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And I never heard of their sending to repair a wire at night before." "Listen," said Dick. "Perhaps we will find out." "Well, now that we've found it, we might as well repair it," said the first lineman, grumblingly. "All comes of someone trying to get a message through to Bray and making the manager believe it was a life and death matter!"
A man who deserted his wife and family was reported to have gone to his brother in another city. Nothing definite was known of the brother except that he was a telephone lineman. No address could be secured through the company, but they agreed to forward a letter to this relative.
Casey is slow, too. I'll use one of the niggers." Red King gave a hitch to his belt and a cold gleam chased away the lazy blue warmth from his eyes. "Go ahaid," he drawled, "an' they'll bury the nigger to-morrow night." Neale laughed. He knew Red hated darkies he suspected the Texan had thrown a gun on more than a few and he knew there surely would be a funeral in camp if he changed his lineman.
Hardly had he gone before I too stepped up to the counter. "How long will it take to send a message to Chicago?" I asked of the clerk in charge. "Probably till noon," was the reply. "The storm has crippled us, and we are having trouble with our lineman." "It won't go before noon!" I repeated, and my heart gave a bound. "Are you sure?" "Yes; perhaps even longer."
"Stick close, sonny," muttered the lineman, "we must push through these fellows before they reco'nize us." He stooped as he spoke and picked up a piece of hickory the broken handle of a spike-maul. "Railroad property anyway," he muttered. "It might come handy. But gum shoes for us now till we are forced. Perhaps we can sneak all the way through."
At the flicking of the motor-switch a man with a pair of lineman's climbing spurs at his belt rose up out of the shadows and touched his cap to the lady, saying: "The boss is here; he has just gone in." "I know," was the low-toned response. And then to Evan: "Help me out, please." When they stood together beside the car she spoke again to the lineman. "Is it all right, Jackson?
It is not to be compared, for downright fascination, with the exploration of an undiscovered human being. With that I began to think how I might get at Bill, the lineman, and not merely weather talk, or wages talk, or work talk, but at Bill himself. He was a character quite unusual in our daily lives here in the country.
The street, swept by the bullets of the fray, rang with the splitting blows of the heavy hammer, as the lineman, his long hair flying from his forehead, swung at the thick panels. Within, the gamblers tried to shoot him from the windows, but he stood close and his friends kept up a constant supporting fire that drove the defenders back.
"Larry, you always are slow, except with a horse or gun. And lately you've been well, you don't move out of your tracks." Neale often exaggerated out of a desire to tease his friend. Nobody else dared try and banter King. "Wal, I didn't sign up with this heah outfit to run up hills all day," replied Red. "I'll tell you what. I'll get Casey to be my lineman. No, I've a better idea.
"No," said I. "Well, it's a great country, and I'm goin' up there." He spread out the glittering folder and placed his big forefinger on a spot about the size of Rhode Island somewhere this side of the Rockies. "How'll you do it?" I asked. "Oh, a lineman can go anywhere," said he with a flourish, "A lineman don't have to beg a job. Besides, I got eighty dollars sewed up." Talk about freedom!
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