The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-08-09
Daily Short Story
Getting There First

Let me on" he cried Il don't want
70 go on this train I've got a EiTl bacA
there Let me through
You don't try any more stunts like
that. sonny"
II was the conductor who blockaded
his way TO the platform and held him
by both his shoulders.
.,o Tod stay risht here an this train
You'll get killed next time. You're
.ueky you weren't badly hurt this
But I can't leave her there. I've got
her purse and tickets
"iouH have time to telegraph from
the terminal-the agent will fix il up ."
Martin thought moment ON this plan
but there isn't any telegraph office
exclaimed.
Well. can't help it. You're not GO
ing 10 get OFF tnis train all ~ stops
Here. Mike. keep your eve on this chap.
heS crazy or drunk. / guess
The last two sentences were address
man.
Il guess I can hold him" Mike grin
But he didn't have 10 hold Martin
Moore. Martin was feeling TOO much
shaken up to attempt any dispute about
the right or way. A man who had held
las seat w To this point looked into the
pale face ~ the brakeman ward and
his place.
nut Tue fall was no longer the cause
or Martins weakness. lie was pictur-
ing the fOrlorn condition OF the girl he
had left behind him.
Each moment he recalled some new
detail OF painfulness IA the situation.
And. whether she ever managed To- reach
nome or not. whether she was lost 10 all
her friends. or would find some scheme
for rrscuing heTself-eVen though he
should get back to that miserable sta
tion and fetch her on the next train
she was lost TO him forever
wind tim leas
ing her thus Perhaps that Was not the
worst possibility inNolN-d--it was Ger
tainly the most painfui.
Jersey CITY the brakeman suddenly
Da~!ed almost IN his eat Now you
gin get off II you wanter. he added TO
II was time 90 get active lie must
Try TO telegraph. lie must see y there
was another train back Even II his
Ropes were dashed FOR good and always.
even though his girl was rightfuily an
cry with him-he must do wFat ne
could 10 get her o.t Of her trying posi-
tion.
lie arose s,i1Iy His knee hurt him
slightly ard re pu' down his hand TO
rub Il. he felt drying mud there. As
he joined ~. pushing moi once more
Platform. lie tried TO brush the spot
away.
He managed TO get peep a, one OF
brushed cH by the time he got to the
steps % the car. Then Re thought re
vas al risht once more and hurried
past the people "a a mad rush FOR the
telegraph o1iee and a timetable
Mr.. Moore"
He turned hair about a. he -ar. then
stopped short and stood petrirsd.
Nellie Nugent was Standing e. the
foot OF the steps - the secord car
through which he had passed
Why. YOU look though YOU had
been through "a miil-snd seen ghost.
NEa' have you done 20 yourself ! saw
so. =" through the car looking for me.
Rem NashF srNr.
me bea- me she kept rafting on.
that crowd was awful. They pushed me
mp into That other car before could tell
what was happening TO me"
l,Te."
Z doe know You remernbe- ;rat
sudden stop tIst lttie after We pulled
QUIT Well the conductor was coming
right FOR me then lie went hack TO see
what was the matter. and when 30 came
B again somehow he began A. the seat be
3 nina me and never came near me at all!
hut. on. M. I'm al m.ssed ~. l. my
Your RAJ Tnuude-, You're eno.ri
- make one mad Ask about voY~ hat
when q follow 8 been nearly killing him
SELF 90 death fo- fear something had
happened go tie only sirl he ever loved
Martin suddenly .ra.~ei grew rel.
Siaumei"t suffered. go save ~ try
- q" say '.l ',s mole. lie Lad ley
HIS te0i-r had got tive best - he
"rHaf iHss-.enf N-ift- iFusi-d too
~h" '""''d -" pleased t.at M~it,n forgot
Yes. Ne'i.e. really d.1 mean IT, he
orally .'aI+ les voice saying quite
+ SO tae- % mad got So -a- -e bad 60
+ say t.. r.sf
Say N-t,i-.- she laughed eaiy.
+ ~ len they we're .o.. out of Words f,r
'"''uE iDS rspU, 'res N'f.. % don't tc-
Iera N,..I have ever rot ~ COURAGE 20
say Won la. 81 me- . asdr .~S.d ABOUT