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fftrtyr . ."i !.' ft PS P fh till lay between the illMressed niau unil liN unfortunate chllil. Krom Mel'loud to Uf,al.illn there Is a t'otnl lilt of twhtiti,: and slowln;.', but loul;'iiiK oast from At turns a niarlile rinpp.'tl del ween tl.. r.ill i.i.shl roll Heir m'o the OaliiMa j:ivi!. ll Is a fclxi.v inilc iji'.idi', . Ii..!" i of slat; kik' tin -. : .1 . (' ImmI under 1 el. "' rover luoe lsty in ln'ttt'r tliau tlt'iy inlmiti's was lii.c them off the anil the breasted the Morgan dl Me, fretting Tor more hills to cliiuli. The that matter any of the skyscrapers are built to balance ten or a dozen sleepers, and when you run them light they have a fashion of rooting their no-e- into the track. A niodc.xt up grade jut about counters this tendency, but on a slump and u stiff clip and no tail to peal; of you feel as If the drivers were going to buck tip on the ponies every once In awhile. However, they never do. and Ceorgle whistled for Searboro Junction and 1ci miles and two .ater In .t ficmtii(oii.s anvir tliouUwj through a trass oj fire. minutes out of MeCloud. and, happy, cussed Mr. McWilllams a Utile and gave her another hatful of ft cam. It K getting down a hill, like the hills if the Mattaback valley, at such a pace that pounds the track out of shape. The Five-Nine lurched at the like a mad woman, shook free ivlth very fury, and If the baggage car Sad not been fairly loaded down with :he grief of McWilllams It must have lumped the rails n dozen times In as many minutes. Indeed the tireman It was Jerry MacElroy twisting and shifting between the tender and the furnace, look-id for the flrt time grave and stole a ;uestloniug glance from the steam ;nuge toward Georgle. IJut yet he didn't expect to see the ooy, his face set ahead and down the .rack, straighten oo suddenly up, sink !u the lever and at the Instant on :hc air. Jerry felt her stumble under his feet caught up like a girl In a iklpplug rope and, grabbing a brace, ooked, like a wise stoker, for his out of his window. There far ihead It rose lu hot curling clouds of imoke down among the alfalfa and over the sweep of willows lions the Mattaback river. The Malta-sack bridge was on fire, with the Special on one side and the other. Jerry MacElroy yelled. The engineer lldn't even look around, only whistled in alarm back to l'at Frauds, eased aer down the grade a bit, like a man cflecting, and watched the smoke and James that rose to bar the McWilllams Special out of Denver. The skimmed across the nendows without a break and pulled ip n hundred feet from the burning jrldge. It was aa old Howe truss and mapped like popcorn us the flames bit nto the rotten shed. Pat Francis and his brakeman ran forward. Across the river they could tee half a dozen section men chasing aildly about throwing Impotent buck-its of water on the burulug truss. "We're up against It, Georgle," cried Francis. "Not If we can get across before the nidge tumbles Into the river," return-id Sinclair. "You don't mean you'd try It?" "Would I? Wouldn't I? You know :he orders. That bridge Is good for an iour yet. Pat. if you're game I'll run t." "Holy smoke!" mused Pat Francis, vho would have run tho river without tny bridge nt all If so ordered. "They :old us to deliver the goods, didn't heyir" "Wo might a3 well be starting, Pat," ntggested Jerry MacElroy, who losing good time. "There'll be ilonty of time to talk after we get Into Denver or tho Mattaback." "Think quick, Pat," urged Sinclair. Ells safety was popping murder. "Back her up, then, nnd let her go!" .Tied Francis. "I'd just as lief have lint baggaco car at tho bottom of the tlver lis on my hands any longer!" There was some sharp tooting; then lio McWilllams Special backed; back-id nwny across tho meadow, halted md screamed hard enough to wake ho dead. Georgle was trying to warn lie section men. At that Instant the loor of the baggage car opened, and a sharp featured young mini peered out. "What's tho row? Whnt's all this icreeching about, conductor?" ho ask-td as Francis passed. rir.'dge burning ahead there." "Bridge burning!" he cried, looking i "rvou'dy forwaid. "Well, that's u ileii: What you going to do about it?" Uuii It. Are you McWilllams?" '(V. 