The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-03
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valley.
"Beals took occasion To perfect him
self IN the Morse alphabet and would
station himself In convenient spot
from which the heliograms might he
read; then when Morrlsey strolled
back. with his tripod under one arm
and his mirror under the other, the
super used to meet him at the office
door and mlnce over his tender mes
sages.
after this sort of thing had been
going on for n week or ten days Lea
Witt began footing his own version Of
the old, old story on the mill whistle.
On still days the sound easily carried
across the valley, and as there were
fully as many still days as cloudless
ones the siren had the heliograph tied
in the race for Miss Bradley's favor.
"Often the flashing and the footing
were going at the same time, so that
the young lady in the railroad station
must have been ut skies and sevens
keeping track of the two and inciden-
tally attending to her Office calls. Ulti-
mately Beals shut down ON the use of
the whistle for anything but official
business, and Leavtt used to lean out
of the engine room window and gnash
his teeth over the lovelorn hellograms
that twinkled from the mountain side.
'What means Bennett was taking
meanwhile to keep abreast of his rivals
did not appear, but nearly every night
rockets of various colors transcribed
parabolas in the air from the direction
OF Panout.
while far from certain that Miss
Bradley had anything to DO with the
rockets, nevertheless Beals and Nor
risey and Leavitt were not Il little wor-
ried to account for them. Uere was
code entirely distinct from the Morse
alphabet, and the gentlemen in ques-
ton were completely in the dark
affairs were in this unsatisfactory
condition for some time, and then bit
Of news fell into the camp like dyna-
mite bomb, spreading decentralization
among the four whose aspira tons clus-
tered about the Panout station. Miss
Bradley was to be transferred to Ante
lope Springs and was to leave that day
by an evening train.
'Leavltt, Morrisey and Bennett STAN
peded 10 the house of the man who
owned the horse. only to learn that the
animal had already been secured by
Beals. Then followed another STAN
pede in the direction of the Office,
where the super was just mounting for
a ride to town. Three requests for
layoff were summarily refused, and
Beals spurred triumphantly away.
1.-The super's rifle lay across his horse
In front of him. He was going to Pan
out, he explained, to have the resident
gunsmith overhaul the Winchester.
"Beals was no more than well out of
the camp before the insubordinate mill
whistle set up its clamor. Drawing
rein, the super spelled out the long and
short sounds that answered for dots
and dashes:
"'W-i-El you be MY
"Slipping to the ground, he laid his
rifle across the saddle and took careful
aim at the whistle. He was Il crack
shot, and after he had pulled trigger
the resonant note from the mill had
dropped into Il wheeZy undertone that
hardly crossed the camp limits.
Barely had the super accomplished
this stroke when the glare of the hello
graph struck across his eyes. 'Nita,
before you go will you promise to be
my
"Beals swerved the muzzle of his
Winchester in the direction of the
blazing point on the slope and fired.
The blazing point vanished, and he
knew he had smashed the mirror and
put the helograph out of the running.
"Chuckling to himself, Beals re-
mounted and rode complacently on to