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Updated: June 25, 2025
"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.
This was mortifying to little Gilby; his manner was quite huffy for some minutes after. Zilda had her own ideas of what she would do. She presently left him alone and walked on swiftly to the place of the breakdown. There she borrowed a hand-car; it was a light one that could be worked easily by two men, and Zilda determined to work it alone.
When the guard came along I knocked him over, like a ninepin, with a green cocoanut I had, and made for the railroad. I got on that hand-car and made it fly. 'Twas yet a while before daybreak when I saw the lights of Port Barrios about a mile away. I stopped the hand-car there and walked to the town. I stepped inside the corporations of that town with care and hesitations.
Flinging the pony's bridle over a fence-post, when they reached the edge of the field, the brave knight crawled through the fence and pulled Lloyd after him, tearing her dress, much to that dainty little lady's extreme disgust. By the time the king and his guard were mounted in pursuit, on the other pony which stood in waiting, the runaways were in the hand-car.
Besides, it was dangerous to attack a foreigner, since if he were killed, the representative of his country would demand an exhaustive inquiry. While Dick pondered the matter the hand-car stopped and he alighted and walked briskly to Santa Brigida, keeping in the middle of the road. When he reached the town, he chose the wide, well-lighted streets but saw nothing suspicious.
"Why in the world didn't you say so?" "Well, I have forgotten most of it," he confessed. "I had a railroad of my own, too, when I was twelve years old. I was president." "Indeed!" "I suppose it was in my blood. We kids stole the lumber for a track, and I got a hand-car from dad.
A hundred men were at work clearing it away, and it was probable they would finish by noon. A gang boss, who had come back with telegraphic reports, said that half a dozen men had carried Quade's hand-car over the obstruction about midnight. It was seven o'clock when Aldous left for the Miette bottom. He believed that Joanne would be up.
Breakfast was just ready when the hand-car arrived again at the upper end of the gorge, and loud were the reproaches which met the happy three as they alighted from it. Phil was particularly afflicted. "I call it mean not to wake a fellow," he said. "But a fellow was so sound asleep," said Clover, "I really hadn't the heart.
While the clicking of the hand-car wheels was still faintly audible, a man the door-hammering madman, Judson thought it must be materialized suddenly from somewhere in the under-shadows to run down the track after the disappearing conspirators. The engineer saw the racing foot-pursuer left behind so quickly that his own hope of overtaking the car died almost before it had taken shape.
One glance was sufficient to show that the engine thieves, whoever they might be, knew their business pretty well. There was something more in this affair than a mere escape of conscripts. "Look up the road," said Murphy. He pointed to some workmen who had a hand-car near the track, not far above him.
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