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"But the runaways won't pass Terryville, will they?" Alex exclaimed. "Won't the grades between there and Imken pull them up?" Saunders shook his head. "Ten loaded ore cars travelling at that rate would climb those grades." "Then they will be down here and in twenty or thirty minutes! And there's the Accommodation coming from the east," said Alex rapidly, "and we can't reach anyone to stop her!"
"X, X, X," rapidly repeated the sounder, calling Exeter, the despatching office. "X, X, X! Qk!" Alex and Saunders looked at one another with a start. Several times the operator at Indian Canyon repeated the call, more urgently, then as hurriedly began calling Imken, the next station east of him. "There must be something wrong," declared Alex, stepping to the instrument table.
"That's it!" he cried, and springing to the telegraph key, as soon as the wire closed, called Indian Canyon. "Have you any extra battery material there?" he sent quickly. "No. Why " Abruptly Alex cut him off and called Imken. He also responded in the negative. But from Terryville came a prompt "Yes. Why " "Have you one of those big stoneware water-coolers there?" "Yes, but wh "
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