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Updated: June 18, 2025
"The best they can do is to go on horseback to Marietta and telegraph to Atlanta for an engine to pursue us. But they can't telegraph ahead of us! At Kingston we'll meet the regular freight train, which is traveling against us. While we're standing in the yards the door of the box-car must be closed. Do you understand?" "Yes!" shouted the men. "Hop aboard then!"
It's a box-car, with one end rigged up with bunks as a boudoir for me and Windy, and the rest of it fitted out as a private stateroom for Emily. "From that time on, for quite a spell, we're just the same as one big happy family, as we goes a-jauntily touring from place to place. "We're playin' the Big Time, which means week stands and no hard jumps.
Mechanically, and as one man, they rushed to the rear platform. The mock cannon stood where it had been thrust; but in the camp street a handful of men were wrestling madly with the pipe fuse-carrier, breaking it, wrenching it in pieces, and stamping futilely upon the snake-like thing hissing and spitting under their feet. "Look!" sobbed Adair. "They know they've discovered that box-car!
And the temporary station is almost completed," he added, glancing from the window toward a box-car which had been lifted from its trucks and placed on a foundation of ties beside the main-line tracks. Alex promised gladly. It meant the coming of Jack Orr and Wilson Jennings.
Ain't these six-figured Los Angeles telephone numbers the limit? When you call 208972 or something, it sounds like paging a box-car. I was going to ask you over. Ma had cooked a lovely mess of corned beef and cabbage. Anyway, you come eat with us to-morrow night, will you? She'll have something else cooked up that will stick to the merry old slats.
Scott went directly to the telegraph office, and after sending his message hunted up food and quarters for his beast and a sleeping-bunk for himself. At daylight he was astir and sought breakfast before making inquiries and riding back to his party. On the edge of the camp stood a sort of restaurant, made up of a kitchen tent with a dismantled box-car body as an annex.
Its windows were blanketed with flour-dust, but it was the most stirring spot in town. Workmen were wheeling barrels of flour into a box-car; a farmer sitting on sacks of wheat in a bobsled argued with the wheat-buyer; machinery within the mill boomed and whined, water gurgled in the ice-freed mill-race. The clatter was a relief to Carol after months of smug houses.
Down in a box-car camp between the railroad and the canal the boy called for "Jose" and there presented himself immediately a tall, studious, solemn-faced Spaniard of spare frame, about forty, dressed in overalls and working shirt. Here was even less a criminal type than the boy. "Senor," I asked, "did you go to the dance in Miraflores last Saturday night with this youth?" "Si, senor."
Break her loose, and let's get to camp as soon as we can. Those poor devils back in the box-car are about dead for sleep and a square meal." Ford's hopeful prophecy that the snow battles were over for the season proved true.
Sometimes we see a dozen shots come from it, all at once." "Olsen, I've an idea," returned Kurt, excitedly. "You fellows keep shooting attract their attention. I'll slip below, climb on top of a box-car, and get a rake-off at that bunch." "It's risky, Dorn," said Olsen, with hesitation. "But if you could get in a few tellin' shots start that gang on the run!"
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