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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Well then, I wants the job. See!" "What's your name, youngster, and where is your home?" "My name's Dick Durstine; I hain't got no home, no father, no mother, no nothin', just me, and I wants to learn the tick tick business. It looks dead easy."
Sure enough, forty minutes later the despatcher's wire closed and this message came: "To Bates, DS: "Attempt to hold up No. 21 in Ashley's cut was frustrated by the sheriff's posse. Outlaws had placed ties on the track in case we did not heed the signal to stop. Two of them killed, three captured and one escaped. Dick Durstine is here, badly shot through the right lung.
Will have him sent in from Sicklen on 22 in the morning. "Stanton, Conductor." The next morning when 22 pulled in I went down and there, laid out on a litter in the baggage car, was Dick Durstine, my former call boy, weak, pale, and just living.
Pretty soon the sounder began to open and close in a peculiar shaky manner, and then I heard the following: "To 'DS, gang of robbers goin' to hold up the flyer in Ashley's cut to-night. They will place rails and ties on the track to wreck train if they don't heed signal. Warn train to watch out and bring gang out from Sicklen. This is Dick Durstine."
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