Show the signal by GRANT M SASSAMAN 0 mcclure New newspaper S abdicate adi cate service ciaci D ano and angry they lucked at each other over the front dour door threshold the trouble ith iou don Is that you dont want me ine to have any pleasure at all mary alary feldgus Fel dous hazel eyes snapped tire hut but the young man standing stolidly before her saw they were close to tears listen mary 11 he said quietly 1 I want you to have everything its possible for me to give but you yon must remember im a railroader and thebes always a certain alao of danger to face I 1 cant be running around every night to parties ind and shows losing sleep and then go out on my runs IM not dot tile the roads president irn im only a brakeman bra kenian perhaps Ier hapa you made a mistake e in n marrying tile mu mary lie he said his voice slightly bitter you were a accustomed to better things 1 don im tired of all of this mary broke in im fed up with ill p packing lunches clies staying here alone nights when you re away oil in a two day run im sorry mary A lump came into fonald donald Fel fieldons dons throat flir oat 1 I realize it had got you that bad lie ile turned and regarded ills his pretty wife search angly ly rut but if flow bow you feel maybe wed better call it quits if joure son re riot not here when I 1 come back tomorrow ill understand 11 As long a us 9 she could see him mary watched ills his broad bro 1 I shoulders moving rhythmically under the blue denlin denim jacket she experienced with h her er ebb ing anger a pang of remorse i and it all had begun with sith a jolting joking remark doti don made about her house dress it makes you look 1001 1 so domestic darlin darling he had said they had find been out late nt at a party the night before ind and she had just aist fallen asleep when tile the callboy cattle came hammering at the floor door then too she had planned to attend nellie robbins nob bins dance tonight she had slipped on an old dress cooked a hill hurried ried breakfast but all tile the while angl anger r brought on by dis appointment and fatigue je was ivas tearing fear ng at her then don had mentioned t the he dress domestic she had h ad flared slave you mean all ive been for tile the past two tano yeal sl 1 I suppose you wont like it don she said to him film hut bilt I 1 ini ill going to the dance tonight regardless regard lesi les ill c call al 1 up 1301 I 1 oh amos ames hell ile D take U ike me rob hoi ames of course she had gone around with boh bob before she had met don she never I 1 had ad eared cared much for ill him in slie she knew however that th 01 nob ames es cared for tier her and don knew klew it too from inger anger tind and regret marys emotions swung to the other extreme A grin gnawing wing fear took hold of her DI vorce she want a dv divorce orce don would realize she meant those things lings ti mid hed signal his for gl gi veness several times in the past she ila had stood here on the porch regret ting heated words and then she had leen een comforted hy by rons dons signal it had been ii sort of game with them the signal sometimes had bad been a wave of the hand at other times when don was busy inside the caboose or wa watching t sl signals 1 anis from the far side of the engine it was a handkerchief tied somewhere for her to see at the first sound of dons train mary was back bach on the porch it was a fast freight she gripped the porch rail with taut fingers as the engine came abreast of tile the house there were three men on the head fiend end was vas that don leaning against the farther side of the tender it be don won would be on this side waving to her it looked like don but iles hes back in the caboose mary told herself aloud as the engine roared by and the freight cars became alij suddenly blurred why give up tip hope don w let her down he would signal tier her from the caboose at noon donald feldon dropped down from the engine cab and waited for the caboose to come up standing there beside the tracks he swore soft ly to himself for having been too stubborn to wave to mary tie ile had seen her on the porch and there had been something disturbingly tragic in the way she had clung to the railing with weighted feet lie he swung aboard inboard tile the forward steps of the lazy caboose when it came up the shrewd of old I 1 ea eyes es of tile the gray haired conductor luncy survey surveyed ed him 1 I saw paw mary on the porch as we came by lie he said did you wave from tile the front end why cr shut up said the old man gently you or she or of been there like th that at when the hack rolled past you two had some sort 0 fuss I 1 saw it on your face as you hit bit the roundhouse im an old busybody I 1 see everything don sat down on a bunk while the conductor started for tile the rear platform muttering loudly well ivell I 1 guess the danged thing aughta be dry by now its been cangin rian in on the rail ever since we left the yards don looked out to see him film undo a large bandanna from the c caboose rail and tuck it in a rear pocket lie ile leaped up from the bunk was that on the rall rail when the hind end passed tile the house lie he asked stridently the conductor chuckled it was son unless it fell off and ran after the hack to tie tic itself back on A lump came up in dons throat busybody lie he managed to say youre a d n old angel lundy I 1 what I 1 t S subscribe for the reaper |