coffee-fire

Updated: July 23, 2025

Men in relays were eating at the camp and dynamiters were picking their way across the face of the Cat's Paw with the giant powder. The engineers were still at their coffee-fire when the scream of a locomotive whistle came through the cañon from below. Blood looked up. "There's one of the fast mail engines, probably the 1026. Who in the world has brought her up?"

Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman - The Daughter of a Magnate