Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-09-07

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I know said Lfdgerwood. But
yo1 We're speaking OF Dawson, weren't
you? HI
Eyes, and that's what makes me say
what I'm saying. He is one OF them.
though he needn't be if he weren't
such g hopelessly sensitive ass Hes
a =. S. in NJ. E.. or ne would have
been Il he had stayed out his senior
year in Carnegie, but also he hap
pened to be a football fend, ana 10
the last intercollegiate game OF his
last season he had the horrible luck
to kill man, and the man was the
brother Of the girl Dawson was gong
to marry
Heavens and earth!' exclaimed
I4idgerwood. rs he that Dawson?'
THE same" said the young engineer
Iaconically. TT was the sheerest &C
cIdent, and everybody knew It, anu
nobody blamed Dawson. | happen to
know. because was d junior in Car
negie at the time But Fred took it
hard; let it spoil his life. He threw
up everything. left college between
two days and came to bury hfmself
out here. For two years he never LET
his mother and sister know where
he was; made remittances to them
through d bank In Omaha so they
shouldn't be able to trace him. care
to hear any more?"
Eyes. go on" said the superintend-
ent
q found him. chuckled Benson,
s'and ! took the liberty Of piping his
little game off to the narrowed women.
Next thing he knew they dropped IN
on him, and he is Just crazy enough
to stay here and to keep them here.
! That wouldn't be SO bad if it WASH
/ for Gridley, Fred's boss You won't
believe it, but he has actually got the
nerve to make love to Dawson's sister.
And he widow man, old enough to be
her fatherp'
Lidgerwood smiled. 1t is the privilege
| Of youth to be intolerant Of age in its
rival. Gridley was. possibly, forty two
or three, but Benson was still on the
sunny slope Of twenty-five. ''You are
prejudiced, Jack" he criticised. Grid
ley is still young enough to marry
again if he wants to-and to live long
enough to spoil his grandchildren"
"But he doesn't begin to be good
enough for Faith Dawson" countered
the young engineer stubbornly.
isn't he? Or is that another bit OF
your personal grudge? What do you
know against him?'
Pressed thus sharply against the IN
yielding fact, Benson was obliged te
confess that be knew nothing at al
against the master mechanic, nothing
that could be pinned down to day anc
date Gridley was well known to be
hard hitter, and now and then, Wner
the blows fell rather mercilessly, tht
1 railroad colony called him tyrant arc
| limited that he, too, had past tina
would not bear inspection. But ever
Benson admitted that this was mere
/ gossip.
where do I come in on all this
Jack? You have an ak to grind,
take It." said LidgerWood.
II have. Mrs. Dawson wants me Il
take my meals at the house. I'm in
clined To believe that she is bit sh.
Of Gridley, and maybe she thinks
could do the buffer act. But as a get
between I'd be chiefly conspicuous b.
my absence"
'esorry can't give you an off1c
job said the superintendent in mocl
sympathy.
so am I, but you can do the mex
best thing. Get Fred to take you bom
with him some Of these fine evenings
and you'll never go back to the Celes
tial, not if you can persuade Mrs
Dawson to feed you. The ALTERNATIVE
is to fire Gridley out of his job
This time you are trying to max
the tail wag the dog" said Lidgel
wood. .Gridley has twice my bacl
ing in the P. S. w. board of director:
Besides, he's a good fellow, and i ! g
up on the mesa and try to stand biz
off for you it will be only because
hope you are a better fellow
Prop it up on any leg you ike, on
co. said Benson simply. "Ill take
as a personal favor and do as muc
J for you some time. ! suppose ] don
J have to warn you not to fall in ioV
J with Faith Dawson yourself-or, 9
) second thought, perhaps had better
This time Lidgerwoods laugh Ws
mirthless.
mo. you don't have to. Jack 70
can safely deputize me, | guess.
AL right. and many thanks. Here
e 202 coming in, and I'm going over
] Narajo on it. Don't wait too long g
fore you make up TO Dawson. You
find him well worth while after you,
broken through his she'll
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Z strung with McCloskey's cooperate
! and when it went into effect a notl'
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