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"That brings us to the disappearance of the switching-engine again. No one man made off with that, single-handed, Mac." "Hardly." "It was this gang we are presupposing the gang that has been stealing lumber and lime and other material by the car-load." "Well?" "I believe we'll get to the bottom of all the looting on this switching-engine business. They have overdone it this time.
In the yards below, a long freight-train was pulling in from the west, with a switching-engine chasing it to begin the cutting out of the Copah locals. Over in the Red Butte yard a road-locomotive, turning on the table, swept a wide arc with the beam of its electric headlight in the graying dusk.
Over and above the darkness and the mystery of the procession, Harvey could feel the land close round him once more, with all its thousands of people asleep, and the smell of earth after rain, and the familiar noise of a switching-engine coughing to herself in a freight-yard; and all those things made his heart beat and his throat dry up as he stood by the foresheet.
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