'i'l; :i:sV I vih I wn.t for just one in' I'm one of hU cleric." "Where 1 1 he?" "I left Itlui on l.a Salle street yesterday afternoon." your name?" "Jim plilu Ferguson." "Well. Ferguson. It's none of my biHlncs, but as loiu ni we're johig to put you into Dei.er or Into the rixer in about a minute I'm euricus t know what the blazes you're hiHtling along this way for." ".Me? I've got Sl.HOiMino lu gold coin lu till ear for the Sierra Leone National bank -that's all. Didn'i you know that live big bank" there eloped their yesterday? Worst panic in the Fnltcd States. That's what I'm here for and live huskies with me eating and sleeping lu this car," continued Fergiisiiii. looking ahead. "You're not going to tael le that bridge, are you ?" "W" are and right off. If thevi 's any of your huskies want to drop cu. their chanc"." said Pat Frar as Sinclair slowed up for his run. Ferguson called his men. The live, with their rltles, came cautiously tv ward. "Boy's," said Ferguson brietly, "there's a bridge afire ahead. These guy" are going to try to run it. it's not In your contract, that kind of n chance. Do you want to get off? I stay with the specie, myself. You can do exactly as you please. Murray, what do you mi.v?" he asked, address. Ing tho leader of the force, who appeared to weigh about 'JlM. "What do I say?" echoed Murray, with decision, as he looked for n sof; place to alight alongside the track, 'i say I'll drop out right here. I don't mind train robbers, but I don't a burning bridge not If I know It." and he Jumped off. "Well, I'eaters," asked Fergusou o.' the second man coolly, "do you want t ta. ?" "Me?" echoed I'eaters, looking ahead at the mass of tlame leaping upward. "Me stay? Well, not In a thousand years. You can have my gun, Mr. Fe guson, and send i" cheek to 4".0 Milwaukee avenue, u please. Gentlemen, good day.'" And off went I'eaters. And off went every last man of the valorous detectives except one lame fellow, who said he would Just as lief be dead as alive anyway and declared he would stay with Ferguson and die rich. Sinclair, thinking he might never get I another chance, was whistling sharply for orders. Francis, breathless with the news, ran forwnrd. "Coin? How much? Twelve huu dred thousand. Whew!" cried Sinclair "Swing up. Pat. We're off." The Five-Nino gathered herself with a spring. Even th engineer's heart ipialled as they g dway. He knew his business, and I.c .tew that If only tho rails hadn't buckled they were per fectly safe, for the heavy truss would stand a lot of burning before giving way under a swiftly moving train. Only, as they Hew nearer, the rolllug up In douse volume looked threatening. After all. It and he felt It, but he wa past the stopping now, and he the choker to the limit. It seemed as If die never covere 1 steel so fast. Under the head she now had the crackling bridge was less than live hundred, four hundred, three huudred, two hundred feet, and thero was no longer time to think. With a stare, Sinclair shut off. Ho wanted no push or pull c:i the track. The McWilllams Specla' was Just n tremendous arrow, shooting through a truss of tire and half a dozen speechless men on either side of the river waiting for tho catastrophe. Jerry MacElroy crouched low untk" tho gauges. Sinclair Jumped from his box and stood with a hand on the throttle and a hand on the air, the glass crashing around his head like hall. A blast of fiery air and Hying cinders burned and choked him. The engine, alive with danger, llew like a Sreat monkey along the writhing steel. So quick, so black, so hot the blast and bo terrific tho leap, she stuck her huso Into clean air before the men In the cab could rise to It. There was a heave In the middle like the lurch of a seasick steamer, and with It the Five-Nine got her paws on cool Iron and solid grouud, and the Mattaback and the blaze, all except a dozen tongues which licked the cab and the roof of the baggage car a min