Soon we had left this busy Train Town behind, and were entering the open country. The landscape was pleasing, but the real sights probably lay ahead; so I turned from my window to examine my traveling quarters.
The coach—a new one, built in the company’s shops and decidedly upon a par2 with the very best coaches of the Eastern roads—was jammed; every seat taken. I did not see My Lady of the Blue Eyes, nor her equal, but almost the whole gamut3 of society was represented: Farmers, merchants, a few soldiers, plainsmen in boots and flannel4 shirt-sleeves and long hair and large hats, with revolvers hanging from the racks above them or from the seat ends; one or two white-faced gentry5 in broadcloth and patent-leather shoes—who I fancied might be gamblers such as now and then plied6 their trade upon the Hudson River boats; two Indians in blankets; Eastern tourists, akin7 to myself; women and children of country type; and so forth8. What chiefly caught my eye were the carbines racked against the ends of the coach, for protection in case of Indians or highwaymen, no doubt. I observed bottles being passed from hand to hand, and tilted9 en route. The amount and frequency of the whiskey for consumption in this country were astonishing.
My friend snored peacefully. Near noon we halted for dinner at the town of Fremont, some fifty miles out. She awakened11 at the general stir, and when I squeezed by her she immediately fished for a packet of lunch. We had thirty minutes at Fremont—ample time in which to discuss a very excellent meal of antelope12 steaks, prairie fowl13, fried potatoes and hot biscuits. There was promise of buffalo14 meat farther on, possibly at the next meal station, Grand Island.
The time was sufficient, also, to give me another glimpse of My Lady of the Blue Eyes, who appeared to have been awarded the place of honor between the conductor and the brakeman, at table. She bestowed15 upon me a subtle glance of recognition—with a smile and a slight bow in one; but I failed to find her upon the station platform after the meal. That I should obtain other opportunities I did not doubt. Benton was yet thirty hours’ travel.
All that afternoon we rocked along up the Platte Valley, with the Platte River—a broad but shallow stream—constantly upon our left. My seat companion evidently had exhausted16 her repertoire17, for she slumbered18 at ease, gradually sinking into a shapeless mass, her flowered bonnet19 askew20. Several other passengers also were sleeping; due, in part, to the whiskey bottles. The car was thinning out, I noted21, and I might bid in advance for the chance of obtaining a new location in a certain car ahead.
The scenery through the car window had merged22 into a monotony accentuated23 by great spaces. As far as Fremont the country along the railroad had been well settled with farms and unfenced cultivated fields. Now we had issued into the untrammeled prairies, here and there humanized by an isolated24 shack25 or a lonely traveler by horse or wagon26, but in the main a vast sun-baked dead sea of gentle, silent undulations extending, brownish, clear to the horizons. The only refreshing27 sights were the Platte River, flowing blue and yellow among sand-bars and islands, and the side streams that we passed. Close at hand the principal tokens of life were the little flag stations, and the tremendous freight trains side-tracked to give us the right of way. The widely separated hamlets where we impatiently stopped were the oases28 in the desert.
In the sunset we halted at the supper station, named 25Grand Island. My seat neighbor finished her lunch box, and I returned well fortified29 by another excellent meal at the not exorbitant30 price, one dollar and a quarter. There had been buffalo meat—a poor apology, to my notion, for good beef. Antelope steak, on the contrary, was of far finer flavor than the best mutton.
At Grand Island a number of wretched native Indians drew my attention, for the time being, from quest of My Lady of the Blue Eyes. However, she was still escorted by the conductor, who in his brass31 buttons and officious air began to irritate me. Such a persistent32 squire33 of dames34 rather overstepped the duties of his position. Confound the fellow! He surely would come to the end of his run and his rope before we went much farther.
“Now, young man, if you get shet of your foolishness and decide to try North Platte instead of some fly-by-night town on west,” my seat companion addressed, “you jest follow me when I leave. We get to North Platte after plumb36 dark, and you hang onto my skirts right up town, till I land you in a good place. For if you don’t, you’re liable to be skinned alive.”
“If I decide upon North Platte I certainly will take advantage of your kindness,” I evaded37. Forsooth, she had a mind to kidnap me!
“Now you’re talkin’ sensible,” she approved. “My sakes alive! Benton!” And she sniffed38. 26“Why, in Benton they’ll snatch you bald-headed ’fore you’ve been there an hour.”
She composed herself for another nap.
“If that pesky brakeman don’t remember to wake me, you give me a poke39 with your elbow. I wouldn’t be carried beyond North Platte for love or money.”
She gurgled, she snored. The sunset was fading from pink to gold—a gold like somebody’s hair; and from gold to lemon which tinted40 all the prairie and made it beautiful. Pursuing the sunset we steadily41 rumbled42 westward43 through the immensity of unbroken space.
The brakeman came in, lighting44 the coal-oil lamps. Outside, the twilight45 had deepened into dusk. Numerous passengers were making ready for bed: the men by removing their boots and shoes and coats and galluses and stretching out; the women by loosening their stays, with significant clicks and sighs, and laying their heads upon adjacent shoulders or drooping46 against seat ends. Babies cried, and were hushed. Final night-caps were taken, from the prevalent bottles.
