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The Huron Expositor, 1928-05-04, Page 74J til P -44 �Y $a 111 IImi<tra�l4,000 Noraidined team lwt www) Int was wonderful what iSmid had packed 'Glp --on the_,jum u' as.. been saint -4n . his somewhat abbreviated careen. 'the red men are . „rout galolb'lere.. It is a passion with them. That.—,Spud, through intimacy with them from babyhood,'should have. dis- covered this somewhat obvious trait is not at all miraculous; but how Spud picked uP both an acquaintance tad an exceeding dexterity with the game of craps, Spud himself alone knew. A few yards behind the roundhouse tams an old store shed no longer in use, and beyond this --taxis being the lower end of the town—there Was nothing but buttes and a feW Polack shanties. the locality was one of perfect . security and ready accessi- bility. Also the Indians were near at hand—every time a train came in they lined the platform from end to end to. sell their wares. It wasn't hard to inveigle a few of the second generation of the trusting children of the Great White Father, which is to say those of about his own age, over behind the shed and initiate them in- to the game of craps. After that the only difficulty Spud. had was to keep the erowd from becoming so large it would attract attention. Spd tlways .played for the same stakes, that is, he always stood to lose ' 'sane thing every Y time. Spudad put up a cigarette. The young blan- kets not having any cigarettes, or any money to buy them, were more versatile, so to speak, in their wagers —they put up anything they had, from personal belongings to articles subject to a suspicion of having been surreptitiously extracted fron y the packs that the squaws trustfully hop- ed to sell to the tourists. Spud ran his gambling joint on broad lines; no bet was refused. 'It doesn't matter.," 'Spud would say. "You, there, Wind In The Face I'll play you for those beaded moc- casins you got on." Spud lost a few cigarettes, it is true—but not many. The old store shed came into active service again; Spud used it as a warehouse for his winnings—and went into partnership with Squ!dge, Meeks," the newsboy on the- Limited. And while the Indians waited on the Big CIoud platform for th-e vestibuledtravelling mint to pull in, Squidge beat them to their sales by the margin of about three hundred miles, or so. And the big braves were not happy with their squaws, and the squaws grunted and consult- ed their medicine men as to why their sales fell off, and the young blankets being trained to silence, and laconic by nature, as is the way of Indians, said nothing—and Spud thrived. Which is to say that if Spud neglect- ed his roundhouse duties for matters of more consequence, and didn't get on any more intimate terms than be- fore 'with a sense of responsibility, it -might -at least be inferred that he was no fool. All things come to an end; but, at that, Spud was on the pay roll in the roundhouse for a good many months. Ilt wasn't until a day in late fall that Megan got wind of what was going on, and one afternoon raided the gambling hell that was operating without lease on the company's pro- perty. Spud, rolling the ivories at the moment, did not have time to pick them up, as, out of the corner of his eye, the caught sight of the master mechanic coining around the end of the shed; -,but the raidwas a clean-up as far as paraphernalia and evidence were concerned-1Regan got the dice. Maybe it was old John again who saved Spud; or, perhaps, if you like it the other way, it was Mrs. Mao Gallaghan this time. 014 John had been taken down sick the week before and Doctor MeTurk was shaking his head.. over the old wiper. Regan, thinking of the 'Washtubs minus the pay check, said a heartful of things to ;Spud—When he got• hold of him— .nd. Spud went 'back to the round With the windows barred against him,Spud naturally had to confine • his • s 1DUIIQt lasaQay AA was ` a higle oasis W ItteSeription atter iN it ttu hip bud 4.10P: 'i : re "to get rid of rh a11'r tl 1a4: and Stiff, infintsed 44/.110q4 *r 0,; And it drag dais I I Re" 00147' seated that a tOint*IY:044,4104 tt�asuld be comporirded thb t rRutT1! ''i'A1 e creaky, swollen:, to ele/Ml $a rots Weil* with just as. netteli eSeootlan®ss as then even did, WI= tbi4 PrOearippioni rightly' nam- ed Joint aiie, after being tatted sine- eesaalally on many Obstinate eases, is of+area &moil'ee progressive pharae tilts to the millions of people who stiffer belle ailing joints that need limbering up. Swollen, twinay, inflamed, ' ' sniff, pain -tormented joints are usually caused by-rheupxnatism, but whatever the cause Joint -.Vase soaks right in, through skin and flesh and gets right to and corrects the 'trouble at its source. Remember Joint -Ease is for ail- ments of the joints, whether in ankle, knee, hip, elbow, shoulder, spine or finger, and when you rub it on, you may expect speedy and gratifying : e - sults, It is now on sale at C. Aberhart's and druggists everywhere for 60 cents a tube. pt, 01 •Q tlaemri1�0#�' ta4 4i70: 44i4• laauuid 4.0 Otgre� at tale dispate uerr .