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Asquam, both new and old, presented a rather bleak and dismal appearance to three persons who alighted thankfully from the big trolley-car in which they had lurched through miles of flat, mist-hung country for the past forty minutes. The station-agent sat on a tilted-up box and discussed the new arrivals with one of his ever-present cronies. "Whut they standin' ther' fer?" he said.

The postmaster and station-agent gave him several opportunities to relate the outcome of his negotiations, but the attorney was taciturn. The first news came down two week later by Miles McCormick, a swamper on Ward's Number 8 operation. The man had a gash on his cheek and a big purple swelling under one eye.

The railroad station was close to the wharves, and the old sailors hated the sight of the bright rails; for the locomotive had robbed them of the excitement of the semi-weekly packets that used to coast up and down between New York and Philadelphia. "Wonder what poor devil of a pirate is going to have his bones turned over this trip?" said the station-agent to Mr.

"Good God!" ejaculated Buffle; "I'll kill any scoundrel of a station-agent that'll let a woman take such a walk as this. I'll take you back on a good horse before noon to-morrow, and I'll put a hole through that rascal right before your eyes, mum." Mrs.

But at length, one morning, Mary stepped aboard the train that had not long before started south from the town of Holly Springs, Mississippi, assisted with decorous alacrity by the conductor, and followed by the station-agent with Alice in his arms, and by the telegraph-operator with a home-made satchel or two of luggage and luncheon.

There was a wooden hotel beside the track, and one or two stores; but that was all, and the fact that nobody except the station-agent had appeared to watch the train come in testified to the industry, or, more probably, the loneliness of the district. While Weston stood looking about him a man came out of the office, and he was somewhat astonished to find himself face to face with his employer.

"You're taking a risk," said the station-agent. "You may strike the train before you reach Calhoun." He was evidently not suspicious, but he feared an accident. "If I meet the train before we reach Calhoun," cried Andrews, striking his fist against the window-ledge of the cab, "why then she must back till she gets a side-track, and then we will pass her."

Now, Rilla, dear, that trench raid was four days ago last Monday and I said to the station-agent, 'Can you tell me if that dog howled or made any kind of a fuss last Monday night? He thought it over a bit, and then he said, 'No, he did not. 'Are you sure? I said. 'There's more depends on it than you think! 'Dead sure, he said.

Swinging himself onto one he took his place among the men who sat on the rails with which the car was loaded. Then, as the big locomotive slowly pulled them out, some of his new companions vituperated the station-agent for stopping them, and one came near braining him with a deftly-flung bottle when he retaliated.

This was, indeed, putting a new face on it, and still Graham listened in silence, trying to control the quiver and tingle of his nerves. There came a sudden call from the office. Shoving his way through the little mass of miners on the platform, the station-agent stepped to the edge and waved a hand to Cullin, but the hand was empty. The release order had not come.

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