THE DEPOT MASTER
By Joseph C. Lincoln
CONTENTS
THE DEPOT MASTER --
CHAPTER I -- AT THE DEPOT
CHAPTER II -- SUPPLY AND DEMAND
CHAPTER III -- “STINGY GABE”
CHAPTER IV -- THE MAJOR
CHAPTER V -- A BABY AND A ROBBERY
CHAPTER VI -- AVIATION AND AVARICE
CHAPTER VII -- CAPTAIN SOL DECIDES TO MOVE
CHAPTER VIII -- THE OBLIGATIONS OF A GENTLEMAN
CHAPTER IX -- THE WIDOW BASSETT
CHAPTER X -- CAPTAIN JONADAB GOES
CHAPTER XI -- IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS
CHAPTER XII -- A VISION SENT
CHAPTER XIII -- DUSENBERRY'S BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER XIV -- EFFIE'S FATE
CHAPTER XV -- THE “HERO” AND THE COWBOY
CHAPTER XVI -- THE CRUISE OF THE RED CAR
CHAPTER XVII -- ISSY'S REVENGE
CHAPTER XVIII -- THE MOUNTAIN AND MAHOMET
THE DEPOT MASTER
CHAPTER I
AT THE DEPOT
Mr. Simeon Phinney emerged from the side door of his residence and paused a moment to light his pipe in the lee of the lilac bushes. Mr. Phinney was a man of various and sundry occupations, and his sign, nailed to the big silver-leaf in the front yard, enumerated a few of them. “Carpenter, Well Driver, Building Mover, Cranberry Bogs Seen to with Care and Dispatch, etc., etc.,” so read the sign. The house was situated in “Phinney's Lane,” the crooked little byway off “Cross Street,” between the “Shore Road” at the foot of the slope and the “Hill Boulevard”—formerly “Higgins's Roost”—at the top. From the Phinney gate the view was extensive and, for the most part, wet. The hill descended sharply, past the “Shore Road,” over the barren fields and knolls covered with bayberry bushes and “poverty grass,” to the yellow sand of the beach and the gray, weather-beaten fish-houses scattered along it. Beyond was the bay, a glimmer in the sunset light.
Mrs. Phinney, in the kitchen, was busy with the supper dishes. Her husband, wheezing comfortably at his musical pipe, drew an ancient silver watch from his pocket and looked at its dial. Quarter past six. Time to be getting down to the depot and the post office. At least a dozen male citizens of East Harniss were thinking that very thing at that very moment. It was a community habit of long standing to see the train com