ute, were behind. Georgle Sinclair, shaking the hot glass out of his hair, looked ahead through his frizzled eye lids and gavo her u full head for the western bluffs of tho valley; then look-id at his watch. It was tho one hundred and mllepost just at her nose, ir.id the dial read 8:55 to a second. There was an hour to the good and seventy-six miles and a water to cover, but they were seventy-six of tho prettiest tulles under ballast anywhere, and the Five-Nine reeled them off Ilko a cylinder press. minutes later Sinclair whistled for tho Denver yams. There was a tremendous commotion among tho waiting engines. If there was one thero wore fifty big locomotives waiting to charivari tho Special. Tho wires had told tho story In Denver long before, and as Iho Five-Nino sailed ponderously up the gridiron every 1110311I, every consolidated, every ten wheeler, every hog, every switch bumper, every air hoso screamed an uproarious welcome to Georgle Sinclair and the skyscraper. They hnd broken every recoriLfroin MeCloud to Denver, and nil knew It. but as tho McWilllams Special drew iwlftly past every last man lu the rards stared at her cracked, peeled, nllstered, haggard looks. "What the dence have you bit Into?" cried tbe depot master as the Five-Nine swept splendidly up nnd stoppcu with her battered eye hard on the depot clock. "Mattaback bridge Is burned. Had to crawl over on the stringers," answered Sinclair, coughing up a cln der. "Where's McWilllams?" "Back there sitting on his grief. 1 reckon." While the crew went up to register two big four horse trucks backed up to the hagzage car, and in a minute a dozen men were rolling specie kegs out of tho door, which was smashed In, as being quicker than to tear open the barricades. Sinclair, MacElroy and Francis with his brakeman were surrounded by n crowd of railroad men. As they stood answering questions n big prosperous looking banker with black rings under his eyes pushed lu toward them, accompanied by the lame fellow, who had missed the chance of a lifetime to die rich, and by Ferguson, who had told the story. The banker shook hands with each one of the crew. "You've snved us. boys. We needed It. There's a mob of 5.000 of the worst scared people lu America clamoring nt tho doors, and, by the eternal, now we're fixed for every one of them. Come up to the bank. I want you to ride right up with the coin, all of you." It was an uncommonly queer occasion, but an uncommonly enthusiastic one. Fifty policemen made the escort and cleared the way for tho trucks to pull up across the sidewalk so tho porters could lug tho kegs of gold Into the bank before the very eyes of the rattled depositors. In an hour the run was broken. But when the four railroad men left tlfe bank after all sorts of hugging by excited directors they carried not only the blessings of the officials, but each In his vest pocket a check, every one of which discounted the biggest voucher ever drawn on the West End for a month's pay. though I violate no confidence In stating that Georgle Sinclair's was bigger than any two of'tho others. And this Is how It happens that there hangs lu the director-.' room of the Sierra Leone National a very creditable portrait of the kid engineer. Besides paying tariff on the specie, he bank paid for a new coat of paint for the McWilllams Special from caboose to pilot. She was tho last train across the Mattaback for two weeks. I'rnft'ftnor Swnlloweil It All. The scholarly William E. Byerly, professor of mathematics at Harvurd, was once asked by a student how to develop a retentive memory. Tho professor answered that ordinary mental exercise was sutllclent to secure a good memory, whereat the student asked If he might test the mental capacity of his Instructor. Professor Byerly agreed, and the student asked him to listen to and remember several varied items for n test. lie began: "One quart of whisky." "Um!" said the professor. "Six pounds of sugar, a pint of sour milk, three onions, half a gallon of molasses and two raw eggs." "Um!" said the professor. 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