StNicholas [serial] . eized thetelegraph key, broke in, and called Indian you any extra battery material there? hesent quickly. Why . . no. Why? Abruptly Alex cut him off and called also responded in the negative. But fromTerryville came a prompt Yes. Why— Have you a big stoneware water-cooler? 690 A RUNAWAY TRAIN 691 Yes; but wh- Do you know how to make a battery ? No. Well, listen- Suddenly the instruments failed to respond. Aminute passed, and another. Five went by, andAlex sank back in the chair in despair. Undoubt-edly the wire had been broken somewhere. Everything is
StNicholas [serial] . eized thetelegraph key, broke in, and called Indian you any extra battery material there? hesent quickly. Why . . no. Why? Abruptly Alex cut him off and called also responded in the negative. But fromTerryville came a prompt Yes. Why— Have you a big stoneware water-cooler? 690 A RUNAWAY TRAIN 691 Yes; but wh- Do you know how to make a battery ? No. Well, listen- Suddenly the instruments failed to respond. Aminute passed, and another. Five went by, andAlex sank back in the chair in despair. Undoubt-edly the wire had been broken somewhere. Everything is against us, he exclaimed bit- I m going to run for the section boss and seeif we cant board that wildcat from the hand-car,he explained, struggling into the coat. I did thatonce at Bixton — boarded an engine. Board it? And what then? Why, put on the brakes and bring it to a stop,of course; then run ahead and flag 18! Saunders hastened for the lantern, and quicklylighting it, Alex dashed for the door, out across. SAUNDERS RAN TO THE EDGE OF THE STATION PLATFORM AND SHOUTED terly. And the runaways will be down here nowin fifteen or twenty minutes. What can we do? The only thing I can think of is throwing thewest switch and trying to run them onto the sid-ing, said Saunders. But there s not one chancein ten of their making it—probably they d onlypile up in an awful smash. If there was any way of getting aboard therunaways— Alex broke off sharply. Would itnot be possible to board them as he and Jack Orrhad boarded the engine the day of the forest fire?Say from a hand-car? He started to his feet, and exclaiming, Billy,get me a lantern, quick! ran for his coat and hat. the platform, and off up the tracks toward thelights of the section foremans house. Dartingthrough the gate, he ran about to the kitchen doorand without ceremony flung it open. The fore-man was at table, at his tea. He sprang to his feet. Joe, there is a wild ore-train coming downfrom the Canyon, said Alex, br
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