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As for Ashby, who, still clutching his shotgun in his left hand, staggered along under the burden of Hazelton's weight, the hotel man was no longer responsible for his actions. Rage and wickedness had made him a maniac, who might be restrained but could not be punished by law. Within two minutes the firing behind them died out. Soon there were distant sounds of searching.
That granite-like fragment struck Hazelton's foot with full force. "You -you scoundrel!" groaned Harry, in an all but admiring gasp. Like a flash he bent over, snatching up the fragment for his own use. "Now, I'll slam you into the middle of the Gulf of Mexico!" cried the young engineer, vengefully, as he tried to straighten up. A groan escaped him.
She had evidently seen better days, he said; was very ladylike in her manner, and possessed of a great deal of taste, he imagined; besides that, she had worked in one of the largest shops in New York. "As I am going this afternoon over to North Silverton," he added, in conclusion, "and shall pass Miss Hazelton's house, you or Helen might accompany me and see for yourself."
In a few moments Marian had heard Katy's trouble struggling hard to fight back the giddy faintness she felt stealing over her, as she thought of nursing Wilford Cameron's child. "Write to her, Marian write to-day now, before I go," Katy continued, clasping Marian's hand, with an expression which, more than aught else won Marian Hazelton's consent to a plan which seemed so strange.
It was not the same train that had left Stormburg, for that train had been halted, safely, just before reaching the scene of the disastrous blow-out. At that point the passengers had alighted and had been conducted on foot to the other side of the gap caused by the explosion. Here Hazelton's Lineville special stood ready to convey them into Lineville.
A smile that rose to Hazelton's lips was instantly suppressed. "Ah! rather like hiring assassins in the cheap novelettes. What was your idea? Did you think Hazlitt would have been a help to the School side?" "No, sir. I hardly think he would have been of much assistance to them." The idea of Hazlitt being of any use to anyone was very amusing. Gordon always saw the funny side of everything.
Dave, in the meantime, was swiftly passing some orders Dick had whispered to him. These orders, however, related to plays to come, and did not call for retaliation on Hazelton's account. Play was called sharply. "Pay in the score," became the battle cry raging in every Gridley boy's heart.
"You're gettin' back at me for what I said to you the day before yesterday when you stopped off at Hazelton's," he declared. "All the same you'll know more about women when you've had more experience with them. When I told you that I'd been 'bossed, I didn't mean that I'd been bossed regular. No woman that knows just how much she can run a man ever lets him know that she's bossin' him.
These more important railroad officials had come out to camp in automobiles. Now they followed on foot as the train rolled on to the land reclaimed from the Man-killer. Superintendent Hawkins and his foremen also went along on foot to observe whether the track sank ever so little at any point. It was none of Harry Hazelton's particular business to watch whether the tracks sank slightly.
It was dark in the hospital, and from every window a light was shining, when Morris carried rather than led a quivering figure up the stairs and through the hall, where, in a corner, Marian Hazelton's white face looked out upon him, her hands clasped over her heart, and working nervously as she watched Katy going where she must not go going to the room where the Camerons were, the father standing at the foot of Wilford's bed, and Bell bending over his pillow, administering the stimulants which kept her brother alive.
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