Young Giddings had been sitting there in a perspiration half an hour then; he copied for Martin Duffy that day. At noon they figured to get the last Templar over the Eagle Pass with the set of the sun. When Duffy took the key he never looked his force cleaner, only he was tired; Giddings could see that. The regular man had been sick a week and Martin had been filling in. Besides that, all Saturday, the day before, he had been spiking the line--figuring what could be annulled and what couldn't; what could be run extra and what could be put into regulars. Callahan had just got married and was going out to the Coast on his wedding tour in Bucks's car. He had refused to look at an order after Saturday night. Sunday morning, and from Sunday morning on, it was all against Duffy. When the Chief took the middle trick there were fourteen Templar Specials still to come with the last one just pulling out of McCloud on the plains. They were ordered to run with right of track over all eastbound trains thirty minutes apart all the way through. A minute after Martin Duffy sat in, the conductor of the train below registered out. There was a yell pretty soon, and away went the Baltimore crowd--and they were corkers, too, those Baltimore fellows, and travelled like lords. At five o'clock in the evening the trains in the West Division were moving just like clocks on the hour and the half--thirty minutes, thirty minutes, thirty minutes--and, as far as young Giddings could see, Duffy, after five booming hours, was fresher than when he took the chair. The little despatcher's capacity for work was something enormous; it wasn't till after supper-time, with the worst of the figuring behind him, and in the letting down of the anxiety, that Martin began to look older and his dry Indian hair began to crawl over his forehead. By that time his eyes had lost their snap, and when he motioned Giddings to the key, and got up to walk up and down the hall in the breeze, he looked like a wilted potato vine. His last batch of orders was only a little one compared with those that had gone before. But with the changes to the different crews they read about like this-- Telegraphic Train Order Number 68. Mountain Division. Superintendent's Office, August 8, 1892. For Medicine Bend to C. and E. of Engines 664, 738, 810, 326, and 826. Engines 664, 738, 810, and 326 will run as four Specials, Medicine Bend to Bear Dance. Engine 826 will double-head Special 326 to summit of Eagle Pass. First No. 80, Engine 179, will run two hours thirty minutes late Bear Dance to Medicine Bend. Second No. 80, Engine 264, will run three hours and fifteen minutes late Bear Dance to Medicine Bend. Third No. 80, Engine 210, will run four hours and thirty minutes late Bear Dance to Medicine Bend. J. M. C. D.