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"O Johnnie!" shocked ... then, after a pause of reproach which I enjoyed "your Uncle Lan's toned down a lot since then ... married ... has four children ... one every year." And Alice laughed whimsically. " and he's stopped gambling and drinking, and he's got a good job as master-mechanic in a factory.... "He was young ... he was only a boy in the days when he whipped you."
"I thought you would," said the master-mechanic, without releasing him. "And you probably remember, also, that I took you out into the street and started you home." "Yes," said Judson, this time without hesitation. "Well, keep on remembering it; you went home to Maggie, and she put you to bed. That is what you are to keep in mind."
When the master-mechanic had been excused and was passing out Dan put out his hand both hands in fact, for they were chained together and the company's officer shook the manacled hands of the prisoner and hurried on. When the prosecution had finished, the prisoner was asked to name the witness upon whom he relied.
"Not for any orders that you can give," retorted the chief clerk, once more opening the door for the quarrel. The master-mechanic got up and flicked the cigar ash from his coat-sleeve with a handkerchief that was fine enough to be a woman's. "I am not going to come to blows with you. Rankin not if I can help it," he said, with his hand on the door-knob.
The train standing at the station and about to pull out would carry him back to the junction, but he made no effort to catch it, and the master-mechanic, seeing this, caught the drift of the young man's mind. "Have you transportation?" he asked. The stranger, smiling, shook his head.
That will fetch him." The men of the derrick gang were righting the last of the derailed box-cars, and the crew of the wrecking-train was shifting the cripples into line for the return run to Angels. "We'll be going in a few minutes," said the master-mechanic, taking his foot from the wheel-hub. "Do you want to meet Lidgerwood?"
"Tell me, Dan," said the master-mechanic, "had you that stick of dynamite when the detective arrested you? Tell us truly, for you are talking to friends." "There is something about the dynamite that I may not explain, but I will say this to you, my friends, that I went to the engine, not to kill Cowels, but to save his life, and I believe I did save it, for a few hours at least." Mrs.
Henry knew his book well, but he knew also that the railroad needed his service and that he needed the job; so when the clerk had taken his "Personal Record," which was only a mild way of asking where he would have his body sent in case he met the fate so common at that time on a new line in a new country, he gave his age as twenty, hoping the master-mechanic would allow him a year for good behavior.
He had been saying something like that to Patsy Daly the very day he returned to Chicago. They were walking down through the yards, for Patsy, who was close to the officials, had insisted upon going personally to the master-mechanic, and interceding for the old engineer who had carried him thousands of miles while the world slept, and the wild storm raged around them.
The talk was back again in the personal channel, and this time Lidgerwood met the issue fairly. "You have been saying that, in one form or another, ever since we left Angels: are you trying to scare me off, Mr. Gridley, or are you only giving me a friendly warning?" he asked. The master-mechanic laughed easily.
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