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Hill said the Hen and Santa Fé kept quiet till the hind-lights showed beyond the end of the deepo platform: and then the Hen grabbed Santa Fé round the neck and just hung onto him so full of laugh she was limp while they both roared. And Hill said he roared too. It was the most comical bit of business, he said, he'd tumbled to in all his born days!
Well, the last minute come and Ury took us to the train. Josiah went with me, but he couldn't have driv no more than a mournin' weed could. I parted with the children, and oh! it wuz a hard wrench on my heart to part with Thomas J.; took pale little Tommy in my arms, like pullin' out his pa's heart-strings and his ma's, too and at last the deepo wuz reached.
When the train pulled in alongside the deepo platform it didn't seem at first there was nobody on it but the usual raft of Mexicans with bundles in the day-coach who all come a-trooping out, cluttered up with their queer duds, and went to hugging their aunts and uncles who was waiting for 'em in real Mexican style.
Them three buildings was framed up respectable; with real windows that opened, and doors such as you could move without kicking at 'em till you was tired. The deepo was right down stylish having a brick chimney and being painted brown. Aside the deepo was the tank and the windmill that pumped into it.
Brother Wood, as chairman of the Friendly Aid Society, I beg that you will go on ahead to the deepo and get ready the rope that on these occasions you so obligingly lend us from the Company's stores. Brother Jones and Brother Hill, you will kindly bring along the prisoner.
Besides Wood who had to be awake to do his work when the train got there and the clump of Mexicans that always hung around the deepo at train-time, there wasn't half a dozen folks with their eyes open in the whole town. Santa Fé Charley was one of the few that was awake and sober.
He cuts across to the railroad to have a sure footing, and strikin' for the deepo for shelter near place as any except Briscoes' where he'd said good-night already and prob'ly don't wish to go back, 'fear of givin' trouble or keepin' 'em up anybody can understand that. He comes along, and gets to where we are precisely at the time they do, them comin' from town, him strikin' for it.
Things went that same Sunday-school way right on to the end of the game; and Hart said his aunt told him as they was coming along down to the deepo she never would a-believed there could be such a town as Palomitas was, out in that wild frontier country, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes.
There was a lot of the boys standing round on the deepo platform watching the show, and they all took their hats off respectful following the lead Santa Fé give 'em as Hart started away up the track, to where his store was, with his aunt on his arm.
Whiniver he sees her readin' advertisements iv th' summer resorts he knows that th' fit is coming on, an' befure she gets to th' stage iv buyin' a cure f'r freckles he takes her down to th' deepo an' shows her th' people goin' on their vacations an' comin' back.
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