The lonely station of Manzanita stood out, sharp and unsightly, in the keen February sunlight. A mile away in a dip of the desert, lay the town, a sorry sprawl1 of frame buildings, patternless save for the one main street, which promptly2 lost itself at either end in a maze3 of cholla, prickly pear, and the lovely, golden-glowing roseo. Far as the eye could see, the waste was spangled with vivid hues5, for the rare rains had come, and all the cacti6 were in joyous7 bloom, from the scarlet8 stain of the ocatilla to the pale, dream-flower of the yucca. Overhead the sky shone with a hard serenity9, a blue, enameled10 dome11 through which the imperishable fires seemed magnified as they limned12 sharp shadows on the earth; but in the southwest clouds massed and lurked13 darkly for a sign that the storm had but called a truce14.
East to west, along a ridge15 bounding the lower desert, ran the railroad, a line as harshly uncompromising as the cold mathematics of the engineers who had mapped it. To the north spread unfathomably a forest of scrub pine and pinon, rising, here and there, into loftier growth. It was as if man, with his imperious interventions16, had set those thin steel parallels as an irrefragable boundary to the mutual17 encroachments of forest and desert, tree and cactus18. A single, straggling trail squirmed its way into the woodland. One might have surmised19 that it was winding20 hopefully if blindly toward the noble mountain peak shimmering21 in white splendor22, mystic and wonderful, sixty miles away, but seeming in that lucent air to be brooding closely over all the varied23 loveliness below.
Though nine o'clock had struck on the brisk little station-clock, there was still a tang of night chill left. The station-agent came out, carrying a chair which he set down in the sunniest corner of the platform. He looked to be hardly more than a boy, but firm-knit and self-confident. His features were regular, his fairish hair slightly wavy24, and in his expression there was a curious and incongruous suggestion of settledness, of acceptance, of satisfaction with life as he met it, which an observer of men would have found difficult to reconcile with his youth and the obvious intelligence of the face. His eyes were masked by deeply browned glasses, for he was bent25 upon literary pursuits, witness the corpulent, paper-covered volume under his arm. Adjusting his chair to the angle of ease, he tipped back against the wall and made tentative entry into his book.
What a monumental work was that in the treasure-filled recesses26 of which the young explorer was straightway lost to the outer world! No human need but might find its contentment therein. Spread forth27 in its alluringly28 illustrated29 pages was the whole universe reduced to the purchasable. It was a perfect and detailed30 microcosm of the world of trade, the cosmogony of commerce _in petto_. The style was brief, pithy31, pregnant; the illustrations--oh, wonder of wonders!--unfailingly apt to the text. He who sat by the Damascus Road of old marveling as the caravans32 rolled dustily past bearing "emeralds and wheat, honey and oil and balm, fine linen33 and embroidered34 goods, iron, cassia and calamus, white wool, ivory and ebony," beheld35 or conjectured36 no such wondrous37 offerings as were here gathered, collected, and presented for the patronage38 of this heir of all the ages, between the gay-hued covers of the great Sears-Roebuck Semiannual Mail-Order Catalogue. Its happy possessor need but cross the talisman39 with the ready magic of a postal40 money order and the swift genii of transportation would attend, servile to his call, to deliver the commanded treasures at his very door.
But the young reader was not purposefully shopping in this vast market-place of print. Rather he was adventuring idly, indulging the amateur spirit, playing a game of hit-or-miss, seeking oracles41 in those teeming42 pages. Therefore he did not turn to the pink insert, embodying43 the alphabetical44 catalogue (Abdominal Bands to Zither Strings), but opened at random45.
"Supertoned Banjos," he read, beginning at the heading; and, running his eye down the different varieties, paused at "Pride of the Plantation46, a full-sized, well-made, snappy-toned instrument at a very moderate price. 12 T 4031/4."
The explorer shook his head. Abovestairs rested a guitar (the Pearletta, 12 S 206, price $7.95) which he had purchased at the instance of Messrs. Sears-Roebuck's insinuating47 representation as set forth in catalogue item 12 S 01942, "Self-mastery of the Guitar in One Book, with All Chords, Also Popular Solos That Can Be Played Almost at Sight." The nineteen-cent instruction-book had gone into the fire after three days of unequal combat between it and its owner, and the latter had subsequently learned something of the guitar (and more of life) from a Mexican-American girl with lazy eyes and the soul of a capricious and self-indulged kitten, who had come uninvited to Manzanita to visit an aunt, deceased six months previously48. With a mild pang4 of memory for those dreamy, music-filled nights on the desert, the youth decided49 against further experiments in stringed orchestration.
