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Updated: May 24, 2025
Hyde thrust head and shoulders through the window, and a well-dressed native with one foot on the running-board at the back end of the train took a long steady stare at him before jumping in and slamming the door of a third-class carriage. "Which one?" demanded Hyde impatiently. "I don't see him now, sir!" Hyde snorted and returned to his seat in the silence of unspeakable scorn.
The car, racing on, was already near enough for Steve to make out its two passengers, a man bent over the steering-wheel, another man, or boy, for the figure was small, clinging wildly to his place on the running-board, seeming always in imminent danger of being thrown off. "He's drunk!" snapped Packard angrily. "Of all blind idiots!"
He stepped out on the running-board, stood there a moment, and extended his hand. Shirley had commenced a due and formal expression of her gratitude for having been delivered safely in Sequoia, when George Sea Otter spoke: "Here comes John Cardigan," he said.
After a lapse of a fortnight the agent countered with a statement that as Peters had been riding on the running-board, contrary to the rules of the company, the company was in no way liable for his injury. Peters replied that he had not ridden on the running-board from choice but that he had been unable to find accommodations on any other part of the car, and he wanted ninety-four cents, please.
Before anyone realized what was happening a big grey car shot down the road with the slender figure of Mrs. Winterbottom at the wheel. Clinging to the running-board was her English chauffeur and beside her sat my little Kansas photographer, Donald Thompson.
Then he broke out in a hoarse shout the sound in that quiet sylvan spot was like a tocsin: "Fire! An awful fire! Hewitt's pine woods up that road!" He waved a wild, bare arm his shirt-sleeve was torn to the shoulder. "Go and git help. They need all the men they can git!" He dropped from the running-board and ran back up the hill through the bushes.
Blossom was drawing abreast of the cutter. Bud clung to the running-board and crouched for a spring. "Go it, Blossom," cried Bruce. "Good old girl, go it. Go on, go on. Get ready, Bud steady ready now jump!" Bud reached far out and leaped. One foot struck the shafts. He threw himself forward and grasped the runaway's mane and in an instant he had swung himself astride the horse's back.
Before she could stop the car he took a flying leap from the running-board of the automobile. His books flew one way, his cap another; and with a wild shout of rage, Marty fell upon Sim Howell! Janice ran the car on for half a block before she stopped. She looked back. She had never approved of fisticuffs and Marty was prone to such disgraceful activities.
I climbed up into the quivering monster itself to interrupt the engineer at his levers, to shout at the craneman on his beam. I sprang aboard every train that was not running at full speed, walking along the running-board into the cab; if not to "get" the engineer at least to gain new life from his private ice-water tank.
She stepped daintily out of the gasolene and began scraping her slippers, side and bottom, on the running-board of the automobile. The jelly-bean contained himself no longer. He bent double with explosive laughter and after a second she joined in. "You're here with Clark Darrow, aren't you?" she asked as they walked back toward the veranda. "Yes." "You know where he is now?"
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