Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-17

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hans hand, and the train-master
drew the engineer aside.
Shovel needn't hear" he said, in ex-
PLANTATION. And then: "Are you will
ing to stand with us, Patsy? You've
had time enough to think it over.''
Callahan stood with his arms folded
and his cap drawn down over his eyes.
"'Tis not f'r meself I'm thinkin,'
Misther M'Tosh, as We we'll know. But
I'm a WILDLY man; an there's the bit
colleen in the cQnvint"
She'll be we'll cared for, whatever
happens to you," was the quick reply.
''Thin I'm yer man." said Callahan;
and when the trainmaster was gone, he
ordered Shovel to oil around while ne
did two or three things which, to an
Initiated onlooker, might have seemed
fairly inexplicable. First he discon-
nected the air-hose between the car
and the engine, tying the ends up with
stout cord so that the connection
would not seem to be broken. Next
he crawled under the Naught-seven
and deliberately bled the air-tank, .set-
ting the cock open a mere hairs
breadth so that it would leak slowly
but surely until the pressure was en-
tirely gone.
Then he got hammer and sledge
out of the engine tool-box, and after
hooking up the safety-chain couplings
between the private car and the 1,01O,
he crippled the points of the hooks
with the hammer so that they could
not be disengaged without the use of
force and the proper tools.
There We are, We ould divils band
wagon" he said, apostrophizing the
private car when his work was done.
yell ride this night where Patsy Cal
1ahan dhrives, an be dommed to ye.''
Meanwhile the trainmaster had
reached the iron grille at the other
end of the long track platform. At
a small wicket used by the station en-
ployes and trainmen, Kent was waiting
for him.
"Is it all right, M'Tosh? Will he do
it," he asked. anxiously.
eyes, Patsy's game for it; I knew
he would be. He'd put his neck in a
rope to spite the major. But it's a
crazy thing, Mr.. Kent
Il know it; but If it will give me "a
hours
1T won't. They can't get home on
our line because We'll be tied up. But
they can get the Naught-seven put on
the Overland's Limited at A. & T.
junction, and that will put them back
here before you've had time to turn
around twice. Have they come down
yet?'
NO" said Kent; and just then he
saw Loring coming in from the street
entrance and went to meet him.
II have the final word from Boston, u
said the ,ex-manager, when he had
walked Kent out of earshot of the
train-takers. "Your terms are accept.
ed-with all sorts of safeguards thrown
about the no cure, no pay proviso;
also with distinct reputation of you
and your scheme it there is anything
unlawful afoot. Do you still think II
best to keep me in the dark as to wha,
you are doing?"
Eyes; there are enough of us in.
volved, IS it stands. You COULDN'T
help; and you might hinder. Besides
if the mine should happen to explode
in our direction it'll be a comfort t
have a foot-loose friend or two OF
the outside to pick up the pieces O.
u.s." 80.
Loring was polishing his eye-glasse,
with uncommon vigor. r. ~
- IT. wish you'd drop it, David, II Il
isn't too late. Ican't help feeling as Il
! had prodded you into it, whatever
It is " s.5. s. =: :s5 81 q
Kent linked arms with him and Lex
him back % the street entrance
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