Telescopes turned up next. He lingered a moment over 20 T 3513, a nickel-plated cap pocket-glass, reflecting that with it he could discern any signal on the distant wooded butte occupied by Miss Camilla Van Arsdale, back on the forest trail, in the event that she might wish a wire sent or any other service performed. Miss Camilla had been very kind and understanding at the time of the parting with Carlotta, albeit50 with a grimly humorous disapproval51 of the whole inflammatory affair; as well as at other times; and there was nothing that he would not do for her. He made a neat entry in a pocket ledger52 (3 T 9901) against the time when he should have spare cash, and essayed another plunge53.
Arctics and Lumberman's Overs he passed by with a grin as inappropriate to the climate. Cod54 Liver Oil failed to interest him, as did the Provident55 Cast Iron Range and the Clean-Press Cider Mill. But he paused speculatively56 before Punching Bags, for he had the clean pride of body, typical of lusty Western youth, and loved all forms of exercise. Could he find space, he wondered, to install 6 T 1441 with its Scientific Noiseless Platform & Wall Attachment57 (6 T 1476) in the portable house (55 S 17) which, purchased a year before, now stood in the clearing behind the station crammed58 with purchases from the Sears-Roebuck wonderbook. Anyway, he would make another note of it. What would it be like, he wondered, to have a million dollars to spend, and unlimited59 access to the Sears-Roebuck treasures. Picturing himself as such a Croesus, he innocently thought that his first act would be to take train for Chicago and inspect the warehoused accumulations of those princes of trade with his own eager eyes!
He mused60 humorously for a moment over a book on "Ease in Conversation." ("No trouble about conversation," he reflected; "the difficulty is to find anybody to converse61 with," and he thought first of Carlotta, and then of Miss Camilla Van Arsdale, but chiefly of the latter, for conversation had not been the strong point of the passionate62, light-hearted Spanish girl.) Upon a volume kindly63 offering to teach astronomy to the lay mind without effort or trouble (43 T 790) and manifestly cheap at $1.10, he bestowed64 a more respectful attention, for the desert nights were long and lonely.
Eventually he arrived at the department appropriate to his age and the almost universal ambition of the civilized65 male, to wit, clothing. Deeply, judiciously66, did he meditate67 and weigh the advantages as between 745 J 460 ("Something new--different--economical--efficient. An all-wool suit embodying all the features that make for clothes satisfaction. This announcement is of tremendous importance"--as one might well have inferred from the student's rapt expression) and 776 J 017 ("A double-breasted, snappy, yet semi-conservative effect in dark-green worsted, a special social value"), leaning to the latter because of a purely68 literary response to that subtle and deft69 appeal of the attributive "social." The devotee of Messrs. Sears-Roebuck was an innately70 social person, though as yet his gregarious71 proclivities72 lay undeveloped and unsuspected by himself. Also he was of a literary tendency; but of this he was already self-conscious. He passed on to ulsters and raincoats, divagated into the colorful realm of neckwear, debated scarf-pins and cuff-links, visualized73 patterned shirtings, and emerged to dream of composite sartorial74 grandeurs which, duly synthesized into a long list of hopeful entries, were duly filed away within the pages of 3 T 9901, the pocket ledger.
Footsteps shuffling75 along the right of way dispelled76 his visions. He looked up to see two pedestrians77 who halted at his movement. They were paired typically of that strange fraternity, the hobo, one being a grizzled, hard-bitten man of waning78 middle age, the other a vicious and scrawny boy of eighteen or so. The boy spoke79 first.
"You the main guy here?"
The agent nodded.
"Got a sore throat?" demanded the boy surlily. He started toward the door. The agent made no move, but his eyes were attentive80.
"That'll be near enough," he said quietly.
"Oh, we ain't on that lay," put in the grizzled man. He was quite hoarse81. "You needn't to be scared of us."
"I'm not," agreed the agent. And, indeed, the fact was self-evident.
