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We're due to pick up the second section anywhere between here and the end-of-track." "Slow it is," said Hector. "I'm no hog, if I do take a little swill now and then: I know when I've got enough." This was at ten-forty, while the night was still young.
He had reached a point at which his job was not worth as much as it had been. "I have just brought Miss Adair back from the top of the pass, where we met Mr. Frisbie, my chief of construction. I wished to ask him if he thought the track was safe for your car, and he says, most emphatically, that it is not. I can not take the responsibility of sending the Nadia to the end-of-track."
It was the third day out from Cherubusco, the station at the foot of the mountain; and in the eight-and-forty hours the engine, plow and crew of twenty shovelers had, by labor of the cruelest, opened eleven of the thirteen blockaded miles isolating Saint's Rest, the mining-camp end-of-track in the high basin at the head of the pass. The throttle opened with a jerk under the superintendent's hand.
It so happened that my duties had taken me up to the actual end-of-track by this time some miles beyond our headquarters camp at Flume Gulch and I was there when the special, with its observation platform crowded with sightseers, came surging and staggering up over the uneven track of the new line.
Obsessed with the idea that Dorgan had chosen the time to make his "clean-up," I took no chances after the end-of-track camp was reached. The money valise went with me to the mess tent, and I ate supper with my feet on it, and with the big revolver lying across my knees.
It ignored the stalled freight train, and Ford's rapid clickings spelled out an order. Frisbie was to drop everything else, and constitute himself the president's avant-courrier to the end-of-track camp, which, at the moment, happened to be the MacMorroghs' headquarters at the mouth of Horse Creek.
He dismounted somewhere behind us and covered them with sacking." "What for?" she asked, shivering again with the nameless dread. "You recall what I was saying when the broncos shied: his object was to creep up behind us and listen. He has done it more than once since we left the end-of-track, and this time " "Yes?" "This time he heard what he wanted to hear."
A precious half-hour was lost in ascertaining that the wire connection to the end-of-track was temporarily out of commission; but during that half-hour Mr. North had held his chin in his hand to some good purpose. With the fresh complications promised by Adair's projection into the field, a stronger man than Penfield should be in command on the firing line.
Will you order this car out, or shall I?" Ford looked at his watch imperturbably. Now that the president was thoroughly angry, he could afford to be cool. "It is now five o'clock; and our end-of-track is fully one hundred and ten miles beyond the summit of the pass. Do I understand that you wish to take the added risk of a night run, Mr. Colbrith? If so, I'll give the order and we'll pull out."
And if you weaken, Arthur, I'll promise you just one thing: I'll pull you in with the rest of us if I have to swear to a string of lies a mile long. Remember that." Penfield escaped at length, and stumbled through the littered end-of-track yard to where the lighted windows of the Nadia marked the berth of the president's car. Out of the shadow of the car a man rose up and confronted him.
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