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Updated: May 10, 2025
I heard them joylessly mention Wall Street to each other, and Saratoga; I even heard the name Bryn Mawr, which is near Philadelphia. But these fragments of home dropped in the wilderness here in Montana beside a freight caboose were of no interest to me now. "Looks like frogs down there, too," said Scipio. "See them marshy slogs full of weeds?"
Dave swung down from the caboose and looked round in the dim light for the stockyards engine that was to pick up his cars and run them to the unloading pens. He moved forward through the mud, searching the semi-darkness for the switch engine. It was nowhere to be seen. He returned to the caboose. The conductor and brakemen were just leaving. "My engine's not here.
Towards evening the party were once more safe and sound on board the Red Eric, where they found everything repaired, and the ship in a fit state to proceed to sea immediately. His Majesty King Bumble was introduced to the steward, then to the cook, and then to the caboose.
As everybody had fled from their own homes and shops to the church, this fire was not noticed until it had made headway. Then it was that the cries of Madame Thibadeau, who was confined to her bed in the house opposite, were heard, and the crowd poured down towards the burning building. It was Gautry's "caboose." Gautry himself had been among the crowd at the church.
We sat in silence on the oil-cloth cushions of the seats which ran along the sides of the caboose. Corcoran, the only person who shared the car with us, seemed to have some psychical consciousness of the peril which weighed down upon us, and moved quietly about the car, or sat in the cupola, as mute as we. There was no need for speech between my friend and me.
They did not seem, however, much to like being kept separate from each other, but Mr Randolph very wisely would not abate in any way the regulations he had formed. He allowed one of them at a time to go into the caboose to cook, for they did not at all approve of our style of cooking, and one of them, who spoke English, remarked that it was only fit for bears and wolves.
They were going up on the evening freight, and we loaded up a lunch-basket and went down to the depot to see them off in the caboose. The Braska crowd did their best to send them home full, and they were full, and nothing would do but we must go into the bar and drink Roederer with them until the conductor came rushing in to say all aboard.
He held aloft a white stick from which he had peeled the green bark, pointed to it, then cast it back towards them and pointed to it significantly. "There's a paper of some kind fastened to it," said Phil as he signalled that he understood. They gazed after the end of the caboose until the fluttering green flags faded out in the swirl of dust that pursued into the distance.
"Why, Shorty," gasped Si, "how did you git away with it?" "Easy enough," answered his partner. "I saw you fellers gittin' very busy over them pork barrels, an' all the train hands helpin' you. I meandered back to the caboose, gently lifted the back door offen its hinges, slipped down into the weeds in the ditch, an' kept under cover o' them till I was out o' sight.
'So help me God, me tink me see something; but ab so much salt water in um eye, me no see clear, replied Coco, rubbing away the salt which had crystallised on his face during the morning. 'What you tink um like, Coco? 'Only one bit cloud, replied he, entering the caboose, and resuming his seat upon the grate with a heavy sigh.
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