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AND HASHES ALL THAT iS GOOD IN BEEF (¢ ¢ = BN Every Man For Himself By HOPKINS MOORHOUSE {Copyright by Sasa Company) CHAPTER XXVI. Nip and Tuck. Engine No. 810 was runming free through the night sith a big string of box-cars and gondolas tossing along behind hér, dim shadows in the dark. Her powerful electric headlight threw | a beam, long and bright, that burrow- ed into the black void far in front. But for this and the few red-glowing chinks in her firebox and the thunder of the wheels, the freight might have been some phantom rveptile rushing through the land with two red eyes in its tail. > : Evans, the figeman, kicked impa- tiently at the slash-bar and hooked the fire. The lurid glare from the white fires than curled and writhed under the crown-sheet flung wide upon flying right-of-way and the woods on either side, and played with the swirling rib- bon of steam that was hissing back. from the dome. Bathed in the blind- ing light, the fireman stood for "a space, swinging his scoop with pendu-' lum precision from fire-box to coal- tank and back again; then the whole scene went out suddenly. . Engineer Macdonald, leaning out over his arm-rest, chafed at the delay as he choked her head for the Spruce Valley .grade. The line was clear as far as Indian Creek; but up there somewhere they would have to take the siding for the first section of the Limited, eastbound. With a glance at the indicator and the guages, the fireman jerked a black- ened thumb over his shoulder towards the coal-tank. Macdonald shook his head. "We'll fill her at Number Seven," he shouted. They were bearing down upon the switch lights opposite Thorlakson. But Weaciamald was in a hurry and toc anxious to tdhe advances to stop for water there tered lights flicked by =F again into the blac p On the time-card No. water tank farther on Up; loneliest tank om the diy surrounding country was inhabitedmsa ay J 2 ON _-- yal rack men who stuck to their lonely but important posts during the blizzard months with the same per- sistence that carried them through the fly season.- Engine 810 would take water there. Fifteen minutes' run and Macdonald a girl on the verge of hysteria, swore deep and long under his braath, star- ling as if in a trance. He came to him- I self only when the water overflowed | the manhole, and he let go of the spout | with a carel ss that earned him la wetting as it lifted, dripping, back | into place. | No sooner had the girl set foot on Ithe deck than she clambered into the head brakeman's seat, nestling in | alongside the boiler-head as far for- | ward as she could get, her feet om the i fireman's Ilunch-p her knees drawn up in clasped fingers and her eyes looking straight ahead out of the nar- pow cab window. That it might be against the rules of the road for strangers to ride on an engine ap- parently had not occurred to her, for she seemed to take it for granted that she was entirely welcome as long as she did not get in their way. The fireman stared across at Mac- donald and surreptitiously tapped his 'forehead; the engineer stared back at | Evans and winked -knowingly. The whole thing had taken but a few mo- 'ments. A light was swinging out from the top of the cars at the rear and Macdonald opened the throttle. They were moving ahead before either of the two men could think of anything but several variations of the word "damn." In this manner did Miss Cristy Law- son come to take her first ride on an engine. The night had been crowded with nerve-wracking excitement; but in the elation which she experienced over this unexpected way out of her difficulty, she felt renewed strength and confidence that surely worse her through. Ha had beengg Wie Evans, who never before had seen | ' | oll alr, i pel. Llc noveTLy 01 her sur- roundings pressed upon her to the temporary exclusion of everything else. Wasn't the din something awful. She had no idea that a locomotive was such a noisy place. She soon found herself getting more used to it and 'drew in his head, shut off steam, open- watched the engineer with wonder and ed the sander, threw the brakeshoes interest. Her idea of an engineer, she against the drivers and brought every-, found, had been formed by the illus- thing to a shuddering standstill with trations in the magazines; she had the pilot slipping just past the tank, | pictured him in her mind as a man while his fireman was scrambling back , Who sat with hand constantly on the amongst the coal to haul down the throttle or the levers or whatever it overhanging spcut. And all of this Was, bent far forward, peering keenly was quite within the prosaics of the and steadily from beneath the visor night's work. jof his greasy cap with eyes riveted What immediately followed was not. unswervingly cn every yard of track There was nothing in the locality to ahead. She was surprised, therefore, prepare them for it, while the hour] to find that this engineer seemed al- was late and the night damp and dis- | most careless of attitude, leaning back agreeable--nothing to account for the in his cushioned seat, body jogging flying figure of a girl dashing wildly [loosely to the motions of the great ma- up the headlight's path, straight for! chine. It was cnly occasionally that i nein avi antic sie |he seemed to arouse enough interest She shyine, SRS Yeying franc oi to lean out of the window, and scarce- ly ever did he touch the levers in front of him. Once he actually got down from his seat and came over to the fireman's side to shout something in that grimy individual's ear, and all the while they were thundering dlong without any lessening of speed. What nals. The engineer's wondering profanity scarcely had begun to flow freely be- fore she was on top of them. Panting, wild-eyed, hair in riotous dizorder, this beautiful young woman climbed up into the cab with the agility of an overpowering excitement, pouring out if something should appear suddenly on the track in front of them? Her heart leaped at the thought. She was upon the astonished enginemen a wonderful stream of incoherent "ex- planaticns." "Save 77 Roop Your Semper Dishwashing is the day's most dis- agreeable task. Pot washing is the dirtiest job of all. Save time and keep your temper by cooking with utensils that cannot absorb dirt or grease--pots and pans that wash eas- ily with soap and water and wipe sweet and clean like china. Make your housework easier by using A, 66 ¢ = E = ; ; Diamond Ware is a threes ; coated enameled steel, sky blue and white outside with a snowy