The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-12-08
CHAPTER V.-contInued.

Gentle reader, | wonder II you've
y tried to climb a telegraph pole
ihout the contrlvances that a line
M buckles upon his feet2 IL you
vent the advice Of this amateur Is
Iut Half a dozen times / shinnied
10 perhaps the height Of a mans
sd only to come sliding down again
A run. At last, by a series Of inch
r contrived to get within arms
heb Of the lowest crossplece. Pliers
hand, strained for the nearest
he PROCEED It, and began to twist II
lex and forth to break II.
4 Not to let me miss any of the thrills,
was at the precise instant of the
fiebreaking that my stralning ears
ought the sound they had been lis
tnlng for; a far-away, drumming rum
! that seemed to come from nowhere
+ particular. Then, out Of the same
defnite circumamblence came a
irnlng that was still more unmistak-
be--the long-drawn blast Of a loco
iiye whistle.
didn't climb down that pole; I
nne down like the tlme-ball on the
'lgsiaf In Washington at high noon.
borrower, ! struck the ground run
Yhs as one might say. All thoughts
tnkering that COMPOUNDED motor
pa vanished and my one great object
Z life was to get the car or the track
sore a worse thing should happen.
vls doing fairly well with the lifting
M Juggling when the enemy hove In
IVY less than FIVE hundred yards
AaL And that wasn't all, either. At
''elsely the same Instant, as IL II had
Pen timed by the same mechanism
pa had brought the freight train,
~ came Wild engine around the
u'e 10 the opposite direction, with
Y whistle valve held open and making
neket to wake the dead. The be-
W motor-car riders had found a To-
alOuse somewhere and were chasing
vne mad heaye at the stranded gas-
.'ls car, a mighty boost that got all
W one wheel of II In the clear, and
sn gone-streakIng It like a jack
,.SOa lot the tall timber-only there
n@t stick Of timber nearer than
' ~ A0pes OF the backgrounding noun.
que glance over my shoulder as !
Az AZ showed Re what l was in for
49,, ue story was to be Immediately
' ~ In our next. Both engineers
~ s'u 70 stop; did stop In time TO avert
~ I. greater catastrophe. Three or four
49, 49, Jumped from the freight and two
,n NV sne Wild engine to come tearing
MA, 'ue' l fahcled l could give them
I.,a a moneys worth at that game
s,,S s u pretty fair training--so ]
e.s"", out TO try TO turn the hypo.
\ 'heory into a condition.
an va "as a great race. Through one
Y ana INTO another we went. max.
~ usure Fights around the hills and
M o ssaln' lodging into new ravines
n.y. NJ WI OF them into others. clrcllnp
bos =, great sandstone bouIders that
'',ang glimpse. - wv
A,s sSD t know just how Icing the chase
q, , ~, su' II was long enough to give
DE-, , Wy considerable degree of re,
Gose MN, 'ne nerve and persistence OF
Ee ma snly Indignant railroad men
d, s.o' s. nave been miles away from
b ler - VI The disaster when | final,
RAen ,nem behind and lost them
alone a, ,ooked back and found myself
@ A., " lne solltudes | sat down up.
had An .n 'ock TO gasp and laugh. Il
AID So has,., % supremacy ridiculous
Npul0,Ion1 u,'iully in keeping with the
Angels ',h.. mad left behind me al
hg less , ,a ! felt sure that now moth,
An Womb Ipan verdict of expert alien.
Red psau u ever serve to convince these
but an esc.nI I0lk that was anything
~ he , ,,e breathing spell I kept or
sttlDy .n heading away from tbe
'oone, a. au !, and feeling certain thai
Where IN ,sa ! must come out some
Two bo" ue nelghborhood OF AtropIa
Y an eTcnas ia'er | came Into sort
VEL plndaS Tor a road. Being pretty
ae canyon Oy the 'tiff climb out OF
'"Vihe' ! sat dcvp vt the