ECHO 0? THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SCLCCTIOM OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
r II I l 1 aaa Crtttetaaaa Cm taa
apaaalnga sf Km IHy-MlmriMl aa
Kama
What is needed at Ithaca Is a
series o " academic convictions for
manslaughter.
As Irteresttng and refreshing fea
ture of summer journalism is the ap
pearance in the St. Louis Republic
ot an able and exhaustive illustrated
article treating of the proper method
of raising snow blockades on rail
ways. T"F. Paris-bom families became ex
tinct in three or our generations, in
conse ueoce of their feel)le fecundity
and h'gh rate of mortality, and the
average length of li e among thetu is
only Z years and I uiontb, as com
pared with 4: years and - months for
the resi of France.
Whkn an Illinois woman learrrerj
that her husband had lost l,5oo she
did not rep ne nor grow hysterical.
Sheial'nly ued the kee.er of the
game for ihiee times the amount of
the los. and pot Judgment. On
husband has parted lorever iroru the
privilege ot sneering at the financier
ing of the other sex.
Piiii.AiKUntA is race crazy, and
horses o elongated pedigree are l
ing ridden by gentlemen similariy
distinguished It Is true that most
ot the horses tumble down, and most
of the gentlemen tumble off, b.t the
sacrifice of a lew liones upon the
altar of fashiou is something at
which no I'hiudelphiaa worthy the
name would pause.
The ere e for old furniture f5 a
stimulant to a questionable industry.
In the courts lately a witness gave as
his oceu. alien that of a "worm hole
borer." InjUiry dis lo-ed that he
was an expert at his peculiar trade,
and made a good living by the skill
ful way in which he imitated worm
holes in oak lurniture to give it an
antique efect.
Tm v mseii, a T., is evidently lack
ing in the re U n ments of civilization.
Thirty Healing citizens" of that
place have been indicted for horse
stealing and will probably be sent to
the penitentiary un.ess a mob gets
hold of them flrst. In Chicago lead
ing citizens tap the water mains and
steal i he citv water, and everybody
says they are d uced shrewd business
men.
The Hanoverian succession to the.
British throne is now aliout as secure
as ever the prudent ictoria can
make it. Three generations of her
descend i nts sum I between it and the
not well-: eloed 1 ouise of Fife, who
would sue eed to the crown wee tne
Hanove stk to b come extinct
Looking at the situation from all
sides it would really seem that the
living Hanovers are very likely to
outlast the roonan hy itself.
Whkn the Columbia is steaming
ten knots an hour her furnaces use
up coal at the rate of thirty-five tons
a day; at fourteen knots seventy.
Governments do not like my better
than inilivirliialstopay big oal bilis, Jn through lack of testimony or,
especially where, as in the case of j rather, through abundance cf oer
warships, there are no earn ns to jured testimony. The Justice of the
offset expenses. Those magnificent ! Supreme Court who presided in the
bursts of speed, like that of the Co-
lunibia last year when she struck
more than a twentv-two knot gait,
are reserved for occasions when ruis
ers want to get there, or to get away
horn there.
Peoi-lk who think the world is
growing worse instead of better
should compare the treatment ac
corded santo, I he assassin of Presi
dent Carnot, aud l availlac, who
stepped into the carriage of King
Henry I V. ot Fran e and stabbed
taiin to death. I availlac was broneD
ob tbe wheel with most ingen ous
deliberation and melted lead was
poured luto his stomach through an
abdominal incision. Santo, on the
contrary, was protected from the
angry crowd by bis victim's official
servant and will receive a fair and
deliberate trial in open court
The first itep which a man takes
1ft tbe direction of bis own over
throw to not to do some overt act of
tIL A boat that lies on the water's
edge does not begin to wreck itself
by tlinutiiig Itaelf out abruptly into
the current; it begins by lying on
ti teach and letting '.he current
rtf with it If It is chained to the
nek, no harm can come to it; mis-
7. T ' 7k
feat and half floata on the water
TtM trouble With people is that tber
trttfrlflUw. They ard te chip on
C instead or the w.tcb-tower
,- aw
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rc-ra tte neotJe of Chicago nor
-.r- riof thatdtrwUlfl
h ?WI K lb "
:tJXf.Cf. wcii2rti:f ajon
CJetp M tz iT.itzidti
coeiseuiilty. U aitont he well, in
deed, lr aoiue of tbe latitude allowed
I in this citv were curtailed. But
; Chicago hu never tent to Congress
' or elected to any other public poat
tioo a self-eon fe-ed, tea on roue end
' libertine, and she never wliL From
that standpoint, at least, Chicago baa
the right to criticise the conduct of
CcL Preekinrldge or anr other sys
' temattc aud avowed enemy of female
! virtue.
