The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-17

low.
The only equipment operating into
sheridan was construction train.
with an old battered passenger coach
coupled to the rear A squad oil
heavily armed infantry rode along. a.
protection against possible Indian ;
raiders, but there was no crowd /
aboard on this special trip. as all
construction work had been suspended |
on the line indefinitely. and most OF |
the travel, therefore, had changed to |
the eastward. The coach used had |
q partition run through II, and. as
soon as the busy trainmen discovered |
ladies on board, they unceremoniously |
drove the more bibulous passengers,
protesting, into the forward compart'
ment This left Hope in comparative
peace, her remaining neighbors quiet,
taciturn men. whom she looked at
| through the folds of her veil during
! the long, slow, exasperating journey
mentally guessing at their various oc.
equations. II was an exceedingly tedi
Gus, mouotonous trip, the train slack.
ening up. and jerking forward. appa--
emily without slightest reason: then
occasionally achieving full stop,
while men, always under guard, went
! ahead TO fix up some bit of damaged
! track, across which the engineer
dared not advance. At each bridge
! spanning the numerous small streams
trainmen examined the structure be
fore venturing forward. and at each
~ nm, Ia. tod
more impatient and sarcastic, a per.
feet stream OF fluent profanity being
waited back whenever the door be-
tween the two sections CHANGED TO be
left aiar
Hope was not the only woman on
board, yet glance at the others was
sufficient to decide their status. even
had their freedom Of manner and loud
talking not made II equally obvious.
Fearful lest she might be mistaken
for one of the same class, she re-
manned In silence, her veil merely
lifted enough TO enable her to peer
out through the grimy window at the
barren view slipping slowly past. This
consisted of the bare prairie, brown
and desolate, occasionally intersected
Gy some small wRtercourse, the low
hills rising and falling like waves to
The far horizon. Few incidents broke
he dead monotony; occasionally a
herd OF antelope appeared in the dis
lance, silhouetted against the sky
line, and once they fairly crept for an
hour through a mass OF buffalo graz
In. l,,t ns
, sounded from the front end OF the
train. A little farther along she caught
q glimpse OF a troop of wild horses
, dashing recklessly down into a shell
, tering ravine Yet principally all
, that met her straining eyes was ster
= lie desolation Here and there a great
, ugly water tank reared its hideous
. shape beside the track, the engine al
:. ways pausing for a fresh supply BE
side 1t was invariably "A pile OF coal
p, few construction cars, a hut hall
a buried under earth, loop-holed and
:, barvicaded with several rough mer
:, Ioaing about, heavily armed and in
!, lusitive. A few OF these points haC
once been terminal. the surrounding
scenery evidencing past glories by
piles of tin cans, and all manner Of
:. debris. with occasionally vacant
y shack. left deserted and forlorn,
Wearied and heartsick, Hope turned
away from this outside dreariness L
contemplate more closely her neigh
:, bors on board. but found them scarce
ly more interesting. Several wer,
l.ln a-A 9TH OF. pit
: out of the windows. while few were
= laughing and talking with the girls
their conversation inane and punctu
: ated with profanity. One man wa
', figuring on scratch pad. and Hop'
decided he must be an engineer EN-
ployed on the line; others she classe'
as small merchants, saloon.keepers
and frontier riff-raff. They woul'
&c glance curiously at her as the,
- marched up and down the marrow
y aisle, but her veil. and averted face
prevented even the boldest from
speaking Once she addressed tn
conductor. and the man who was FIG
le urlng turned and looked back at heI
AZ evidently attracted by the soft not
% of her voice. But he made no. effor
D. at advances returning Immediately ;
ID his pad, obliyious TO all else,
1t was growing dark, the outsid
. world, now consisting of level plain'
fading into darkness, with few grea
ie stars burning overhead, Trainmen II
70 the few smoking oil lamps screwe
u against the sides OF the car, and it
ie occupants became little more tina
sc dim shadows All by this time wer
iatigued into silence, and several wer
asleep finding such small comfort a
as was possible on the cramped seat
Hope glanced toward the heretofor
~ noisy group at the rear-the girl nee
at est her rested with unconscious hea
pillowed upon the shoulder OF he
~ man friend, and both We're sleeping
How haggard and CHASTITY the won