Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 5, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Train Expecter By LAURANCE M. HARE Author of ‘‘ Special Duty,’’ etc. A NOVELETTE—COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE The station agent in the town where nobody came, and the strange train of events that was started when an invalid drifted in been sent down from the Junction to take the job of station agent at Richville. That was a job! In fact, it was about half a dozen jobs—pas- senger agent, freight agent, express agent, telegraph operator, train dis- patcher and ticket agent—all rolled into one. Some one with a vivid imagination and wunquenchable hope must have named the village, for it never had been rich, and when Johnny went down J een sr WEBSTER had just there it was deader than a halved angle- worm and the population were as poor as church mice. The old optimist who owned the railroad had never been able to sell it to the line with which it connected, and, like the fellow in the famous Irish yarn, he couldn’t let go because it was all he could do to hang on. He had built it when Richville, and all the other towns along its right of way, were young and when the region’s only industry, lumber, had been in swing. 594 CORMNICLOOOKS > (C@)