twenty-two-mile

Updated: May 7, 2025

Far to the rear on the twenty-two-mile tangent the headlight of the coming train showed like a blazing star low on the western horizon. "Go and blacken your face and hands at one of the slack dumps and pass yourself for a miner quitting his job," was Blount's parting suggestion; but the hollow-eyed fugitive had a last word to say, too, and he said it.

Francis Lynde - The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush