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Updated: May 15, 2025
Had the girl's forehead been transparent, like the crystal of a watch, with the machinery of thought and emotion fully exposed to the eye of a master-mechanic, her sensation could not have differed from the helpless awe her grandmother so easily inspired. Of course the breakfast was not right it never was. The dried peaches were too sweet for one and not sweet enough for the other.
"Gridley's a law to himself," said the trainmaster. "Sometimes I think he's all right, and at other times I catch myself wondering if he wouldn't tread on me like I was a cockroach, if I happened to be in his way." Having had exactly the same feeling, and quite without reason, Lidgerwood generously defended the absent master-mechanic. "That is prejudice, Mac, and you mustn't give it room.
True, he had asked the master-mechanic to put Guerin on the run, but only because he disliked the Reading man who was next in line. Mrs. Moran came from the car now, and asked to be taken to the engine where she and her daughter might say good-bye to Bennie who was now the regular fireman on Blackwings. "Bennie," said his stepfather, "see that your sand-pipes are open."
Judson had broken the curious eye-grip at last, and again he said, "Why?" Gridley hooked his finger absently in the engineer's buttonhole. "Because, if you don't, a man named Rufford says he'll start a lead mine in you. I heard him say it last night overheard him, I should say. That's all." The master-mechanic passed on, going out by the great door which opened for the locomotive entering-track.
Hautman had passed the popcorn and red apples, and they had all eaten and the men had lighted cigars, the engineer's wife brought a worn Bible out and drew a chair near the master-mechanic. The "old man," as he was called, looked at the book, then at the woman, who held it open on her lap. "Do you believe this book?" she asked earnestly. "Absolutely," he answered. "All that is written here?"
Master-mechanic, master-farmer, you are right. These people are your inferiors; with all their boasts and brags of 'culture, you could teach them, by your shrewder intelligence, at a glance, the short cut to almost any thing at which their intellects might be employed; and you indulge in a very natural feeling, when, as conquerors, in glancing over their Canaan, you involuntarily plan what you will do some day, if a farm should by chance be your share of the bounty-money, when the war is over.
They were impatient to get to the coast, and the general manager was anxious to be rid of them as soon as there should be some certainty of getting them safely over the mountains. Glover, on the back of the telegram, scrawled a note to Crosby, the master-mechanic, and turned over not to sleep, but to think and to think, not of the work before him, but of her and of her situation.
"When I returned to my desk, the Superintendent of Motive Power was standing near it. When I sat down, he spread a paper before me. I glanced at it and recognized Yank Hubbard's appointment to the post of master-mechanic at Effingham. "I dipped a pen in the ink-well and wrote across it in red, 'O K." "Is this the President's office?" "Yes, sir." "Can I see the President?"
Instantly Lidgerwood began turning the memory pages in an effort to recall where he had seen the man before, but it was not until Flemister began to speak that he remembered his first day in authority, the wreck at Gloria Siding, and the man who had driven up in a buckboard to hold converse with the master-mechanic.
It was in an upper room of the "Crow's Nest" head-quarters building that these two, the master-mechanic and the acting superintendent, met late in the evening of the day when Vice-President Ford had kept his appointment in Copah with Lidgerwood.
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