The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-13

the steel dangling behind aud Aloysius
jumping before, there was painful
seusation-the sensation of good men
who see a disaster they are powerlcss
TO avert Nor did Soda Springs know
how desperate the wiper's extremity
had become. Not even the struggling
steel foreman knew that with Soda
Springs passing like the films Of cine.
matograph, and two more miles of down
grade ahead, the last cupful OF sand
was trickling from the wiper s. tank.
Aloysius, at that moment, wouldn Z
have given the odd change OH pay
check for all the chances extra $40
and himself had left lie stuck to his
levers merely because there was no
particular reason for letting 90. II
was only question OF how man want
ed 10 take the rocks Yet. with all his
figuring. A'oysius had lost sight of his
only alvatioD-maybe because it was
quite oft of his power to effect it him
self, But in making the run up to Soda
Springs No. 10 had already sanded the
rails below.
He could feel the help the minute the
tires ground into the grit, They began
to smoke, and Aloysius perceived the
grade was easing somewhat Even the
dazed foreman. looking back. saw ap
improvement in the lurch OF the ca
boose There was ono more hair.raiser
ahead-the appalling curve at the forks
OF the Goose, But. instead Of being
hurled over the elevation. they found
themselves around il and OF the bridge
with only 2 vicious slew, AloysiGs s
hair began TO lie down, and his heart
to rise mp, He had her checkcd-cven
the hohoes knew jt-and a mile fur
ther, with the dangers past. they took
new ones by dropping .off the hind eud.
At the second bend below the Goose,
Aloysius made a stop, and began again
TO breathe. \ box was blazing on the
tender truck. and. with his handy fire
man, he at once cot down to doctor IT,
The whole thing shifted so mortally
quick from danger to safety that the
two never stopped TO inventory their
fears; they seemed 10 have vanished
With the frost that lurcd them to De
struction. They Jumped together into
the cab: and-whistlug at the laborers
strung back aloug the right of way
extra No. 30 west began backing ,
pluclSiIy up hill 10 Soda Springs. The !
first man who approached the cab as
they slowed down FOR the platform-iu |
fact. peODle rather stood back for him |
was Bucks, sUrerintcudent CG tho diyl. !
sion; his car had come in attached 90 |
No. l6.
E" How did your train get away from
you?f he asked Of Alnysius: but Ii. |
words were bitten with frost: there was !
neither speculation nor sympathy in his !
manner.
SIT didn I get away from me- re- !
torted Aloysius, who had never before I
in his life seen the mnn. and was not 1
aware that he owed him nnv money.
But the operator at the Springs. who I
knew AloySius and thc superintendent |
both, was standing behind the latter
dcing a pantomime that would shame a I
medicine man,
"Quick talking will DO more for YOU
thnn smart talking, rnDliod the super.
intendcnt, crisply. ''You'N never get !
q better chancc-whilc vou re working 4
Tor tho comnanv-to explain Yourself. -
A!nvsius himself began to think so. 4
for tho mods and winks Of the operator
wogc bcwildcriup. He tried 10 sneak |
M. bGt the foreman OF tho steel gang
put IN;
''Scc here sport - he snaoncd. irrev.
preuily. at the angry official ''Whv
don I ycu cool YOUR hat before YOU
junp fellow like that7'
What business is il of yours how
iun'n a fellow" returned the sura-.
sharply. 'Who arc vou!"
~ m only foreman Of this steel ranc,
nv friend; ard don Z take any back
ak from anybody
"Tn thai case responded Bucks.
with velvet sarcasm. .'pcrhaps you will |
explain things. | m only superintcndcnt |
IF this division--that all; hut IL
customary to inquire into matters Of
his kind.
A;ovsins nearly sank 20 the plaifo
It the words; but the master of the
,oboes, who had all the facts. went at
he big man as IL he had been ono Of
he gang, aud did not falter till he had !