' Ib. CoRXELirs, the Chicago ton
gorial artist who paused in his work
only long enough to kill a man and
then calmly resumed shaving the cus
tomer in the chair, Is eutitled to
praise for bis consideration Mr.
Cornelius evidently felt that bis per
sonal quarrels should not be allowed
to inconvenience bis customers any
further than was absolutely neces
sary. This point will probably nave
little weight with a ,ury. but It will
appeal to thousands of men who have
! writhed in half-shaved anguish while
the officiating barber has been dis
cussing the horseraces, the ra 1 road
strike, or other topics of interest
with the artist at the next chair.
I M sr people will be puzzled to un
derstand the alternate severity and
lenity shown by the police of Chi- j
cairo in dealing with the violators of
! the iaw. On Saturday a thief who;
robU'd a man of a diamond at the
Union liepot was captured, but al
lowed to go free upou giving up the
gem. That is one extreme. On the
other hand the guardians of the peace
will promptly haul out their revol
vers and blae away at any man they
see running the idea lieiog that the
runner is a maletactor who is seeking
J safety in I'lghL There should lie
I sorue uniformity in these matter
i If the police are to combine the
i functions of judre, jury, and execu
i tioner they ought to treat everyone
; alike. They should e ther shoot all
i their prisoners or turn them all loose.
The ex. sting system Is confusion and
j unjust.
! Dk. S. Wikk Mitchell, the famous
expert in cases of Insanity and nerv
ous diseases, de:iveredan address in
Philadelphia before the American
Mi-dieo-Psychological Society, in the
I course of which he severely denounced
! the administration of insane asylums
; in this country. As the result of
his observations he Bods that phy
I sicians and nurses get their appoint
j menus by political pulls; that asy
i luma are prisons, aud not hospitals;
that they are not provided with
. modern appliances: that nurses are
t not properly educated and examined,
i and that "if the ob ect of the insane
i asyium is to restore the patient to
sanity and usefulness in soc ety the
i present methods of procedure are de
; servingof nothiti? but denunciation."
! "o roan has a clearer authority to
j pronounce upon this matter than Dr.
j Mitchell. That he is correct in bis
j observations has been demonstrated
! over and over again by exposures of
insane asylum methods where they
have attracted oibcial attention.
The investigation of the recent
murder of a persoD at Cornell College
by frolicsome students who", used
chlorine gas as t e agency of their
exuberant spirits has come to noth-
case gave it as his conviction that
"there was a deliberate plan on the
part of some unknown parties to
I thwart ju-t e and t at there was no
I question in his m od that witnesses
j had deliberate y violated their oaths
I before tbe grand jury." In tbe face
of this disgraceful and shameful per-
Jury to cover up murder it is aston
ishing to see that the President of
; the College at a reeent banquet de
clared that "In all universities, in
human nature itself, and even among
i tbe brute creation there is a ten
! dency to worry the new corners in a
spiritoffua" It Is hard to decide
which is the most disgraceful feature
in this case, the: dellberateness with
which t e students violated their
oaths or the levity and unconcern
with whi h the President of this
university treats the crime of murder.
All In tba Brit la h Empire
Roughly speaking the British Em
pire extends over one continent, 100
uenlnsulas, 100 promontories. i,000
lakes, :',0Oir rivers, and Jt,u00 islands.
The Assyrian Empire was not so
wealthy, the Itoman Empire was not
1 V) popular; the Persian Empire waa
! not so extensive, the Spanish Empire
was not so powerful, is the way tbe
Brlton inKfc--ToronU MaSL
j The ki.
1 England, down to the reign of
i Ches ll( ot , utte iater, the kiss
' th common irreetlnu to 1rends
; and atranfren alike, and shaking
I hands wae a mark of close Intimacy
' or high laror. In the diary of Anne,
rn..n.. ,.t Paaikmlta har ladaahln
n hkln nd.
with aay ona worth Dotin.
! A a tope bopin, to be reward-
ed a b growi oidar, and prara ital
ks wttl act b fkit
THE FAREWELL.
KM suaa abroad Wat, luaauttuat
Aaa le tav. gwxtaan knows tm bow l"uj?
