The Huttig news., 1908-08-08

 muchee snow! Too muchee kill And you're always bowling for more Chinese, you know"
 Yes. sir. Never have enough Can't you do that slick trick again, Mir Croeker? Catch another shipload on the fly and yank them over here be. fore they have time to find out wheth- CT it's hell-hot or heaven-cold here2 And white men, too Great guns! Men! Men! Anything that can drive spikei'
 But what do you want of men If your irons nearly out?"
 You'll get me iron across the 18th mus"
 We can't. It'll cost
 love and all the little gods, What does money. piles of it at any interest if you haven't got it on hand. count for against more than 150 miles of road for all time?"
 "A hundred and fifty miles? What do you mean?"
 Its that far from here to Ogden The U. P. people get every mile they can clap iron on first. Yet their iron S away east of Ogden; and I can beat 'em there, if you'll get me the iron! Think what the business of Salt Lake valley will amount to in 10, 30, 30 years, You've simply got to have that piece of rcadi'
 You can't do it, Gregory!'
 By the eternal, 1 can I've set my pins for it ever since that blamed spy hornswoggled me last summer. The minute the engineers cut out the Pali- sade tunnel I knew I was o. K. Now, don't play Pharaoh on me, Mir Crock CT, I can't build your road without iron. Get it for me, If you have to steal a foundry and pre-empt the 18th mus of Panama,"
 Tt cant be done in time"
 "It can, sir, Telegraph the governor at Salt Lake He'll telegraph the order, rush the foundries, dozen of 'em. By jiminy, You can put the iron afoat in week. have it here in 40 daysl"
 MT Crocker caught fire. By George Gregory I believe we might do it. I'll have talk over the wire with the governor" He was about to turn away. but stopped to give Gregory a paper There's Tuesdays Clarion. h. teresting reading there They're beg ging the Union Pacific to fly by us, come into California by Beckworth pass and snatch our trade"
 Let the Clarion blow. We're giving the U. P about all the knitting work they can tend to, we and those dried beef-colored Sioux
 Hold on, Gregory, We'll be charged with murder. yet" laughed the other There's the train." he added, as a whistle pierced the still air
 The men walked along the newly laid track. past the construction train to the rear and awaited the approach ing iron train.
 Only five carsi" groaned Gregory. Tt won't keep the spikers going any time"
 Who's that woman standing in the car door? Well, if it isn't Sally B. '" MT. Croeker exclaimed, and went for ward.
 There she stood, smiling, alert, her mourning discarded, her travelling suit the smartest. her strong personality raying out hypnotically to all within reach. The moment the train halted the tripped down the steep steps, and went quickly toward the two men, calling out voluble greetings on the way First MT Croeker, then Mir Gregory, she embraced with impartial cordiality, and kissed each audibly on the cheek
 Its the same old Sally B. Time can't touch her, youth can never for get her" Mir Crocker said gallantly.
 Thank ye. MT Crocker; but it's me that's got to to the blarneying I've come begging she said bluntly, yet with her old, confident smile.
 Whatever I can do for you" Mr Crockef began heartily, when Gregory interrupted
 '.I'll leave you to your business now. Sally B.-exeuse me, MT. Crocker- put dS oOOH dS yOu N6 HHlSHeu, you SO right forward to our car-first on the other side of the construction engine there. The madame'll hail you as an angel in the desert We"
 But I'm goin right back today
 No, you won't! You'll stay all night with us and cheer up the madame. Plenty of room" He lifted his hat with grace that revealed somewhat of the secret of his ability to meet all situations
 That night Sally B. told her story to the sympathetic Gregorys. The human units that swung Gregory's hammers and covered under his fierce energy little dreamed of his gentler side, of the man who cherished and comforted a delicate. sensitive wife still mourn ing the death of their only child.
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