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In the matter of her mother's funeral she had scorned the advice of her elders and had dared to overthrow ancient custom; and ridiculous as the statement may appear she had aroused in Mrs. Pennycook the demon of jealousy! It is a fact. In the bigness of his simple heart the yardmaster had yielded up to Donna a spontaneous portion of tenderness and sympathy, which first amazed Mrs.
Sherwood, suddenly evincing all the interest Nan expected him to in the tale. As they mounted the stairs Nan retailed how the company had gone to the railroad yards early in the morning, obtaining permission from the yardmaster to film a scene outside the sleeping car standing there on a siding, including the entrance of Jennie as the burglars' helper through the narrow ventilator.
Without waiting for orders from the yardmaster, Jones signed to his fireman, reversed, and threw open his throttle. The fireman clutched the whistle-cord and began jerking out a succession of wild shrieks and toots. As the train started away from the bridge, Blake swung to the ground to meet the excited men who came running from all directions.
"I'd ruther pull freight thirty-six hours on end than run his car for a hundred miles." There was trouble getting at the water-tank in the Saint's Rest yard. Leckhard, acting as division engineer, telegraph superintendent, material forwarder and yardmaster, found it difficult at limes to bring order out of chaos in the forwarding yard.
After the train pulled out, the wind shifted and the rain changed into a snow which, driven from the mountains, thickened on the wet window in front of the operator's table. A message came for the night yardmaster, and the operator, seeing the head-light of the switch-engine which was working close by, put on his cap and stepped out to deliver the message.
"I have an order for you to send a car of spikes on No. 7, Callahan. I was trying to find you when I got caught in the frog." The pain in his foot overcame Bucks as he spoke. Another dread was in his mind and he framed a question to which he dreaded to hear the answer. "Is my foot gone?" he faltered. The yardmaster hesitated a moment and turned to an older man at his side wearing a heavy cap.
He came running now, and upon hearing the details of the duel he pressed through the circle of curious men who had gathered to see Harley P. Hennage die. He found Mr. Hennage seated in the sand with his head and shoulders supported by a stranger. Mr. Hennage smiled his rare, trustful, childish smile as the yardmaster approached. "Good old Dan!" he mumbled.
It was too good to keep, and then again Mr. Sparling's friend was too delighted at the downfall of Snowden, the man whom he thoroughly disliked, to be at all jealous of Phil's triumph. Phil went over to the yardmaster to find out what train he would be able to go out on that night. "We are going to send the whole bunch of you out on number 42," was the reply. "What time does number 42 leave?"
"Who the hell are you?" blustered the yardmaster. "Engineer in charge," answered Blake, holding out Ashton's order. "Bridge in danger error in plans overloaded and weather report says wind! Jones, toot up your whistle fire-call anything! I want every man of every shift out here in two shakes."
He held Ashton's order close under the nose of the yardmaster, and shouted above the din of the engine whistle: "See that? She'll go when the wind rises. Hustle out those empties, with every man you have." Impelled by the engineer's look, the yardmaster sprang about and sprinted alongside the train, waving signals to his switch crew.
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