New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-19

went down the mountain after DUthelo water. IL
flush. Mani | cried. | couldn't bear TO hear him
tell il. bent my head to the cab frame and so.a.i
How like myself She had been! Left alone with one
small child! And | had taken it away-wlth my -s-
less. laundering engine
S,onaredcal Rvford stopped brokenly, and a..raI
his na1e face with his hands. The young driver H No.
20 bent forward, and the Others couldn't see hi .or
the shadow Of the stove There came only the ..". u
the mad tearing Of the wintry wind outside-ar. here
was no man in the lobby Of the Trainmens Hotel who
heard it.
OXFORD continued, seeming to have gather- a;m
N self together almost miraculously for the last Of The
story Of the gantlct that had turned bali h, ar 70
gray:
mont I didn't hide-no' | said. ! shall never hide
because do not wish 20 be a coward. They call me
square man, a man who pays his debts II the taking
Of nv very insignificant life will in the least ,sty
Sally Roland she's welcome TO 10 It. It IS poor aau
bile nv life but am willing pay 1t on the great debt
and feel that it will be- indeed, little thing give
~And that was the way felt about it. Perhaps my
grief at the accident had touched my mind don't
know don't know.
THE old man Of the hills eyed me silently for q mo-
ment. caught the idea that he fully understood He
SLAPPED me on the shoulder. By gyar. he saia seem
ing very much in earnest, you're burned sigh, better
feler'n | thought YOU was Il be burned Il / haint
reel sorry for you! If I
~'Sav,' broke in my fireman, YOU 90 back 70 Sally
Boland and tell her about this. Tell her he's broken
hcarted-te her all about this man. And tell her about
his own baby-hes got one, just as She hal and he's
all the babys got on earth. So YOU tell Sally Bo-and
for his Riddles sake to let him 60.
IF could git her 20 listen 70 me-. continued the
mountaineer I'd shore tell her But She won't listen
to nobody done told me she'd shoot me the next
time | mentioned the leetle matter You see, Mr.
Ingine Man, I've been tellin her wouldn't be TOO
hastv about KILN YOU No, it'd be impossible Tor me
to git a chanst to tell her
"'There's only thing to DO, said my fireman.
good old Jimmy Aulhaven there, who had to--o.ten
everything save that his friend, and that's 70
have the law take charge OF that woman a-i keep her
until she becomes sane.
~'Dont talk like that Jimmy, replied She
couldn't be taken alive. And She d Use he- 1.e ana
make It worse than ever. And even II She goui De
taken. DO YOU think that I'd want i done, Irons on
her wrists and bars of iron; The LORD .oroic No. my
friend Jimmy It's the everlasting mother IN her, ana
its holy next the Almighty, no matter what saro
takes You're wrong Jimmy Muhave0
Jimmy shook his head resignedy. Yes he SAID
4 guess I'm wrong. don't know wha- 70 TO- But ola
pal. it was for YOU that | said it. late 70 part WIN
YOU
The train we had taken siding for sted past anu
shortly aterwari again rishin- coward me Ter.
minal here.
81 slept not one minute that night d. lra.a''eA
Hotel. Unless something interviewed, som ing o-.o.-
nv power to foreSee it was my last ni- among TIE
walks Of men, felt great deal as i"a'r. person
condemned TO die feels on the eve Of his .eton
allowed my mind 70 dwell considerably on .- ,."'
1t would be in a measure payment OF my debt. - -''
Coraaes gsss IS