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Updated: May 6, 2025
The man rests his elbow on the great stone scroll of the guard-rail, and here we leave him for a few moments. The mansion, it may be well to add here, remains closed the greater part of the year; and when opened seems visited by few persons, and those not of the very highest standing in society.
He moved, climbing high up, disappearing low down, with a restless, purposeful industry, and when he stood still, holding the guard-rail in front of the starting-gear, he would keep glancing to the right at the steam-gauge, at the water-gauge, fixed upon the white wall in the light of a swaying lamp.
At each jarring bump he believed an axle had smashed, and he took the eighty-foot bridge without the guard-rail like a hunted cat on the top of a fence.
Stepping to the guard-rail that took the place of bulwarks in the Flying Fish, he looked eagerly about and under him.
When she reversed, the couplings held the car and the block slipped off." "Are you sure you didn't give her too much steam?" "No, sir. I've been doing this job quite a while, and know just how smart a push she wants. It was the guard-rail slipping that made the trouble." "I can't understand why it did slip. The fastening clamps were firm when I looked at them."
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