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THE BOYS OF NEW YORK.
High, Low, Jack, und Der Game.
Written, composed and sung by Gus WiLttama,
You've beard my of
vel eiremacti tine te fear dot game,
der vay ‘ter bay 4s dis vay—
Cuorvs.
Tit beg, vell, E can't ive you voue,
Tilrua dem off mit you,
i bunch der pack, 1" d6 it now,
Tie hearts (to lovers true);
erete dee f 1oW= Fi dake your Jack,
\d den det spot, dot
My king'¥as igns thy dree vas iow
Dot's high, low, Jack, und der game,
1m playing bucha Pm no foot,
arnt dot yeurs ago;
Peaniueniod exo io bly .
cer, gribbage, mugzins, £00,
‘rye aisogalned great fame;
But now I've learnt the best of all—
igh, low, Jack, und der game.
‘Teg, vell, I can't give you vone, ete,
ee
“STANLEY'S BOY MAGICIAN; OR, LOST
IN AFRICA,” BEGINS IN THIS NUMBER,
ree
NEW STORY WILL BE COMMENCED
IN TWO WEEK!
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on No 624 of Tae
8 ous cle univers can be obtined from
WANS (ADI;
The Best Engineer on the Road.
By ALBERT J. BOOTH,
thor he “ De Frozen North; or, Ten Years
vozen De ineer
in th
‘Steve, “ "The hs ‘han nd in ie Air,
Bob; oe) The be of th
“ Auwars Reany’' wos
“ Engineer Dise
CHAETER VIL
save a THe VERY NICK OF TEE,
“Wen made our run in good
time and a fa porteoe Sey
* Yes, Joo, but we'll Lave to round the Pine
night.”
“Oh, that’s nothing, Tom, I know the place so
pel now, that T believe I could round it with my
Ino wonder they call you Always Ready,
to be,
Joe!
“Well, Lt
will obsérve t
* You oan dep ait that I will, while I
have 60 good a1 le before me.
It was in the Sard ee Stony Cove, after Joc’s
first complete run since the accident that this
conversation was helt
‘oo seemed even more attached to Tom sinee
tno latter had become his fireman than before,
Gnd everybody noticed it,
‘om Was proud,to have the very best engineer
e orthora road show him such at-
most
om, and I hope that you
fo acquiga technical knowledge and to ‘please
am ott Of wie he asamed to be haviog an
abundant measure of su
They had a longer time to remain in Stony
Cove than they had formerly had, but Joe spent
the greater part of it in overhauling the engine
With Tom to help him, so that the lator might
ecome more intimately acquainted with t
bronator under bis barge.
fter dinner, as Tom and Joo wore walking
along the. Paasipal sire of the town, Joe said
ore thore's Urquhart again. Ho sooms lately to
be more in Stony Cove than in Fenwood.”
“ Ho's interested in mines, and owns big tracts
of laud at Tom's Bend, Hullabaloo, Guess Not
and Dry Gaj
“Funny names these miners give to their set-
HHoments, don’t they?” remarked Joo with a
Jn
Yes, for thore's Gimblet, Bucksww, Broadax,
Hard Nut and Horizon, besides th 9 ots, mils
there are no end of funny names to camps bac
from the line of the ro
1 young meu had now passed the building
where thoynnd. soon Mfr. Urauhart disappent
but whon thoy had gone a few pacos beyond it
the man appeared gt 8 window, looked down the
at
nay
and ma urge you.
been with you isl, ‘oat it will aot be always,
‘At six o'clock the oxpress left the station and
rattled away on the run home.
Half an owe previous to that time, however,
bad seen Sutphen, the conductor,
aii seid to hen
thon you think you can manago it?”
light and in wy son’s light,
Fou don't step asido, thors
has
“And you can rely on him?
“Pesfoclly, | Ho was afraid at frst, but I've
half roan him around,
done, or I cannot promise that
your position hore shall be rian or that a
vacancy will } ever be found for hii
“Tt will. bo done, +
“Ane ia sumoloat”
Ata quiot tation. “in the woods, where only
one or two passenger ‘on and no one
PE the train, ‘Sutphen, the conductor, came up
to the engine accompanied by a man of medium
fine, wearing a full brown benrd, lange slouched
at, and a suit of coarse blue fl:
atathis is ono of the engineers ‘of the Southwost-
ern, Joo,” said Sutphen, “and he would like to
ride’ on’ the senate particularly when you go
the o1
ara voll ‘well, in" "said Joe, but you must un:
dorstand that I can’t talk when
ders y duty forbids it”
sh, eottainly," answered the other in a gruff
he climbed up and took a eatin the ead,
atsies began to wonder where he had heard
that v
as they were start
‘saves elm t you before?”
