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f7(fWfri' r7-T'jEjgry- iTW -" THE DAILY OOOS DAY T1MK8, MARSUFD3LD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1007. V r The Manager Of the B. A, By VAUGHAN Copyright, 1001, by (Continued from Thursday.) Holt ran over the cuts again. Then he asked: "Who's going to stand for this? You or the old man? I hear he Ayas In town last night." "I stand for it, but of course he ap proves." "I'll bet he approves," and the as sistant treasurer grinned. "This is tho sort of thing that suits him right down to the ground." "How about the hands? Do you know if they are members of any un ion J" "No, but there'll be lively times ahead for -you. They are a great lot of kick ers here." "Walt until I get through. I haven't touched the shops yet That's to come later. I'll skin closer before I'm done." Oakley got up and lit his pipe. "The plant must make somo sort of a show ing. We can't continue at tho rate wo have been going. I suppose you know what sort of shape it would leave tho town in if the shops were closed." "Very poor shape, I should say. Why, it's the money that goes In and out of this offlco twice a month that keeps tho town alive. It couldn't exist a day without that" "Then It behooves us to sec to It that nothing happens to the shops or road. I am sorry tab the men I am laying off, but It can't bo helped." "I see you are going to chuck Hoad ley out of his good thing at the Junc tion. If ho -was half white he'd a gone long ago. lie must lay awake nights figuring how he can keep decently busy." "How do you think It's going to work?" "Oh, It will work all right, because It has to, but they'll all bo cussing you," with great good humor. "What's the matter anyhow? Did tho old man throw a fit at the size of tho payroll?" "Not exactly, but he came down hero with his mind made up to sell tho road to the M. and V." "You don't say so!" "I talked him out of that, but we must make a showing, for he's good and tired and may dump tho -whole business any day." "Well, if he does that there'll bo no marrying or giving In marriage for me this summer. It will bo just like a Shaker settlement where I am con cerned." Dan laughed. "Oh, you'd bo nil right. Holt. You'd get something cl-j or tho M. and W. would keep" you on." "I don't know about that A new management generally means a clean sweep all round, and my berth's a pretty good one." In some manner a rumor of the changes Oakley proposed making did get abroad, and ho was promptly made aware that his popularity In Autlocb was a thing of the past Ho was ie garded as an oppiessor from whom somo elaborate and wanton tyranny might be expected. While General Cornish suffered their inefficiency, his easy going predecessors bad been con tent to draw their salaries and let It go at that, a lino of conduct which An tloch held to be entirely proper. This new man, however, was clearly an up start, cursed with an Insane and de structive ambition to earn money for the road. Suppose it did not pay. Cor nish could go down into his poeket for tho difference, just as he had always done. What the town did not know and what It would not have believed even If It had been told was that the gen eral had been on the point of selling, a change that would have brought hard ship to every one. Tho majority of the men In tho shops owned their own homes, and these homes represented tho savings of years. The sudden exo dus of two or three hundred families meant of necessity widespread ruin. Those who were forced to go away would havo to sacrifice everything they I possessed to get away, while thoso who remained would be scarcely better off. But Antloch never considered such a radical movo as even remotely possi ble. It counted the shops a fixture. They had always been there, and for this sufficient reason they would al ways remain. The days wore on, one very Hke an other, with their spring heat and leth argy. Occasionally Oakley saw Miss Emory on the street to bow to, but not to speak with-. Whllo he was grateful for these escapes ho found himself thinking of her very often. Ho fancied and he was not far wrong that she was -finding Antloch very dull. Ho wondered, too, if she was seeing much of Ryder. Ho Imagined that she was, and here again he was not far wrong. Now and then he was seized with what ho felt to be a weak desire to call, but he always thought better of it In time and was always grateful he had not succumbed fo the Impulse. But her mero presence In Antloch seemed to mako him dissatisfied and resentful of its limitations. Ordinarily ho was not critical of his surroundings. Until she came, that he was without companhw ship and that the town was given over to a deadly Inertia which expressed It self In the collapsed ambition of near ly every man and woman he knew bad scarcely affected him, beyond giving him a sensn of mild wnnir ! KESTER. Harper t Brother 3 He had beard nothing of his father, and In the pressure of his work and freshened Interest In the fortunes of the Huckleberry had hardly given him n second thought. Ho felt that since ho had sent money to htm he was In a measure relieved of all further re sponsibility. If his father did not wish to come to him, that was his own af fair. He had placed no obstacle in his way. CHAPTER V. LATE one afternoon, as Oakley sat at his desk In the broad streak of yellow light that the sun sent In through the west windows, he heard a step on the