The brakeman, returning, paused and inquired right and left on his way through. He leaned to me.
“You for North Platte?”
“No, sir. Benton, Wyoming Territory.”
“Then you’d better move up to the car ahead. This car stops at North Platte.”
“What time do we reach North Platte?”
“Two-thirty in the morning. If you don’t want to be waked up, you’d better change now. You’ll find a seat.”
At that I gladly followed him out. He indicated a half-empty seat.
“This gentleman gets off a bit farther on; then you’ll have the seat to yourself.”
The arrangement was satisfactory, albeit47 the “gentleman” with whom I shared appeared, to nose and eyes, rather well soused, as they say; but fortune had favored me—across the aisle48, only a couple of seats beyond, I glimpsed the top of a golden head, securely low and barricaded49 in by luggage.
Without regrets I abandoned my former seat-mate to her disappointment when she waked at North Platte. This car was the place for me, set apart by the salient presence of one person among all the others. That, however, is apt to differentiate50 city from city, and even land from land.
Eventually I, also, slept—at first by fits and starts concomitant with railway travel by night, then more soundly when the “gentleman,” my comrade in adventure, had been hauled out and deposited elsewhere. I fully10 awakened only at daylight.
The train was rumbling51 as before. The lamps had been extinguished—the coach atmosphere was heavy with oil smell and the exhalations of human beings in all stages of deshabille. But the golden head was there, about as when last sighted.
Now it stirred, and erected52 a little. I felt the unseemliness of sitting and waiting for her to make her toilet, so I hastily staggered to achieve my own by aid of the water tank, tin basin, roller towel and small looking-glass at the rear—substituting my personal comb and brush for the pair hanging there by cords.
The coach was the last in the train. I stepped out upon the platform, for fresh air.
We were traversing the real plains of the Great American Desert, I judged. The prairie grasses had shortened to brown stubble interspersed53 with bare sandy soil rising here and there into low hills. It was a country without north, south, east, west, save as denoted by the sun, broadly launching his first beams of the day. Behind us the single track of double rails stretched straight away as if clear to the Missouri. The dull blare of the car wheels was the only token of life, excepting the long-eared rabbits scampering54 with erratic55 high jumps, and the prairie dogs sitting bolt upright in the sunshine among their hillocked burrows56. Of any town there was no sign. We had cut loose from company.
Then we thundered by a freight train, loaded with still more ties and iron, standing57 upon a siding guarded by the idling trainmen and by an operator’s shack. Smoke was welling from the chimney of the shack—and that domestic touch gave me a sense of homesickness. Yet I would not have been home, even 29for breakfast. This wide realm of nowhere fascinated with the unknown.
The train and shack flattened58 into the landscape. A bevy59 of antelope flashed white tails at us as they scudded60 away. Two motionless figures, horseback, whom I took to be wild Indians, surveyed us from a distant sand-hill. Across the river there appeared a fungus61 of low buildings, almost indistinguishable, with a glimmer62 of canvas-topped wagons63 fringing it. That was the old emigrant64 road.
While I was thus orienting myself in lonesome but not entirely65 hopeless fashion the car door opened and closed. I turned my head. The Lady of the Blue Eyes had joined me. As fresh as the morning she was.
“Oh! You? I beg your pardon, sir.” She apologized, but I felt that the diffidence was more politic66 than sincere.
“The car is suffocating,” she said. “However, the worst is over. We shall not have to spend another such a night. You are still for Benton?”
“By all means.” And I bowed to her. “We are fellow-travelers to the end, I believe.”
“Yes?” She scanned me. “But I do not like that word: the end. It is not a popular word, in the West. Certainly not at Benton. For instance——”
We tore by another freight waiting upon a siding located amidst a wide débris of tin cans, scattered68 sheet-iron, stark69 mud-and-stone chimneys, and barren spots, resembling the ruins from fire and quake.
“There is Julesburg.”
“And the others? Where are they?”
“Farther west. Many of them in Benton.”
“North Platte!” She laughed merrily. “Dear me, don’t mention North Platte—not in the same breath with Benton, or even Cheyenne. A town of hayseeds and dollar-a-day clerks whose height of sport is to go fishing in the Platte! A young man like you would die of ennui73 in North Platte. Julesburg was a good town while it lasted. People lived, there; and moved on because they wished to keep alive. What is life, anyway, but a constant shuffle74 of the cards? Oh, I should have laughed to see you in North Platte.” And laugh she did. “You might as well be dead underground as buried in one of those smug seven-Sabbaths-a-week places.”
Her free speech accorded ill with what I had been accustomed to in womankind; and yet became her sparkling eyes and general dash.
“To be dead is past the joking, madam,” I reminded.
“Certainly. To be dead is the end. In Benton we live while we live, and don’t mention the end. So I took exception to your gallantry.” She glanced behind her, through the door window into the car. “Will you,” she asked hastily, “join me in a little appetizer75, as they say? You will find it a superior cognac—and we breakfast shortly, at Sidney.”