Baalir. Jack. 'taoaid appaar that ary tanaa
Haa 4oae ana 700, air. a wrcag.
Ithaaf Ha, ba, ha. vast a Joaa. airt
if it Masai, ar Jamav. at NaU f
I'm aura yoa ara r-aa , kola mi cloak. "Ir.
am I not aa old frtaou ? Com ao. lalL
Iba priaca of our aa: brokan-beartad !
What a k '. Vr bo rtjuc aa vm r B(aa !
Did 70a Voek Ilia tual, Jaca. wa-n you pariad?
Waa tbat peiior of (feral n oa jour sumi r
Toe iaiarea' ua. Tall ma about it.
And lat tour oM chum, air, couole.
Bard bit In tb hasxt, I don't doubt ft ;
Vou a era made lor that aurt uf a rola.
I11 yoa bend oo your koaa Ilka an actor.
Hardly knowing ul w, ara to begin?
Vh aaar n.a-nui aoeaant l be ma.B fart or
Wbai a loot tba poor gi.J niuat turva I j !
Wbowaeaba What! I- You wa jealooi?
O, jaa. vbod bae thought aucb a ibmgt
Yo j'a barn crta oly not oar laaiuut;
hot. kiNi ma. ana wbereiaiha ruitff
-HarUurU Cl.ai.
HOW HEN SAVED NO. 60
WANTF.D Bright boy to dcllvtr maasaeaa
au4 taka care of ,.rb- ; tma.l tut pnvi-
Iriol 1, a'1 ttig f-legr n by U ue.irad. Applv
iu iraoa ftr Sam on Saturday to Mrs.
Ha'kLaa, Manager W. t. lei. Co., hanueU
vi Ue.
Such was the advertisement which
a peared in the local columns of the
Kennelsville Weekly Intelligence ,
and gneted the ,ulck eye of Pennie
(irant is he read his mother's copy of
the paoer on his way home from the
posto.l ce.
i don't know whether I'm a
bright lxy or not," he sal i to him
self, '-but It strikes me that I can de
liver messages In Kenneisville lor
small wages pretty nearly as well as
anyone."
ic thought the matter over very
careiuliy. acation had Just begun,
and the Idea had just begun to d.iwn
upou him that It was high time be
began to do something to a d his
mother in her brave struggle to pro
vide lor her 1 tt e family, liennie
was only 1 4, but there were two sisters
younger than he, and one sturdy Ht
t e -ear-old brother. Hve years tie
lore, when the sturdy little t-year-old
was but a mite of a baby, i.icbard
Grant, Ucnnie's father, suddenly dis
appeared. There were no su splcions
of foul play, and there was no mys
tery about it at alL Clever, hard
working, genial "liick" (irant had
fallen into evil ways. From a good
husband and father, who provided
plentifully for his family, from
a man whom every one respected, he
aa v
ft
HE KIUD TBI PAPER ON THE WAT ROMS.
bad sunk, through the influences of
wild companions, to the level of the
worst of them. Those were bard
times for .Mrs. (irant, but she loved
her husband, and even when the days
seemed darkest, she always had faith
that some time he would e made to
see the error of his ways and be him
self again.
Then came the burglary of the lo
cal bank. There was always a doubt
whether Uichard Grant really took
part In the robbery or not, but that
be was in some way implicated in
it was reasonably certain. Anyway,
he d sappeared, and nothing bad
since been heard of him. Nc partic
ular effort was ever made uy the
oncers to lollow him up, as the
other burglars were captured with
most of tbe stolen monev. and they
denied that Grant was In any way
implicated. When bennie entered
Mrs Grant bad just finished arrang
ing the table tor the simple evening
meal, with the little high chair
close beside her own, uennie's place
tt '-he end and tbe chairs of the
two sisters on the other side of the
table. There wan one place, with
the arm cbatr, always left vacant, as
if the father might come backatanv
moment. liennie came into the
house raiber more silently and slow
ly than usual. The thought of ac
tually beginning the struggle of life
In earnest gave him a pe ullar feel
ing of dignity, lib kls-ed his
mother, but did not say a word. He
pu i tbe paper down uron the table
ana silently pointed to the adve -t
emeM. Mrs. Grant set the plate
o bread down carefully to balance
t'.e butter plate on the other end of
trie table, drew her glasses from
above her forehead, and with her
arm 'onalv about he- l ov read tbe
notice She pressed a kiss on the
top of the cu ly little head, while a
pro d look came Inio her eyes.
