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'All right, we'll have it open now, so as to be on the safe side, said Owen as he stood up and raised the sash, and Nora, having wrapped the child up in a shawl, joined them at the window. 'It can't be much longer now, you know, said Frankie. 'The line's clear. They turned the red light off the signal just before you opened the window.
I know it's a rebel song by the way she sings it. "And, as I sit here, alone, thinking of how I love you far away I hear the 'old line's bugle' the quaint, quick rhythm of the fifes and drums; and it stirs depths in me where my very soul lies listening and the tears spring to my eyes.
Lenora rose softly to her feet and strolled to the back of the range wagon. In a few moments she reappeared, carrying a piece of paper in her hand. She stooped down. "Craig's saddling up," she whispered. "Look what he dropped." She held out the paper, on which was traced a roughly drawn map. "That line's the river that marks the Mexican border," she explained.
The doubled railway track was laid as far as El Arish by the time operations commenced, and this was a great aid to the railway staff. Every engine and truck was used to its fullest capacity, and an enormous amount of time was saved by the abolition of passing stations for some ninety miles of the line's length.
Captain Daggett set up some claims to this fish, in consequence of his line's getting foul of the creature's jaws, but he changed his mind in good season, and clapped on to help tow the whale down to the vessel.
And there's a gey bit ground at the back, too, when a body comes to think o't." "What line's he meaning to purshoo?" queried Brodie, whose mind, quickened by the chance he saw at No. 1 The Cross, was hot on the hunt of its possibilities. "He's been very close about that," said the Provost. "I asked Johnny Gibson it was him had the selling o't but he couldn't give me ainy satisfaction.
The moose gave a snort, and a wild leap in the water, and galloped away under the bank, the way he had come. Mac and I both fired at his vanishing ears and horns, but of course " "All aboooard!" The conductor's shout rang along the platform. "Line's clear," exclaimed McLeod, rising. "Noo we'll be off! Wull ye stay here wi' me, or gang awa' back to yer bed?"
"Landover tried to borrow my lead pencil yesterday," remarked Flattner. "Finally offered to put up his letter of credit as security. I gave him the laugh. That lead pencil is worth more than all the letters of credit lumped together. He wanted to write a note. So I agreed to let him use it if he wouldn't take it out of my sight and on condition that he didn't write more than five or six line's.
But all that takes days, and meantime we're walking back like we did at Mons. And at this time of day, too ... Oh, yes, the whole line's retreating. Parts of it were pretty comfortable, but they had to get back or be put in the bag. I wish to Heaven I knew where our right divisions have got to. For all I know they're at Compiegne by now.
"We must agitate," he cried, when Sandy Toddle murmured a doubt whether anything they could do would be of much avail. "It's not settled yet what road the line's to follow, and who knows but a trifle may turn the scale in our behalf? Local opinion ought to be expressed! They're sending a monster petition from the Fechars side; we'll send the Company a bigger one from ours!
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