From a pocket of her skirt she had extracted a small silver flask76, stoppered with a tiny screw cup. Her face swam before me, in my astonishment77.
“Nor I. But when traveling—you know. And in high and—dry Benton liquor is quite a necessity. You will discover that, I am sure. You will not decline to taste with a lady? Let us drink to better acquaintance, in Benton.”
She poured, while swaying to the motion of the train; passed the cup to me with a brightly challenging smile.
“But I am hostess, sir. I do the honors. Pray do you your duty.”
“To our better acquaintance, then, madam,” I accepted. “In Benton.”
The cognac swept down my throat like a stab of hot oil. She poured for herself.
“A vôtre santé, monsieur—and continued beginnings, no ends.” She daintily tossed it off.
We had consummated81 our pledges just in time. The brakeman issued, stumping82 noisily and bringing discord83 into my heaven of blue and gold and comfortable warmth.
“Howdy, lady and gent? Breakfast in twenty minutes.” He grinned affably at her; yes, with a trace of familiarity. “Sleep well, madam?”
“Passably, thank you.” Her voice held a certain element of calm interrogation as if to ask how far he intended to push acquaintance. “We’re nearing Sidney, you say? Then I bid you gentlemen good-morning.”
With a darting84 glance at him and a parting smile for me she passed inside. The brakeman leaned for an instant’s look ahead, up the track, and lingered.
“Friend of yours, is she?”
“I met her at Omaha, is all,” I stiffly informed.
“Yes, sir.”
“Never been there, myself. She’s another hell-roarer, they say.”
“Sir!” I remonstrated85.
“Oh, the town, the town,” he enlightened. “I’m saying nothing against it, for that matter—nor against her, either. They’re both O. K.”
“You are acquainted with the lady, yourself?”
“Her? Sure. I know about everybody along the 33line between Platte and Cheyenne. Been running on this division ever since it opened.”
“Why, yes; sure she does. Moved there from Cheyenne.” He looked at me queerly. “Naturally. Ain’t that so?”
“Probably it is,” I admitted. “I see no reason to doubt your word.”
“Yep. Followed her man. A heap of people moved from Cheyenne to Benton, by way of Laramie.”
“She is married, then?”
“Far as I know. Anyway, she’s not single, by a long shot.” And he laughed. “But, Lord, that cuts no great figger. People here don’t stand on ceremony in those matters. Everything’s aboveboard. Hands on the table until time to draw—then draw quick.”
“Her husband is in business, no doubt?”
“Business?” He stared unblinking. “I see.” He laid a finger alongside his nose, and winked88 wisely. “You bet yuh! And good business. Yes, siree. Are you on?”
“Am I on?” I repeated. “On what? The train?”
“Oh, on your way.”
“To Benton; certainly.”
“Do you see any green in my eye, friend?” he demanded.
“I do not.”
“Or in the moon, maybe?”
“No, nor in the moon,” I retorted. “But what is all this about?”
“I’ll be damned!” he roundly vouchsafed89. And—“You’ve been having a quiet little smile with her, eh?” He sniffed suspiciously. “A few swigs of that’ll make a pioneer of you quicker’n alkali. She’s favoring you—eh? Now if she tells you of a system, take my advice and quit while your hair’s long.”
“My hair is my own fashion, sir,” I rebuked90. “And the lady is not for discussion between gentlemen, particularly as my acquaintance with her is only casual. I don’t understand your remarks, but if they are insinuations I shall have to ask you to drop the subject.”
“Tut, tut!” he grinned. “No offense91 intended, Mister Pilgrim. Well, you’re all right. We can’t be young more than once, and if the lady takes you in tow in Benton you’ll have the world by the tail as long as it holds. She moves with the top-notchers; she’s a knowing little piece—no offense. Her and me are good enough friends. There’s no brace92 game in that deal. I only aim to give you a steer93. Savvy94?” And he winked. “You’re out to see the elephant, yourself.”
“I am seeking health, is all,” I explained. “My 35physician had advised a place in the Far West, high and dry; and Benton is recommended.”
His response was identical with others preceding.
“High and dry? By golly, then Benton’s the ticket. It’s sure high, and sure dry. You bet yuh! High and dry and roaring.”
“Why ’roaring’?” I demanded at last. The word had been puzzling me.
“Up and coming. Pop goes the weasel, at Benton. Benton? Lord love you! They say it’s got Cheyenne and Laramie backed up a tree, the best days they ever seen. When you step off at Benton step lively and keep an eye in the back of your head. There’s money to be made at Benton, by the wise ones. Watch out for ropers and if you get onto a system, play it. There ain’t any limit to money or suckers.”
“I may not qualify as to money,” I informed. “But I trust that I am no sucker.”
“No green in the eye, eh?” he approved. “Anyhow, you have a good lead if your friend in black cottons to you.” Again he winked. “You’re not a bad-looking young feller.” He leaned over the side steps, and gazed ahead. “Sidney in sight. Be there directly. We’re hitting twenty miles and better through the greatest country on earth. The engineer smells breakfast.”
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