The Young Engineers in Arizona - Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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child lives with somewhat distant relatives, in a New England town. Tim
sends all his spare money to her, and so the child is probably well looked after. Tim told me, with a big choke in his voice, that, if the Man-killer had swallowed him up, it would have been all up with the little girl, too. When money stopped coming the relatives would probably have set the child to being household drudge for the family. Tim has a round dozen of different photos of the child taken at various times." "Then I'm extra glad we got him out of the Man-killer," said Tom rather huskily. "I knew you'd be glad, Reade. You're that kind of fellow." "Tim Griggs, then, is probably one of our steady men," Tom remarked, after a while. "Steady! Why the man generally sends all of his month's pay, except about eight dollars, to his daughter. From what he tells me she is a sharp, thrifty little thing. She pays her own board bill with her relatives, chooses and pays for her own clothes, and puts the balance of the money in bank for herself and her father." "Does Tim ever go to see her?" "Once in two years, regularly. He'd go east oftener, but it costs too much money. He'd live near her, but he says he can earn more money down here on the desert. Tim even talks about a college education for that idolized girl. She looks out just as sharply for her daddy. Whenever Tim is ready to make a trip east, she sends him the money for his fare. The two have a great old time together." |
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