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The principals were young men of well-known courage and ability one of whom, Shadrack Bond, upon the admission of Illinois was elected its Governor. His adversary, John Rice Jones, was the first lawyer to locate in the Illinois country, and was the brother of the second of the unfortunate Cilley in the tragic encounter already related.
"Who's with you?" "Wilson." "Hello, there. Crawl through. I'm waiting for it to get dark enough so that I can make the barn." They shook hands. "I recognized your voice, Shadrack. How are you, Wilson?" "All right enough. Have you seen any of the others!" "Not a soul. Wonder what happened to them?" "Scattered all over two miles by the locomotive," answered Shadrack.
Once he looked back and saw Shadrack leaning from the door of the boxcar. They waved excitedly to each other. "Stop!" yelled Andrews to Knight. Brown repeated the order. Knight, aroused from his intense purpose of forcing the last ounce of speed out of the General, shut the throttle. Brown gave the whistle a blast, and began twisting at the brake. Gradually the train lost its speed.
"I am going ahead on the theory that Mitchel will be one day late in reaching Huntsville," he said at last. "We must find all the men and tell them, so that there will be no confusion in Marietta." "There are three men at the Widow Fry's back there," said Shadrack. "I don't know if they're some of ours or not." Andrews nodded. "We'll find out presently. I'm worrying most about our engineers.
"That's what I arrested you for." "All right," answered Wilson. "We're arrested for burning bridges. Whose bridges? What bridges?" "We're getting a whole lot of encouragement to fight for the South," said Tom. "He's crazier than any Yank I've ever seen in my life," remarked Shadrack, nodding toward Alf. "Search 'em," demanded Alf. "That'll show you whether I'm right or not."
"Let's follow this road," suggested Tom. "It seems to go in the general direction of the railroad tracks." "Probably goes to a farmhouse," replied Wilson. "Suits me exactly," said Shadrack. During the next twenty minutes they made their way slowly along the road, slipping in the mud, sometimes falling. Twice Tom went down on his hands and knees.
The train emerged from the tunnel. The car was leaving a trail of smoke behind it; flames were darting from the side doors and flowing back against the walls. Several of the men climbed into the tender, wiping their eyes and coughing. More followed them until the tender seemed overflowing. "All out, I guess," said Ross. "Whew! that's a hot fire." "Where's Shadrack?" demanded Tom.
"Don't try any of that," said the Judge. "You're wasting your time. These men don't know anything about it. Joe was here in the corridor." A few seconds later, Tom heard Alf's voice in the yard: "He's got away. Get horses! If we only had a pack of dogs...." The noise in the corridor ceased, and the men clumped down the stairs, leading Wilson and Shadrack with them.
Finally, after an hour, they stopped to rest. "I don't think we've gone more than two miles," said Tom. "The railroad track runs along here to the left some place," Wilson remarked. "If we could reach it, we'd find better walking." "You'll have to swim to get there," muttered Shadrack. "Those fields will be mud up to our necks." "Be quiet!" Tom whispered. "Someone's coming."
"Probably some of our own men," said Wilson. They stood silently as two men passed them on the road. It was impossible to see them in the darkness, but they caught a broken sentence, "...find a barn ... too much mud...." "That's about the best thing that we can do," said Shadrack, after the men had gone by. "Find a barn some place, and stay there for the night."
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