Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-07-14

| There was furious chutter-chutter
as Hugh McKinnons racing car swept
! down the main street and up to Bangor
station. MeK!nnon jumped out ere
il came 10 q stop, surged through the
whiting room and out onto the plat
form lust as the rear end of the diner
hummed past.
Hugh McKinnon took two steps in
pursuit, thought better of 1T, swore
ana shook his first.
ILL.,
The big man started home In black
nl-humor. But he raced with Doctor
Huntington and beat him, and almost
caught one of Tom Kelly's pigs in the
road
The round moon beamed, and the
air was like homemade elderberry
wine. And so he felt better when he
confronted his wife, though he still
frowned prodigiously.
"His car broke down. knew 1t
would" he growled. But they caught
the limited
Mrs. McKlnnon shook her head
sadly.
AesE AKA Dsh aaa Nancy had seal
eS their peace with the porter.
The conductor proved more difficult.
He scowled when informed that they
boarded the train at Bangor. Dan ex-
planned circumstantiaIly how he had
clambered over the back end and open
ed the vestibule for Nancy.
Then the porter told how he had
begged the intruders to get off, but
Dan had refused to bulge.
"An', boss" he concluded. "Ah done
couldn't put 'em off; he's too big !"
4Wel, T can, and | will r. snapped
the conductor.
Dams jaw squared itself
You'll certainly lose your job If you
put US on he warned "What will
the newspapers say If you dump us
twenty miles from station, on bit
ter winters nght?"
The conductors hand dropped from
the bell cord
".
In the morning Hugh McKfnnon
his desk, he wrote letter to that 9th
er sturdy overload, the superintend-
ent.
see you have come to your senses
and now stop your limited to discharge
passengers at Bangor. thank You
sincerely. II is a great accommodation
to me-
At that the mir seemed surcharged
with electricity. The superintendent,
personally or by wire, interviewed ev-
cry engineer, conductor, brakeman and
porter who had served on the limited
since her maiden trip. Each of them
stoutly denied that any passenger had
been permitted TO get off ''the big
train" at that forgotten fiyspeck on the
map, Bangor.
II don't know what his game was"
chuckled the superintendent to himself,
"but this will spike the old rascal !"
and he wrote:
Prove to me that any man, woman,
child, or yellow dog has gotten off or
on No. 10 at Bangor, and | will make
that town a regular station stop. But
ii isn't now, and never has been.
When Hugh McKinnon received
that boast, he went INTO the air like
a college athlete, and cracked his heels
thrice before the floor Jared beneath
his two hundred odd pounds.
But he was quick to see things, and
the grin was wiped off his face as sud-
denly as though someone had passed
wet sponge over 1t. His own shrewd-
ness had put him in corner.
He had declared he would never for
give Dan and Nancy-and he always
kept his word.
For an hour he wriggled and twisted
and used language Then he gave up.
It's no use" he muttered; I'D rather
take dose of ipecac, but" He went
to hunt up Mrs McKinnon.
Woman he said, sternly, when
he had found Mrs McKinnon, where's
your undutiful childT
If you mean Mrs. Dan Montrose,"
she returned pertly, "she Is at Niagara
Falls, stopping at the best hotel, with
her husband"
i want to send her telegram. You
write It."
Nancy Muh-Muh--'" it gagged
him, but he finally got 1t out "'Mont-
rose. Why don't you writer"
Dan and Nancy Montrose,'" re-
proved Mrs. MeKinnon.
well Dan and Nancy Montrose,'
then, the best hotel, Niagara Falls:
| forgive you, Make afidavits that
Fou rode on limited from Bangor to city
and send them to me. I need them to
make the limited stop regular. Have
a good time Hugh McKinnon.'"
Hugh, DEAR" shifted Mrs. McKin-
non joyfuIly.
me Dig man waved his hand grandly.
It's not for them" ne said; but
TO make the limited stop at Bangor. 1
told this Dempsey, the superintendent,
l would And I always keep my
word /"
But an answer came back:
Thanks, dad. Our affidavits might
put conductor in a hole. ('Dan wrote
mat murmured Mrs McKinnon.) we
won't do that because he was nice TO