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Updated: June 7, 2025
They were talking about you and brother; and " She stopped short and laid her hand on the throttle-lever of the big engine: "What did you say this was for?" she asked ingenuously. Ford's up-glance of surprise was answered by a glimpse of Penfield sauntering past on the other side of the track. She could not have seen, but she had doubtless heard his footsteps on the gravel.
Synchronized as perfectly as if a single throttle-lever controlled them all, the three heavy freight-pullers hissed, strained, belched fire, and the long train began to move out. It was Lidgerwood's challenge to the outlaws, and as if the blasts of the three tearing exhausts had been the signal it was awaiting, the strike storm broke with the suddenness and fury of a tropical hurricane.
He nodded. "He's the man you've got to pull up for." "His gal on the train?" "Sure thing." He resumed his vigil, leaning over the side of the engine with one hand on the throttle-lever. "All right," he said. "I stop for him. Son of a gun! If he bust my train I kill the sucker!"
Every boy and almost every man has longed to ride on a locomotive, and has dreamed of holding the throttle-lever and of feeling the great machine move under him in answer to his will. Many of us have protested vigorously that we wanted to become grimy, hard-working firemen for the sake of having to do with the "iron horse."
"Give it to her. Don't be a-scared." He pulled down the throttle-lever himself. My sudden roaring was mingled with frightened outcries from Todd. "Stop! Wait a minute! Whoa! Help!" Fortunately for my radiator, the lamp-post into which he steered me was poorly rooted.
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