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Updated: May 27, 2025
Oh, if he weren't hurt if he could only shin up another foot but but it was all he could do to hang there where he was. What was that! He turned his head. Up the track, sweeping in a great circle as it swung the curve, a headlight's glare cut through the night and Toddles "shinned" the foot.
What immediately followed was not. There was nothing in the locality to prepare them for it, while the hour was late and the night damp and disagreeable nothing to account for the flying figure of a girl dashing wildly up the headlight's path, straight for the engine, arms waving frantic signals. The engineer's wondering profanity scarcely had begun to flow freely before she was on top of them.
At that I looked, and they all looked, and stood harmless, like children surprised. For there on the threshold of the freight-car, with the interior darkness behind her, and touched by the headlight's diverging rays, stood Jessamine Buckner. "Will you gentlemen do me a favor?" said she. "Strangers, maybe, have no right to ask favors, but I reckon you'll let that pass this time.
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