"Would you like to trr It i'.ennle,
boy-" she asked.
"Honestly, mother, I would," he
replied eagerly. "It's vacation time
now, anyway, and I've always
thought that I would like to learn to
telegraph. 1 might aa well be do
lng that and earn lag meth ng aa
fooling th whole to r away."
God Ue you, tf little man,"
aid tba mother, fondly, and no it
1
ill
There wasn't any particular reason
wby heonle should have risen the
next morning at half-past 4. for tbe
notice in the paper said distinctly
after a m ' But he did. Per
haps vou may have been stimulated
to early rising by some snch import
ant event yourself some time. It
was a rather excited little boy that
bade bis mother good-bye an hour
previous to "ti a. nx " on Saturday,
and that hour of waiting until it
should be t me to p t sent blruse'.f
was the longest one In iennle's his
tory. He felt rather nervous, also,
as be thought of lacing Mrs. Ilark-De-t,wbom
he bad always looked upon
as a very mysterious lady, holding,
as she seemed to. the lightning in
her grasp. He walked by the door
seeral limes lefjre he mustered up
courage t go in. after the hands if
the town clock pointed to 8: u I , anl
I
i
rr via excitiso work.
when he did he found six other lads i
ai6ut his own age wa ting to inter-!
view the lady manager. ;
One by one they were called Into
the mysterious o t ce !ehlnd the rail '
and talked to. lieonle'B turn came
last of alL Whether Mrs. Hark ncss
was pleased by his manner.or whether
it was because he came last and the
others bad tired herout, liennie never i
knew. Hut after a very few qties- s
tljns be was engaged at a weekly j
salary of 2.50 and the piivilegeofj
learning telegraphy during odd mo- ;
ments. Never was a mes-enger more
faithful. Neer was there a more
marked exception to the proverbial
slowness of the class, and never was
there a -tudent of the art more apt
than the youth that this little tale is
all alouU
The "learning telegraphy" part of
M s. Jiarkness's bargains had been
found by former messengers t e
more or less of a delusion and a snare,
but for once at least she took an ac
tual ititeiest in a "student." In les
than two months, under her careful
guidance, liennie bad transmitted
bis tlrsl message, and it wasn't long
after that, being left alone for a t ime
iu tbe office, that he answered the re
peated calls of "Kn," and actually
received a message all alone, "break
ing" only three times. It was excit
ing work, though. From that time
his progress was rapid. Mrs. Hark
ness found that she was able to go
away quite frequently for several
hours and leave liennie in sole charge,
and he obtained quite a reputation
up and down the line as the youngest
ojierator on the circuit It is easy
to believe that Mrs. Grant was proud
of ber son. Put when school opened
again in the autun n it took a long
time for liennie to convince her that
It was much better for him to keep
on coniributing to the support of the
family his family be bad come to
call it i, and gather his education in
actual service, than it was to waste
time over books. He finally did con
vince her, however, much to the de
light of Mrs. II ark ness.
One afternoon while liennie they
called him "Pn" on the wire was
finishing up tbe regular evening's
grist of messages, Mrs. Darkness, who
was working on another wire, came
over to his table and laid this mes
sage before him;
Disptttclmr onicu. Kocbenport, 6 P, M.
Mrs. HnrkiK-m. Mtcff "Kn."
A number of our r(rular operators are
8ick and my rfgular men are all ob duty. I
need a man at r'olvillu to-uitilit ( ho yuur
"13u." go? If o wire me qui k and Moid
lion up on train No, 11. Ibis mexsutcs will
pass bim. A. K. Lank.
Dispatcher. O. A L. H. It.
"Do you suppose that I can do It?"
queried liennie, anxiously.
"Why, of course you can, dear,"
answered Mrs. Hark ness, smiling
proudly upon her clever pupil.
"Put I never was in a railroad tele
graph ot.ee in my life."
"No matter. Keep your wits about
you and you won't have any trouble.
No. II is due at H:-'o. You have
thirty minutes. Now yo i trot home
and have vour mother put you up
good lunch. Good night and good
lu k to you," and Mrs. Harkness
turned to her work again. So the
dispatcher received a message which
' relieved him considerably and i'.ennle
sped on bis way.
It was after 0 wben be stepped
j from No. 11 upon tbe platform at
I KolMlle. )The old station agent
i breathed a sigh of relief wben Perm e
j handed him the d;.patch' r's mes
I sage, thobgb be looked rather askance
at tbe diminutive figure. of our young
, friend.
