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Updated: June 27, 2025
Then I went to the railroad station to see the schedule, and I compromised with father by deciding to take the limited. The fast east-bound train had gone a little before, and the next one did not leave until six o'clock. They would give me half a day with my friends. When I returned to the hotel Dick was looking for me. He carried me off up-stairs to a hall full of men.
It is, all at once, absurd that I should ever have supposed that I was to reach La Paz, take the east-bound train and report at San Antonio. It seems to me that I knew, weeks ago, that our trip was to end thus. I knew it somehow in Sonora, while we were waiting orders, and I tell myself that if I had only stopped to really think of it I could have foreseen today's bloody business. "Later.
None of us was talkative that evening, but fervent good wishes followed me when I went out with the east-bound train the next day, and until the dusky pines hid her, closing round the track, I saw cousin Alice's slight figure with her face turned toward the departing train.
Within fifteen minutes after the arrival of the east-bound train, Moreton was sitting at the desk in his office, studying Miss Wharton's face. Della had been met at the train by Warden who now stood just inside the door of the office, watching her, admiring her self-possession. For Della was calm and deliberate.
Of all this Kent knew nothing, and was anxious in just proportion as the minutes elapsed and the time for the departure of the east-bound express drew near. For the success of the desperate venture turned upon this: that the receiver's special must leave ahead of the passenger train. With the express blocking the way the difficulties became insurmountable.
A partition wall bisects the tunnel into 'parallel sections, each containing a single track. The left-hand section, on which are east-bound tracks, is the one in which the telegraph wires run. The explosion wrecks the walls of the tunnel and breaks the wires. The only explanation that can be offered is that the compressed air cylinder on the car exploded.
"The sick man gasped: "'I left her in Philadelphia at the station. She had smallpox. It was from her I got it. I was a coward a cur. I left her to save myself. The money I had brought from home was nearly all gone. Ask her to forgive me. "He was dead that evening. The husband was then upon an east-bound freight-train.
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.
Now, in the distance, a schooner was visible, caught in the calm, her sails sagging, east-bound, for Malta or Suez, probably. Great steamers occasionally slipped past along the horizon line, their funnels smoking, their decks almost level with the water from the loads of Russian wheat they were carrying from the Black Sea to the Straits. And the sun rose high in the heavens.
Before the dazed train-hands could realize what was happening, the heavy locomotive of a west-bound freight that was passing the east-bound train at that moment crashed into the wreck. It struck a tank-car filled with oil. Like a flash of lightning a vast column of fire shot high in the air and billows of flame were roaring in every direction.
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