Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-03-01

orders. Yes, / cal see the light
from here"
"Then stay In your office and keep
your eyes open. And II anybody
starts down that yard get 'em
back !"
Out they went, carrying axes. Up
on the first car John climbed and
released the brakes. Jack knocked
the blocks from the wheels. Back
to the next repeating the opera
ton; q third and a fourth were re-
leased. The train stirred a Nbit as
the freed car took up slack An.
other wheel spun. more blocks were
knocked out.
The train was chucking, grooming,
as the freed cars on the far end
strained at the anchorage formed
by those at the rear. AS John
mounted the third from the last IT
stirred a trif1e. He smiled to him
self.
"Snappy!" he yelled at Jack as
he dropped into the snow.
The string was moving now.
wheels of the last car sliding,
squealing. He grabbed the hand
rail and swung up the step. He
kicked the dog loose and spun the
wheel.
Jump" yelled TAFT as he stood
aside and John jumped as the cars
gained momentum on the grade.
Fresh snow. fallen on the logs,
began to whip away In light, shat.
tering blocks, in streamers of dust.
Fire streamed from a wheel as they
swung another bend. The clatter
OF trucks over rail- joints vas like
hall on a roof.
The cars careened. they rolled,
they jumped and bounced. The
last. yanked along by the others,
tilted and tipped dangerously on
curves. II threatened TO go over.
1t lost part OF Its load, but Il held
the rails. On through the chop
pings, on along the sides of hills /:
through narrow ravines debouching
into wider valleys; level track could
not slow them: short rises had no
more than a barely perceptible In
fluence on the pace. They
broke over the last pitch, and any
there might have seen the lights or
Shoestring strung like blurred Jew
els through the 10Y a quarter of a
mile away.
Ii seemed to TAFT and John
standing there In the silence, that
they could hear the clangor of those
runaways until they stopped. The
sound anne echolng back TO them
through the falling snow. faint and
fainter, but still there.
John turned then and ran into
the house.
Roberts answered his ring.
Anything happenedf" John asked.
Happened. Y Cd, Steele
Happened |" The mans voice
cackled with excitement. I'D yuh
ever hear about 1t raining frogs?"
"Once."
sand mammal It rained that,
didn't it?"
NO, v brought"
swell, II come. anyhow, but what
| wanted to ask Is. d'yuh ever hear
of Its rainin' saw-logs into a hungry
mlllyard?"
mo. But I've prayed for It'll"
"Eh? You what7 You prayed
for itp He could hear the man
draw a great breath. "Well. Steele.
I'm here to say that II ever | want
a whole lot and real bad I'm goin'
to get you to pray about a dimes
worth for mel Say, the g saw.
logs strung from HI to breakfast.
In this here yard. It'll be a mess
to untangle. but If she blows now
we can saw for q week I"
Fair enough. Roberts. And you
know nothing else except that 1t
ralned logs on you tonight"
..E~.
THAT'S all | want to know. I'm
part clam. Good night |"
John was In the camp Office a few
minutes before dlnner-tIme when
the telephone rang. II was an
amazed and bewildered Ellen.
do you know what happened?"
she asked.
I'D heard, yes. Heard 1t tore up
the main line"
"Oh. . They fixed that In half
an hour. Tiny was only a little late
getting out OF course, they're not
u logs. What am | going to dor"
He was grinning. This was not
the sort of thing to reveal wholly
to a girl yet. Tactics such as this
are mems affairs.
II don't know. I've got to fix 1t
up with Burke somehow. don't
e how we can use their logs
legally | don't see how they're go
Ing to get them out without Jim