“ me 2
floss ‘nof, unless you were on that road
rexel Ko, ‘never was and yet—what nome did you
2 'siller. I’m off on a vacation, seeing the
different roads.”
Ff
“ out re on the angen he asked, just
ing of
the cab, so that a close {nspection c oi
as he cailed himself, was impossibl le.
Now and then Joo asked his
tm ordor to hear bis yoico and s wei in his
whither he had seen the
Miller always answered
possible,
hoise going on, so that Joe was as mu
as ever to identify his tones,
Maas fow words as
know anything,” mused “T know him as
for the lifo of 1
now It mas eo dati that, Joo gave
make out who the man was,
his various dutie
* After we pass the bridge a tntle or so furthor
on,” he presently said, “we run along a short
distance and then corte to the big bend, one of
the grandest sights
‘tes, 90 Eve heard.
isn’t every engineer that can take a
rain ‘ovor it olden” 6 poke wp
a bet you w wouldve 0 it,
1 eng
went on with
. Miller
ras
Joo Max-
well ay day in the week
i
Ih
wis
ty what made both ‘Joo and Tom start so ‘violent
when they heard those words?
iy yetwasinoy the e expression itself, but the voice
which uttered it.
hat voice was not Miller's, but was that of a
totally different person.
peaed Hogers}” erled Joe and Tom ina
“Yes, Ned Rogers!” cried the other, spring: |
ing between the enginoer and fireman,
throwing aside his thick beard and big bat.
("Tim golng to kill you, Joo Maxwell he hiss-
6 sprang upon Joe and caught bim by the
titeat.
wate Steuagled, Heresly, and Tom sprang for-
jard to assist.
Ww ogers Teleasell oo for'an instant, tured upon
Tom furiously, struck him on the head with
some blunt instrument, and hurled bim back into
the.tender on a hea|
‘The whole thing tras dons in a morn
‘Then Rogers sprang at Joe agatt it th latter
was about to sound an alarm.
The two men clinched, and a desperate strug-
gle
‘Once they reeled against the botler-head, and
as they rebounded Rogers caught at the throttle,
and opened it to its full exten
“Curse you!” hissed the villain,
Twill wot fle”
Then he dragged Joo toward _the step as it to
throw him from the train, Joe all the while
struggling desperately.
Ob,
groam wnted his feot firmly an
put tomb ail bis stromgth to avoid the threatened
“This time
alam
But ogors pas Gesperato, and with a sudden
movement, Joo to ‘the front of the cab
and then iio 0 Uift nim trom his foo
ack was toward the opening and he
must tara to sooomplieh his F
‘the train was now dushing along at liehtning
speod, and presently it thundered on to the Swift
Creek’ bridge.
At that instant Rogers had swung Joe halt
around.
In another moment he would have been buried
from the cab,
A fecling of intense horror swept over the
young engineer’s soul, and in a second he felt
himself grow as strong as’a fion.
brought the other around with a quick move-
nt, threw back bi shonid rs, took one long,
d down, shook off
aud oxerang all ite trengii
suddenly lifted biti clear aod hurled biar out ai
the side.
Thoro was a shrick, a swift form shot straight
between the iron trusses, and then came
plunge.
Long before that, however, Joo, bad fallen
senseless floor, the reaction having
n more than he could endure.
*erhus ie was that tho old switeh-t tonder at Swit
Creek saw the night express shoo! nthe
‘rings of the wind with no ne to control or direct
it
lny senseless on the cab floor in front of
Joe
thy engine, while Tom lay helpless in the tender |
ate o
"Suddenly a hot coal drops from the furnace
and rolls dangerously newr Joo’s outstretched
ban:
realize what has hal
feel
“ ot i haven't seen that fellow somewhore then | steam rus!
the woods and there was not ety much light in |sounds a ‘ick, sharp al
Mr, Muller, [ously
and generally, when there was some speed was rod
ruzzled | with Joo standing at bis post, thi
‘At last they had passed through tho woods, but | to
up trying to| to dest
| re
Godt Suro me from thie awful death» in f
trai
He starts up with a sudden ery and trios to
pened.
‘ora moment all is a biank, but suddenly he
1s the enane give a lurob,
uz in a dense cloud.