• said• 46TZo18 bete 0"444 Fre( Niai#ie ;A`lAvut laor *lout CO14 315(440 0 treed ;iirdet!r�? a' .Somehow that started it. Bait• Ruud _wasn't eben e,=de de .A,ny : `anther. mid Taut , El'a ie weu'1,'c i ¢t bans a )let Spud copy tor re, again. Not but Meat the ',inciting was all right and legible+. It rms. :taut 'Spud, with his attention more intimately to the im mediate surroundings where his jobb was supposed to be; but by the end of a month Clarihue began to regret that Regan had ever found out any- thing about Spud's propensities for dice. It wasn't anything very much; just a. whole lot of little matters— things had gone more smoothly before Spud stopped climbing out of the back, windows! There wasn't anything vic- icus about Spud—just a -profound and utter absence of any sense of 're- sponsibility. It didn't matter to Spud 'for instance, if he mixed up a pail of packing in the sand -box pail—with- out first removing any small quantity of sand that might happen to be re- maining in the bottom. It wasn't good for the journals, and the sand had a habit of working its way into the babbiting, and the percentage in- crease of hot boxes on the tenders leaped right up in the air. Clarihue got as hot as the boxes. It lasted a month. And then Clarihue blew up. He blew up the afternoon that Spud, doing calisthenics in the cab of the 606, unfortunately kicked a hole in the water glass. Not serious? No; but a bit of a dirty mess. The 506 was waiting to go out, and, having a full head of steam, she spouted like a geyser. Before they got it stopped she drenched her cab; and MacAloon's lunch, that the engineer had left on his, seat while he w oiling around, became a sticky mi are of news- paper; soft cheese and dough; and the - roundhouse filled up with the drifting steam until it had a London fog beaten seven ways for Sunday. Clarihue was Irish. He spoke Irish to Regan—but the meaning was un- mistakable. "I'm sorry for Mrs. MacGallaghan." he said. "D'ye }Hind, Regan? I'm sorry for her. But one MacGallaghan. is enough around here for me even when he's laid up sick. Take the boy away, Regan, before 'I mangle the ug- ly face, of him, as I've got into the way of doing in me dreams at night!' It worried Regan. Old John had worked fifteen years for Regan. Re- gan went around all day scowling a- bout it. A `railroad man in hard luck could get under the soft-hearted, fat little man's vest quicker than any- thing else on earth. He put it up to the super. "It's Mrs. PJfacGailaghan I'm think- ing of, Carleton," he said. "The doe' says old John'll mab'be be months be- fore he's on his feet again. Kind of run down. Guess he's getting old. H,m?" Carleton smiled in his quiet way over the bowl of his brier. "I can see it coming, Tommy!" he said. "I reinemberber occasions be- fore. But why Hie? Isn't your own department 'big nough so that you can find room or him, without get- ting' me ha by jamming him down somebody else's throat? Why don -'t you put him back in the shops a - ,gain ? ' "How much," said Regan, "does forty times one hundred and fourteen make?" - "Well ?" grinned Carleton. . "Well," said Regan, "that's the an- swer. I'd like to put him somewhere where he couldn't get into trouble if he tried—until old John gets drawing pay again." Carleton shook his head helplessly. "I don't .know where that is, Tom- my. I've beenbrought...>ap all my life on a railroad." "Mabbe!" said Regan. "But .let that go. I was thinking of 'bringing him over 'here with the dispatchers. The night kid that's here now carry- ing the messages is due for a lift" "Spud's getting a little grown up for that, isn't he?" ebserted Carle- ton. 4'H+e'11 mabbe die at eighty, but he'll never •.grow up," replied Regan. " Tis only till old John gets back. After that I'll fire him for the last time— and take ,pleasure in it." Spud went over to the dispatchers' office. Maybe Regan was right. Maybe things' ran smoothly for Spud for a while because the job was fool proof: Regan wagged his head, quite pleas- ed with himself, and put it down to that, anyway, Maybe Regan Was light -but Maybe, too, Fred. Blainey bud dinnething to .