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Jonesy was waiting at the section-house, and waved his cap as they passed. "We're going on, around the next bend," shouted Keith, as they passed him. "Whoop-la! this is fine, and not a bit hard to work!" "What will the wicked queen think when she can't find us?" asked Lloyd, laughing happily, as they sped on down the track.
"They'll be going twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. We will be taking a big chance. But if we can catch them just over the grade beyond the sand-pits I guess we can do it. That will have slackened them. "Here we are." As they halted before the section-house door the boss uttered a cry. "I haven't the key!" Alex swung the lantern about, and discovered a pile of ties.
S'pose you cut across lots to the section-house as soon as I start to the barn, and meet me there. It isn't half as far that way, so you'll get there as soon as we do." "All right," said Jonesy. "I'm your kid." "You should say, ''Tis well, Sir Knight, I fly to do thy bidding," prompted Keith. Jonesy grinned. He could not enter into the spirit of the play as the others did.
A noticeable feature through the desert is the almost unquenchable thirst that the dry saline air inflicts upon one. Reaching a railway section-house, I find no one at home; but there is a small underground cistern of imported water, in which "wrigglers " innumerable wriggle, but which is otherwise good and cool.
Then we'll slip through the fence and get on the hand-car, and be out of sight around the curve before the rest get here. They won't know where on earth we've gone, and it will be the best joke on them. It's down grade all the way to the section-house, so I can push it easily enough by myself, but I'll need your help coming back, maybe.
The depot, the yards, the red section-house and the water-tank are all in the very center of the town. And when, after waiting in the rain or snow until his patience is nearly exhausted, the humble Corinthian goes to the only remaining crossing, he always gets there just in time to meet a long freight backing onto the siding.
Now he seemed beyond speech, and the little group of section-hands, the Chinese cook at the section-house, and the Swede foreman, and Pete seemed quite at a loss what to do. "Take him in and put him to bed," Miss Georgie commanded, turning away. "See if he's bleeding yet, and well, I should put a cold compress on the wound, I think.
Jonesy, who had followed them to the second curve, stood watching them with wistful eyes, wishing he could be with them. They passed the depot, and then the hand-car seemed to grow smaller and smaller as it rolled away, until it was only a moving speck in the distance. Then he turned and walked back to the section-house. "I s'pect we've gone about far enough," said Keith, after awhile.
"I reckon a mosquiter could n't git through along thet trail ternight. Ever hear tell o' Daggett Station?" Winston rubbed his chin, endeavoring to recall the name. "I 'm not sure. Is it the water-tank and section-house, next stop below Bolton Junction, on the main line?" "You 've called the tarn.
At the Matlin section-house I find accommodation for the night with a whole-souled section-house foreman, who is keeping bachelor's hall temporarily, as his wife is away on a visit at Ogden. >From this house, which is situated on the table-land of the Bed Dome Mountains, can be obtained a more comprehensive view of the Great American Desert than when we last beheld it.
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