Tm grently mistaken,” thought ‘Tom Farrand, | For an instant the road ahead is seen cloar ond
as he furtively watched the stranger from time distinet, and then itis shut out {rom his sight,
to. mee in! Weare on the curve!”
However, tt was dark while passiug through | He sprluse'to the lover a drives in the throttle,
mand glances anx-
The 3 danger has been averted in the very nick
a uestion of time,
a | oo pean God that I was ready!” murmure
9 devoutly.
‘The brakemen sprang to thelt places, the awful
cal, and now Billing swiftly o
around th bend, the mountain
0
“If that fellow’s voice Jan't assumed, Idon't|toniug in tho m moontbelt, the valleys iyiug. dink
To:
and silent in the somber shade, the train lights
well as I know ‘myself and yot I ean't place him twinkling like stare ‘and the engine amp sending
ad glare over the iron path which now louse
prataty andl not, as but a few minutes before,
truction.
‘Once more Joe's life has been spared as if bya
miracle.
CHAPTER | Vur.
HOW JACK URQUHART LOST HIS TRAIN,
s the oxprose all right?”
“fess assed through here a few minutes
TW as Maxwell in charge?”
“ Cortain)
“And nothing had*happened?”
‘Yom Farrand. | ago.
MTR)
leit A
Wee
i
"Not that I eoutd bears. rae
‘above eonversation, ‘or more properly,
communication, was beld ‘operator
at Simonson’s ahd the ‘operator at Jacksda's by
means of the telegr:
After Joe’s traie had Ro! ne thundering by, with
never a hand to guide it, the old switch- tender
ad hastened across the bridge and ran on to
Simonson’s as fast as his aged limbs would take
in.
“Did the express stop here?” he asked of the
ngent, in breat
ov nor at the bridge olther, and that's what
thought strange.”
“Did you notice anything wrong when it went
“T wasn’t out, for it doesn’t stop here, only at
the bridge
« Wellsit wont over the bridge, past my station
and through Swift Creek Village at lightning
peed, right for the great bend, with never soul
ia nthe engine.”
“What! ‘Then it'll be smashed to atoms,”
‘Just what T thing. Gallup the opernior at
Jackson’s and ask him what bas happened.”
‘Thon tho Instrument was set to going and the
communications above given were sent back and
«I don’t understand it,” muttered the old man,
‘but I'm glad that al 43 safe, and then ho re-
turned to his post, concluding not to eay any-
thing about the strango vision te had seen.
%
3
z
2
his attention to Tom, wi
suit lay uneonscious in the tender,
“Pho villain has killed him,” be eried, as he
bent over Tom and touched his forehead, which
vas cold and
damp,
ot hi is felond’s pulse and found
sagt beat, though fa intly.
ed Joe earnestly. “ Thank
Heaven for that.”
Then he loosened Tom’s ‘collar and cravat
dashed some cold mater in his faco and iitted
bim into a more comfortable posi
Ho was still weak and oxcited hims
action from his former fletitious strength while
tarting with his desperate foo having not yet
Peto dosies to do Tom a sorvice, however, sus-
tained him, and, to his unspeakable relict, his
friend resent moved, opened his eyes, raiged
imgelf a litte, and murmur
“Oh the wana Ho will iaurder oor Foe
and Ta not move a hand ‘OR save him
“es all right, Tod. nate," eried Joe,
“How do you feel?
are safe?” cried Tom, starting up
e gory.
ered J
Gone r "epoated the @ he Sreminn, “Gone where?”
, 88 the remem-
branee vot that teeing eo coniict en eame back to him.
“At any rate, ho will not trouble us again to-
2
Ese
ar
e,arose,and with Joe's help, walked to
the cab and took his seat, the foun ove noe
saying that hotwould look ‘dfter
for the naxt fei miles.
‘They wont through “Tackson's, stopping a mo-
ment only, and as Joo did not think it necessary
to say aati about hig sfgbt, the station agent,
of course, suspected
Attar this there wa ro ne stops, and the
Feawood on time, Joo housing bia
triple a ‘and then seeing Tom saiely home before
he went to his own boarding-plac
As he en
srhile the escaping | in the general siging-room and saw him 0 up-
tered the house Sutphen was standing | wi
all
e's coma out of another sera
Wonder what's beco:
right eh?
