| Show A farmers dream of ilia IN sea HY BY Jr aih author the lud milk wann wagn etc copyright HOO vally story aub co it was a bmw iw month months after the open ins of the ok aboms trip strip A ire less scorching south wind wept swept the broad prairies of western kana kansas weary pilgrims discouraged in vain efforts effort to bold hold W baen wen en claim claims against lawlessness aau u murder were forced to halt belt their white tinged prairie schooners ners tor for the lot hot and sand like lava wai was too much alike fur for the bony drooping horses and the aurner numerous ois js unkempt th children ildren whose whoso brown face facts protruded in the cap gaps of white canvas oreen green were no where to be iteen en all vegetation had lone long since put on a mourning at f dead bran I 1 holds ot of lirot t black cora earn ball IT to lis iett atilid and ul mild ul due tu fl iati ur fir into the night ab u laugh plough conspiring Agal list the acts of nature the little ot or alowa which wa was oo loni ething a a rall roid center centers seemed the only thing alive for milea miles around As night came on uncertain taic lights becan to flicker from first on an and then mother another of 1116 dusl duaL sIck lck limans in one of these a milt small frame traine house rouie near ricia r the railroad track tracks lived old sol hur tan and his daughter I 1 we although the bo heit was wa oppressive oppre oppress csire Ire eliza ell had loil closed the doors and window windows to abut shut out a whirlwind of bind mind f roia thee tb tu time while whit about ahls b alom atik abu ho lanced glanced at the ati heiy aggy figure etim the window it wan was sol a accustomed arat eat he bould drw lite hi rickety old arm rm chair to the th closed window night after night staring out silently at the light lights along tb 11 track for or variety he rould Tr luce a tattered tatter wd not note book in which he the made many fl aurea the girl had no to need to aalt OL qi iriona she know the poor little tri tragedy gedy ct of its hi drean dreams bis his one creat great I 1 I 1 Z f I 1 k k il I 1 I 1 t r V N 19 I 1 I 1 is i I 1 11 r a A 1 1 4 V f t 1 al ass Z L t Z 4 4 r r v 7 1 I ba f zt w 21 r Z 1 I its the sea liza it a the see wb elming desire the sams which as a toy lad bad caused hira him to lein 1 idly on th the plow in the kansas corn fields and look out ocr the undulating prairie murmuring to his jailed jaded horses it jes looks like the sea a all through nil his lite he h had d i said k kid t t year if it times gro rows a atte better r I 1 11 a cohe sea sa Is fatu after he owned a small farm of mi Ms owa own and hot winds or drouth or continued season after niam at a son to wither and blast bis his straight ro ros ss of corn hope still kindled bis his eyes and he only said if oops Is good neit fear year ill III see tho sea he lie bad had married early as Is busom ary in small communities bit bis his wife lie had died after a year on the th desolate farm leaving a little daughter then after continued failures fal luree on the via place he haj had lust lost it on a mortgage and hid bad moved into the town ton where be he could pick up something doing odd jobs As all unusually strong blast of wind dished a fusillade of fine sand rand against IN window pane be he glanced up and met his lis daughters dr but sympathetic glance 1 I lie rot got it almost out inize 1 I could go on the freight to new york for SO e could raise about a hundred on the bouse house bouldi t we e and YDO yo could hive tho the reft rest to he an n till 1111 I 1 got back lou ou see I 1 n m gettin ettin old hit and if I 1 don t go pretty soon here his voice quavered fully and he shifted his knotty bands hands it I 1 don t go pretty soon ill no net er see the great ocean I 1 lie looked abo it the dimly lighted room and continue it its a su so grand they say t ay iy ballos of ot white fo amand if its iren green like thin thins s a crosla the eirl girl went eat 0 bokr or to his him and lifted one of his hands 4 gy with motherly trader riess neal e bae bao to altahlee lle nail she aslI atall ll me lad and jim te Is married and au mayb maybe then we can moat joecy y balter jim jita was the switchman who seest of ble lif lit in tae the high switch tot tover a fir low f ir blocks block from the hosee borne lie all thit waa heroic to I 1 1111 and BOW now she was baying laying yu yuo bluet loust ts t olag going over to the tacks or youl you bliss miss the train to welita and you 11 not get got ba bae bask sk ta tomorrow gorrow bleat it I 1 ga t that job in lite lies I 1 can car uw save enough money IB in a year to ro 50 tu th 0 vat atti H slat be warily wearily V yes aw you might she SS t i blau to the door as he was M aad and impulsively threw throw tee le arli his neck weis 1 I it go up to the lower tower with jlia and watch for you ae am you on pill poll in to ow nahl she tedd alu him so melq te lQ oa on jie he plat torta and ill ar av W rev 10 ilka to VA titi 1 tte glis I 1 A q 