bear with pen
knife, at this jUncture, I'm afraid Marie would have
season for heroes
About this time road invested in some moguI
passenger engines. and drew one. didn't like the
boiler sticking back between me and Dennis Raj
ferty. I didn't like six wheels connected. | didn't
like egfteen-inch cylinders / opposed to solid
end rods. And afraid I belonged to a class of
ignorant shOrt-sighted, bUll-headed engineers who
didn't believe that railroad had any right 10 buy
anything but fifteen by twenty-five eigllt-wheeers-
the smaller they the more men they would want
l got over that long time ago; but the time /
write of cranky about it. The moguls were
high and short and ieTky, and they tossed a man
around like rat in corn pepper. One day. l
chasing time worst division. holding on to
the rest and watching to see if the main frame
touched the driving boxes she rolled, Dennis Raj
feTty punched in the small of the back and said:
John for the love the Vargin, lave up on her a
mint OF does be chasing that dure for the Iasht
twinty mints, and dang the has hit it fair
She's the diYil on the dodge"
Dennis had pile of coal just inside and Just out
side of the door, the forward crates were bare the
steam down and 1 went in seven minutes late
too mad to eat-and that's pretty mad for me- l laid
on and Miles Dston took the highroIler out next trip
marry someone else to spite himself or take the first
steamer for BurTaga Equatorial Africa rejected
lovers in stories do 1t hurt, and he didn't enjoy it
but he bore up all right and his business
just hundreds of other sensible do every day
He gave up entirely, however; rented his house and
said he couldn't I'll the bilf-there wasn't hero in
his family as far back as he could remember.
Miles had been making time with the Black Maria