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As he had predicted, Commodore Montague continued on his course, almost over to the island, and then came about. The Maud rushed furiously on her long stretch, dashing the spray recklessly over her deck, till she was almost up with the Northport shore, when she tacked again, and laid her course to windward of the judges' yacht, as the regulations required.
Though the steamboats do not stop at Shannonville, they never fail to do so at the pretty town of Northport, on the other side of the bay, in order to take in freight and passengers. Northport rises with a very steep slope from the water's edge, and the steamer runs into the wharf which projects but a few feet froth the shore.
Railroad officials gave him cigars, and slapped him on his snow-caked shoulders. He cussed them out of the way. The telephone at Northport clanged and sang with calls from President Barstow; but Martin only waved a hand in answer as he ground through with the rotary. "Tell him to send me tilegrams!" he blustered. "Don't he know I'm busy?" Twelve hours more. The snow ceased. The wind died.
It is a most quiet and primitive village, and one might truly exclaim with Moore "And I said if there's peace to be found on the earth, The heart that is humble might hope for it here." No gentler picture of society in a new country could be found, than the one exhibited by the inhabitants of Northport.
Gloomily he returned to Northport, his headquarters, there to observe a group of grinning railroad men gathered about a great, bulky object parked in front of the roundhouse. Behind it were other contraptions of shining steel, all of which Martin recognized without a second glance his snow-fighting equipment, just arrived. Nor did he approach for a closer view.
Ten miles out of Kansas City Martin gave the homeward-bound order for Northport, then slumped weakly into a corner. Five minutes before he had heard the news news that hurt. The O.R.& T., fighting with every available man it could summon, had partially opened its line, with the exception of one division, hopelessly snowed under his old, his beloved Blue Ribbon.
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