. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . Gallagher end of things, and it was re-marked that Minshew went no more tothe lunch-counter for his noonday it was remarked that Kitties badi-nage with the rest of us had taken on asharp little tang, as if she were makingus all pay for something that one of ushad done—or failed to do. Meanwhile, Lettie Brannan, the gold-en-haired, appeared to be getting in herwork. Minshew had been seen walkingher out to the mines on Nugget Mountainone Sunday afternoon, and later she tookto strolling down to the station with himnow and then in the evening. C
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . Gallagher end of things, and it was re-marked that Minshew went no more tothe lunch-counter for his noonday it was remarked that Kitties badi-nage with the rest of us had taken on asharp little tang, as if she were makingus all pay for something that one of ushad done—or failed to do. Meanwhile, Lettie Brannan, the gold-en-haired, appeared to be getting in herwork. Minshew had been seen walkingher out to the mines on Nugget Mountainone Sunday afternoon, and later she tookto strolling down to the station with himnow and then in the evening. Car-berry, whose girl in the east had brokenwith him to marry somebody nearerhome, touched it off rather the way of it! he Gallagher slapped him alive andmade a man of him, and now hes goingto marry the other girl. I know whatsthe matter—hes ashamed of old was agreed upon all hands that Timwas a drawback and that Kittie neededall of her wit and beauty and whole-someness to carry the handicap of her. 29 30 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE silly old father. In foniior days TimGalla^luM had ])vv\\ a (*i;vck drivci- offast trains and the ranking; man on theen;ineniens i)ay roll. Hut the drinkg(A him, and step by stc^p he had l)a(keddown the ladder that it had taken himthe best years of his life to climb. Past that, his wife had died whileKit tie was a mere slip of a girl, and afterthat Tim became a derelict. It w^asKittie herself—the grown-up Kittie—•who had pulled him measurabl}^ straightafter a number of the bad years, and itwas for her sake that Mr. Witherby hadgiven him a job as hostler—the man whogets the engines ready for the road andturns them over to the regular a man to be a hostler on the roadwhere he had once been the top-notcherwas a heartbreaking comedown, and attimes, when old Tim would get to think-ing too pointedly about it, he would takea sudden lay-off, and vague tales wouldcome drifting in from s
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