. Ray Burton : a Chicago tale. car ac-cording to telegraphic instructions from thedespatchers office, but had kept no copy of themessage, so, when the car accountant traced thematter up, I was left with nothing to show whyI had sent the car away from its home lines;and my word, in regard to routing instructions,was not considered. I was constrained tochoose between paying the mileage and losingmy position, and I chose the latter. When the villagers heard that I was toleave, they wrote up and signed, without myknowledge, a petition to the general managerat Topeka, praying him to have me reinsta
. Ray Burton : a Chicago tale. car ac-cording to telegraphic instructions from thedespatchers office, but had kept no copy of themessage, so, when the car accountant traced thematter up, I was left with nothing to show whyI had sent the car away from its home lines;and my word, in regard to routing instructions,was not considered. I was constrained tochoose between paying the mileage and losingmy position, and I chose the latter. When the villagers heard that I was toleave, they wrote up and signed, without myknowledge, a petition to the general managerat Topeka, praying him to have me told me what they had done and gave mea duplicate of the papers. I thanked themheartily for their expressed interest in me, but RAY BURTON. 67 told them it would have no weight with railroadofficials. Ever since then I have had a tenderregard for those honest folks of Turnerville. After this misfortune there seemed to benothing for me to do but to return to Chicago,which I did very soon, and where I have CHAPTER IX. I HAD been gone less than a year, and it wasnot without some sense of chagrin that I re-turned so soon, but when I observed my moth-ers joy at having me with her, the vexations ofmy railroad experience were soon forgotten. In so short a time little changes had takenplace which were apparent to me, that no doubtescaped the notice of others. My mother, whosehealth was never fully restored after the shockreceived at the death of my father, was notice-ably thinner and paler. The silver in MissBaldwins hair showed very much plainer thanwhen I left,—in fact I do not think I had evernoticed it before. Grace Wentworth, whom Ihad always regarded as a little sister, I was as-tonished to find had grown too large to bekissed by me and had assumed coy and lady-like^ manners. She had made remarkable prog-ress in music in the past year, being almost amusical prodigy,—according to her teachersway of stating it. Mother remarked, casually RAY BURTON. DQ th
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