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"She'll be well cared for, whatever happens to you," was the quick reply. "Thin I'm yer man," said Callahan; and when the train-master was gone, he ordered Shovel to oil around while he did two or three things which, to an initiated onlooker, might have seemed fairly inexplicable.
Tell him the time-card's changed and he is to run west with the special to Megilp as first section of the mail no stops, or Tischer will run him down. Leg it! He's half-way down the yard, now!" The train-master dropped the ear-piece of the telephone and crossed quickly to the despatcher's table. "Orders for the Western Division, Donohue," he said curtly, "and don't let the grass grow.
Kent was still standing at the trainmen's wicket when Callahan sent the private car gently up to the trackhead of track eight. M'Tosh had been telephoning again, and the receiver and his party were on the way to the station. "I was afraid you'd have to let the express go first," said Kent, when the train-master came his way again. "How much time have we?"
The red tail-lights of the private-car special were yet within a sprinter's dash of the trackhead, but the train-master lost no time chasing a ten-wheel flyer with "Red" Callahan at the throttle. "Up to my office!" he shouted; and ten seconds later Kent was leaning breathless over the desk in the despatcher's room while M'Tosh called Durgan over the yard limits telephone.
Still, I have always had an idea that the train-master was tacitly in the conspiracy, for his bulletin had been a hot one delivered orally by the Superintendent, whom I had seen personally. "Well, along about midnight Hubbard's headlight got so close, and kept so close, that I could not sleep.
"Travelin' nothing!" said the conductor. "More likely he's a train-master, 'r p'raps a bigger boss than that. Call in the flag, Jim, and we'll be getting a move." Oddly enough, the comment on Winton did not pause with the encomiums of the train crew.
"Would you object, Bartholomew," I suggested gently, "to a train-master for fireman?" "I don't think so, sir." "Thank you; because I am going down to Zanesville this morning myself, and I thought I'd ride with you. Is it all right?" "Oh, yes, sir if Neighbor doesn't care." I smiled: he didn't know whom Neighbor took orders from; but he thought, evidently, not from me.
He found M'Tosh sitting at Donohue's elbow, and the sounders on the glass-topped table were crackling like overladen wires in an electric storm. "Strike talk," said the train-master. "Every man on both divisions wants to know what's doing. Got your newspaper string tied up all right?" Kent made a sign of assent. "We are waiting for Mr. Patrick Callahan. Any news from him?" "Plenty of it.
I was getting to be a big, husky boy now, and felt that I had entered on what was to be my career as indeed I had. In January, '59, Simpson was ordered back to Missouri as brigade train-master of three wagon-trains, traveling a day apart. Because of much travel the grass along the regular trail was eaten so close that the feed for the bulls was scanty.
"I didn't know," said the train-master, rising to close the interview. "But if the time ever comes, all you or Mr. Kent will have to do will be to pass the word. Maybe you can think of some way to use the strike. It hasn't been declared yet, but you can bet on it to a dead moral certainty."
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