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"He'd lay out about a dozen ordinary men without half trying. But, ordinarily, he is the most mild-mannered fellow who ever lived." "He will come back, if he is let alone, as harmless as a kitten," Tom observed. "And when I am not with the Hercules Three-Oughts-One, and while I continue making my tests, Koku will be on guard. You might tell your police force, Mr. Bartholomew, to let him alone.
Face just as pleasant as a bulldog's!" "You said it. I'm afraid of that man. I shall not have a moment's peace until you have handed the Hercules Three-Oughts-One over to Mr. Bartholomew and got his acceptance." "If I do," murmured Tom. "Of course you will, if that Lewis or his henchmen don't smash things up. You are not afraid of the speed matter now, are you?" demanded Ned confidently.
"If some road tries to build anything like the Hercules Three-Oughts-One for the first two years without arranging with the Swift Construction Company, you know that that railroad can be made to suffer in the courts, and you are the boy, Ned, to put them over the jumps for it." "Sure," grumbled his chum. "It's always up to me to save the day." "Exactly," chuckled Tom.
"I have the best equipment of any electric locomotive on the rails today. I am sure of that," he said. "The Hercules Three-Oughts-One is not as long as those electric locomotives of the C. M. &. St. P. But that's all right. I have built mine more compactly and, properly geared, it should have all the power of either the Baldwin-Westinghouse or the Jandel locomotive."
Of course, under ordinary conditions, two miles a minute for a locomotive and train of heavy freights would burn up the track maybe melt the flanges and throw everything out of gear." "Why try for it, then?" demanded Mary. "It is the power suggested by the possession of such speed that we want in the Hercules Three-Oughts-One.
"Oh," said Tom, laughing, "I do not deny the value of old friends at any stage of the game." "Bless my roving nature! I am glad to hear you say that. For I tell you right now, Tom, I want to be out there when you make your final test of the locomotive." "Do you mean that you will go West when I take out the Hercules Three-Oughts-One?" cried Tom. "It's just what I want to do.
"I can scarcely believe, even, that it is going to suit you, Mr. Bartholomew, even if the speed test is as promising as I hope it may be." "Humph!" "But before I shall be willing to throw up the sponge and say that I have failed, I shall monkey with the Hercules Three-Oughts-One quite a little on your tracks." "Your six months isn't up yet," said Mr. Bartholomew, more cheerfully.
"The way he ran when Koku started after him that time on the Waterfield Road seemed to prove that he didn't want to mix with Koku." "If he or other spies learns that Koku is with the Hercules Three-Oughts-One, it ought to warn them away from the locomotive." This was Ned's final speech before getting into his berth.
"Two-miles-a-minute is the target I have aimed for. Whether I have hit it or not, well, time will show. I have got to try the locomotive out on the tracks of the H. & P. A. in any case. The Hercules Three-Oughts-One has been dragged a long distance, and has been through at least one wreck. I want to see if she is all right before I test her officially." "I'll arrange that for you," said Mr.
She jumped de rails, side-swiped de accommodation dat was holdin' us back, and has jest done spread herself all over de right of way." "My goodness!" gasped Ned. "Hear that, Ned?" exclaimed Tom. "Scramble into your clothes, boy. The Hercules Three-Oughts-One is hitched to Forty-eight." "Suppose she's off the track?" murmured Ned.
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