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A quick grip on George's hand, and Roger climbed into the car. Inside, a moment later, he looked out through the window. By a trainman with a lantern, George stood watching, smiling up, and he waved his hand as the train pulled out. The next morning on his arrival in town, Roger went to his office.
Then as the guard went along the platform slamming the doors, a boyish face poked its way into the aperture of our compartment. "Hello, Louis," said he, addressing one of the workmen. "Hello, Louis, you here, too?" "Eh bien, cette fois je crois quon y va! Hein?" Our door closed and the trainman whistled. "Bon voyage!" shouted the boy through the window. "The same to you," replied the other.
"We'll have to get into Ashton and report this." "And somebody has got to pay for the biplane," said Tom. "I don't see as it is our fault," answered the trainman, and then he gave the order to go ahead after it had been ascertained that the track was clear. "We'll ride to Ashton with you," said Dick. "No use of staying with this wreckage," he added, to his brothers.
I would not like the train to pull out without us. Look at the babies! Both asleep. Perhaps I can move them without wakening them." But already Elizabeth had taken up the baby in her arms and was at the step of the car. As she waited for a trainman to help her on, she caught bits of the conversation between two men who stood on the rear platform of the smoker.
From her, Trueman and the other passengers, including the Coal and Iron Police, learn of the plot to wreck the train and of the heroic effort made by Sister Martha and the widow herself, to avert the calamity. Trueman starts in quest of Sister Martha. Accompanied by one of the trainmen with a lamp, he reaches the scene of the explosion. The trainman discovers the body of Martha.
"But it doesn't seem quite like " Vera's remark was interrupted by the trainman, who opened the door and shouted, "Glenmore! Glenmore!" "I guess it did look like it," Vera said, as she sprang out on the platform, followed by her three laughing companions. Marcus was waiting for them. "Yo'-all git in, an' we'll git dar as quick as we kin.
Stonaker," said Patsy when he had been admitted to the general manager's private office, "I have a favor to ask. I want you to give a friend of mine a job. He's a switchman, and a good trainman, but he will not take the place of a striker." "Can you vouch for his honesty, Patsy?" asked the official. "I think I can."
Observing that the trainman was holding his light over the side of the car and peering down at him, Teddy ran along on all fours until he was out of sight of the brakeman, then he straightened up and ran toward the rear of the train as fast as his feet would carry him, while the railroad man began climbing over the cars again, headed for the caboose at the rear.
The crew of the combination sat on their bunks, panting in their shirtsleeves, and Cheyne found himself among them shouting old, old stories of the railroad that every trainman knows, above the roar of the car.
During the interval West End men from the general superintendent down were admittedly on edge with the exception of Conductor O'Brien. "If I go, I go," was all he said, and in making the statement in his even, significant way it was generally understood that the trainman that ran the pay-cars and the swell mountain specials had in view a superintendency on the New York Central.
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