"What about the pueblo82 yonder?" asked the man with a jerk of his head toward the town.
"The hoosegow is old and the sheriff is new."
"I got ya," said the man, nodding. "We better be on our way."
"I would think so."
"You're a hell of a guy, you are," whined83 the boy. "'On yer way' from you an' not so much as 'Are you hungry?' What about a little hand-out?"
"Nothing doing."
"Tightwad! How'd you like--"
"If you're hungry, feel in your coat-pocket."
"I guess you're a wise one," put in the man, grinning appreciatively. "We got grub enough. Panhandlin's a habit with the kid; don't come natural to him to pass a likely prospect84 without makin' a touch."
He leaned against the platform, raising one foot slightly from the ground in the manner of a limping animal. The agent disappeared into the station, locking the door after him. The boy gave expression to a violent obscenity directed upon the vanished man. When that individual emerged again, he handed the grizzled man a box of ointment85 and tossed a packet of tobacco to the evil-faced boy. Both were quick with their thanks. That which they had most needed and desired had been, as it were, spontaneously provided. But the elder of the wayfarers86 was puzzled, and looked from the salve-box to its giver.
"How'd you know my feet was blistered87?"
"Been padding in the rain, haven't you?"
"Have you been on the hoof88, too?" asked the hobo quickly.
The other smiled.
"Say!" exclaimed the boy. "I bet he's Banneker. Are you?" he demanded.
"That's my name."
"I heard of you three years ago when you was down on the Long Line Sandy," said the man. He paused and considered. "What's your lay, Mr. Banneker?" he asked, curiously89 but respectfully.
"As you see it. Railroading."
"A gay-cat," put in the boy with a touch of scorn.
"You hold your fresh lip," his elder rebuked90 him. "This gent has treated us _like_ a gent. But why? What's the idea? That's what I don't get."
"Oh, some day I might want to run for Governor on the hobo ticket," returned the unsmiling agent.
"You get our votes. Well, so long and much obliged."
The two resumed their journey. Banneker returned to his book. A freight, "running extra," interrupted him, but not for long. The wire had been practicing a seemly restraint for uneventful weeks, so the agent felt that he could settle down to a sure hour's bookishness yet, even though the west-bound Transcontinental Special should be on time, which was improbable, as "bad track" had been reported from eastward91, owing to the rains. Rather to his surprise, he had hardly got well reimmersed in the enchantments92 of the mercantile fairyland when the "Open Office" wire warned him to be attentive, and presently from the east came tidings of Number Three running almost true to schedule, as befitted the pride of the line, the finest train that crossed the continent.
Past the gaunt station she roared, only seven minutes late, giving the imaginative young official a glimpse and flash of the uttermost luxury of travel: rich woods, gleaming metal, elegance93 of finish, and on the rear of the observation-car a group so lily-clad that Sears-Roebuck at its most glorious was not like unto them. Would such a train, the implanted youth wondered, ever bear him away to unknown, undreamed enchantments?
Would he even wish to go if he might? Life was full of many things to do and learn at Manzanita. Mahomet need not go to the mountain when, with but a mustard seed of faith in the proven potency94 of mail-order miracles he could move mountains to come to him. Leaning to his telegraph instrument, he wired to the agent at Stanwood, twenty-six miles down-line, his formal announcement.
"O. S.--G. I. No. 3 by at 10.46."
"O. K.--D. S.," came the response.
Banneker returned to the sunlight. In seven minutes or perhaps less, as the Transcontinental would be straining to make up lost time, the train would enter Rock Cut three miles and more west, and he would recapture the powerful throbbing95 of the locomotive as she emerged on the farther side, having conquered the worst of the grade.
Banneker waited. He drew out his watch. Seven. Seven and a half. Eight. No sound from westward96. He frowned. Like most of the road's employees, he took a special and almost personal interest in having the regal train on time, as if, in dispatching it through, he had given it a friendly push on its swift and mighty97 mission. Was she steaming badly? There had been no sign of it as she passed. Perhaps something had gone wrong with the brakes. Or could the track have--
The agent tilted98 sharply forward, his lithe99 frame tense. A long drawn100, quivering shriek101 came down-wind to him. It was repeated. Then short and sharp, piercing note on piercing note, sounded the shrill102, clamant voice.
The great engine of Number Three was yelling for help.
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