narrow board walk that ran between the building and the tracks. The last shrill shriek of No. 7, as usual, half an hour late, had just died out In tho distance, and the Informal committee of town loaf ers which met each train was plodding up Main street to tho postoffice In sol emn silence. He glanced nround as the door Into the yards opened. He saw a tall, gaunt man of sixty-flve, a little stoop shouldered and carrying his weight heavily and solidly. His large head was sunk between broad shoulders. It was covered by a wonderful growth of iron gray hair. The faco was clean shaven and had the look of a placid mask. There was a curious repose In the man's attitude as he stood with a big hand the hand of an artisan rest ing loosely on 'the knob of the door. "Is It you, Dannie?" Tho smile that, accompanied the words was at once anxious, hesitating and Inquiring. He closed the door with awkward care and, coming a step near er, put out his hand. Oakley, breathing hard, rose hastily from his chair and stood leaning against the corner of his desk, as If he needed Its support He was white to the lips. There was a long pause while the two men looked Into each other's eyes. "Don't you know me, Dannie?" wist fully. Dan said nothing, but be ex tended his hand, and his father's fin gers closed about it with a mighty pressure. Then quite abruptly Roger Oakley turned and walked over to tho window. Onco more there was abso lute silence in the room save for the ticking of the clock and the buzzing of a solitary fly high up on the celling. The old convict was the first to break tho tenso stillness. "I had about: made up my mind I should never see you again, Dannie. When your mother died and you camo west it sert of wiped out the little thero was between me and tho living. In fact, I really didn't know yeu would care to boo me, and whon Hart told me you wished me to come to you and had sent the money I could hardly believe It" Here the words failed him utterly. Ho turned slowly and looked into his son's face long nnd lovingly. "I've thought of you as a little boy for all these years, Dannie, as no higher than that," dropping his hand to his hip. "And here you are a man grown. But you got your mother's look. I'd havo known you by It among a thousand." If Dan had felt any fear of his father It had left him the Instant he entered the room. Whatever ho might havo done, whatever he might havo been, there was no question as to tho man ner of man he had become. He stepped to his son's sldo and took bis band in one of his own. "You've made a man of yourself. I can see that. What do you do hero for a living?" Dan laughed queerty. "I am the general manager of tho railroad, father," nodding toward tho station and the yards. "But it's not much to brag about It's only a one horso line," he added. "No, you don't mean it Dannie?" And ho could boo that his father was profoundly Impressed. He put up his free hand and gently patted Dan's h'ad as" though ho were indeed tho lit tle boy be remembered. "Did you havo an easy trip west, father?" Oakley asked. "You must be tired." "Not a bit, Dannie, ft was wonder ful. I'd been shut off ,f rom It all for more than twenty years, and each mile was taking me nearer you." The warm yollow light was begin ning to lade from the room. It was growing late. "I guess we'd better go nptown to the hotel and have our supper. Where Is your trunk? At the station?" "I've got nothing but a bundle. It's at tho door," Dan locked hlsdesk, and they left the office. "Is It all yours?" Roger Oakley ask ed, pausing as they crossed the yards to glance up and down the curving tracks. "It's part of the property I manage. It belongs to General Cornish, who holds most of tho stock.' "And tho train I came on, Dannie who owned that?" "At Buckhorn Junction, where you changed cars for the last time, you caught our local express. It runs through to a place called Harrison the terminus of the line. This Is only a branch road, you know." But the explanation wtts lost on bis father. His son's relation to tho road was a magnificent fact which ho pon dered with simple pleasure. After their supper nt tho hotel they went upstairs. Roger Oakley bad been given a room next his son's. It was the same room General Cornish had oc cupied when he was In Antloch. "Would you like to put away your things now?" asked Dan as ho placed his father's bundle, which he had car ried uptown from tho office, on tho bed. "I'll do that by and by. Thero ain't much there just a few little things I've managed to keep or that have been given me." Dan pushed two chairs before an open window that overlooked the square. His father had taken a huge blackened meerschaum from its case and was carefully filling It from a leather pouch. "You don't mind If I light my pipe?" ho Inquired. t "Not a bit. I've one in my pocket but It's not nearly as lino as yours." "Our warden gave It to me one Christmas, and I've smoked It ever since. Ho wns a very good man, Dan nie. It's the old warden I'm speaking of, not Kenyon, the new one, though he's a good man too." Dan wondered where he had heard the name of Kenyon before; then ho remembered it was at the Eniorys'. "Try some of my tobacco, Dannie," passing the pouch. For a time tho two men sat in si lence, blowing clouds of white smoke out into tho night. Roger Oakley hitched his chair near er his son's and rested a heavy hand on his knee. "I like It here," he said. "Do you? I am