The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20

The night was bitter bad, black a:
a Fuzzy, and sleeting out of the foot
hills Ike manslaughter. When the
train stopped at Rosebud for water
what with gripping at the icy hand
rail, and trying TO keep my teeth
steady on my knees, / must have beer
hard sight. just as the train was
ready to pull out Dave came by and
poked his lantern full in my face
He was an older man than /, good
bit older, for / was hardly more than
a kid then, only spindling tall, and Sc
thin l couldn' L tell stomachache from
bachache. AS i sat huddled down on
the lee step, with my cap pulled over over
my head and ears, ne poked his light
full into my face and snapped, "Get
out. -
If it had been a headlight l couldn I
| have been worse scared, and / found
afterward he carried the brightest
lamp on the division. | looked up into
his face and he looked into mine.
wonder If in this life IL isn't mostly
all in the face, after alli / couldn Z
say anything; / was shaking in a chill
as pulled myself together and climbed
down into the storm.
Yet | never saw harder face IN
some ways than Dave Hawk s. His
| visor hid his forehead, and black
beard covered his face till it left only
his straight, cold nose and a dash of
olive white under the eyes. His
whiskers loomed high as a Cossack s.
and his eyes were onyx black with just
such a glitter. he knew ii was no bet,
ter than murder 10 put me off In that
storm at a mountain siding; ] knew
| it; but / didn't care much, for I knew
before long | should fall off, anyway
! After | crawled down he stood looking
at me, and with nothing better on, !
stood looking at him.
"If you get up there again III
break your neck, - he promised, hold
ing up his lantern. I was quiet; the
nerve was out of me.
"Where are you goinga" he asked
shortly.
Medicine Ben"
"Get into the smoker
IL was breaking day when he bent
over me.
"We're getting into the Bend" he
said Gruffly. SCOT any money for
breakfastG" =,
81 haven't a cent on Gods earth. y
He put his hand in his pocket, and
pulling out a handful Of loose bills
| showed one into my fingers.
"I'll take il from you and gladly,
| said. sitting up. "But I'm not 4
beggar nor tramp
"Off track1h
"Yes. I'm going TO enlist"
! His teeth flashed. "That 3 worse
than railroading, amt itl'
Something came into my head like
rocket.
| of I could get started rsilroading.
"Get started easy enough
That's how ] happened to show him
my Victorin. He gave me n card 70
| ;hc trainmaster. and next day | went
! 70 braking for Allbers, who, by the
way, was the biggest liar I ever knew
But the morning 7 got into Medicine
Bend that first time on No. | had
another scare. I went into the lunch
room for coffee and sandwiches, and
| threw nv bill at the boy. He opened
| il up. looked at 1t. and looked AZ me.
"Well.' growled. for ] was i'm
pudeut with luck and hot stomach:
good. ain Z itI''
"Smallest you got
J nodded az il I had poeketful. He
| hustled around and came back with a
| handful OF money ] said nothing, but
when he spread IL out before me
Dave had given me dollar. Sinkers,
deducting the price OF two eoaees and
six sandwiches from the bill, counted
ou, 1890 for me.
That change kept me running for a
4 north. and after my first paw day
| hunted up Dave, 20 paw him back
| found him in the evening. lie was
sitting alone on the eating. house porch
his feet Up against the rail, looking
at the mountains IN the sunset.
"Never mind he said indiFerently.
as | held out twenty-dollar bill and
tried 20 speak nv little piece. he
never moved except 20 wave back my
hand
"oh. on, I can, le, YOU do that. p
I protested.
"Put up your money, Tommy He
called me Tommis "So.' he repeated.
pushing sway nv hand. his face set
hard: and when Dawes face did set. IL
set stony. 'Put up your money: you
don Z owe ME anything. ! stole it,
| I. was queer deal out on the
west end in those iavs II was case
OF wide omen from the river 70 the
Rockies: Everybody on the line from
the directors 20 the raT-tiuks was Civ
| ing the company The worst OF il
, The section hands hooked the ties for
the maintenance, the painters drank
the alcohol for the shellae. the rur-
chasing agent had more fast horses
than We had locomotives. and what