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Updated: June 26, 2025
Like many kind people he made use of brusqueness to hide an inner tenderness, and on the train he was hail fellow well met with every Tom, Dick and Harry that commuted, although the word was not invented in those days, and the conductor and brakeman too. But he had his standards, and held to them....
The man had heard of the young brakeman and of his skill as a boxer, though he had never met him before that night, and his half-formed intention of compelling the lad to turn back was decidedly weakened by the mention of his name. Still he hesitated.
"Well, if they are the noble red people, my illusions are dispelled." She did not look out of the window again, not even when the brakeman called out the remarkable name of Albuquerque. Next day Carley's languid attention quickened to the name of Arizona, and to the frowning red walls of rock, and to the vast rolling stretches of cedar-dotted land. Nevertheless, it affronted her.
A smile of relief illumined Hawkins' face. "Well? Quick, man!" "We can have a brakeman detach the Alcomotive!" "And what good'll that do, when she's pushing the train?" "True, true!" groaned the inventor. "I didn't think of that!" "I'm going to bring every one into these forward cars," announced the conductor. "It's the only chance of saving a few lives when the crash comes."
He instantly and decidedly disclaimed all knowledge of a pocket. "It's like that game," grinned Pete. "Button, button, who's got the button?" "Yes," agreed John, with a sigh, "only in this case I fear I shall continue to be 'it." The brakeman, when he came in from his run, was located and he joined in the blockade that was conspiring against John's future happiness.
His mind went out to the thousands of freight trains shuttling to and fro across the vast web of gleaming iron spread out on the mighty breast of the Western plains. Oh, those tireless hands at the wheel and throttle! He looked at his watch; it was two o'clock; the next station was Tyre. As he began to get his things together, the brakeman came in.
A brakeman entered to call out the final stop. Cramped bulks, here and there, slowly unwound their sleepy lengths and gazed around. A slim recruit in a front seat, who was outward-bound to fight Indians, wakened with a protesting oath. Other occupants of the car grudgingly put away their card packs, but cheerfully clapped on their hats. A long, hot journey was done.
There was a time when I was a brakeman with a run out of Bird City, Iowa, and she was a little thing I could carry on my shoulder, when I could get her everything on earth she wanted, and she hadn't a wish my $80 a month didn't cover; and now, when I've got a little property together, I can't buy her a night's sleep!"
Several men, their faces bronzed from exposure to the weather, had boarded the train. They talked quietly in one corner of the car. "Who are they?" asked Larry, of the brakeman. "Life savers, from the Anglesea station. Going to Tatums, I guess." "What for?" "Tatums is the life-saving station nearest where the vessel is ashore. Maybe they are going to help in case she breaks up in the storm.
A brakeman passed down the aisle and commenced to light the lamps, and Randy peeping from the window saw that the stars were shining. She knew that at home old Snowfoot and the cows were under the shelter of the great barn, and that father and mother and dear little Prue were seated around the table.
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