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You came down river on the 'Eb and Flo, didn't you?" "How did you hear about that?" Donaster quickly queried. "H'm, don't ask me how I find out about things. I generally know what's taking place. Eben Tobin's quite a lad, eh?" "He certainly is. You know him, then?" "Should say so; ever since he was a baby. Guess he has a pretty good idea where that girl is." "He told me he didn't."
A look of great dignity came upon the face of the other; and he drew himself up stiffly. "You are speaking to him, sir," replied he. "I thought so," smiled Ashton-Kirk. "My old friend Dan O'Connor has mentioned you so often that I felt sure that I recognized the manner." The dignity vanished from Mr. Tobin's face, and the stiffness of demeanor fell from him instantly.
"Well, I'll be blowed!" exclaimed Brakeman Joe, using Conductor Tobin's favorite expression, when the boy had finished. "If that isn't tough luck, then I don't know what is. But I'll tell you what we'll do.
This time has actually been made by an American locomotive on an American railroad. "It's awful!" gasped Snyder, who had drawn near enough to the group to overhear the last of Conductor Tobin's remarks. "The man must be crazy. Isn't there some way of making him slow down?" "Not if he is crazy, as you suggest, sir," replied Conductor Tobin, with a sly twinkle in his eyes.
I am proud to say I do and in regard to what I think of him Conductor Tobin's words exactly express my sentiments." "Do you also know him?" was asked of the fireman. "Yes, I know him to be the young rascal who ran me twice into such a storm of bullets from the train robber's pistols that it's a living wonder I'm not full of holes at this blessed minute." "What else did he do?" "What else?
But for a series of the merest accidents I should have been seized in the streets, in a bitter east wind, with cold rain; at all events have walked through it struggling. It was Sunday-night. I have suffered it at Tobin's; Tobin sleeping out at Woolwich.
Tobin's lips, and to the two culprits they sounded like the knell of doom. She waited for some response, but none came. "Is it possible that you have had a woman in this cabin," she continued. "Can you deny it, Sam'l Tobin?" The captain clawed nervously at the back of his head with the fingers of his right hand, and then glanced up the stairway.
"You wouldn't wanted me to ride all them seven miles alone?" asked the gallant Briley sentimentally, as he lifted her down, and helped her up again to the front seat. She was a few years older than he, but they had been schoolmates, and Mrs. Tobin's youthful freshness was suddenly revived to his mind's eye.
Kate was Volante; not Tobin's Volante, but one fashioned out of her own characteristics; supine, but shapely; heavy, but handsome; slow, but specious.
The snow being less deep on the rough ice which enclosed this rapid we proceeded on the 22nd at a quicker pace than usual but at the expense of great suffering to Mr. Back, myself and Hepburn, whose feet were much galled. After passing Tobin's Falls the river expands to the breadth of five hundred yards, and its banks are well wooded with pines, poplars, birch and willow.
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