Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-10-09
Ia train "a today for stringer mines

via train "a today for s,rinGer mines
q. II.
key crumpled the message and
tossed It into the waste basket
I'll report that pig.headed Dutch
man to headquarters at once" he
screamed. T.. T.. ].
On the return trip, Ikey, when duty
did not require him to be on the afcrty
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 to a conclusion.
lie would lick Hazenfritz. He would
90 1t we'll. too, II It cost him his Job.
The desk at which Hazenfritz sat;
was near the door, and faced into
the office. There was screen be-
hind him to protect him from the
drafts Of the door.
lkey would sneak up behind this
and land him one that would lay him
out. Then he would pound him UNI
til he was tired, or some one inter-
fered.
He would teach him not to send out
dynamite cars on his train. Possibly
the darned thing didn't contain dyna-
mite.
Perhaps 1t was An empty car that
Hazenfritz had sealed and sent out
for a joke. knowing that he Was
afraid Of dynamite, and out OF res
venge, 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
Showdown, he was In 1t, too, or why
did he smile SO queerly when the dy-
Mantle car came I'M And what
was in that message he held away
from sight? Well, he would fix him,
too; might as well while he was at 1t.
As the train pulled into the station
Likely leaped Off and crept up the Office
steps. His lantern swung from his
right hand. His left fist was doubled.
Cautiously he peeped over the screen.l
He could just see the outline Of
head on the other side.
The lantern described a vicious cir
Gle in the air and-crash-caught
gaspipe, while fragments of the globe
| fell around.
Six feet Of lusty 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 80
OF his throat, but still 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 copper-faced
Mussulmsn"-jerk-"I knew you were
contemplate old sneak"-jerk again
you have been all your days.
jerk once more-"but l didn't think
you'd try to assassinate man'-an-
other jerk-"you didn't get the right
man, either" jerk again.
Then he stopped for moment az
a terrible din. caused by the simulta-
neous blowing Of three locomotive
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was heard outside.
There, 60 take your medicine!" he
beloved as be shot key out of the
door. "You lost the game. you cow
ardly old shack. YOU" ,
key, under the impetus given him
by the foot of the muscular cashier
of Shacktown, went clear across the
platform, ut the end of the freight
house. He brought up on the edge OF
q group which opened and admitted
him to It's center.
Right in front of him was the dy-
Mantle car. and on the crossing at tho
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 q strip Of bunting from end
to end. A man was assisting a wom-
an in bridal costume to alight from
the car. At the sight of her face key,
wilted.
1t was his daughter and Hazenfritz.'
They had taken their wedding jour-
ney on his own train In the dynamite
car"