01 I 1 V 1 1 III hut ut perhaps lis if jost ai as awl 01 ol I 1 corn come back brazen fact like mally ferritt after she it 1 been to chi asoo go she ah ur the words ord of bir her hool ferchir a year wore before the be I 1 td ad unfolded a alin plIs 1 minded VIA 1 I to id to I 1 to aa a great city and earn br bar living alive up that lda idea and ct get married child the woman women bat ha 1 aid said it would li bs awful tor for you to learn the woid valid to know its ta dec lis and witnesses u and iti its how ilow much better it if you knew only one ot its it humbler sons who ho will five give you his hi 1 love and keep the light alive always in your eyes one whose soul out baa bat not been frozen by the world a atmos lil wt ere 11 lite lize had not en entillie tilLiy under understood stool but i the had gone horae home with to if ot of rest test geneava le neava to mend the clothe clothes and anti wash the dishes aud and to eriv to her very human go I 1 the inan intense bat b at ot of the next day ceded la in coaxing reluctant rain I 1 clouda clouds from the V et eat towards evening they drew very black and the little town it lt klows waa was cing U till rain game ot of the crop crops might yet be saved A neighbor had dropped in to aak ask atze if it she be thought it wai was I 1 really gain to rain it was wj almost time for her father a train to bo be passing the witch switch station and tho the cirl girl chafed under her caller callers larrel max alag drawn hta his gone clear daft out on lier tier farni farm tin tha woman per conversationally think the wind ll 11 ayin sayin things I 1 waa was out jut there and she he wa was a fright wl wt h her bair halt all atuck stuck full of sand and all the doon doors and windows wide open you could writ your name on the carpet why i ercy me it Is I 1 a it and I 1 d better hurry up to jim A 1 I 1 lui before il it gets uny any worse ad id blixt curtly leaving tier visitor talking to herself the rain aa pouting in torrents now and blinding fla anuhea of light were followed by ominous thunder once almost blinded and quite drat edth ith a wild echoing pil peal eliza halt turned lark lack murmuring audibly it has truck struck voine whores hut but tumbling stumbling on ahe she reached the toot of the tower as j the wind lulled in a aud sud den don curious calm A great quiet spread over the drenched earth and ai as altia climbed the stairs she he beard the rumbling of an approaching train like it wai was coming comina from both was w I 1 the girl reflected she bounded up the last stas fps calline calling the switchman sally by name and then she ah lood good ery tf still T the 1 11 man tm bad had fallen for forward aard aarow th the telegraph instrument 36 a though asleep one hand waa was outstretched toward the nearest lever his hi body waa was quite rigid eliza understood it wae was an n electrical shock hut but why as lin arm out u though in the act ot at throwing the switch to no signal had been ghen lien for the white light mean ins ing a clear track gleamed luridly below the sound of A train from the eat an answered sered her the oklahoma bearing hundreds of desmur aged squatters and speculators from the Terri territory tor was making str tight for the headlight of a freight it was too late to signal no now she must ditch one of the creat great fire pitting spitting man and no time must be lo 10 t jim had taught her aa as much as an he himself knew know regarding the use of tho witch ie leers era A ruh rush of thought swept the girl a brain laying lay ini before her mental vision a great moral question the freight bearing her aither and the email small crew stood arrayed against the teeming passenger ft ith its hundred hundreds of tuman lives I 1 oh god she cred cried out to her hu man god give me strength to ditch tte tle freight and sae the most lives then closing her eyes with a foolish Irs instinct that she might thus shut out the sound of the colliding trains she grasped the beer with tw two a a strong it rong brown hands standing thus she A was as staring cut out over the tracts with unseeing eyes when ben the switchman opened bis his to mingled cries of dumb brutes and wounded men were being borne up from om below together rl with the chickening kick hIck ening smell of burning food the girls prayer for strength to sacrifice her father had been answered the signal quick the el gnal was him she aas A as still clutching the iron nilza eliza turned her sombre eira upon bim him she waa was still clutching the iron tron the whole heart of things la is dead jim she u whispered hand in n hand hind they descended desi ended to the scene of the wreck borne townsmen bad had already carried old sol in a dying condition to his home he ile was clean road mad when we found him one of the men explained to jim and was braggin drag gin his poor brok 11 body to a pool of water the rain had made and all the tim time he be kept sayin it a the sea uze 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