The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-31

hosuer got The lGG ont OF The way and
another backed down with a new sky
scraper, the 800
But nobody paid much attention tc
all this. The mob had swarmed around
the ratty. old blind eyed baggage cal
which, with an ordinary way car, con
stituted the McWillams Special.
Now, what does man with Me
Williams money want TO travel spe
cial in an old photograph gallery
like that forf' asked Andy Cameron
who was the least bit huffed because
he hadn't been marked M for the run
himself You better take him in Il
cup OF hot coffee. SinkerS.' suggested
Andy to the lunch counter boy "You
might get ten dollar bill IL the old
man Isn't feeling too badly. What do
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 hoy
holding ont; it's whether the Flve-Nine
will hold OUT
"Aren't you going TO change engines
and crews at Arickarce!'
mot today" said Neighbor grimly.
I'VE haven't time"
Just then Sinkers rushed at the bag
] gage car with cup of hot coffee for
| Mr.. McWilliams. Everybody, hoping
to get peep at the capitalist. made
way. Sinkcl's 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 it
made OH the sleepy McWllllams.
Hasn't the man trouble enough
without tackllng your chicory?" sang
out Felix Kennedy, and the laugh so
discoura ged Sinkers that he gave over
and sneaked away.
At that moment the editor of the To-
cal paper came around the depot cor
tervicw and. rs usual just Il trihe late.
However. he insisted on boarding the
baggage car to tender his sympathy to
McWilliams.
The barrcades bothered him. but he
mounted them all and began an emer-
gency pound on the forbidding blind
door. Imagine his feelings when the
door was gently opened by sad eyed
man, who opened the ball by showing a
rifle as big us a pinch bar under the
editorial nose
"My grief. Mr. McWilIiams" pro
tested the interviewer in trembling
voice, don't imagine want to hold
you up. Our citizens are all peacea-
bie"-
sect out"
'Why, man. I'm not even asking for
a subscription. | simply went to ten
Get OUT snapped the man with the
gun, and in foam the newsman
climbed down A curious crowd gath
cred close to hear IN editorial version
of the Ten Commandments revised on
the spur of the moment Felix Ken
nedy said il was worth going miles to
hear. "That's the codest deal ever
struck on the plains. boys" declared
the editor Talk about your bcrrav-
ed parents. II the hoy doesn't have =
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 ty-
ing silk handkerchief around his
neck, while Neighbor gave him part
ing iniunctions. AS he put up his foot
to swing into the cab the hoy looked
for all the world like Il jockey, toe in
strrup. Nelghbor glanced at his watch.
'Cap you make it by IL o'clockI" he
growled
"Make whatY'
Denver"
"Denver or the ditch, Neighbor,"
laughed George. testing the air. Are
you right back there, Pat?" he called
as Conductor Francis strobe forward
TO compare the mountain time.
Right and tight. and call it five
two-thirty now, What have YOU, Geor-
gie?'
"Flve-two-thirty-twO answered Sin.
clair, leaning from tle cab window.
"And were ready"
"Then go." cried Pat Francis, rails
Ing two fingers.
go" echoed Sinclair, and waved a
backward smile to the crowd as the
plstons took the push and the escapes
wheeZed.
\ roar went up. The little engineer
shook his cap and with n flirting, snak-
ing slide the McWilliams Special drew
slipping away between the shining
rails for the Rockies.
Just how McWiliams felt we had no
means OF knowing. hut we knew our
hearts would not bear freely until his
Internal special should slide safely
over the last OF the 26G miles when
still lay between the distressed man
aud his unfortunate child.
From McCloud 10 Ogalalla there is
good bit Of twisting and slewing. but
looking east from Athens marble
dropped between The rails might roll
clear INTO the Ogalalla yards. II is
sixty mile grade the ballast Of Stag
and the sweetest springiest bed under
steel.
To cover those sixty miles In better
than Atty minutes was like picking
them of the ponies. aud the FiyeNine