El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-17
The Honorable Senator Sagebrush
By Copyright $780, By
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the capital at the critical moment.
What did not occur to him at the time
was the fact that Mr. McVickar's tel
egram might have originated in Kit
tredge's Office.
Asking the superintendent to have
the service car made ready immedi-
ately, he packed his hand bag, left a
note for Patricia and began the useless
journey.
In all his travelling up and down the
state he had never found anything
to equal the slowness of the special
train Four mortal hours were lost
on the lonely siding. There was no
station, and Blount could not tele
graph So far as he knew, the serv-
ice car might stay there for day or
a week 1t was all to no purpose that
he quarreled with his conductor. The
train crew had orders to wait for
westbound II, and there was nothing
TO do but to keep on waiting.
Late in the afternoon train II or
some other train came along, and the
special was once more set in motion
eastward, but at dinner time it was
again sidetracked, eighty odd miles
from its destination, and once more
at a blind siding, where there was no
telegraph Office. The car was still
standing on the siding when Blount
went to bed But in the morning it
was in motion again, jogging now on
its leiSurely way up the branch line.
At Lewiston, the town at the end of
the branch where the tight Of way
trouble had originated, Blount found
more delay, carefully planned for, as
he had now come firmly to believe.
The plaintiffs in the right of way case
were out of town, and their lawyers
had gone to the capital. Blount saw
that he might wait week without &C
complishing anything; hence he imme-
diately instructed his conductor to get
orders for the return.
After having been gone a leisurely
half hour the conductor came back
to the service car to say that the single
telegraph wire connecting Lewiston
with the outer world was down and
that the orders for the return jour
ney could not be obtained until the
telegraph connection was restored. At
that point Blount took matters into
his own hands
There was a mining company having
It's headquarters in the isolated town,
and BlOunt had met the manager once
in the capital-met him in social way
and had been able to show him some
little attention. Hiring a blackboard at
the one livery stable in the place, he
drove out to the Little Mary mine
and luckily found Blatchford, the
friendly manager. 1t did not take over
minute to renew the pleasant ac-
quaintance and to state his dilemma.
I'm hung up here with my special
train. the wires are down. and l can't
get out" was his statement of the
crude fact Didn't you tell me that
you owned a motorcar?'
Il did," was the prompt reply. Want
to borrow it,"
you beat me to it." said Blount.
laughing. That was precisely what I
was going to beg for-the loan of your
car. l believe you told me that you
had driven it from here to the capital"
''Oh. yes. several times. You ought
to make it in six hours and al half or
seven at the most Drive me down to
the burg and I'll put you in posses
sion"
A little later Blount found himself
handling the levers of a very service
able knOckabout car equipped for hard
work on country roads When he was
ready to go he drove down to the rail-
road yard and hunted up his conductor.
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