The Delights of Memory, II

(The lights rise on the freight yards in Mesa City. On one side, we see a field heaped with fine-grained coal, and, beyond that, on the same side, a small adobe bungalow used as a resthouse and office for railroad men. In the accessible interior of this bungalow, there are: an old woodstove; wall lockers; a plain rectangular table; some straightbacked, wooden chairs; a few railroad lanterns hung on the wall behind a square, heavy oak desk; a water pitcher with a glass draped over its spout; an old axe, and a poster with the rules of the resthouse. Upstage, toward the center, a well-appointed private car sits, on a track, in state. Beyond this, there is the vague outline of a large adobe building, the city train station

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