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That gave him an idea. "He rode the horse carefully along his ledge until he reached a slope where both ledges met an up-grade of mountain-side. Leaving the lower ledge and back-trailing on the higher one, he stopped opposite the place where he had found the nuggets. He dismounted, sought carefully about, and to his joy found more nuggets exactly like the ones picked up on the opposite lower side.
The trips were made with five mules to each coach, and we took two mules with us to supply the place of any mule that happened to get sick. Sometimes, strange to note, going on the down grade from Fort Lyon to Fort Larned we would have a sick mule, but this never occurred on the up-grade to Fort Lyon. When a mule was sick we left it at Little Coon or Big Coon Creek.
"In a way all that's familiar," he said; "but I've felt the same thing in other places, and I can't be sure." "Anyway," remarked Weston, "if there was a lake up yonder, the creek would naturally flow through the valley. It must have an outlet, and we're going up-grade." "The creek," said Grenfell, sharply, "went down the other side. The lake lies just over a low divide."
It's a curve, life is. Don't you know that? You're on the up-grade, you and Dick. I may not have got very far, but I'm on the down." "And yet," said Nan, turning and laying a finger on the book at her side, "you can read a thing like that, a man's life turned inside out for you to see, and understand what he meant by it, and then say the game's up. You make me tired."
When the heavy engine struck the up-grade, the rails had spread, the wheels had gone down on the cross-ties, and the whole train was derailed. I saw it with a sickening realization of the fact. Marion took the workman's torch and went over the short piece of track on which the thing had happened. All the evidences of the accident were within a short distance.
When we hit the up-grade two miles beyond we may begin to expect something. It was along there I figured that the "What's that?" Both listened. "One of the brakemen, isn't it?" suggested Jack. "What is he doing down on the edge of the car roof?" The next sound was of something slapping against the car door. Suddenly the detective gave vent to a cry that was barely suppressed. "Jack, I've got it!
Freight-train on the single track; wires not working well!" "I guess we'll take our chances," said Robertson; and Number Forty panted louder, hurling red sparks aloft as he rushed her at an up-grade. Still, his brows contracted when, some time later, he beckoned me, and I saw a wide lake draw near with silky drifts racing across its black ice.
"That train was dragging along pretty slow when it passed us," said Tom. "Sure, 'bout a million cars," Roy panted. "There's an up-grade, too, I think, between here and Poughkeepsie. Be half an hour, anyway, before they make it. You're a wonder. We'll kid the life out of Pee-wee for riding on a train after all. 'Spose he did it on purpose or got locked in?" "Locked in, I guess," said Tom.
"Sweetie" was a different sort, meek, obedient, strong and good-willed on an up-grade, cautious and full of reserve on a down, when the headlong flight of the train had to be checked. Twice a week, each time that Amadeo started on a run, his wife always asked him: "Which machine have you got, to-day?" If it was "Sweetie," she had nothing to worry about. "That's all right," she would say.
At last we struck a long up-grade, and one of my companions announced that we were almost there. "They bound my eyes with a dark silk handkerchief, and a moment later the car swerved and turned abruptly in, evidently at a gateway, for we curved about up a graveled driveway I could hear it crunching beneath the wheels and came to a grinding stop before the door.
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