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His reputation for judgment which by some is deemed the highest of human qualities was impaired; and a man who in his time had selected presidents of banks and trust companies could certainly be trusted to choose a parson particularly if the chief requirements were not of a spiritual nature. . . A week later he boarded an east-bound limited train, armed with plenary powers.
In the twenty-four hours since that young man went to join the army last night, one hundred and eleven of our young men students have left our walls; eighty-four of them went off together at three o'clock to catch an east-bound train at the junction and enlist for the Navy at Newport. We are, I say, in danger of a stampede."
I was by this time on the canal almost at my ease as a driver; but here I flocked by myself like Cunningham's bull, instead of mingling with the crowds of boys whom I found here passing a day or so in idleness, while the captains and hands amused themselves as sailors do in port, and the boats made contracts for east-bound freight, and took it on.
Rhodes's declaration that the institution was eminently fashionable and desirable, and her father had committed her with the greatest confidence and good-will to the conductor of the east-bound Lake Shore express. And it was to her aunt that the girl was now looking, after an obscure and wistful fashion, for an introduction into society, in which, according to the belief of the family, Mrs.
I recommend you to let them see that aggomplishment in a friendly way. Maybe a shooting-match mit prizes I pay for them pretty soon after you come. Und joodgement und joodgement. Here comes that train. Haf you well understand?" Upon this the two shook hands, looking square friendship in each other's eyes. The east-bound, long quiet and dark beneath its flowing clots of smoke, slowed to a halt.
The freight would lie here for an hour or more, until the east-bound passenger went by. Claude left the car and walked slowly up the platform toward the station. A bundle of little spruce trees had been flung off near the freight office, and sent a smell of Christmas into the cold air. A few drays stood about, the horses blanketed.
"Where is he?" she cried in alarm as he rushed with her across the intervening space to the coveted "east-bound." "I'll tell you all about it when we get inside this train," he answered. "I think Brown is where he can't telegraph to head us off any place along the line, and if we once get into Indiana we are comparatively safe. Up you go!" and he lifted her up the car steps.
By following this up a mile or so they reached a narrow point; but even here, burdened as they were, swimming was out of the question. "The only thing to do," said Stern, "will be to wait till the tide backs up and gives us quiet water, then make our way across on a log or two" a plan they put into effect with good success. Mid-afternoon, and they were on their way again, east-bound.
As the east-bound train pulled in from the bridge, coming to a stop on the track beyond the west-bound train, Crosby commanded his erstwhile captor to climb aboard the blind end of the mail coach. "Geewhillikers, don't make me do that," groaned the unhappy Brown. "Get aboard and don't argue. You can come back to-morrow, you know, and you're perfectly safe if you stay awake and don't roll off.
Our hero's vaguely formed plan, as he neared the station, was to take the first east-bound train and make his way to one of the great camps of mobilization, either at Chickamauga, Georgia, or Tampa, Florida, where he hoped to find some regiment in which he could conscientiously enlist.
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