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I'm not running my neck into a noose of that kind. A cluster of red lights has been spread along the track before the blow-out. The engineer will see the signals and pull his train up -he has to, by law! No one on the train will be hurt, but the train simply can't get through!" "Oh, if the train is safe, I don't care so much," replied Reade, the color slowly returning to his face.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men," undoubtedly, and the tide in the affairs of Miles Milton and his comrades appeared to have reached low-water at this time, for, on the day mentioned in the last chapter, it began to turn, and continued for a considerable time to rise. The first clear evidence of the change was the "blow-out" of beans and oil, coupled with the change of prison.
But Father Wills had shown the Colonel the piece of dirty paper the Indian had brought on the night of the Blow-Out. "Trouble threatened. Pymeuts think old chief dying not of consumption, but of a devil. They've sent a dogteam to bring the Shamán down over the ice. Come quickly. "Reckon we'd better hold our horses till we hear from Holy Cross." "Hear what?"
It was at the three hundred and fiftieth mile that Tom had another blow-out. This time it took a little longer to change the wheel, and the red and green cars gained a full lap on him. The track was now so dusty that it was difficult to see the contesting cars. Many had dropped out, and more were on the verge of giving up. With the odds against him, Tom started in to regain the lost ground.
"We didn't let that fall through. It comes off on the breaking-up day, after the old boys' match. The Sixth are always invited in to have supper with the swells; but I know a lot or them would much rather be with us having a blow-out at 'Duster's. Well, that's the meaning of our literary society; the subscription is only two-pence a week, so you'd better join."
Chance for you, if you want it. Make a big thing of it lanterns, bonfires, fireworks, orchestra regular blow-out." Tom's breath came in gasps. "Why why " he stammered. "How could we how could we afford What ? How ?" Perkins threw away the stub of his cigar, chewed to a pulp at the mouth end. His eyes had an odd glitter.
He laughed as we pitched into a thousand foot blow-out that red man laughed beneath his inflated hood! "Look!" he said. "We must clear those refugees with a high lift." The Mark Boat was below and a little to the sou'west of us, fluctuating in the centre of her distraught galaxy. The air was thick with moving lights at every level.
"By Jove, that's lucky," said Brackenbury, "for I'll be hanged if I haven't got old Lady 's false dinner-set of ivories in my waistcoat pocket, which I should have forgot if you hadn't mentioned t'other things, and then the old lady would have lost her blow-out this Christmas.
It leaps monstrously across the blackness, alights on the precise tip of our nose, pirouettes there an instant, and swings off. Our roaring bow sinks as though that light were lead sinks and recovers to lurch and stumble again beneath the next blow-out.
"That's right you've been taking too much lately. It was a great old party, though, wasn't it?" Laura yawned and gazed listlessly out of the window. "Do you think so?" Not noticing her expression of wearied disgust, he went on: "Yes, for that sort of a blow-out. Not too rough, but just a little easy. I like them at night, but I hate them in the morning. Were you bored?"
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