The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-04-06
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continued from last week.

Cor life or for death, every last one, in
the curve Of his fingers.
So they stood ready in the gorge
while Duffy studied YEARLY how to-
handle first, second and third eighty
against them.
First second and third eighty! II
they could only have been wiped off
the face of the rails as easy as they
might have been wiped off train sheet!
But there they were, three sections, and
big ones, of the California fast freight
high class stuff for Chicago and New
York that couldn't be held or laid out
that Sunday, not for a dozen con-
claves. All day first, second and third
eighty had been feeling their way
east through the mountains, trying to
dodge the swell Communicates rolling
by, impudent as pay cars, but all the
final plans to keep them out Of every
body's way, out of the way of fez and
turban and chapeau and Greek cross
and crimson splashed sleepers. were
now dashed by thirty minutes at Medi-
cine for De Molay -Four.
Order after order went from under
his hand. New meeting points for first,
second and third eighty and De Molay
-Four, otherwise Special 1926.
Fat Francis snatched the tissues
from Duffy's hand, and after the bat
TALON had dispersed among their wives
and sisters and among the sisters Of
the other fellow, after the pomponed
chaps had chucked the trombones and
cymbals and drums at old John Par
ker's shins, after the last aircock had
been tested and the last laggard cru
gader thrown forcibly aboard by the
provost guard, the double header toot-
ed "Out!'' and with the fiutter of an
ocean liner De Molay Four pulled up
the gorge.
The orders buttoned in the REFERS
gave De Molay free sweep to Elcho
and Jack Moore and Oyster were the
men to take it good and hard. More
over, there was glory aboard. Pennsyl
vania nobs, way up railroad men,
waiting to see what for motive power
we had in the woolly west, how we
climbed mountains and skirted can
yon walls and crawled down 2 and 8
per cent grades. Then with Bucks
himself in the private car what wonder
they let her out and swung De Molay
through the gorge as maybe you've
seen particularly buoyant kite snake
its tail out Of the grass and drag it
careening skyward. When they slow
ed for Elcho at nightfall, past first and
second eighty, and Bucks named the
mileage the Pennsys refused to believe
it for the hours run. But, fast as
they had sped along the iron trail, Mar
tin Duffy's work had sped ahead of
them, and this order was waiting:
Telegraphic Train Order No 49,
c. and e. Third No. so, Rat River.
c. and e. Special 1885, Elcho
Third No. 80, Engine 30, and Special
a2s will meet at Rock Point. J. M. C.
D.
With this meeting point made it
would be pretty much over in the dis
patchers' office. Martin Duffy pushed
his sallow hair back for the last time,
and, leaving young Giddings to get the
last o. ks and the last complete ON
his trick, got out Of the chair.
1t had been a tremendous day for
'4iddings, tremendous day. Thirty
two specials on the dispatchers, and
Giddings copying for the chief. He sat
down after Duffy, filled with a riotous
Importance because it was now In eff
feet all up to Giddings personally-at