Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-15

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| climbing run. Adair left the details
TO this orderly from the genera,
offices; not knowing how to commas
them himself, he had to. If he cnuld
nave seen the broad grins on the faces
Vi ms Train crew when Dobson. the
clerK, gave them the dispatcher's or
oef-out at that moment he was loung
ing IN Mr.. North's easiest chair in the
central compartment of the "O1," read
ing Tor the twentieth time a crease
worn telegram
Inc telegram was from Alicia. and
IL was dated at Denver, three DAYS
gone. 1t was not very explicit. On
tne contrary, it was rather incohar.
ent.
You would better come on as fast
as you can if you want to save your
trends life. He has been tried and
found guilty-of just what don't
know-and will be hanged pretty
soon-Wlthin few days, | think"
NOW that's a. nice way to stir fell
low up, isn't it?" soliloquized the
pleasure-lover. Just as | was getting
ready to go up to Mount Ptarmicap
ior the shooting. She knew that. too,
III bet a picayune it's Just girls
scare Ford's, plenty good and able TO
take care of himself
That was Mr.. Charles Edward
Adair's care-free phrasing Of it. hut
three hours later, when the cook IF
the ''01" served him the most appetiz-
ing OF luncheons in the big open com
partment. and the steeplv mitchell
walls of the lower Blue CANYON were
still stinting the outlook from the car
WINDOWS, ne began to grow impatient.
Whereabouts are we now, John
SOM he asked Of the cooks second
man.
Between Cutcliff and No-Horse:
yes, sab. Bout forty mile from Den.
ver'
Great Scott. citizen miles an
hour? Say, johnson. what do Won do
When you want to run faster-pull
this string?"
Yes, sab; OATS it." grinned the
negro
Adair pulled the air-cord, and II
brought results-of a kind Only the
train came to sudden stop instead of
going ahead faster: and Conductor
Barclay, who had been riding on the
engine. came back to see what had
Did you stop US, Mr.. Adair?" ne
asked pleasantly.
Not meaning TO, you may be sure"
said Adair. But now you're here, I'll
ask if there is any objection to my
getting off and walking I could stop
and rest and let you overtake me now
and then, you know
The conductor tweaked the air-cord
and the train moved on again.
CHAPTER XIX-tContinued)
I've been expecting you'd shout
at u.s. he said good naturedly. But
we're doing the best we can There's
a freight wreck on ahead and we've
been dallying along, hoping they'd get
it picked up by the time we reach il.
thought you'd rather keep moving
than to be hung up for three or four
hours at the wreck"
Adair saw his helplessness and
made the best of it. He was in Nj
North's hands. and if Mr.. North WIS
playing for delay. the delay would be
None the less, he col
trived to make Barclay uncomfortable.
I'm only a director in the Pacific
southwestern, and l suppose directors
don't count he said nonchalantly.
Yet, | presume, if should ask it as
personal favor, l might get conduc-
tors or an engineers head to take
home with me for souvenir How
would that be? Do you think | could
make it VIM
'You could do it, hands down, Mr..
Adair But l hope you won't feel as
# you'd got to go into the head-hunt-
ng business. It's like the boy throw
ng stones into the pond; it's fun for
the kid, but sort O. hard on the toad.
frogs"
Adair laughed He was not one If
hose who find 1t easy to bear malice.
you don't talk half as bad as you
act" he said genially Down at bot
,om | dare say you're pretty good
kind Of a fellow. Had anything 20
eat?"
Barclay shook his head. NO; We
was laying off to get coffee and sink
srs at Clapp's Mine, if we ever get
here"
Coffee and sinkers'," said Adair.
That dosen't sound very uplifting.
Sit down here and help me out with
ny contract.
Barclay did it, rather unwillingly. |
He was not accustomed to eating at
he vice presidents table, but there |
was no resisting the curly-headed
young man when he chose to make
himself companionable. Barclay sat
On the edge of his chair, ate with his
knife or fork inditierently, and had
small use for the extra spoons and
cutlery. But he made meal to be
remembered. Afterward, the young
man found cigar case, and his own
box Of Turkish cigarettes: and still
The special was going at the same slow
up the canyon.
How many of you are there up
ahead?" asked Adair, when Barclays
cigar was going like factory chin,-
ley.
Only Williams and his fireman"
"Dinner-buckets
No; neither one Of EN-, as it hap
pens. Hurry call to go ont with you. |
and both of 'em live too far to go |
home after the grub-cans.H RI
Johnson" said the dispenser If
hospitality, calling the second man. |
Think you could climb over the coal |
will some dinner for fhn .