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Updated: May 20, 2025
There is nothing experimental, nothing tentative, in his notes, which come clear, sharp, in perfect time and tune. The clock strikes two. It is the voice of doom, for presently the 2.19 freight-train will thunder slowly through our end of the town. It renders my case utterly hopeless. One might as well expect to sleep in momentary expectation of the Juggernaut.
His hat was pulled over his eyes and his hands were thrust in his pockets. Now and again he stopped, listened, and looked at his watch. It was Sandy Kilday, and he was waiting for the freight-train with the fixed intention of committing suicide. The complications arising from Jimmy Reed's indiscretion had resulted disastrously.
The train was late, fifteen minutes, half an hour late, and I began to get nervous, lest something had happened. While I was looking for it, out started a freight-train, as if on purpose to meet the cars I was expecting, for a grand smash-up.
The railway people had refused to stop their fast train at Hilarity for his special benefit, and he had been compelled to get off at the nearest division point, some forty miles to the westward, and continue his journey in the evil-smelling caboose of the local freight-train which crawled jerkily over the rails, and stopped to shunt cars at every siding.
He called to the blackbirds, he found pasque-flowers for them, and in the sun-baked hollows between hillocks coaxed them to lie and dream. But one morning they found a note: DEAR AUNTY AND UNCLE: Heard a freight-train whistle and I'm off. But some day I'll find you again. I'll cut out the booze, anyway, and maybe I'll be a human being again. God bless you babes in the woods. C. McK.
Every hour, of course, it got hotter; I was not, like Sylvia, used to it, and whenever the train stopped I sat by the open window, mopping the perspiration from my face. We were due at Miami in the afternoon; but there was a freight-train off the track ahead of us, and so for three hours I sat chafing with impatience, worrying the conductor with futile questions.
Besides, that girl could drive anything that goes on four legs." "Sure," said one of the others. "She's a daisy." Hawtrey was annoyed to notice that in place of being embarrassed Sally evidently rather enjoyed the situation, though several of the freight-train and station hands had now joined the group of loungers and were cheering her on.
My pal walked down the mountain, jumped upon the first freight-train that passed, and has been a wanderer on the face of the earth ever since." There were various opinions expressed of this narrative. I quietly asked the needy outsider as we left the club at sunrise: "Will you tell me who your pal was the man who buried his wife on the mountain-top?"
She remembered that terrible tramp whom she had seen asleep in the woods that day. He might have been riding on some freight-train which had stopped at Banbridge, and stolen across and entered the vacant house. She stood still, staring at the cold glimmers on the windows. Then gradually she became convinced that they were merely reflections which she saw.
However, the Walpole young woman told me there was a freight-train along in about an hour, and so we continued our conversation. When this train came I asked the engineer how many cigars he would take to let me ride in the cab. He said half a dozen, but as I only had five, I promised to send him the other by mail. However, as I smoked two of his five, I suppose I ought to send him three."
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