glad." "What will bo the chances of my finding work? You know I'm a cabinet maker by trade." "There's no need of your -working, so don't worry nbout that." "But I must work, Dunnle. I nln't usedtto sitting still and doing nothing." "Well," said Oakley, willing to hu mor him, "there are the car shops." "Can you get'me In?" "Oh, yes, when you are ready to stnrt. I'll have McCllntock, tho mas ter mechanic, find something In your line for you to do." "I'll need to got a kit of tools." "I guess McCllntock can arrange that too. I'll see him about It when you are ready." "Then that's settled. I'll begin in the morning," with quiet determination. "But don't you want to look nround first?" "I'll have my Sundays for that." And Dan saw that there was no use In arguing the point with him. He was bent on having his own way. The old convict filled his lungs with a deep, free breath. "Yes, I'm going to like It. I uhvnys did like a small town anyhow. Tell mo about yourself, Dan nie. How do you happen to be here?" Dan roused himself. "I don't know. It's chance, I suppose. After mother'3 death" "Twenty years ago last March," breaking In upon him softly; then, nod ding at the starlit heavens: "She's up yonder now watching us. Nothing's hidden or secret. It's all plain to her." "Do you really think that, father?" "I know It Dannie." And his tone was one of settled conviction. Dan had already discovered that his fattier was deeply religious. It was a "Don't you know wv Dannie t " faith tho like of which had not de scended to his own day and genera tion. "Well, I had It rather hard for while," going back to his story. "Yes," with keen sympathy. "You were nothing hut n littlo boy." "Finally I was lucky enough to get a place as a newsboy on a train. I sold papers until I was slxtcou and then began braking. I wanted to be an en gineer, but I guess my ability lay In another direction. At any rate, they took me off the road aud gave me an office position instead. I got to bo a division superintendent, nnd then I met General Cornish. He is one of tho directors of the line I was with nt tho time. Three months ago bo made mo an offer to take hold here, and so here I am." "And you've nover been back homo, Dannie?" "Never onco. I've wanted to go, but I couldn't" He hoped his father would under stand. (To bo continued.) , All the latest Magazines at the North Bend News Co. NORTH BEND can furnish the following Thoroughbred Eggs at $2.00 Per Setting Rhode Island Reds .Barred Plymouth Rocks White Leghorns Pekin Ducks JOHN W. FLANAGAN Send in your oiders Now Eggs Shipped any wheie in the county. Flanagan & Bennett Bank MAIISIIFIELD. OHEGON. Capital Subscribed $60,000 Capital raid Up $40,000 Undivided 1'rollts ?35,000 Docs a general banking business and draws oil the Hank of California, San Francisco Calif., F.istNatlcnnl Bank Portland Or., First National Dank, Koieburg, Or., Hanover Na tional Bank, New York, N. M. Hothchlld A Son,, Tendon, England. Also sell change on nearly all the principal cities of Europe. Accounts kept subject to eheik, Brtfe deposit lock boxes for ront at 5 cents a month or ?5. a j ear. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS STEAMER. FLYER M. P. Pcndergrass, Master TIME TABLE. Leaves Marshficld 7:30, 9:00, and 10; 30 'a. m and 1:00, 2:30 and 4: b0 p. m. Leaves North Bend at 8:15, 9:45 aud 11:15 a. m., and 1:45, 3:15 and 5:00 p. m. Makes dally trips except Sun days. Faro: One way, 16 cents; lound trip, 25 cents. W. A. HARING Dealer in Puro Cream Milk and Buttermilk. Free do livery to all parts of tho city. North Bend, Oregon :s! Now Ready HOTEL OREGON New and Modern Sample Rooms in Connection NORTH BEND, ORE. Try the Marshfield Hotel Home Cooking, Good Beds Rates Board and Lodging $5 per week; per day, $1; Moalu 25c. Pull the BELL CORD Wet Your Whistle Then Blow J. It. HERRON, Prop, front Street, I I Marshficld, Oreeon 'Sank of rojmt (Capital flturh fully palfntp su.orjD. Oiraiisarui a orttrral Saitklito Suautrrm. Nflrtl; Ifctta, renutt TheC.B.,R.&LO. and Navigation Co. TRAIN SCHEDULE NO. 2. In Effect January 1, 1007. All previous schedules are void. Subject to change without notice. W. S. Chandler, manager; F. A. Lalso, freight agent; general offices, Marshficld, Oregon. No. 1. Trains. Dally Except Sunday. Stations. Lenvo 9:00 a. m.Mnrshfleld. 9:30 a. m.B. H. Junction. 9:45 a. m.CoqullIe. Arrive 10:30 a.m.JMyrtlo Point. No. 2. Dally Excopt Sunday. Leave 10:45 a. m.Myrtle Point. 10:30 a. m.jcoqulile. 12:00 m. B. H. Junction. Arrive 12:30 p.m.Marshfield. Extra trains will run on dally special orders. Trains to and from Beaver Hill dally. SKATING RINK Announcements: Open afternoon and even- ings, 2 to 5 and 7 to 10, I week days only. Prices: 25 cents for use of Rink skates. 15 cents for those using their own skates. 10 cenls admission to Gentlemen evenings. Special attention 'givon to heginncrs Friday after noons. Best of order always main tain od. D L Avery, Manager Nelson Iron Works P. H. NELSON, Prop. We repair all kfnds of Machinery, Steam and Gas Knglr.es, Guns and 111 cyeloB. Hemof work our Specialty. : : We manufacture Costings In Iron and Ilronzo for Saw Mills and Logging Camps. Wo mako tho host Sheaves and Koad Spools for Loggers. : : : TKLEI'HONEIWl MARSHFIELD, - - OREGON R H. BRIGHAM ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT Plans and specifications made for all classes of buildings. 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