Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 11, 1925 — page 124: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

By DON WATERS WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS 1 AND II EB WHITE, a farm youth, gets a job firing a locomotive through the influence of Jim Brown, a railroader. His visions for an engineer’s berth give him hopes that he may win the hand of “ Itchy-Witchy,” a farmer’s daughter, so called on account of her peculiar name inherited from her Welsh forbears. He takes Jim’s place one day while Jim is sleeping off the effects of liquor, and the _ train is wrecked. Zeb is injured, but finally recovers and returns to duty. He feels that he is mak- ing progress with Itchy-Witchy, but his home conditions worry him. His father has been caught moonshining and sent to jail. His mother and sisters, mountain-bred, mistrust the city where he has brought them to live, and return to the mountains. Zeb risks his life once more for his old friend Jim Brown—this time to save his job as well as his life, for Jim, raised to be an engineer, all but lets his boiler blow up through negligence. Zeb rakes the fire and before the superintendent next day takes the blame for the burned boiler. He fears that his railroad career is over. CHAPTER XV. (Continued) FOR A FRIEND. SILENCE, strained and tense, fol- lowed his words. He stared de- fiantly from one to the other of the amazed faces before him. His heart felt as heavy as lead, and yet he stood un- flinching, shoulders squared, head thrown back, listening for the sentence that would mean the end of his ambitions. For a full minute not a sound came from the three men who watched. The boiler maker sat, staring straight up into his face. Zeb noticed his expression of amazement. The shop foreman with incredulous eyes, This story began in the Argosy-Allistory Weekly for June 27. 278 ECOMIEDOOKS: