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MAKING GOOD
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"Then I will. Why, you silly boy, I've loved you ever since I saw you lying hurt beside the track — loved you more and more every day — loved you this morning — love you now!"
' ' You darling ! " He had her in his arms again. "Now, I dont care what a hundred fathers say ! And will you marry me, my beautiful ? ' '
"Next year, sometime?" she queried, mischievously.
"No, girl. This year, and this month. Say 'yes'!"
She said it so softly that he had to bend his head to catch it, and their lips met in a long, plighting kiss.
"Dear heart," he said, "I bind your vow and mine with this ring. Its sacred associations will be proof to you of how deep and lasting is my love."
Becky touched her lips to the jeweled band on her finger, then, impulsively flinging her arms about Tom's neck, she kissed him tenderly.
' ' I hate to let you go, my darling, ' ' he said at last, "but your father will be back in a little while, so you'd better run along. Just one more kiss, to last till evening. ' '
As she tripped away, the foreman appeared from the doorway of the boiler-house.
"So it's no use telling you a thing once ! " he shouted.
Tom thought to pacify him. ' ' Now, dont get into a rage, and I '11 explain. ' ' -But Bourke was like a maniac when he let his temper dominate him.
"I tell you to leave my gal alone, and then I catch you kissing her! You cur ! ' '
He struck at Tom. The young man parried the blow, but a second came like a flash, sending him with force against an angle of the derrick. His forehead received the brunt of the impact. Stunned, he clasped his arms about an upright to keep from falling, and in this position Bourke left him, to find his daughter and to give his final warning.
Becky was only a few rods away, for she had stopped at the sound of her father's angry voice. Now he joined her.
"I believe you have hurt him !" she exclaimed, passionately, stamping her foot in anger.
"Well, I had to make him understand that he cant fool with my gal, ' ' he said, doggedly, somewhat abashed by her arraignment.
" He 's not fooling ! He asked me to marry him, and I'm going to!" she declared, defiantly.
' ' He asked you to marry him ? ' '
' ' Yes ; and gave me this ring. ' ' She held it up for his inspection. As she did so she chanced to glance in the direction of the derrick. An Exclamation of horror turned her father's eyes in the same direction. The sight was enough to make their blood run cold, and for a moment both were too shocked to move. The girl recovered first, and, with a piercing cry, dashed toward the derrick.
1 ' Wait ! Oh, wait ! wait ! wait ! ' ' she panted, as if her voice had power to stop the machinery that was gradually pulling her lover to his death. And she rushed madly on.
She had seen Tom reel as he stood
THE SIGHT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE THEIR BLOOD RUN COLD