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Updated: June 26, 2025
The round trip on this day was made without any shots being fired by the enemies, though at least twenty bush-raiders were seen drawn up in sight of the train, as it wound its way through one of the gloomiest spots of the entire route. One of the disreputable looking party waved a red cloth on the muzzle of his short-barreled carbine as they whisked past. "Look out for to-morrow," said Jack.
That the bush-raiders had put it there to wreck the train he had no doubt. Just then the train gave a sharp lurch, and the reports of firearms pealed above the din of the moving train. Instantly the bell cord was pulled vigorously three or four times. Plum Plucky was in trouble. The Attack on the Train
A Narrow Escape With the wild cry of Fret Offut and the exultant yells of the bush-raiders ringing in his ears above the thunder of the rushing train, Jack North heard the ominous crash, of the descending bowlder, and saw with a dazed look its swift approach. The locomotive, throbbing and panting like a human being in a race for life, was fairly flying along the winding track.
"You say the road is all in Peru?" "Yes, in Southern Peru. It runs through the nitrate regions. Bless me if I don't think there is a fortune in those mines if properly worked. "Say, Jack, if you are dissatisfied with the money you are making here there is an opportunity for you. You are young and full of fire, just such a rash head as the bush-raiders like to get hold of.
They were swiftly approaching the foot of a high bluff, upon the top of which he had discovered a dozen of the bush-raiders looking down upon him. But they were not the most startling part of what he saw and heard.
It is necessary to keep the road open if Peru hopes to hold the country, and the company are doing their best, backed by the government. They have had as many as twenty men on in the last six months. "The three men on before me were killed by the bush-raiders, and the one before the first of them fell off and was killed while running the gantlet of fire set by the fiends."
They pretend to favor Chili, but they are merely using that for a cloak, and are robbers of the worst class, outlawed by all governments. Of course you know that Chili and Peru are at war?" "I have heard of it." "Well, these bush-raiders, pretending to favor Chili, are making hot times all along the St. Resa.
Zig-zagging about, always keeping his eyes open for bush-raiders, wild beasts, and, above all, for the strange island, he had spent four days in the wilderness, when he felt that it was time for him to think of returning to civilization.
In this dangerous prospect every passenger left the cars at this place, but the order came for the train to go on if a suitable escort could be raised. In twenty minutes as many armed men were waiting a start, though, as Jack looked over the motley party, he realized that not one of them would be worth a fig in a fight with the bush-raiders.
"Speculating, Plum. I have been thinking several days of a scheme in which I believe there is more money than in running an engine for bush-raiders to run down." "I'll bet you're going to speculate in that dirt I put round the don's plants." "You got it right the first time, Plum. "Ginger! going to raise coffee? 'Cause of you air I can give you a pointer." "No; you are on the wrong track now.
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