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"Can you add the rest of it 'and he isn't very bright'?" "No," was the sober reply. "Well, what are we up against?" Gridley snapped the penknife shut and began to chew the sharpened end of the match. "Your pop-valve is set too light; you blow off too easily, Flemister," he commented. "So far we or rather you are up against nothing worse than the old proposition.
Since Goodloe had not cut off the connection, the mingled clamor of the station came to the listening ear; the incessant clicking of the telegraph instruments on Goodloe's table, the trundling roar of a baggage-truck on the station platform, the cacophonous screech of the passenger-engine's pop-valve.
Lidgerwood waited until the switching-engine, with its pop-valve open and screaming like a liberated devil of the noise pit, had passed.
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