1 "My night man has been alck a
week," be said, "anl I've worked
nlgbt and day for forty-eight hours
now. I couldn't keep awake another
. twelve hours if trains all had to atop
running."
Can I handle the wc k all right
i do jrou think?" queried aniloua "Bo."
'Oh. yes, I guess so. It's almost
all plain telegraphing. Vou may
bave to bold No. 6''. If Toudo. bere
are tbe torpedoes awl tbe r d
erns" and wild a few Mmole direc
tions the weary agent went swav to
bed. In spite of everything, how
ever, !ieouie was most oorribljr nerv
ous and annous. Foiville station
was a lonely place. Tbe village was
several miles away, there were no
dwe.l ngs within a i.alf mile and. al
together it was anytningbuta cheer
ful place iu which lospend the n ghf
liennie tried to intfret himself in
the time-tables and in listening to
the routine worn on the wire, which
was all new aod novel to him. No
6U, he lean ed, was tbe limited ex
press, which was scheduled to pas
at I :;i0 without stopping. No I , a
through freight, was carded to meet
No. oo one station further down the
line. There was the posib litj that
No BO might be late enough so that
the freight could make FoMI e the
meeting point.
He tran-mitted several mesages
left by tbe agent and rece ved sev ral
ot the usual style of long, verboo-e
rail oad messages in giod shape. Oc
casionally a freight train would rum
ble bv, but none stopix'd, and lie was
beginning tc think the duties ot a
niiiht railroad telegraph oiierator a
"snap," as he expressed it to him-elf,
when he was somewhat startled to
receive this order:
Dmpiit. her a (iffi. e, l A M.
Operator KL Hold .No. ' until No. U ar
rive. I -' A K U
liennie repcaed the order to the
dispatcher, prefixed by the numeral
i which means, or rather used to
mean. "I understand to," whi b is
the resi onse to "Pi," "Kepeat how
you understand."
He had b en noticing bv the re
torts on the wir that No. to had
lost time ever since it left Poches
port, and though 13 was also very
late the dispatcher evidently deem, d
it DOsible for the tfreight to make
Folvlile without delaying the limited
a great deal.
"Kun to Foiville regard!e-s of No.
00," was the order he lieaid given to
No. I ', at a station somedistance up
the line.
For the Drst time tbe sense of his
great resi onsioility came over him
with full force, and the thought of
what might happen If h- should be
negligent tilled n s mind with terror.
The n ght had come on dark, wet,
and dismal A dri. ling rain fell
drearily and incessantly, and the
switch lights by the side of the track
shone blurred and dimly through the
mist, throwing a faint ;ei!ectlon
upon the wet rails It was a sort of
night which every old railroad man
hates cordiallv. It was liore the
day of automatic semaphore signals,
and liennie was Just getting ready to
start down tie track with his red
lante n and bis torp docs when a
slight noise caused him to turn
around suddenly, aud he was startled
8P
A KOINE CAUSED HIM TO TVBN BUDDE.VLT.
to discover two men standing quietly
: in the oftlce. Their appearance was
. not reassuring. Uoth wore heavy
j beards evidently false, long over
, coats and slouch hats and they were
I drench d ly the rain. For several
i minutes liennie could not speak.
Then he asked the men In as steady
a vo ce as he could command, what
they wanted.
"Will you kindly tell us what or
ders you have for the 'limit, d' to.
i nigut'-" queried nn of the men.
Pennle pointed silently to the or
I der book. Poth men bent eagerly
I forward to read it
I "Well, if that ain't great, ex
! claimed one of them, slapping the
I other on the back. "Just the thing.
4 It'll save us a heap of trouble."
"Where is B0 now, my young
! friend?" asked the man who had
spoken first.
i "At Millport," answered liennie.
I "And 13?"
I "At Auberly."
j '-That's gTod, Jim. They'll meet
on one of those curves west of the
station. I guess we're relieved of
considerable responsibility. All we
have to do is Just to sit down and
wait."
"That's right. Sit down, young
feller."
"Put I must go and be ready to
flag No. 00."
"On, never mind 0. She'll get
along ail right. No. J.'i'll stop her."
"Put don't you see I'm responsl
ble" . ried liennie, almost rrantlcally,
as be tried to push by the men and
was thrown violently back.
