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Updated: May 14, 2025
All the crowd, to a man, muttering and gaping, followed him. Casey climbed up on the gravel-car. "Casey, wot in hell would yez be afther doin'?" demanded McDermott. Casey grinned at his old comrade. "Mac, yez do me a favor. Uncouple the car." McDermott stepped between the cars and the rattle and clank of iron told that he had complied with Casey's request.
Casey fixed his eyes upon the curve of the track ahead where it disappeared between the sage-covered sandy banks. Here the grade was scarcely perceptible to any but experienced eyes. And the gravel-car crept along as if it would stop any moment. But Casey knew that it was not likely to stop, and if it did he could start it again.
He ran the gantlet of the Indians through that cut.... He was on a gravel-car running wild down-hill. You know the grade, Neale.... Of course his intention was to hold up my train block us before we reached the ambushed cut. There must have been a broken brake, for he derailed the car not half a mile ahead of us.
Collins, with all the men on the ground, grasped Casey's idea. "By God! Casey can you do it? There's down-grade for twenty miles. Once start this gravel-car and she'll go clear to the hills. But but " "Collins, it'll be aisy. I'll slip through thot pass loike oil. Thim Sooz won't be watchin' this way. There's a curve. They won't hear till too late.
Somebody had to do these things, since the U. P. R. must reach across to the Pacific. A day would come when a splendid passenger- train would glide smoothly down this easy grade where Casey jolted along on his gravel-car. The fact loomed large in the simplicity of the Irishman's mind. He began to hum his favorite song. Facing westward, he saw the black dot grow into a long train.
It seemed an endless time before he reached the head of that stretch. Then he let go of the wheel. And the gravel-car began to roll on faster. Casey appeared to be grimly and conscientiously concerned over his task, and he was worried about the outcome. He must get his car beyond that narrow cut.
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