@ asked Joe, bi
like to hav
comfortable fellow to have around ultor all that's
happe
Foe acarcoly slept a wink all night, he
wea 80 prostiited with nervous excltomenty and
again and agnin he reviewed the terrible in
donts of the night and wondered what fat
ree daa th ing him.
the Urquharts seek my death?” he mut-
“They are wicked enough to do almost
nnytbing, but this seems beyond thelr wicked-
ness, pven,
‘When he went down to breakfast ia the morn-
|, and took nothing
roil, feeling no appetite
0 the'office, saw Mr. Fessenden,
vot ‘hn ‘what had happened.
ince don't give mea hundred for last night's work
ty eeeand got strung up to
is all right, at ‘Sout "swing with me,
u forget it,”
te admout the sitiek ef locomotive was
eat
“Confourid it!” muttered Jack, you've made
miss my tra
CHAPTER Ix.
DOWN TRE 81
AFT.
THE express ran o1 out on time and Joe Maxwell
was at bis post as
duck Urqubart was act on board but, Jong ber
fore the train reached Stony Cove, Mr. U
received word that his son bad m
“Well, Lean do the business arithout lin,”
muttered the president, “and he’
me in the other matter,
thould recommend Joe Max
business.
w thut T could not have done other- | mon enough, and besides, he had changed it the
"he said io conclusion, “but tuo shriek | last time f saw him, Well we wont jbave any
Joo wretah Hm Trom the | more trouble from that source I susse
cab, haunts me yet.” ihe the train reached Stony Cove, Joo saw
“hou musty’ Jet tt, Joo,” sald the eupert r. Urquhart standing on the iiattorin, and as
tendent, kindly. “It was Pio, and the trai came to a halt, the president beckoned
your life
I'm sure yours is {ndlaitely nore valuable, Take | to
Sr thi
my advice and go armed alter Here, there's
a Fovolver of my own that you can have,” It's
true asa rifle, and never misses f1
is u
t can he want?” thought Jog, coloring.
a | “Cag no have made up his mind to atone for the
giving a few general directions to Tom,
cout, descended from the cab aud
ane is Maxwell, I belleve?” said the
septleman quietly.
16,” said Joo, resolving to appear as cool
as Me. Urqubare bit
“Mr.
ssenden hi oe ro of yor
havaa litie mattar of bupincas tat Eta’ _
to look after for me. Will you step down the
street a ite?”
hey paused in front of the building that Joo
had eced the procident enter the oo previous,
and then went inside, the gentleman leading the
ay £0 a quiet office on the ground oor.
8a
creda moe ol
r. Urguhart
ood thine {for 5 vo too. You
on't object to the smell of tobacso?®
“Not at all.”
“Then I will fight a clgar tayselt, since I can’t
mpt you,” and
clean then
in silen
0 light a choles
“io for several m!
uth,
interested in
ute
ho said at len,
in reference to the mines north of
You ‘know, I suppose, that I am
it can this have to
do Wee added ts bimeeh “Can be
trea to igadre i allogother
and to pretend not
to know me?”
“ Well, my overseer at the Blizzard Mine, four
miles from’ here,” continued the other, “js, I
Suspect, playiog & sharp game and making tuise
returns.”
“ Of what possible interest ean this be to me?”
mused Joe, “That has nothing to do with our
affairs.”
“In fact,” Mr. Urqubart went on, “I am ¢
To vepres thar fhe. wield ot ore is greater than vent
be, and that he bas bee
cretly shipping ‘allver Gullion te the Hast without
felting me know
ing to BS own
R
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=
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&
&
5
2
&
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=
aS
ee
a.
as always handled
ut of lute the shipments have
The two men clinched, and a desperate struggle began. | Once they recled against the boiler-head, and as they
rebounded Rogers caught at the throttle, and opened it t wa
its full e:
“Thank you, si,
bs
things,” sald Unover damp,
amt
sumably disinterested party to the | "blizzard,
therefore, to see how things are going.
“Indeed?”
boon recommended to me as a
great shrowdnese and common
fore haves determi
. ht ne
SIS |
Fell, youd better do ba an ae ie
people know it, too, and y a Ja
n't be molested alter this. >.> x .
weWell, you may be neh ee
gineer, as
ekenting the *bulding ‘he tnt a sae] 08 3 ae toag Fou a BtO/nreEg ane RTS
0 flus! pd then turned. mist ‘at ehgut 0 trusted.
ickly by Without a word.
nin that gully look,” mu
jack know of the attom:
Bives Tull rein to bis f Passions 1”
‘That morning, soon alter his meeting with
Zoo, Juck telegraphed in cipher to his futher at
Stony Cove, the m , When translated, read-
“ Another falture, Joe safe,
What next 2”
Halt an hour before tho time for the express to
start, Tack Foc elved the foliow!
Rogers disappeared.