"Well, now, 1 don't know about
that," remarked tine of the men who
seemed to be the leader In the doubt
ful enterprise, as he took a chair and
tip: ed it back directly In the door
which led from the oll.e into the
waiting-room. Tbe other man stole
around and leaned pensively against
the door leading Into the bagg.ige
room, the only other exit "I don't
Know about tnau jcw, if jdu
bnuld ba.Den to e stricken dowa
by heart disease, or suddenly fall and
hurt the back of icvr bead severely,
y.,u wouldn't fee. that you were
mortally reponsii.le, would jou "
1 ennie made do reply.
Ofc urse you wouldn't of course
you wouldn't; and in caae you don't
sit right down on that cba r aod keep
perfect!-, still sotueth ng very much
resembling in general e Beet what I've
just hinted at will happeu to you "
liennie sank back aghast- The
whole fcheu.e Hashed through his
nnnd in a moment. These m?n had
contemplate! wrecking the express
for plunder; but if the holding o'der
was not carried out tbe same eflect
wou!d I secured aud he would be re
siionsible. No. wand No. li would
probably meet Just bevond tbe cur.e.
fnd the thought of the te. . ible col
ii.,o which must ensue made bim
sick with honor. ' What cou.d he do
to save the train? Involuntarily hi
hand stole towards tbe telegraph key
upon the table.
"I would much prefer that vou re
frain from maoipu ating the instru
ments" icmarked the man in the
if-
ii'f
THF.BS WAS JOT TIME ISOrOn.
doorwav in his extremely polite but
mean.ng war.
"Else he may get an attack of that
'ere heirt d seaso you spoke about
eh, pard?" added the man in the bag
gage room door
Poor Pen was almost wll i, but the
men in the doorways sal smok ng
calmly.
"I'm sorry for you, young man,"
said tbe waiting-room man, with a
trace of genuine pity In his olce;
"honestly 1 am: but don't you see It
Isn't your fault. Vou won't le
blamed at all. We'll take ail of the
blame won't we, Jamesr"
"Well, 1 rather guess h'i, and con-
ciHprul.lA nf unmet hmtf rlu twi. 'f
that expre-s car has got the stuff
we're look In for in ber."
"Well sa:d, James, well said. Put
upon my soul, young man, Pin sorry
for ou."
' You'd better be sorry for your
selves aud what you've got to answer
for," cried lien, frantic with the hor
ror of the moment, "and while you're
about it you might be sorry for the
husbands and wives and children and
mothers you're going to murder for a
little money but may be you don't
call it murder."
"Why, no, we don t that's so," said
the imperturbable tiian in the door,
way. "liless me, if you didn't look
aud talk then J. st about as my wife
used to when sha was trying to ex
plain to me how bad 1 was. It won't
lie murder, my boy. it won't be mur
der. Let me see. it will tie an acci
dent caused by the unavoidable negli
gence of a telegraph operator, who
was prevented from performing his
duty by an unforsecn engagement
which it was impossible for him to
break not baltig strong enough.
Ixiu't that draw it milder for you,
my son'-'"
To this hcartlesness lien could
not reply. He heard No. 0 reported
as leaving the next station lielow,
and No. 12 had left Millport some
minutes before.
In ten ininut- s they must certainly
come together He must make one
more apjieaL
"Think of how tough It'll be for
me," he said with pathetic eager
ness "They'll say that 1 was asleep,
and that it's ail you could expect
from a son of IMck (irant It'll lust
break my mother's heart, that's what
It wilL"
Pennle burled his h'ad In his arms
and fairly writhed in agony, other
wise he might bave seen the sudden
start which the robber In the door,
way gave
"I guess, Jim, you'd lietter be get
ting up towards the curve I'll take
care of this boy. and be with you
wben It's time," wis what the man
In the doorway said. The other man
hurried away without a word.
Hardly had he disappeared in tbe
darkness when pennle beheld a
strange change in the man who re
mained. He leaned excitedly forward and
gazed long and Intently Into the lad's
face. Then suddenly he cla-ped him
close in his arras for a single moment,
and putting his l pscloe down to
Pennle's ear he said iiuskllv;
"I hcre won't be any murder done
to-night, boy. . You tell jour mother
that Pick Grant has been bad. pretty
bad, but he's nevur been quite so
tough as that yet and he Dever will
be. And you tell her that sometime
wben he's made right as much of the
w.ong he's done as ho can lic'll come
back and help her to be proud of
their boy. Now. you get out and
flag that train. You've got jurt time
enough."
In another moment he, too, bad
d sappeared in the darkness.
PKorut anally become frightfully
tired of accentlnir the win
daad
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