New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-08-26

over its prey. In the red glow We saw
Il man limping up the track from the
west, and Kirgan and | went to meet
him. 1t was Hogan, the missing en-
gineer of the 4l6.
lie told us what there was to tell,
which wasn't very different from the
way we'd been putting il up. They
Hogan and his tireman-hadnt sus-
pected that they We're carrying a ma
MAC until after they had passed BauX-
lite and Collingwood had told them
both that what he wanted to do was
TO oyertake the special and smash ii.
Then there had been a fight on the en-
CINE, but C~ollingWood had Il gun and
he had threatened to kill them both
if they didn't keep u.
Il KEEP her goin'," said the Irish
man, "thinkin' maybe Jonesy'd keep out
of my way, or that at the lasht I'd get
Il chanst to shut the Sixteen off an
give her the brake. lie KEEP me firm
doin' ii, and whin | saw the tail-llghts,
| pushed Johnnie Shovel off an wint
afther him because there was nawth-
in else TO do. Johnnie's back youndher
a piece, wild a broken leg"
Just then Jones, the specials en-
Sineer, came M, and hc Dieccd ont
Hogan's story. The wire to Bauxite
had warned him that Il crazy ma was
chasing him and Oyerrunning stop
signalA, He had thought TO side-track
the chaser at the old "Y" and that was
what he had stopped for.
~1hereupon the three of us went
after the crippled fireman, and when
We got back to the "Y" with him ii
was all oyer Collingwood had died
with his head in Mrs. Sheila's lap, and
the boss, tagged out and half dead as
he must have been, was up and ut
work, getting the wreck victims into
u day coach, which had been bacfed
up and taken around to the other leg
of the ~" to head for Portal City.
When it came time for us to move
CollingwoOd, Mrs. Sheila pulled her
veil down and walked behind the body,
with the good old major locking his
arm in hers, and hat choking lump
came again in my throat when / re-
lmembered what CollingwOod had said
to the boss the night he came to our
office: "Sheila made her wedding jour
ney with me once, when she was just
eighteen. The next time she rides with
me it will be at my funeral"
I guess there's no use stretching the
agony out by telling about that mourn
full ride back to Portal City with the
dead and wounded. We left the wreck
blazing and roaring in the shut-in
valley at the gulch's mouth because
there wasn't anything else to do: kir-
gar and Jones and one of the firemen
handled the engine and pulled out,
while the rest of us rode in the day
coach and did what we could for the
suffering.
At Banta we made a stop long
enough to let the boss send a wire to
City, turning out the doctors
and the ambulances-and the under
and though it was after three
in the morning when we pulled
in, it seemed as if the whole town had
got the word and was down at the
to meet us.
| couldn't see Mrs. Sheila's face
when the major helped her off at the
platform her veil was still down. But
did near her low-spoken words to the
BOSS, whispered while they were car
wing Collingwood and Hatch, and two
IF the others, who were past help, out
the waiting string of dead-wagons.
II shall 90 east with the body to-
norrow-today, | mean-if the strik-
RS will let you run a train, and
,ousin Basil will go with me. We may
meet again, Graham, and for
hat reason | must say what | have to
now Your opportunity has come.
rhe man who could do the most TO de-
eat you is dead, and the strike will
10 the rest. If | were you, | should
eat nor sleep until | had
bought of some way to take the rail
Dad out of the hands of those who
proved that they are not worthy
o own IT,"
/ didn't know, just then, how much
II little attention Mr.. Norcross was
to this mighty good, clear