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Holes had to be dug, poles cut, barked, hauled, and set up, and the wires strung. While his men set the poles, Charley himself, with a helper, strung the wires. At this job he needed no instruction. His experiences with the wireless were now of great value to him, for he understood about insulation, grounding, short circuits, and the like as well as any skilled lineman.
"She may have paused near the church to see whether you took the child in," persisted the divine. "But she couldn't have saw my porch from the back end of the church." "Nobody said she was standing back of the church," said the lineman. "What's that? You don't mean it?" cried Anderson, pulling out of a difficulty bravely. "That makes all the difference in the world.
"Ask me something easy. Why was the bottom dry and solid? Why did it rain? Why did solid earth turn into quicksand?" Neale slapped the note-book shut and rose to his feet. "Gentlemen, that is not the talk of engineers," he said, deliberately. "The hell you say! What is it, then?" burst out Coffee, his face flushing redder. "I'll inform you later," replied Neale, turning to the lineman.
The passengers had been removed. A wrecking-car had come up from down the line. A telegrapher was setting up a little instrument on a box by the roadside. A lineman was climbing a pole to connect his wire. A track boss with a torch and a crew of men were coming up from an examination of the line littered with its wreck. I hardly know what happened in the next few minutes.
I can't bring men up from the roundhouse. We've got to protect our own property first. If we could get word to them but a man never could get through that mob to the jail." "I reckon I can, colonel," said Bill Dancing, throwing off his coat. "They will kill you, Bill," predicted Stanley. "No," growled the lineman, rolling up his shirt sleeves. "Not me. I wouldn't stand for it."
Down these the lineman, stubborn and bleeding, drove a desperate way. And Bucks, able again to handle himself, was putting up a good fight when, to his horror, Dancing, fighting down the flight of steps, stumbled and fell. Half a dozen men, with a yell, jumped for him. Bucks thought the finish had come.
Here is a despatch for General Park. Get it out for me right away, will you?" Dancing came forward to the railing. "How are you, Bill?" said Stanley, greeting the lineman as Bucks read the long message. "I am going up into the mountains next week, and I am just asking General Park for a cavalry detail." "Going to need me, Colonel?" "Better hold yourself ready.
She clasped her hands. "Heaven be praised. Oh, is it sure?" "I mean, Dancing, the old lineman, has seen his fire. At least, we are certain of it. We have been watching it two hours. It's a speck of a blaze away across toward the mines. It never grows nor lessens, just a careful little campfire where fuel is scarce as it is now with all the snow.
The third fellow they introduced as a lineman named Somers. Neale had not anticipated a cordial reception and felt disposed to be generous. "Have you got quarters for me here?" he inquired. "Sure. There's lots of room and a cot," replied Coffee. They carried Neale's effects inside the tent. It was large and spare, containing table and lamp, boxes for seats, several cots, and bags. "It's hot.
Huggins says: "Some few years ago Brown had a big lineman on its team who had never been to New York, where we went that year to meet Carlisle. The players put in quite a bit of time jollying him and having all sorts of fun at his expense. We stopped at one of the big hotels, and the rooms were on the seventh and eighth floors.
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