BY HENRY BELLAMANN -
v nra amvicc inc,
, DRAKE AT WORK
CHAPTER XXIII
ilj OOK at me, Mr. Monaghan, I
look like tramp. I'll be a
bum if somebody doesn't give me
job."
"Turner1!! gtva you a Job, 1
you'll take it"
"I'll take it"
"I'll get you a lob, Drake. You
ean depend on me."
"Thank you sir."
' Drak arose. "I'm going home."
He turned at the door. "It I get a
Job down here, I'm going to sell
the place uptown. It'i already
mortgaged. Then ni have a lit
tle bit o' v anyhow. I'm go
ing to n here aomewhere
to ltvr
"Am
.. r "Yes,
. "You'll '. . to cut out likker."
"Why, Drakcl What are you do
ing here?" Randy came cheerfully
into the room.
Drake flushed darkly. "Yea, I
know how I look, Randy. I was
in the calaboose last night"
"Drake! What did you do?
' "Drunk. I wasn't arrested. Sam
Winter! justjust locked me up
so I wouldn't freeze.
"Oh. Drake!"
"It wont happen again, Randy.,
Tour pa's going to get me a Job
of some kind."
: Randy glance veiled a little.
It' was a strange look Drake
didnt understand it It was a far
away look, almost Impersonal, but
steady as a lamp set on stone. -
"Go up stairs. Til bring you
some hot water. You wash and
shave, and I'll fix you something
to eat Then you're going to bed
and get some sleep."
Drake went heavily up the
stairs, Mr. Monaghan knocked the
ashes from his pipe. He had never
quite known what to make of his
tomboy daughter, but at this mo-'
ment he felt that he understood.
her better. She looked exactly lis
her mother as she stood watching
Drake.
TlfR. MONAGHAN kept his woreV
""A and Drake kept his. Mat
Turner, an old acquaintance of!
Drake's Uncle Rhodes, was reluct-;
ant at first He didnt believe too'
much in the earnestness and sin
cerity of Drake's resolution, but
Monaghan persuaded him, Drake
was given a nondescript job as
switchman, and general helper,
around the freight office. He never
set foot in Frits Bachman's lunch
room again, or took another .drink.
The bank sold the Livingstone
house, and Drake paid his debts.1
There wasnt much left but Drake
put it in the bank and managed
to live on his wages.- He had a
at . Mrs. Blake's railroad
house, and spent as much
na with Randy as possible.
. Drak lost his casual, laughing,
planner, and a part of his rood
7 looks was lost with It Ha wasnt!
fcappy, and showed It But he was'
fcealthler-lcoklng..
- ua had never seen Louise Got- .
jflon again. The thought of her i
crossed his mind once in a while i
- F-a tingling anger mixed with a
amt desire.
(MHsT twentieth century" was
r beginning, to be a familiar
Jtaaee. At first ft had a fabulous
sound, like a connotation of soma
fantastic futurity. But one became
'little accustomed to It as one
learned to write 1900 and 1901
, -without too much hesitation.
' The outward chances in Kinn
Sow, taking place gradually as
gney aid, were not too violent to
aisturb even conservative people
(much. Of course, if one stopped
to think about it, a lot of things
xiaa Happened. XTees gone from
to counnouse square, and from
- tlnlon street as far as the Metho
dist church. Lots of bright new
paint and plate-glass store win-
"GOWS.
: "A smart little city," Hart San
jsome said.. "As neat and bright as
pin."
"Looks like every town Its size
srom unio to Kansas," Miles Jack
eon said.- "You can't tell by look
ing around if you're in Indiana or
'Iowa. Looks like any town and
just as ugly."
. But everyone noticed that since
the death of his old crony, Col
onel Skefflngton, Miles Jackson
was less add.
e e
T)RAKH McHUGH developed a
bad cold and laid off from
work for nearly a week. He spent
most of the time with Randy.
One evening alter supper he was
on, his way back to his boarding
house. He took the short cut
through the freight yards as usual.
Bill Hocklnson was running the
switch engine, shifting boxcars for
the early freight train the next
day. Drake stepped oil the track
. as Bill passed with a dozen empty
fiats. He waved and Bill shouted
: something that could not be heard
above the rattle and clash of
wheels rolling over the switches.
He saw Bill waving frantically;
and grinned. Some rowdy Joke
that wouldn't wait ...
t Harley Davis, brakeman on the
regular freight run to Camper
ville, slammed the door of the
freight office open. Arnold Schultz,
the freight agent grabbed his
blowing papers. "Sayl What in
the hell '
. "Quick, Schultt, get a doctor'
down here! There's been an ac
cident out there. Get Dr. Gordon,
quick as you canl" ,
, .''What happened, Harley?"
"Drake McHugh's been run
over." i
"Sure, sure. Right away." He
rang the telephone and asked the
central office to locate Dr. Gordon
and send him right away to the
freight depot
"How in the world did such
thing happen, Harley?"
"A funny accident, Schults. You
know that wagonload of tile that's
been standing up there on the edge
of the cut for a week?"
"Sure, yes, belongs to the tile
works. They're waiting for orders
to ship it"
"Well, the bank thawed and the
whole wagon fell down"
"On Drake?"
"It hit him and pushed him
under them cars Bill Hockinson's
been shunting around."
"Run right over him, eh?"
"No. It was just lucky Bill saw
what happened. He was going
slow. It just caught Drake as he
cams to a stop. Mashed him.
Otherwise it would have cut him
right in two."
TJR. GORDON looked, up from
the table where Drake lay in
the freight office.
"I'll have to have some help."
"What you going to do. Doc?"
Dr. Gordon didn't answer.
"Someone you, Davis, get me
some blankets and a half-dozen
sheets anywhere here In the
neighborhood, and be quick."
"I'll help. Doc Tell me what
you want" Sam Winters stepped
into the cone of light that tell
from the tin-shaded lamp hanging
over the table.
"All right Sam. I'll need some-',
body steady. Everybody else get.
out now. Quick."
TXD. GORDON turned toward the
door. "Will somebody stand at
this door and keep everybody
out?"
Til do that sir. Monaghan'
moved toward the door. "IH keep
'em out and, when you've finished
we'll take him over to my houm.
Just a few steps."
"Good. Now, Sam, let me tee."
Dr. Gordon proceeded with his
examination. -
"What'U have to be done, DocT2
"Amputation."
"His leg? Which one?"
"Both. Close to the hips. There's
a chance."
For nearly three hours both
men worked under the crude light
of the oil lamps. Then Dr. Gordon
folded the blankets about Drake
and stepped to the door.
(To Be Continued)
While it takes all kinds of
people to make a world, some
Kinds seem to be entirely too
many right now.
The secretary of the navy
should be kept plenty busy in
Washington where so many
things are at sea.
OUT OUR WAY
By J. R. Williams
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