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Then to the men who were making the snatch-hitch for the next pull: "A little farther back, boys; farther yet, so she won't overbalance on you; that's about it. Now, wig it!" "You seem to be getting along all right with the outfit you've got," was Lidgerwood's comment. "If you can keep this up we may as well go back to Angels." "No, don't!" protested the trainmaster.
Again the superintendent nodded his approval. The trainmaster was showing himself at his loyal best. "That brings us down to Angels and the present, Mac. How do we stand here?" "That's what I'd give all my old shoes to know," said McCloskey, his homely face emphasizing his perplexity. "They say the shopmen are against us, and if that's so we're outnumbered here, six to one.
Twining and his assistant, Mr. Cotten, and these gentlemen also during the time I have been with them have shown me every favor and consideration, which goes far towards making my work a pleasure. In this connection also I mention the names of Jim Donohue, traveling engineer; W. H. Smith, trainmaster, and P. Randoff Morris and Jos. Jones, special agents, all jolly railroad men from A to Izard.
Men to run the trains were hard to get, and Tom Porter, trainmaster, was putting in every man he could pick up without reference to age or color. One day a war party of Sioux clattered into town and tore around like a storm. They threatened to scalp everything, even to the local tickets.
So there should be present efficiency, no man in the service should be called upon to recite in ancient history, much less one for whom Ford had spoken a good word. Like all the other offices in the Crow's Nest, that of the trainmaster was bare and uninviting.
When the division station was reached, McCloskey met the service-car in accordance with wire instructions sent from Timanyoni, bringing an armful of mail, which Lidgerwood purposed to work through on the run to Copah. "Nothing new, Mac?" he asked, when the trainmaster came aboard.
"And if you'll take a hint from me you'll heel yourself, too, Mr. Lidgerwood. I know this country better than you do, and the men in it. I don't say they'll come after you deliberately, but as things are now you can't open your face to one of them without taking the chance of a quarrel, and a quarrel in a gun-country " "I know," said Lidgerwood patiently, and the trainmaster gave it up.
"Sit down and we'll thresh it out. Here are some figures showing loss and expense in the general maintenance account. Look them over and tell me what you think." "Wastage, you mean?" queried the trainmaster, glancing at the totals in the auditor's statement. "That is what I have been calling it; a reckless disregard for the value of anything and everything that can be included in a requisition.
"Hallock came somewhere up this way on 202 yesterday." "I know," was the quick reply. "I sent him out to Navajo to meet Cruikshanks, the cattleman with the long claim for stock injured in the Gap wreck two weeks ago." "Did he stop at Navajo?" queried the trainmaster. "I suppose so; at any rate, he saw Cruikshanks." "Well, I haven't got any more guesses, only a notion or two.
True to form, he had cussed out the office boy, spoken in fatherly fashion to the trainmaster over the telephone about the lateness of No. 210, remarked to the stenographer that her last letter had looked like the exquisite tracks of a cow's hoof and then he had read two telegrams.
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