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Updated: June 5, 2025
Miss Margery paused a moment at the door of the Callahans' neighbor, the 'nice colored lady. "Do you happen to know," she inquired, "where Mrs. Callahan was last Thursday afternoon?" "She was visitin', lady," was the ready answer. "She took the biggest children to see a lady she sews for that's give them a lot of things. I had them three youngest children under my feet all afternoon.
Speeches were made in the Senate by Senators Coon, Aspinwall, and Mussett; and in the House of Representatives William J. Butler, of Springfield, E. Callahan, George W. Miller, D. S. Berry, A. J. Dougherty, J. E. Sharrock, and Charles E. Selby. I was present in Springfield, and was invited before the joint session of the General Assembly, after they had elected me, to deliver an address.
Callahan, the chess-player on the Overland lines, the man who could hold large combinations of traffic movement constantly in his head and by intuition reach the result of a given problem before other men could work it out, was, like Morris Blood, the master of tonnage, of middle age.
Last I knew she was still at it, had charge of one of the filing cases. They handle soldier's insurance there, you know, and if Bruzinski's kept his up " "By George!" breaks in Waddy. "Of course. Do you know, I never thought of that." "No, you wouldn't," says I "May not work, at that. But we can try. She's a reg'lar person, Miss Callahan."
Callahan too was there with his pipe, and they talked quietly with Sinclair reminded him of how often he had been warned, showed him how complete a record they had of his plundering, and Glover gave to him Bucks's final word that he could never again work on the mountain division. A pride grown monstrous with prestige long undisputed broke under the final blow.
But at Lossing, a town of some size, the board was down and a man ran out at the crossing, swinging a red light. Callahan looked well to the switches, with the steam shut off and his hand dropping instinctively to the air; and the superintendent shrank into his corner and gripped the window ledge when the special roared past the warning signals and on through the town beyond.
That day Captain Mayhall Wells and the Army of the Callahan were in disrepute. Next day the awful news of Lee's surrender came. Captain Wells refused to believe it, and still made heroic effort to keep his shattered command together. Looking for recruits on Court Day, he was twitted about the rout of the army by Hence Sturgill, whose long-coveted chance to redeem himself had come.
"Oh, but not the boys," protested Miss Drayton. "Yessum boys and girls and pa and me all of us," insisted Mrs. Callahan. "Lump us so as to make it splendiferous. Oh, bless you, 'tain't for us. It's for the little girl that lent us the loan of her doll to get Lois to take her medicine. And the doll got ruint.
Lois's face beamed when she saw this finery. "Can I kiss her dwess?" she asked, gulping down the bitter draught. "Bad medicine gone now. Oh, the pretty flowers!" and she counted on her fingers the rosebuds on Honey-Sweet's hat: "One, two, free, five, seben, leben, hundred beauty flowers." Mrs. Callahan was, as she said, 'flustered. Her thread snarled and snapped as she sewed on buttons.
The minutes dragged leaden-winged, and even the sounders on the despatcher's table were silent. Suddenly the clicking began again. The operator at "yard limits" was sending the O.K. to the two train orders. So far, so good. Now if Callahan could get safely out on the Western Division... But there was a hitch in the lower yard.
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