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"Ah there, my beauty! any room for dead-heads to-night?" Patsy turned to his questioner, closed his train-book and held out his hand: "Always room for the Irish; where are you tagged for?" "The junction." "But we don't stop there." "I know, but I thought Moran might slow her down to about twenty posts, and I can fall off I missed the local."
He found them walking on opposite sides of it, examining each car by the light of their lanterns, and calling to each other the inscriptions on the little leaden seals by which the doors were fastened. These told where the cars came from, which information, together with the car numbers, and the initials showing to what road they belonged, Conductor Tobin jotted down in his train-book.
His days seldom dragged for want of excitement. When we got to Leavenworth, Simpson sent three of us ahead with the train-book record of the men's time, so that their money would be ready for them when they arrived at Leavenworth. Our boss's admonition to ride only at night and to lie under cover in daytime was hardly needed. We cared for no more Indian adventures just then.
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