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Once he looked back and saw Shadrack leaning from the door of the boxcar. They waved excitedly to each other. "Stop!" yelled Andrews to Knight. Brown repeated the order. Knight, aroused from his intense purpose of forcing the last ounce of speed out of the General, shut the throttle. Brown gave the whistle a blast, and began twisting at the brake. Gradually the train lost its speed.
"If this wreck was intentional, and aimed at your invention, Tom," whispered Ned Newton, "it did not result as the wreckers expected." Tom scouted the idea suggested by his chum. And in a few moments they learned from a railroad employee that a broken flange on a boxcar wheel had caused the wreck. "So that disposes of your suspicion, Ned," said Tom, approaching the huge electric locomotive.
Now he hurried to pass down the train to a boxcar with an open door. He crawled in. As the train pulled out, he went to a front corner, sat down to pull off his shoe and place a neatly folded twenty-dollar bill on the inner sole. Whatever his future was to be, Shirley Wells was on his way. David Lannarck arrived in Chicago in the late afternoon.
"Ain't saying." "Wise, huh?" "Don't want to get sent back," said Jimmy. "Got a flop?" "Flop?" "Place to sleep for the night." "No." "Where'd you sleep last night?" "Boxcar." "Bindlestiff, huh?" roared the man with laughter. "No, sir," said Jimmy. "I've no bindle." The man's roar of laughter stopped abruptly. "You're a pretty wise kid," he said thoughtfully. "I told y' so," said Moe.
The horses stopped and the two watched in silence until the great red disc rose clear of the clean-cut sky-line. About the wreck torches flared and the night was torn by the clang and rattle of gears as the great crane swung a boxcar to the side.
Koa was waiting to give him a hand into the craft. The Planeteers were standing, except for Dowst. Rip had never seen an old-type railroad, or he might have likened the landing boat to a railroad boxcar. It was about the same size and shape, but had huge "windows" on both sides and in front of the pilot windows that were not enclosed. The space-suited men needed no protection.
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