1 has som
oats Tttve could
ould be al Tight, but. ho won't
Tt was nearly train time and Jack was making
his way aloog the main street of Fenwood on bis
way to the station, when suddenly he heard somo
ono eall his nau
Ginnelog around his eye caught a Ngurestand-
ing in a doorway a fow steps down a narrow
Alley which, at this point, ran off from the main
street,
‘,Come here, Jack, T want to speak to you.”
ker was Phil Jones, and he seemed
terribly agitated about something.
“What is it, Phil?” asked Jack, stepping down
the alley,
«, Nat do, you suppose has happened ?s
many things, I sappose,” said Jack,
stl “ eae if you've got yt to say to me,
out with i, for 1've no tiwe to los
A has?”
What! Ta town again
si Nes, and he's pretty wall used up, He is ine
side and wants to see
“What did the fool ant to come here for?”
“Why, {t's the safest place. Joo hasn't said |
anything, and
ung aroun:
thing was up,
Well, well,
taliing T’ve got to
nobody suspects him here. If hu
imonson’s folks would think some-
to cateh the
exp!
‘were standing in tho doorway of a shab- | to
byclooking house wotel appeared to be a sort of
accept
ténement, and had very little air of respectability
about it.
Suddenly some one came out at the door balf
way gown the ball and said:
© to see a fellow, have yon, Rood
Jack? ante Job | inst night nonrly Uueed me up. I
ot, chucked in the river, and it wonder I
Wasn't drowned. I managed tq swim to shore,
ugh.
eT thought you know how to earry out a Job
Mico this, Ned” anid Jack, taking a step down the
dark and, airty ball, n't you go prepared?”
en, of course, but T Torn tasking mio, and then
a6 etrongor than J thought. #e ebucked me
oaane b bridge a as though I'd been ~ Lea
in by the early tain this morning. Dae m roady
to emigrate, and if you'll give me some money
Pll get out,”
“Give you game,” mult ered Jack, with an un-
easy lay "you're in my debe now.”
el
“ hace all roe Me Urquhart,” fail Rogers,
m
L suppose so, but I can't stand
w
“Can this be the beginning of an atonement
r the past?” mused Joe, “ Well, if 80,
ontent. "Botter a Settlement than ‘this eternal
wartare. Twonder it Jae
“Now, I intend to send you to Hemmond, my
gvergeor, with & note $0 oat all wilt be ataaiehe,
Iwill represent you as m: sls You
oust note care fully what amount ot bullion is on
band a
mately, of course.
men at work, how ‘many shafts have been sunk,
whether there appears to be any preparation for
Ebipping bulion, Mand, if you eaa,-give the books
an overhaul
But Iam not acquainted sufficently with
these matters to be able to notice so much ina
wil be there longer than tbat,” said the
preside, Taugtiog “Why, E expect you will
“at least. It’s
be supplied during your absence,
go at once. drive over or, Detter yet,
fikeratinin on the other. Tone, Ibe ons
starting in a few minutes. By the wey you will
need money for your expenses. Hore fs ep-ngh
to last you'a couple of days, and when oa want
more don’t hesitate to draw oume. You might
Tun down to Fenwood on Saturday and make
your first rej ore
All this Mr. “Urquhart rattled off, volubly
ugh, meantims hurrying Joo ont ot the ob
flee and across the street to the station of a road
comnecting with the Northern,
In fuct, almost before he knew it, Joe found
himself in the trains bis ticket in vee bate band, a
weil-fliled purse in Ket, an
stunding on the lnttorke outside prishiog him all
sorts of luck as the train sped
“Hm! his sta a fonger than h
ines,” mruttored Mr, Urquhart aa tho trat 3 dees
peared in the dist If Hammond follows
ing instructions i my yous B teiend gril have @
bard and a to-night,
whieh there wi be no awakening,
all, perhaps have misjadgo
<e the of a truce,
aay come of I t
‘ah, Jos, it sou knew the contents of that note
in your pocket you would not be so confident,
hs
, trusting that only
and inquired the way to the Blizzard mine
izzard, eh?” returned a rough-looking
follow loitering about the station, "lt lies over
it tho road the man attempted to draw Joe
into conversation, and ns m if he bad an}
interest Ta the Dilzza
” said Joe, shortly, fearing that the man
might be triend ily to the rascaily overseer; “I've
errand—that’s all.’
art ie
appeared terribly worn and baggard.
merely como over on an
“Oh, that’s it, eh? It’s to the boss,
" Yes,” said Joe, in a tone that too plainly indi-