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Updated: June 18, 2025
At least, the locomotive had the power to move, and to the unknowing ones, at least, that seemed a great and wonderful thing. What they saw was apparently a box-car like a mail coach, only with more high windows ten feet wide, its roof more than fourteen feet from the rails, its locked pantagraph adding two feet more to its height.
Casting a glance toward the little station to assure himself that all was quiet there, Wilson retraced his steps to the switch, removed the lantern, and tucking it under his coat, was off between the material-cars for the farthermost corner of the sidings. The outermost car was a box-car.
Accepting the offer he was taken to a little restaurant and given a good supper, and before it had grown much later he had a ticket and was aboard the train bound for the town where his friend was at work. Austin had taken opportunity while waiting for the train to change his clothes, and he now presented a much better appearance than when he was sitting by the little box-car fire.
It was some cleaning. Every flat-car, box-car, coach, asthmatic switch engine, and even hand-car that mob of Spiggoties had shoved off the dock into sixty feet of water on top of the Governor Hancock. They'd burnt the round house, set fire to the coal bunkers, and made a scandal of the repair shops. Oh, yes, and there were three of our fellows they'd got that we had to bury mighty quick.
Were not Ruth and her father picnicking in a hired villa, with half their household goods in a box-car at Morfordsburg? and was not Jack still living in his two rooms at Mrs. Hicks's? The only change suggested by the lovers was in the date of the wedding, Miss Felicia having insisted that it should not take place until November, "FOUR WHOLE WEEKS AWAY." But the old lady would not budge.
Kurt peered forth to make sure of his bearings, and at length found the high derrick by which he had marked the box-car that he intended to climb. He could see plainly, and stole up to his objective point, with little risk to himself until he climbed upon the box-car. He crouched low, almost on hands and knees, and finally gained the long shadow of a shed between the tracks.
But Trevison and Levins were intent on escaping a victory would have been hollow for the thud and jar of their boots on the bare floor had been heard; doors were slamming; from across the street came the barking of a dog; men were shouting questions at one another; from the box-car on the railroad tracks issued vociferous yells and curses. Trevison slipped out through the door, panting.
He planked them down regardless of contents, and ran off to the station. It was an old discarded box-car shoved on a siding to do duty as ticket-office and freight station. The girls hurried out to the car platform and Barbara asked: "Nolla, why don't you call the porter?" "They never had one on this line!"
They missed their train and expect to be here on to- morrow's noon-train. What is your name, may I ask?" "Jeb," laconically replied the man, looking about as if he still missed a necessary item for the return trip. "Oh! I guess you want my baggage. It's that small trunk over by the box-car," explained Anne, and Jeb grinned with relief.
In another hour or two, she will be housed in a box-car; and we, her crew, having again donned the garb of landsmen, will be speeding toward our northern home, this pilgrimage but a memory. Such a memory! As we dropped below the Towhead, the Boy, for once silent, wistfully gazed astern.
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