The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-17

answered, IS. Clark"
What's your full name?" asked
Bucks.
IS. Clark
But what does S stand for:' per
sisted Bucks.>
Stands for Cyclone reckon. Don't
| it:" retorted the cowboy, with some
annoyance.
! Ii was not usual in those days on the
! plains to press n man too closely about
! his name There might be reasons
I why it would not be esteemed cour-
! teous.
Il reckon it do" replied Bucks. drop
ping into Siclone's grammar. And
without quiver he registered the
! new man as Siclone Clark, and his
checks always read that way. The
name seemed to fit. He adopted it
without any objection, and after every
body came to know him it fitted so
we'll that Bucks was believed to have
second sight when he named the hare
Drained fireman. He could get up a
storm quicker than any man on the
division and, il he felt so disposed,
stop one quicker.
In spite of his eccentricities, which
were many, and his headstrong way OF
doing some things, Siclone Clark was
a good engineer and deserved better
fate than the one that befell him,
though-who can tell?-it may have
been just to his liking.
The strike was the worst thing that
ever happened to Siclone He was one
Of those big hearted, violent fellows
who went into 1t loaded with enthusi-
asm. He had nothing to gain by it
at least, nothing to speak of. But the
| idea that somebody on the East End
needed their help led men like Siclone
| in, and they thought it cinch that
the company would have to take them
| all back.
| The consequence was that, when we
staggered along without them, men like
Siclone, easily aroused, naturally of
violent passions and with no self re-
straint, stopped at nothing to cripple
the service. And they looked on the
men who took their places as entitDd
neither to liberty nor life.
When our new men began coming
from the Reading to replace the strik-
ers, every one wondered who would
get Siclone Clark's engine, the S13 81
clone had gently sworn to Kin thu RrBt
man who took out the 318, bar no
body.
Whatever others thought of Siclone's
vaporings, they counted for good
deal on the West End. Nobody wanted
trouble with him.
Even Neighbor, who feared no man,
sort of let the 3l3 lie in her stall as
long as possible after the trouble be,
gan.
Nothing was said about it. Threats
cannot be taken cognizance Of official
ly. We were bombarded with threats
all the time; they had long since ceased
to move us. Yet Siclones engine stay
ed in the roundhouse.
Then, after Foley and McTerza and
Sinclair, came Fitzpatrick from the
east McTerza was put on the mails.
and coming down one day on the
White Filler he blew cylinder head
out of the 416
Fitzpatrick was waiting to take her
out when she came stumping in on
one pair of drivers, for we were using
engines worse than horsefesh then.
But of course the 416 was put out.
The only gig left in the house was
the 313.
l imagine NeIghbor felt the finger of
fate in 1t. The mail had to go. The
time had come for the 313. He order
ed her fired.
1.-THE man that ran this engine swore
he would kill the man that took her
out" said Neighbor, sort Of incidental
ly, as Fitz stood by waiting for her to
steam.
81 suppose that means me-" said
Fitzpatrick.
Il suppose 1t does"
. "Whose engine is it?'
"Siclone Clark's."
Fitzpatrick shifted to the other leg.
"Did he say what would be doing
+ while this was going on!"
i Something in Fitzpatrick's manner
t made Neighbor laugh. Other things
e crowded in and no more was said.
d No more was thought, in fact. The
e BIB rolled as kindly for Fitzpatrick as
for Siclone, and the new engineer, a
t quiet fellow like Foley, only good
e bit heavier, went on and OF her with
y never word for anybody.
q One day Fitzpatrick dropped into a
q barber shop to get shaved. In the
next chair lay Siclone Clark. Siclone
!, got through first and, stepping over to
d the table to get his hat picked up
a Fitzpatrick's by mistake and walked
4 out with it He discovered bis change
just as Fitz got out Of his chair. 81
n clone came back, replaced the hat on
n the Tablet had Fltzpatrick's name
pasted in the crown-took up his owr
A hat and as Fitz reached for his looked
= at him.
Every one in the shop caught thei,
breaths.