white lining. Pearl Ware is a two-coated enameled 'steel, pearl | zrey and white inside and out. MADE 8y weSueer MeraL Probuers co MONTREAL TORONTO WINNIPEG EDMONTON VANCOUVER CALGARY OF CARADA LIMITED sure he coul stop, and it" to her. Curiously her eyes roved ove levers and queer instruments. tainly an engineer must have to carry a terrible lot in his head to know how | to manage them. There was a little knob, for instance; if she were to give it a pull, something would happen somewl.eré," an explosion perhaps,-- | dear knows what! She watched the hand of the indicator on the beilerhead fluttering around the figure 190. She studied thy in the glass tubes. A little apparatus, too, that looked like | a small wl tle. Was it a whistle and | when did Gey blow it? Steam was | bubbling out of a joint in a pipe right | at her side; the hot water dribbled on her dress once when she leaned too | far over and she caught the fireman | grinning at her. She laughed light-heartedly, taking a child-like joy out of this new and thrilling experience. She could not help marvelling at the unconcern with which these men attended to their work; they were perfectly at home on this rolling engine. Didn't it rock .and jerk about, though? It was enough to tear out the rails almost, it seemed to her, and her pulses wuickened at the thought that «if anything should break! But it did not seem to, somehow. The fir®aar gloved hand seized the chain on the feed-door again and jerked it open. She watched him toil- ing with his scoop, the white glare beating upon the rugged lines of his face till it was a wonder he could stand that fierce heat. There was a funny black smudge running across his nose, and when he bent his back she 'saw that a buckle was missing from his overalls and he had substituted a piece of coarse twine. Was he married? If he was, why didn't his wife look after those buckles? He worked hard enough to deserve to have little things like that apts for him. Why, ! she'd heard Wey even shovelled as much as a whole ton of coal on a single trip! The lurch of the engine as they swung around a curve drew her atten- tion to the trick which was sweeping in upon them with dizzy continuity. Out there, ahesd of the big black body of the locomotive, the funmeled path of the headliglt streamed away into the unknown. Far up the track the white mile-bosrds on the poles caught it, ran towar. them, flashed at them and skipped ait of sight behind. Tall + straight stretch of track and that far weeds noddedin it as they swept past. Tio re conn long pt rails, wvigin the a... rath and nd fen the beam plunged and went exploring s ready, aloted across a valley an the other side. obit sat in the middle a> the great light in gon that threat- white tuft vanished Qa ad 'o grass. But as the novelty ;.. all this wore off, her mind reverted to the thing that she was trying to do. The speed- ing engine, the flying track, become merely the accessories which were carrying her nearer and nearer her goal--a telegraph operator. The fireman's watch hung on a hook alongside and the hands showed twenty-five minutes past midnight. It was standard time both here and in Toronto; so that would be the time at The Recorder office also--12.25 p.m. They would be wgel§Finto the rush of the night's work now. The boys would be in fr assignments and pounding out "coi in the city room. The wires would be warming up and the "flimsy" arriving at the telegraph editor's desk in bunches, and old man Jeffreys would be reaching in the left bottom drawer of his scarred old desk for his little package of bread and cheese with an apple or a banana on top it off; he alwewms ate that twenty- five minutes after midnight, just be- fore the linotype men and the rest of the composing-roont staff, who ate at the all-night restaurant around the corner, straggled back to their work. Cristy began to 7o over the things she must do and t arrange them in st to them. The very first thing oy be the messages to McAllister and Brennan; there must! be no delay in getting the police into | action. If they could surprise their | quarry over at Waring's house on the | Island--ecatch them in the middle of it-- it would provide a dramatic cli- max to the sensational story. She! could trust her editor not to overlook | any such opportunity and her eyes sparkled as she pictured the uproar | that would follow those messages in! The Recorder office. = The old place | would be buzzing and the whole staff | on the jump like a bunch of excited | kids! Impatiently she peered out ahead, | looked for lights down the track, glanced continually at the hands of | the watch. She ran Rastily over the | strong features of the sensation, mar- | 3 the order she m {shalling her facts, getting the general | scheme of the story into her head in | proper newspaper style and planning a strong "lead." She became so engrossed in this that | not until a wibrant siudder passed | through the engine did she notice. The | engineer was leaning out the window | on his side of the cab, one hand on a | lever. She threw a quick glance out | the narrow window ir. front of her and saw that they were bowling down a ahead in the darkness little specks of light, A station! It must be the station at last! Anxiously she watched the far- | away dots arrange themselves slowly into switche lights boside the track. were Liniment for Dandrufi, wands ga ot 8 The larger lights on the right--those would be station windows. Another light, a red one--the order board was out against them and the train would have to stop! She cried out in her excitement and satisfaction. She felt like opening the narrow window, rushing out along the running-board to the frent of the en- gine and cheering! They were beginning to slow up now. A man came out and stood on the platform, some papers in his hand. She could see him quite plainly in his shirtsleeves in the glare of the power- ful headlight. That must be the night operator--the Mecca of all her hopes. The hands of the fireman's watch indicated 12.30. They rolled in beside the platform | and the long string of freight cars | bumped, groaned, squeaked and stop- ! pe A lantern came bobbing along | the tops of the cars from the uear.! The conductor dropped off the caboose | and jogged forward beside his train. | Macdonald drew in his head and | looked across the cab. But the seat! was empty. The girl had slipped away | already and presently he caught sight of 'her, disappearing into the station. | (To be continued.) | a. 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