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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Goodness!" said Hope, turning to look at her, "you're not going to have a fever, are you?" "I hope not," said Chester Carnegie, with a laugh, "for I've felt the same." "Sympathetic suggestion possibly," mused Mr. Lawrence, with an absent air, as he leaned over the guard-rail. "Well, I feel oppressed, too," observed Bess, looking moodily seawards.
It was painted a Burgundy red, to match the upholstery of the upper room where it had once done service, and on the higher of the two panels was embossed the Penfield triple crescent. This great sheet of painted steel MacNutt held above his head, as a hesitating waiter might hold a gigantic tray. Then he stepped toward the shimmering guard-rail, and stood in front of it.
So I offered but little resistance until, as we stood on the platform, the brakeman or some one waved a lantern; then, while with a shock of couplings the cars commenced to move, I gripped the guard-rail with one hand and held the other ready, for I had determined if I left that train before I reached Vermont the conductor should certainly leave it too.
One lurch flung Grace against the guard-rail, the next against my shoulder, and I remember feeling when the little hand fastened on my arm, that I would gladly have done battle with ten wild horses were she also not in jeopardy.
The lieutenant needed no second bidding; he felt that the crisis was imminent; and, stepping out on deck, where he had to cling tightly to the lee guard-rail to escape being washed overboard, he hailed: "Barque ahoy! do you know that you are in a cyclone, and hove-to on the wrong tack? I would very strongly advise you to wear round at once and get the ship on the starboard tack.
She leaned on the guard-rail by his side. "No," she repeated. "What was it?" She waited. Then, rather with reluctance than shyness, she asked: "Were you thinking of me?" "I was wondering when you would come out," said Heyst, still without looking at the girl to whom, after several experimental essays in combining detached letters and loose syllables, he had given the name of Lena.
The colonel and the lieutenant also hastened to offer theirs, and then the whole party sauntered to the side, and, leaning upon the guard-rail which took the place of bulwarks, stood gazing upon the scene below.
It was a pale, weary-eyed young woman, dressed in the same plain tailored suit she had worn into the country, who was cuddled to Mrs. Howe's plump bosom when she went aboard the Panther for the first stage of her journey. A slaty bank of cloud spread a somber film across the sky. When the Panther laid her ice-sheathed guard-rail against the Hot Springs wharf the sun was down.
She seized his hand and smiled at him when he drew her up beside him. "Thanks," she said. "I was nearly too late." "Perhaps we had better make for the pilot, where there'll be more room," George suggested, as two more passengers scrambled up. They crept forward, holding on by the guard-rail, while the great engine began to rock as it gathered speed.
There was a patter of feet, a rattle of chains, and somebody called: "Adelante locomotura!" The engine snorted, the wheels ground through the fragments of concrete scattered about the line, and the big dark mass rolled slowly forward. It seemed to Dick to be going farther than it ought, but he had ascertained that the guard-rail was securely fastened.
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