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Once more the superintendent exhibited his nerve. He had nothing at stake save a desire to defeat Callahan; but he had the persistent courage of the bull-terrier. With Bucks and the secretary to steady him he lowered himself in the gap till he could stand upon the brake-beam of the 1010's tender and grope with one free hand for the hook of the nearest safety-chain.
Then he got a hammer and sledge out of the engine tool-box, and after hooking up the safety-chain couplings between the private car and the 1010, he crippled the points of the hooks with the hammer so that they could not be disengaged without the use of force and the proper tools. "There ye are, ye ould divil's band-wagon," he said, apostrophizing the private car when his work was done.
"It was Miss Winstock who asked me what I'd done with my necklace. I put my hand to my throat, and it was gone. It must have come undone." "Didn't you say to me a fortnight or so ago that the little safety-chain had gone wrong?" "Did I?" said Eve, innocently. "Did you have the safety-chain repaired?" "I was going to have it done to-morrow.
One of the truck safety-chains the one on the left side, back was loose. But it couldn't have hurt anything if it had been taken off. We ain't runnin' on safety-chains these days." "Safety-chain loose, you say? so if the truck should jump and swing it would keep on swinging? You tell Williams when you go up ahead that I want that machinist's name."
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