-do with it. D'onkita thing One as chief • of the Prairie ,luli0iatx,S,Slid went' on the, right trek '+kith real leiriey, Who swasn't Muchitnoz' than a bay hfairself, not inuoh scone tha'h ; ttpa:titYebur . or five, quiet, white -acyl, ,detlietite—the doctor's an*t st 10d Ali cis shim out to 'r ae'' Menge tae Veer aefore —lint gfi ck a'd • .a Steel. trofo k"as :the stint ili4t D lti $ ,, t d � h ' 0dita tom , sit ;'t 'lAA,t,f She Weed H ;'eight With IlicColes £®i, Liver Extract Titles mind on thenickel thriller, got the engine p:umhers mixed up—and put them down mixed up "Well, it doesn't matter," said Spud ingenuously, when the dispatcher with a grim little smile called his atten- tion to the mistake. "rL can change 'em easily enough." And .Spud changed them; but, as has been said, Spud himself ` didn't change much in spite of the fact that, as time went by, he -carie to think that the sun rose and set on Fred Blainey, and on no one else. And so the weeks went 'We a month, and into another; and Spud, irresponsibly playing havoc with about every mor- tal thing when the opportunity offer- ed, stayed on with Frei Blainey— and Regan, hearing no complaints, be- gan to wonder why he hadn't thought of the foot proof job from the first. Possibly Fred Blainey was a better judge of human nature than Regan was; possibly that was why he hid Spud's light under his own bushel, so to speak, and stood between Spud and the carpet a dozen times. He even told Regan one day that he thought Spud had the makings of a railroad man in him. Regan eyed the dispatcher bland- ly"That's all right, Fred," laughed the little master mechanic, thinking that Fred Blainey was trying to get a rise out of him. "Only he'll have to hurry up—what? Old John'll be out in another month, or so." Fred Blainey let it go at that. Per- haps, after all, he might be mistaken. He wasn't altogether sure of Spud himself. Spud, curled. up in a chair and raising the hair on the nape of his neck with his nickel • thrilled, hadn't seemed too be very much in- terested in telegraphy, though he, Fred Blainey, had tried to teach the other something of it. But perhaps interest hadn't anything to do with it, anyway; perhaps it was just a queer subconscious sixth sense to make up for the sense of responsibility which was lacking, for Spud, somehow, ac- quiring it in spite of himself, it seem- ed, had picked up quite a little Morse, and if it wasn't „thrown at him toe quick he could even handle the tak- ing after a fashion. And it was Spud's faculty for absorbing things in that way that had prompted Fred Blainey to make a stab at prophecy to Regan; but when Blainey put it up to Spud, and suggested the possihili- ties that might lie in developing Spud's latent abilities, Spud sort of treated the subject as though he were sorry it had been mentioned. "It doesn't matter," said Spud— and always seemed in a hurry to get back to his paper covered novel a- gain. Two 'months, three months Spud spent listening to the current, and listening to Fred Blainey cough, and doing odd jobs with his mind on some- thing else, and listening to Fred bail him out and then frame up an alibi to save him; and then, one night when he trudged into the dispatcher's room Spence, the chief, was in the chair— and (Blainey wasn't there. Spence told Spud that Blainey had had a hemorrhage. Spud had no more than a very hazy idea of what that meant; but he got the impres- sion that Fred Blainey was good and sick, and for perhaps the first time in his life Spud got through his trick without any foolishness. He went up p to the boarding house the next day to see Blainey—and came away whist- ling. Blainey seemed pretty near all right again. He couldn't figure out what ':hey were making all the fuss about. Fred himself said he'd be sit- ting in again the next night at the of- fice. But Blainey was wrong. The next night Fred Blainey got down to :he station all right, but he went into Carleton's office instead of his own— and Carleton said µ`no." He told Blainey to take a month's holiday. And Blainey's white face flushed pain- fully. "6I can't take a m'onth's holiday," he said, shaking his head. "MeTurk says you've been over -do- ing it lately," said Carleton genially. "You've got to let up a bit. A month off, quiet, is what you want." Blainey shook"his head again. "1 can't,"' he said. "Why?" demanded Carleton. Ikl came out then --(because Carleton dragged it out piecemeal. There was a mother and sister back. east who weren't depending on holidays. ,1.4Tia. d" lf0i99 ftQpe, Jw You remember . of course—not so long ago she Was a regular scare- croef--. kinnl1,is 'a Mild: word fpr the way sha ltiolegd ' . just )took it bernow----11 ever a woman had 'a perreet figure she has it—she is; the envy of half dhoe girls ir, town. ' It's nothing to get ekeifod..Omit —ail she did Wat to talc ; bu w+l ight —filled out the holletrw,itilaee, neck and chest—any skirrlr;t'yr Weak run down- woman can de 'the ;,tame and .gain a clean, clear, coirnpfleiiion at; lite satdne time. 1kfcCo ' takes all the rible ear this ironclad guarantee. tf ufhes. ask Ing 4 sixty cent bozos of 1VLcCory Cod Liver Extract Tablets•, ul °,' qkp. dollar -bones "alit beim, ; nradertref at ran. or Wdrnau, doesn't gams at le st 5 pound and feel completely satin toed t1 : the a '(Zed. acrd reVeinate nfi i>Ya 4VI1? >R '1St is tiatttlae riled to tjtkl; Vend 1001', PURE •� •e t 4LAP.M'HES.: & ACQt.