Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
Their Way

the girl VINO likes TO Talk. Hes tho
president Of a railroad. I don't care
so much about merely seeing him as
[ do about conversing with him.
should be satisfied with saying a
'ew things to him over the telephone
Il l couldn't do any better!
1T isn't that l want to rage at him.
| want merely to assure him that l
am filed with the deepest admiration
Tor any human being with a nerve as
colossal and contempt for his fellow
man as sublime as are his!
He runs the railroad which is the
only means Of getting out of my sum-
mer resort, All during the season l
heard vague rumors and rumblings
Of discomfort from the floating popu-
!ation at the inn, who. Of course, were
obliged to escape by rail. In an In
dolent fashion learned that nothing
ever occurred on that road in the
way that 1t should People rather
inferred that the train crews sat up
nights planning new and ingenious
ways to upset the schedule and keep
people waiting.
ITO be sure, It was annoying to
have: to take a train at IL o'clock at
night. but we got to the village by
dark and had our dinner. The bus
left at for the station a mile away,
so we went In It. Three of us could
kill time easily, we said. We sur
vived the blighting depression of the
village station for half an hour and
then we took a walk. 1t began to
rain.
On going back we heard the bag
Jageman saying that the train was
.orty minutes late, but that a sleeper
would run down from somewhere else
earlier and we could get aboard that
and be picked up later by the train
IN half an hour the report was that
The sleeper was delayed by a sand
slide on the track. We had talked all
we knew and were getting to the
point where we eyed each other with
growing dislike.
"a woman with five small children
added to the joys of the evening be-
cause If one child cried all the rest
piped up. and II they all stopped /
think she must have pinched them to
start them up again.
Then Harry Gilfist burst in upon
his wife and me to report a lunch
-oom a block away. We fed to It..
and started In on ham sandwiches to
Kill time. We ate sandwiches with
deadly seriousness. and then we be-
gan on the Gagged apple pie and the
petrified doughnuts. Harry reported
that the main train was two hours
late now, because Of a washout.
The rain poured down. The sta
Ion agent slept on the table. The
1aggageman said terrible things cut
ioud to himself and demanded to
Know how any man could live on four
hours sleep a day and why was a
.ailroad anyhow? Mrs. Gilfist and I
sat hunched up in a dry corner and
yawned and Strengthened our hair
'rritably. 'Whadyu say?'
Down the track two men we're
carrying lanterns close to the ground
N wavering way. 'Wha-they DOING
Mrs. Gilflst demanded. Grossly.
They're searching for the train, my
dear told her soothingly. They
think maybe they'll find 1t slipped
down a crack where the rails Join. >
Don't be silly!' she snapped. I shall
lie II can't go to sleep!' And the
rain poured down in the miserable
black silence. We could hear the
agent snore
There isn't any train. there never
was train and there never will be a
train. on this line.' Harry Gilfist
chanted mournfully. They put up
this station just as an ornament and
added the ticket agent for a touch of
realism. II he had a Gothic nose,
now
The sleeper'll get here at 2
o'clock, they report said the desper.
etc baggageman 'T'll resign tomor
row!'
land we have to get up at 81 said
hrs. Gilfist, HOLLOWAY. oh, how those
ham sandwiches made me feel!'