Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-05-05

least until Barnes Tracy should pres.
entity kick him out OF the seat Of honor
for the night trick Mr. Giddings sat
down and waited FOR the signature %
the orders
Very soon Pat Francis dropped OF
De Molay -Four. slowing az Elcho. ran
straight 20 the operator for his order.
signed IT, and at once order 20 was
throbbing back 20 young Giddings az
Medicine Bend. II was precisely 7:54
p. m. when Giddings gave back the
complete, and at 100 Elcho reported
Special S2G out" al Just like clock.
work. What a head Martin DUFFY has.
thought young Giddings. and. behold.
all the complicated everlasting head
work OF the trick and the day and OF
the West End and It's honor was now
up 10 the signature Of third eighty NJ
Rat River Just third eighty's sigma
ture for the Rock Point meeting. and
the biggest job ever tackled by a sin
gle track road In America. Giddlngs
thought. was done and well done.
SO the ambitious Giddings by means
Of pocket mirror inspected a threat
ening pimple on the end or his chubby
nose, palmlng the glass skiufulIy so
Barnes Tracy couldn't see II even II he
dld interrupt his eruption, and waited
for Bob Duny, the Rat River night
man, TO come back at him Wit. third
eightys signature. Under Giddings'
eye as be sat licked Martin DufTy's
chronometer, the watch that split the
seconds and chimed the quarters and
stopped and started 81 impOssibly and
ran 10 second a month-the watch
that Bucks, who never did things by
halves, had given little Martin Dunry
with the order that made him chief
IL lay az Giddings' fingers. and the
minute hand wiped from the enameIed
dial 4 o'clock tifty-five, fifty-six, seven.
eight-nlne. Young Giddings turned TO
his order book and inspected his en-
tries like methOdical bOokkeeper. and
Martin DUIys chronometer chined the
fourth quarter, O'clock. One entry he
had still TO make. Book in hand. he
called Rat River.
Get third elghty's signature to OR.
der ~ and hurry them out" he tapped
/. -AAfttAANANig at DOD
There was wait. Giddings lighted
his pipe the way Callahan always light
ed his ppe-putting out his lips TO
catch all the perfume and blowing the
first cloud away YEARLY, as Callahan
always did YEARLY. Then he twirled
the match meditatively and listened
and got suddenly this from Bob Duffy.
at Rat River:
Il forgot Order 10" came Bob Duffy's
message. IL let third eighty go with
out it. They left here at 7:50'-fifty
something, Giddings never heard fifty
what. The match went into the ink,
the pipe into the water pail, and Gid
dings. before Bob Duffy finished, like
a drowning man, was calling Elcho
with the life and death, the 10 call.
Hold Special 326p' he cried over the
wire the instant ElchC replied.
But Elcho, steadily, answered this:
'Speciai-326-lef t-here-7: 55."
Giddings. with both hands on the tn
bic. raised up like a drunken man. The
West End was against IL. Third eighty
in the open and going against the De
Molay Four! Bucks, Callahan, wife
everybody-and Rock Point blind sid
ing that no word from anybody on
earth could reach ahead of third eighty.
Giddings sprang to the open window
and shouted to anybody and everybody
TO cali Martin Duffy. But Martin DUFF.
~ spoke behind him.