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It seemed to him that he had run a gantlet not much inferior to that through which the Indians put the captive backwoodsmen, and the dark-red walls of the car rose before him a fortress of safety. It was an ordinary Pullman, and Mr. and Mrs. Grayson had not secured the drawing-room, but the usual berths like Harley's, and he joined them in their seats.
When he went out I told my story. "You must remember," I said, "that I had seen this woman before the morning of the wreck. She was buying her Pullman ticket when I did. Then the next morning, when the murder was discovered, she grew hysterical, and I gave her some whisky. The third and last time I saw her, until to-night, was when she crouched beside the road, after the wreck."
But the distinctive feature, the one which Carl could patent, was the means by which a bed was made up inside the car as Pullman seats are turned into berths. The back of the front seat was hinged, and dropped back to horizontal. The upholstery back of the back seat could be taken out and also placed on the horizontal.
I am going to make application to join them to-morrow, or rather I believe a friend is making it for me this evening. Are you one of them, sir?" "Yes, though I have not yet joined. In fact, I have only just reached San Antonio." "So have I," said Ridge. "I came in on the Eastern train less than an hour ago." "Strange that I did not see you," remarked the other. "Were you in the Pullman?"
And as a man makes and saves money so will he spend it for the pleasure of himself and family, and as he must travel to find pleasure there must be railroads to carry him, and hence these figures I write now will look insignificant beside the magnificent total that will be put before the reader of that day, because if they increase in the next century as they have in the past, walking will be out of fashion and every body will ride and I hope sleep in a Pullman sleeping car.
On the west side there was an open, marshy lot which separated the cottage in the trees from Stoney Island Avenue, the artery that connects Pullman and the surrounding villages with Chicago. An old German had lived in it, Mrs. Preston explained, until his death a year or two ago. He had a little chicken farm.
As she left the diner and swayed back into the Pullman she experienced a surging rush of energy and wondered if she was feeling the bracing air of which Harry had spoken. This was the North, the North her land now! "Then blow, ye winds, heighho! A-roving I will go," she chanted exultantly to herself. "What's 'at?" inquired the porter politely. "I said: 'Brush me off."
Denry hesitated he had not properly been invited into the Hall. But in hesitating he was wrong; he ought to have followed his prey without qualms. When he had conquered qualms and reached the further door, his eyes were met, to their amazement, by an immense perspective of great chambers. Denry had once seen a Pullman car, which had halted at Knype Station with a French actress on board.
Graham looked out of the window at the rushing landscape and tapped on the table with his finger-tips absentmindedly. Presently he announced a decision crisply. "If you'll leave your papers here I'll look them over and let you know what I'll do. When I'm ready I'll send McMurray forward to you." An hour later the secretary announced to the three men in the Pullman the decision of his chief. "Mr.
She had in her pocket some chocolate wafers and she pacified the two older children with these and then ran back to the sleeping car. She was in season to head off a procession of excited Pullman passengers in all stages of undress starting for the day coach with everything in the line of antidote for poison that could be imagined and which they had discovered in their traveling bags.
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