The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-12

AS the train slowed itself to halt, man came
tearing down the station platform at run.
Where's Haggerty?" he called breath
lessly. "Where's -"
"Here," said Haggerty promptly, leaning
out over the steps and showing his light.
"What dye want2"
sob, all right" said the man. III be
back" and he disappeared in the shadow of
the station.
HE acts like he was nutty," muttered
Haggerty, and swung himself off the steps.
But, though Haggerty waited, the man did
not come back, and he had not come back
when the train began to roll out of the station,
and Haggerty was again on the rear platform
of the car. Then, Just as his hand reached
out TO open the door, he stopped and started
suddenly as though he had been stung.
A voice came out of the darkness from the
other side of the track over by the roundhouse.@
Where's Haggerty9 " it demanded anxiously.
Then Haggerty tumbled, and his face went
red with rage He leaned far out over the
rail, and, forgetful that the pantomime was
lost in the darkness, shook his clenched fist in
the direction from whence the voice had come.
"You 60 to he-ee-I-lll!" he bawled, the
exclamation shaken into syllables by reason
of the car wheels jolting over the siding
switches at that precise moment. And then,
his senses being very acute, from where the
light shone in the despatcher's window he
thought he heard, above the momentarily
increasing rattle of the train, a laugh
a laugh that produced anything but quiet
ing effect on his already outraged sensibilities
Now Haggerty was not of the nature of
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own expense, especially if that joke be too
prolonged and carries with it hint of under
living venom Therefore, as the zone on
Haggerty" spread over the Division, and
scarcely an hour of the day passed that the
cry Where's Haggerty?" did not reach his
ears, he began to sulk and treasure up his
injury. The Division was rubbing it in
pretty hard. But the curious part of it all
was that bis bitterness was not directed against
himself, who was the direct cause of his dis
comfture, nor against Macdonald, who was
the indirect cause; but against Hale, the
super, who was no cause at all.
Just once had Haggerty seen the superin-
tendent. Hale was pointed out to him on the
platform at Big Cloud, and Haggerty had
ducked hastily back inside his train. Hale was
the inoffensive little fellow he had treated
with such scant courtesy at the lunch-counter,
the insignificant, squint-eyed individual he
had hauled from the car platform by the coat
collar! When Haggerty's mingled feelings
of perturbation and amazement permitted him
any speech at all, it was rather incoherent
"ThGt-the runtl" he gasped, and SUBJ
sided into an empty seat.
And in this inelegant, but pithy, summing
up of the capacity and dimensions of his chief,
the Division was with him to the last section
hand. Him-a railroad mani The Hill
Division was ashamed, and it ranked for the
shame that it considered had been put upon
it. Out of it all, Haggerty was the only thing
of saving gaceI So upon Haggerty they
loosened, behind the humor, some Of their
bitterness. Haggerty became the safety
valve of the Division
A month had gone by and Hale lad lived