The Greeley tribune., 1907-02-21


tagged her down the line like q swal
low-Haryard, oxford. GAINESVILLE Ash
ton-and thousand people at the Nc
Cloud station waited for 6 o'clock and
for Fo!ey's muddy cap TO pop through
the Blackwood bluffs, watched him
stain the valley naples with stream
OF white and black, scream at the juno
ton. switches. tear and crash through
the wards and slide kissing and pant
ing up under our nose swing out OF
his cab and look at nobody at all bu
his watch.
We made it $3.50 a. m. Central time
the miles. 1876; the minutes, III. Tht
schedule was beaten and that with thu
1856 miles the fastest on the whole
1.o26. Everybody in town yelled eN
cept Foley He asked for chew OF
tobacco and, not getting one handily
bit into his own piece.
While Foley melted his weed George
Sinclair stepped ou of the superin
tendent's otfice-he was done in a
black silk shirt, with blue four-in.
hand streaming over his front-steppec
out to shake hands with Foley as ont
hostler got the 466 out of the way and
another backed down with a new sky,
scraper. the 500.
But nobody paid much attention to
all this. The mob had swarmed around
the ratty, old, blind eyed baggage cal
which, with an ordinary way car. con
stituted the McWillians Special
Now, what does man with Nc
Williams money want to travel spe
cial in an old photograph gallery
like that forT' asked Andy Cameron.
who was the least bit huffed because
he hadn't been marked up for the run
himself. "You better take him in 9
cup of hot coffee. Sinkers." suggested
Andy to the lunch counter boy. "You
might get a ten dollar bill il the old
man isn't feeling too badly. What dc
you hear from Denver, Neighbour" he
asked, turning to the superintendent
Of motive power. "Is the boy holding
out?"
I'm not worrying about the boy
holding out; it's whether the Five-Nine
will hold OUT
aren't you going to change engines,
and crews at Arickaree"
Not today" said Neighbor grimly.
1--WE haven't time"
Just then Sinkers rushed at the bag.
gage car with a cup Of hot coffee for
: Mr.. McWilliams. Everybody, hoping
to get peep at the capitalist, made
way. Sinkers climbed over the train
chests which were lashed to the plat.
forms and pounded on the door. He
pounded hard, for he hoped and be.
lieved that there was something in it.
But he might have pounded till his
coffee froze for all the impression II
made on the sleepy McWilliams.
Hasn't the man trouble enough
without tackling your chicory" sang
out Felix Kennedy, and the laugh SO
discouraged S.nkers that he gave owe,
| and sneaked away.
| At that moment the editor of the 10
1 cal paper came around the depot cor
ner on the run. He was out for an in
terview and, as usual, just trife late
However, he insisted on boarding tn,
baggage car to tender his sympathy t.
| McWilliams
The barricades bothered him, but b,
mounted them all and began an emer
gency pound on the forbidding blint
door. Imagine his feelings when thu
door was gently opened by sad eyet
man, who opened the ball by showing
rifle as big as pinch bar under thu
editorial nose.
"My grief, Mr.. McWilliiams," pro
tested the interviewer in a tremblins
voice, "don't imagine I want to holt
you up. Our citizens are all peacea
ble"-
"Get outr'
why, man, I'm not even asking fol
, subscription. l simply went to ten
"Get OUT" snapped the man with the
gun, and in foam the newsmar
climbed down. A curious crowd gath
cred close to hear an editorial version
Of the Ten Commandments revised OF
the spur Of the moment Felix Ken
nedy said 1t was worth going miles tc
hear. THAT'S the coolest deal ever
struck on the plains, boys" declared
,, the editor. Talk about your bereay
ed parents. If the boy doesn't have q
chill when that man reaches him
miss my guess. He acts to me as if
he was afraid his grief would get
away before he got to Denver"
Meantime Georgie Sinclair was tv
ing silk handkerchief around his
neck, while Neighbor gave him part
Ing injunctions. AS he put up his foot
to swing into the cab the boy looked
for all the world like a jockey, toe in
stirrup. Neighbor glanced at his watch
"Can you make it by II o'clock" he
growled.
make what"
"Denver."
Denver or the ditch, Neighbor,'
laughed George, testing the air. "Are
you right back there, PatT' he called
,, as Conductor Francis strobe forward
, to compare the mountain time.