The Huttig news., 1909-07-17
 Bend. MT. Bucks"


 Take the car and send it back to morrow on Number Three
 Thank you, if you went need it to. night"
 q sha'nt l am going to stay at Cold Springs tonight and huat u Mc- Cloud
 But that man is in bed in a very bad way; you can't see him. He is going to die
 No, he isa't. l am going to hunt him up and have him taken care ef. /"
 Ten weeks later McCloud was sent from Medicine Bend up on the Short Line as trainmaster, and on the Short Line he learned railroading
 That's how I came here" said George McCloud to Farrell kennedy d long time afterward, at Medicine Bend. ..I had shriyeled and starved three years out there in the desert .sed with those cattle underground till l had forgotten iny oAn Dot. my own name, my own faee--and Bucks came along one day with Whis- pering Smith and dragged me out of my coffin. They had it ordered. and 1t being sn all size and .onhandy.' as the undertaken said. l raid for it and told him to store it for me. Well, do you think I ever could forget either of those men. Farrell2"
 In all the group of young men then on the mountain division, obscure and i unknown at the time, but destined within few years 10 be scattered far and wide as constructionists with 1 records male in the rebuilding opera l tions throu sh the Rocky mountains. none was less likely to attract atten- ton than McCloud. Bucks, who, in l deed could hardly be reckoned so 1 much of the company as it's head. WAS man of commanding proportions physically. Like Glover, Bucks was giant in stature, and the two men, when togetLcr, could nowhere escape notice: they looked, in 8 word, their part. fitted ta cope with the tre. mendous undertakings that had fallen to their lot. Callahan. the ehesspl3y- CT en tie Overland lines, tue man who could hold large combinations of tfaf- tie movement constantly in his head and by intuition reach the result of a given problem before other men could work if out, was. like Morris Blood the master of tonnage, of middle age But McCloud. when he went to tn, mountain division. in youthfuness o features was boyish. and when he lefi he was still boy, bropzed. but young of face in spite Of lifetimes pressure and worry crowded into three years. He himself counted this physical makeup as a dis dvantage. "If has embroiled mo in no end of trouble. be. cause couldn't convince men I was in earnest until l made good in some hard way. he complained once to Whispering Smith. sI never could ae- quire even a successful habit of swear 1 ing. so l had to learn to fight" When, one day in Boney street in Medicine Bend, he threw open the .loor of Marion Sinclair's shop, flung his hat sailing along the show case with his war cry. and called to her in the back rooms. she thought he had merely run in to say he was in town.
 How do you do? What do you think? You're going to have an ol6 boarder back" he ried I'm coming to Medicine Bend, superintendent of the divisioni"
 "Mr. McCloud," Marion Sin lair clasped her han S and GroDr | into chair. Fave they made you superin- tendent already?"
 Well, I like that, Do you want them to wait till I'm grayheadeds."
 Marion threw her hands to her own head. "Oh don't ay anything about gray hairs My head won't bear in spection. But I can't get over this promotion coming SO soon-this whole big divisonl We'll, congratulate you very sincerely
 "Oh. but that isn't 1t. suppose anybody will congratulate me. But where am I to board? Have you a cookf You know how l went from bad to worse after you left Cold Springs. May 1 have my meals here with you as I used to there ?'
 They laughed as they bantered. Marion Sinclair wore gold spectaeles, but they did not hide the delightful good-nature in her eyes. On the third finger of her slender left hand she wore. too. gold band that explained the gray in her hair at 26.
 This was the wife of Murray Sin. clair. whom he had brought to the mountains from her far-away Wiscon. sin home. Within a year he had broken her heart so far = it lay in him to do it, but he could not break her charm nor her spirit She was too proud to go back when forced to leave him. and had set about earning her own living in the country to which she had come as bride. She put on spectacles, she muiilated her heavy brown hair and to escape notice and secure the obscurity that she craved her name, Marion. became, over the door of Ter mill'ne y shop and in her business, only M. inclair"
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