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Updated: May 14, 2025

Judson had broken the curious eye-grip at last, and again he said, "Why?" Gridley hooked his finger absently in the engineer's buttonhole. "Because, if you don't, a man named Rufford says he'll start a lead mine in you. I heard him say it last night overheard him, I should say. That's all." The master-mechanic passed on, going out by the great door which opened for the locomotive entering-track.

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