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Updated: May 6, 2025
Between the rusty tracks grass and weeds grew and flourished, and the few waybills and excursion placards which still showed here and there looked unutterably forlorn.
He came up to me here on my arrival with a lot of waybills in his hand and I learned that he had been employed in this hole in the ground by a railroad for two years. I remembered meeting him at Newport when I was still at Lehigh, and last night he asked me to dinner and told me what he had been doing which included everything from acting in South America to blacking boots in Australia.
The official waves him off, and says something. "What does he say?" "He tells you to sit down on that bench till he is ready." Soon the Frenchman has run over his big waybills, and turns to us. "I want two places in the diligence, coupe," etc, etc, says the American. This remark being lost on the official, I explain to him as well as I can what is wanted, at first, two places in the coupe.
The express agent, in the baggage-room, was going over his last week's waybills and accounts by the light of a lantern, trying to locate an error, and sighing profanely to himself as he failed to find it. A wooden trunk tied with rope, a couple of dingy canvas bags, a long box marked "Fresh Fish!
Singularly enough, it took me, trained accountant as I was, a full month to find out what I had been let in for, and why the job I was holding down had been given to an ex-convict. It was my duty to check the railroad waybills on consignments of coal, to correct the weights, and to make claims for overcharges and shortages.
He had books to keep, freight waybills to make out, messages to receive, dozens of definite things to do. Early in the morning before the train that was to take her away, came to the station, Sarah Shepard called the young man to her and repeated the instructions she had so often given her husband. "Do everything neatly and carefully," she said.
The official waves him off, and says something. "What does he say?" "He tells you to sit down on that bench till he is ready." Soon the Frenchman has run over his big waybills, and turns to us. "I want two places in the diligence, coupe," etc, etc, says the American. This remark being lost on the official, I explain to him as well as I can what is wanted, at first, two places in the coupe.
The official waves him off, and says something. "What does he say?" "He tells you to sit down on that bench till he is ready." Soon the Frenchman has run over his big waybills, and turns to us. "I want two places in the diligence, coupe," etc, etc, says the American. This remark being lost on the official, I explain to him as well as I can what is wanted, at first, two places in the coupe.
Her waybills and register were always right; she knew the names of every man, woman, and child in her district; no such names as those borne by the missing letters had ever existed at Laurel Run; no such addresses had ever been sent from Laurel Run post-office. It was a mean insinuation! She would send in her resignation at once!
was ringing in my ears when I squared myself at the railroad desk and attacked the first big bunch of "flimsies," as the tissue copies of the waybills are called. It was almost unbelievable that my luck had turned so soon, and yet the fact seemed undeniable. I had a job to which I had been recommended by the one man in the city who knew my record.
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