The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-04

the defensive. Then there ensued a
scrap that laid over anything ever
heard over a telegraph wire The con-
ductors, train hands and a smattering
or passengers closed in to witness the
fun.
DO you always provide such diver
s1ons for the entertainment of your
patrons?" said fat passenger to the
conductor of Manning's train
I'VE do our best to please laughed
the conductor.
From the beginning, the conflicting
elements clinched and, as the storm
center tumbled over baggage, sprawled
into heaps of express matter, and gy-
rated about in the open it was ALWAYS
hemmed in by an interested fringe of
human various. The fight was a glo-
rlous lmpromptu rough-and-tumbIe
and it was with evident reluctance that
the conductors of the trains north and
south, for Judy was a meeting point,
called out "All aboardr' leaving the is,
sue still in doubt.
For minute after the call the scuff1a
continued, then some one sang out that
the police was coming. And sure
enough, it was. The whole force one
man strong, was boiling down the
track, hopping his brow as he came.
Manning, astride his enemy, realized
that 1t was a time for quick thinking
would it not be the better part of
valor TO leave his enemy to settle with
the law, while he himself caught the
northbound back to Warwick? The de-
clslon was made. He jumped for the
tram, and caught it as the last car
was whipping past.
Manning had been absent without
leave, and excuses were in order when
lie reported at the Office. He went at
once to the chief 1.-The man at Indy
junction called me a id fool" he ex-
planned, and I've been down to see
him about it,"
You look as if you hadr' blurted the
cnle1, glanclng at his subordinate's
SCARED face and diScOlOred eve. The
cnlef laughed: then, suddenly recollect-
ing who was in temporary charge at
JUDY, his laugh Swelled into a roar ,
fou went down to wallop Tom Ouin-
cy;" he gasped. land live to tell the
Manning failed to catch the sienis-
canoe In the exclamation. Neither did /
ne understand why the chief grinned
broadly whenever, during the AFTER
noon, his eye strayed in his direction. (
Later In the day, when Manning had
occasion to call up Judy, he found an |
other man there, in Quincy's place.
Hello? he greeted the new arrival
When did you get there?"
Game this morning. Judy REPLIED
Where'1 Quincy?" And, a sManning I
asked the question, he had a vision of
MS enemy being carted off to a hospi-
tai, if not indeed to the county Jail.
Quincy went back to Washington
last night. His leave was up, and I'm (
here TO relieve him until his father
is able to set in
1t TOOK a blow to make if plain IN
Manning, but at last he saw it. His
trip to Judy, then, had been OnIy q
brilliant fiasco. After all, he had
punched the wrong mans headI !
He could not bring himself to ask
the new mans pardon-at least not
yet. And there was his little friend at
Okisko, too. How devoutly thankful he
was that she did not know what an asst
he had made of himself
At the word that Quincy had left :
Judy, the whole circuit was agog from {
end to end. To Manning, Okisko said {
a little distantly, he fancied: Didn't
you know, Mg, that Mr.. Quincy is one
of the stars in the A P at Washing
ton? They say he's one of the finest S
And he's so nice personally" Then to {
the old-timer at Wharton: Don't you
think so, Mr., Uk?"
HE is, that" agreed the latter. "a
fine fellow, indeed" To Manning he s
added: Sorry. MIG. you and he didn't s
seem to hit it off together"
DuI MdIIilS pretended not TO be lis 70
tentng. To hear his tormentor praised. :
and by the girl, he-by his little friend,
was, in his present mood, more than
Calling. The fellow had deserved a &
thrashing, as it was, but now, in adj 3
iition to his insulting remarks, he had
sneaked away at a mild threat of per- 3
5onal chastisement. Thus he was not
only blackguard, but a coward as Z
we'll; and, he should have his licking, q
sneak where he would
Manning asked for three days leave. 3
This time no formality was neglected Z
The plan was to devote a day to a set 5
-lement with Quincy; the other two to ,
/ more agreeable journey. At the sta 6
ion he looked wistfuIly in the direc- q
ion of OkiSko, and for moment the &
trip wabbled badly. Then 3
lie remembered Okiskos praise of 3
Quincy, also Quincy's burning words. 6
His cheek flushed. What would she q
What could she think of him, if he :
vent to see ner before having purged 3,
himself of the insults that had been =
leaped upon him? Z
He set his face toward Washington g
On the train he met up with one of <
he conductors of the old Sanford run 3,
Briefly he confided the object of his z.
rip. K
tom Quincyi" yelled the ticket q
uncher. II know Tom well. And are &
GU going all the way to Washington 3,
o tan his hide?" z
Going to try" said Manning, dog s
eddy q
The conductor laughed, pretty much g
S the chief back at Warwick had a.
aughed- DO you know Quincy?" he &
Tailee 5,