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Updated: May 25, 2025
The ex-engineer shivered, as if the measured words had been so many drops of ice-water dribbling through the cracks in the floor to fall upon his spine. "You say it is unnecessary; that Lidgerwood will be pushed out by the labor fight. My answer to that is that you don't know him quite as well as you think you do.
This, in Judson's prefiguring, was a small matter. The tall man, whom the ex-engineer had unmistakably recognized at the moment of train-forsaking as Rankin Hallock, was doubtless on his way to Flemister's head-quarters at the foot of the western slope.
Did you ever notice how it seems to make an ex-engineer feel better and more satisfied to get his hand on the reverse-lever and feel the life-throbs of the great giant under him? Why, his hand goes there by instinct just as an ambulance surgeon will feel for the heart of the boy with a broken leg. I asked the stranger to "give her a whirl," and noticed with what eager joy he took hold of her.
There's not only Shelgrim, but there's others. All the magnates, all the butchers, all the blood-suckers, by the thousands. Their day will come, by God, it will." By now, the ex-engineer and the bar-keeper had retired to the saloon back of the grocery to talk over the details of this new outrage.
"You say you saw him and Flemister get on the hand-car and pump themselves down the old spur; of course, you couldn't identify either of them from the top of the ridge?" "That's a guess," admitted the ex-engineer frankly. "All I could see was that there were two men on the car.
The feverish young inn-keeper and ex-engineer started like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. "The meeting is always at eight o'clock, at this place," said Venn, "and here we are we three." "We three?" said Wildeve, looking quickly round. "Yes; you, and I, and she. This is she." He held up the letter and parcel. Wildeve took them wonderingly. "I don't quite see what this means," he said.
Wildeve meanwhile had arrived on the former side, and the light from Yeobright's lamp shed a flecked and agitated radiance across the weir pool, revealing to the ex-engineer the tumbling courses of the currents from the hatches above. Across this gashed and puckered mirror a dark body was slowly borne by one of the backward currents.
Ordinarily cool and collected in the face of emergencies, the ex-engineer lost his head for a second or so and fought like a trapped animal. Then the frenzy fit passed and the quick wit reasserted itself.
She's there, all right, and they didn't care enough to even muffle her exhaust." Lidgerwood took a slender gold-banded cigar from his desk-box, and passed the box to the ex-engineer. "We'll get Mr. Pennington Flemister and before he is very many hours older," he said definitely. And then: "I wish we were a little more certain of the other man."
Train 205, with ex-engineer Judson apparently sound asleep in one of the rearward seats of the day coach, was on time when it swung out of the lower canyon portal and raced around the curves and down the grades in its crossing of Timanyoni Park.
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