The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-05-04

er, fde whs letting his education In
Iadvance. He tried to calm her with
tiuespert words: How can stop the
trnlnI Nov. dearie, he was a nice
dog. but after ALL be was only y dog
She rounded on him like a panther.
only dogl He was worth dozen
men Ike you. You ind the CONDUCTOR
at once, command him to stop this
traln-and back upl j don't care Il
be has to 90 back ten miles. Run,
tell him at once, Now, you rum"
Mallory stared at her as II she had
gone mad. but he set out to run somel
where. anywhere. Marjorie paced UP
and down dlstractedly. tearing her
hair and moaning, "Snoozleums, Snoo-
zleums! Ny child. My poor child"
AT length her wildly rowing eyes noted
the bell rope. She stared. pondered.
nodded her head, clutched at It, could
not reach II, jumped for 1t several
times IN vain, then seized chair,
swung It into place, stood up in Il.
griDped the rope, and came down on
It With all her weight, dropping to the
floor and Jumping up and down in a
frenzied dance. In the distance the
engine could be heard family whist.
ling, whistliHg for every pull, -
The, engineer, far. ahead, could not
imagine what pnheard-oi crisis could
bring about such mad signals. The
fireman yelled:
~ bet that crazy conductor is at:
tackled with an epilettic TT"
But there was no disputing the
command The engine was reversed,
the, air brakes set, the. sand run ont
and every effort made to pull the
Iron horse, as 1t were, back on Its
launches, - 4,
The grinding, squealing, Jolting.
shook thas train like an earthquake.
The shrteking OF the whistle froze the
blood like woman's cry Of MUIR.
der!" in the night. The women among
the passengers echoed the screams.
The men turned, pale and braced
themselves for the shock. Of collision.
Some Of them were, ,mpmbling, pray
ers, pr. Temple and Jimmie, yelling
ton, with one idea In. their idissimilar
souls, dashed from the smoking room
to go to their wives.
Ashton and Wedgewood, with no
one to care for but themselves, seized
windows and tried to fight them open.
AT last they budged sash and knelt
down TO thrust their heads ont.
a don't see beastly thing ahead"
said Wedgewood, except the heads
Of other FOOLS"
Were slowing down though" said
Ashton, .'she stops! We're sale.
Thank God" And he collapsed into
a chair. Wedgewood collapsed into
another, gasplng: "Whatevah are We
safe from, wondah:" ....,.
The train.crew and various passen-
gers descended and ran alongside the
train asking questions. Panic gave
way to mystery. Even DR.. Temple
came back into the smoking room to
finish precious cigar he had been at
work on. He was followed by Little
Jimmie, who had not quite reached
his wife when the stopping OF the
train put an end to his excuse for
chiyalry. He was regretlully mum
bling:
1T would have been such good
shansh to shave my LIES wife-I
mean MY don't know what mean
lie sank into chair and ordered n
drink; then suddenly remembered. his
vow.'and with great herolsm, resclnd.
ed the order.
Mallory, finding that the train was
checked Just before he reached the
conductor, saw that officials Devil.
dered wrath at the stoppage and had
fearsome intuition that Marjorie
had somehow done the deed. He hur.
ried back to the observation room,
where he found her charging up and
down, still distraught. He paused at
safe distance and said:
The train has stopped, my dear.
Somebody rang the bell"
81 guess somebody did," Marjorie
answered. with a proud toss OF the
head. Where's the conductor
He's looking for the fellow that
pulled the rope"
You go tell him to back up-and
slowly, too" -
mo. thank you!" said Mallory. He
was a bravo young man. but he was
not boarding the conductors of stop
pedaexpresses. Already the conducs
tors voice was heard in the smoking
room, ,where he appeared with the
rush andsroar Z Of, a Bashan bull.
Well" he beloved, which one Of
you guys pulled that roper"
ut was nobody here, SIR" Or. TEN.
pie meekly explained. The conductor
transfixed him with baleful glare:
81 wouldn't believe gambler on oath.
I bet you did It."
Il assure you. sir" Wedgewood In.
terposed, ''he didn't touch It. l was
heah." -. a
The conductor waved him aside and
charged into. the observation room,
followed by all, the passengers in an
awe-struck rabble. Here. too, the
conductor Numbered: who pulled
that rnna7 Cnnak I'm enn,ehndyr