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Upon my arrival at General Butler's headquarters, I learned that Bixby had left on foot. As the troops were at work in re-laying the track, there was no danger. Indeed, the small squads of men who had burned bridges and torn up tracks disappeared with the arrival of troops.
He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process called double pickings. The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the prison.
If the pursuers waited here for such a complicated piece of work as this tearing up and re-laying of the track, they might lose the race altogether. Were they merely running on in an aimless way? Not by any means. They had not gone very far before the freight train which Andrews had encountered at Adairsville came groaning down the track.
"What on earth are those fellows doing?" he continued. "Re-laying the road, perhaps." "One doesn't re-lay a road by making a deep hole in it." "Well gas!" "Gas and electric light mains in this street are all led along a special conduit reached by manholes every eighty yards," said Champion. "There's no need to dig." "Well drains!" said I vaguely. But I was a mere child in the hands of this expert.
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