Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-10-23

- mines are On . little coal road
which connects with the main branch
at Shacktovn.
As key tore into the Office the
blu clerh was making q memorandum
bill for the dynamite car.
What kind Of tub-headed idiots
have you got In the offices Of this
road, anyhow. he beloved. II hauled
this internal bottled volcano up hero
yesterday, and now you're sending 1t
back again for fun"
The agent stepped out of his pri-
vate Office and handed key mes.
sage. 1t read:
January T. 1907.
shacktown, T. r. X siowtown. g. c.
K. 66fs 10 you yesterday In error. return
Via train "a today for stringer mines
c. II.
key crumpled the message and
tossed it into the waste basket
TN report that pig-headed Dutch
man TO headquarters at once" he
screamed.
On the return trip, key, when duty
did not require him to be on the alert.
was meditating deeply. He was turn
Ing question over and over In his
mind. and as the train emerged from
tunnel No. 6. half mile west OF
shacktown, he came 70 conclusion.
He would lick Hazenfritz. He would
do It well, too. IL It cost him his job
The desk at which Hazenfritz sat
was near the door, and faced into
the Office. There was a screen be
hind him to protect him from tho
drafts of the door
key would sneak up behind this
and land him one that would lay him
out. Then he would pound him I'M
III he was tired, or some one inter
fered.
He would teach him not to send out
dynamite cars on bis train. Possibly
the darned thing didn't contain dyna-
mite.
Perhaps IL was an empty car that
Hazenfritz had sealed and sent out
for joke. knowing that he was
afraid Of dynamite. and out Of re-
yenge. because he had refused TO let
him have his daughter
II that was the trick. he would see
that they didn't have the laugh on
him.
The innocent looking shack up at
siowtown. he was In IL. too. or why
did he smile so queerly when the dy-
Mantle car came in7 And what
was In that message he held away
from sight? Well. be would fix him.
too; might as well while he was at 1t.
AS the train pulled into the station
key leaped on and crept up the Office
steps. His lantern swung from his
right hand. His left fist was doubled
Cautiously he peeped over the screen.
He could just see the outline Of a
head on the other side.
The lantern described vicious cir
Gle In the air and--traah--caught a
gaspipe, while fragments OF the globe
fell around
Six feet OF lnsty manhood rose with
catlike spring and caught key by
the throat with one hand. then reached
around and caught him by the back OF
the collar with the other. Letting 20
OF bis throat. but stu retaining hold
on his collar he shot him out at arms
length. drew him back, shot him out
again until his bones creaked
You deserted old coppar.faced
Mussulman jerk knew you we're
contemplate old sneak"--jerk again
you have been all your days
jerk once more-'but didn't think
you'd try to assaaslnate a man"-an-
other jerk-.you didn't get the right
man. either" jerk again.
Then he stopped for a moment as
terrible din. caused by the simulta-
neous blowing OF three locomotive
whistles and cheers from "a throats
was heard outside.
There. go take your incidence he
beloved as he shot key out of the
door. You lost the game. you cow
ardly old shack, you"
key. under the impetus given him
BIZ the foot of the muscular cashier
OF Shacktown, went clear across the
platform, at the end OF the freight
house. He brought up on the edge OF
group which opened and admitted
him TO It's center.
Right in trent of him was the dy-
Mantle car. and on the crossing at the
end of the freight house There was
a step ladder. dressed In bunting. In
front OF the door OF the car The car,
also, had a strip Of bunting from end
10 end A man was assisting a wom-
an in bridal costume 10 alight from
the car. At the sight OF her face key
wIlted
II was his daughter and Hazenfritz.
They had taken their wedding Jour.
ney On his own train In the dynamite
car"