CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-03-01

'Not-you're not going down there
tonight" stammered Bucks.
Yes; now-right of. Peeto get out
your crew"
The foreman jumped for the door.
Bucks hesitated barely an instant:
then. turning where he sat. cut teie'
phone plug into the roundhouse. Gala.
han saw him act and, leaning forward.
snatching the train sheet. began In
stantly clearing track for bridge spe-
ctAl.
In twenty minutes twenty men were
running twenty ways through the
storm, and a live engine doomed under
the wicsiup windows.
Phil. | want you TO be CAREFUL" Ii
was Bucks standing by the roadmas-
ter's side Mt the window as they looked
out into the storm. Its a bad night"
HALEY made no answer. "A wicked
night muttered Bucks AS. the light.
ming shot the yards In blaze and u
crash rolled down the gorge But.
wicked as 1t was, he could not bring
himself to countcrmand. Something
forbade It. Evans. the conductor OF
the special. ran in.
Here's your ordersr' exclaimed Duf.
~. Evans. pulling down his storm
cap, nodded as he took the tissue.
HALEY buttoned his leather jacket and
turned TO Bucks.
.'Goodby."
Mind your track said Bucks warn
ingiy to Evans as he took Hailey's
hand. What's your permitr"
"Ferty miles an hour"
Don't stretch IL. Goodby. Phil" be
added. speaking to HALEY. "rll see
you in the morning"
I'm the morning." repeated HALEY.
"Goodby. Nothing more in. Duffy;"
Nothing more"
Come on With the words he push
ed the conductor through the door and
was gone The switch engine puffed
up with the caboose. Ahead OF II Ed
Peeto had coupled In the pile driver
AT the last minute Callahan asked to
go. and as the bridge gang tumbled
into the caboosc the assistant superin-
terd.St. Ed peeto and Haley climbed
into the engine. Denis Mullenix sat
ON the right. and with William burden.
fireman. they pulled out, Ave In the
cab. for the Spider water.
From Medicine Bend to the Spider
water Is Il ninety mile run. Down the
gorge. through the foothills and Into the
Painted desert that fills the jaw OF the
spur we lntersect again west OF Peace
river. From the Peace to the Spider
the crow aies twenty miles, but we
take thirty for it: there is hardly
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speed limit but from the beginning
they crowded 1t. HALEY. moody ut
first. began joking and laughing the
minute they got away. He sat behind
Denis Mullenix on the right and poked
at his ribs and taunted him with his
heavy heels. After a bit he got down
and threw coal for burden. mile after
mile, and crowded the boiler till the
safety screamed. When burden took
the shovel HALEY put his hand on the
shoulder OF Callahan. who was trying
to hang to big I'D Pssto ON the are
mans seat.
"Cailahan," he yelled In his ear. -
mans better or And Callahan,
though he couldn't, In the pound and
the roar, catch the words, nodded and
laughed because HALEY nercsly laugh
Cd. Then going around to the right tho
readmaster covered Denis Mullenlx's
fingers On the throttle latch and the air
with his big hands and good naturedly
coaxsd them looss. pushed the engineer
back and got the whip and the reins
into his own keeping. It was what he
wanted, for he smiled a. he drew out
the bar Z notch and settled himself for
the run across the nat country. They
wsre 1eaving the foothills. and when
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