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Updated: June 11, 2025
"It's the hunt for it that keeps 'em goin'. They don't know what to do with it when they get it." The dark eyes of Jerkline Jo were full of dreams. "Yes, we're all like that, I imagine," she said. "And how bout you, Jo?" some one asked. "Now that you're rich and married and all?" Jo looked down the street at the nearly completed roundhouse and the track-laying engine working on below the town.
Passenger communication ended at this point; the rails were laid down for a distance of eight miles farther, but only the "construction train," with supplies, men, etc. proceeded to that point. Track-laying was going on at the rate of three miles a day, I was informed, and the line would soon be opened to the Dalles of the St. Louis River, near the hecad of Lake Superior.
"Thank you," she said, gathering her courage; and after promising that he would be back in an hour, Kermode went away. He was a man who acted on impulse and, as a rule, the more unusual a course was the better it pleased him. In spite of her lameness Miss Foster was attractive, which, perhaps, had its effect, though he was mainly actuated by compassion and the monotony of his track-laying task.
"That you, Mr. Winton? Want to send something?" he asked. "No, go to sleep. I'll write a wire and leave it for you to send in the morning." He sat down at the packing-case instrument table and wrote out a brief report of the day's progress in track-laying for the general manager's record.
Giving the Major a second and a third chance to refuse to grant an easement, the railroad company pushed its grading and track-laying around the mountain and up to the stone wall marking the Dabney boundary, quietly accumulated the necessary material, and on a summer Sunday morning Sunday by preference because no restraining writ could be served for at least twenty-four hours a construction train, black with laborers, whisked around the nose of the mountain and dropped gently down the grade to the temporary end of track.
For the train had been halted within less than five feet of the break. Out jumped the whole party, Fuller, Cain and Murphy from the cab, and the armed men from the cars. The delay, it was supposed, would be only temporary; there were track-laying instruments in the car; the rails could soon be reset.
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