►F'R) Carleton didn't say anything for a moment. He got up from his chair, and went over to the window, and stood staring out at .the yard lights twinkling' up at trim red, white and green from the murk :below. When he turned from the window after a little while, he didn't go back to his chair—he laid his hand on Fred Blainey's shoulder. ' "You'll take a month's holiday, just the same, Fred," he smiled. ' "You can put in the time up at the Mitre Rock station. There's plenty of altitude there—and plenty of quiet. We'll shift Crane along the line somewhere until you' -get back, and well bring some one in here to fill in. At the end of a month, with no night work, and nothing to do during the day but O.S. a train or two, it'll Borne pretty near filling McTurk's prescription, and it won't change any of the figures on your pay check. `What do you say?" . That was Carleton's way. Fred Blainey went up to Mitre Rock the next day. So far as Blainey was concerned this was apparently eminently satis- factory; but so far as'Spud was con- cerned it apparently wasn't. Spence, who inherited Spud, began to look at Regan when they met as though the master mechanic owed him something. But Regan only grinned now. Old John was on his feet again, a little shaky, a little wobbly, but on his feet. Old John was back in the round- house again, kind, of• -taking it easy until he got his 'strength ,balk; and not doing much of any work to speak of except draw his pay. So Regan grinned at Spence. He had washed his hands of Spud. It was up to the dispatcher. But it was Tommy Regan, and not Spence, for all that, who fired Spud conclusively, definitely, and for all time—as he thought. It was a ques- tion, perhaps, which department head should have officially discharged Spud —but as both the motive power de- partment, which was Regan, and the dispatchers° end of it, which was Spence, would have taken pleasure in attending Spud's funeral under the circumstances that arose, any consid- eration of red -tape vias wholeheart- edly and unanimously thrown, to the winds. The fast express for the collet, -oth- erwise No. 73, came in off the Prairie Di'v'ision, and scheduled Big aGloud in the early evening. She pull d into the Big Cloud yards one night i:'tiveek after Blainey had left, . about half an hour, late, which is to say about ten o'clock. Alsoshet was very heavy that night. The train ,sheet vias full but it was an understood thing that No. 73 was to get the best of it . any old time. . It has already been said that, due partially to the Klondike boom, traf- fic through • the mountains-, single - tracked, was straining the MR Divis- ion to the limit, and that night, as Spence pushed the hair out of his eyes and studied his train sheet it looked like a Chinese puzzle gone wrong. From Big Cloud to Loon River, clear through the Rockies to the Sierras, extras, specials and regu- lars, east and west, were hugging the sidings and trying to dodge each other as they felt their way along. Spence cursed the belated No. 73. Late already because she was heavy, she couldn't be trusted to keep to any kind of schedule on the mountain grades ahead of her, and it wasn't the kind of -a night to hunt trouble by inviting confusion. Regan and Carle- ton were across the hall at their pedro in the super's offioe, and Spence went in for a consultation. It was decided to send No. 73 out in two sections.. And then, with the matter settled, Spence studied his train sheet again; and, barring the meeting points that he sent out along the line, his new train orders as they pertained speci- fically to First No. 73 and Second No. 73—already thirty minutes late— read like this: • First No. 73, Engine 568, will run thirty minutes late, Big Cloud to Ant lers. Second No. 73, Engine 1610, will run one hour late, Big Cloud to Ant- lers. i And then it was all up to Spud. i Spud, being handy, he was sent up- town to call a crew for Second No. 73, which was to follow thirty min- utes behind the first section. 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