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The right headlight smashed and I was thrown against the wheel, striking it with my shoulder and bending it nearly double. Jamie went through the windshield. After the crash, there were only hot sounds of metal uncrinkling and moans from Jamie. Don't let me die, she was saying over and over. I pulled her back on to the seat and reassured her. Her hair was bloody and glinted with broken glass.
The younger man saw that the engagement at this end of the line was no longer general, but had become a series of individual combats, so he made what haste he could toward the scene of the more serious encounter to the right of the crossing. He judged that the issue was still in doubt there, although he could make out little in the confusion on account of the glaring headlight, which dazzled him.
A sound penetrated the night, she drew back from his arms and stood silhouetted against the glare of the approaching headlight of a trolley car, and as it came roaring down on them she hailed it. Ditmar seized her arm. "You're not going now?" he said hoarsely. "I must," she whispered. "I want to be alone I want to think. You must let me." "I'll see you to-morrow?" "I don't know I want to think.
Down it could be seen the headlight of an approaching trolley, and also the twin lamps of an oncoming automobile. "Look out for the auto, children!" cried Mrs. Bobbsey. They stood at the side of the road, and as the auto came up the man in it slowed down his machine. It was a big car and he was alone in it. "Well, I declare!" exclaimed the autoist, as his engine stopped.
At last, kneeling in the buggy box, I got things ready. I smelt the gas escaping from the burner of my bicycle lantern and heard it hissing in the headlight. The problem arose of how to light a match. I tried various places without success. Even the seat of my trousers proved disappointing. I got a sizzling and sputtering flame, it is true, but it went out before I could apply it to the gas.
"I guess an alarm clock and a headlight from an automobile," said Brownie. "I guess part of a floor lamp the shade part," said Billy. "I guess I guess," said Nuts; "let's see I guess some chicken wire, part of a typewriter machine and a megaphone." "You're all wrong and I'm right as you usually are," said Townsend; "he will bring back " "Let's go in swimming," said Brownie.
And while he stood staring at the still form of the driver that hung out of the window like a pair of wet overalls, the engine rolled, the snow drifted deeper and deeper on the headlight, and with every roll the bell tolled! tolled!! like a church bell tolling for the dead.
It ought to dazzle them so that they won't be able to see into the car at all. As soon as we're close to them, I'm going to sound the bugle pretty steadily." They rushed on toward the culvert faster and faster. The powerful headlight illuminated the scene before them, and they could see a dozen or more dark figures.
One sweep of his gloved hand swept the snow away and the great glare of the headlight flashed up the track. "My God! how she rolls!" exclaimed the engineer. And she did roll. Never before in the history of the road had the Denver Limited been entrusted to a green crew, for the engineer was also making his maiden trip. The day coach was almost empty.
Only once was I in danger when the locomotive struck an animal about the size of a small cub bear which I think was a badger. This animal struck the front of the locomotive just under the headlight with great violence, and was then thrown off by the rebound. I was sitting to one side grasping the angle brace, so no harm was done."
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