St Nicholas [serial] . HE WAS GAZING NTO THE BARREL OF A REVOLVER, AND BEHINDWAS A BLACK-MASKED 204 A STRANGE TELEGRAPH WIRE [ five poles back on both sides of the station, heannounced briefly. It 11 take a lineman half aday to fix them, and we 11 be twenty miles awayby that time. Now we 11 tie the youngster, andget out. Often Alex had longed for some such adven-ture. The reality was anything but glorious. As It required but a few seconds to get it into hispocket, reach his knife, open it with his teeth,and a moment later he was on his feet. He stag-gered out onto the platform. Y
St Nicholas [serial] . HE WAS GAZING NTO THE BARREL OF A REVOLVER, AND BEHINDWAS A BLACK-MASKED 204 A STRANGE TELEGRAPH WIRE [ five poles back on both sides of the station, heannounced briefly. It 11 take a lineman half aday to fix them, and we 11 be twenty miles awayby that time. Now we 11 tie the youngster, andget out. Often Alex had longed for some such adven-ture. The reality was anything but glorious. As It required but a few seconds to get it into hispocket, reach his knife, open it with his teeth,and a moment later he was on his feet. He stag-gered out onto the platform. Yes, the wires were cut, five poles in eitherdirection. Alex wrung his hands. What couldhe do ? To restore the wires was out of the ques-. 1 .<*? ALEX PLACED THE KEY AND RELAY ON THE END OF A TIE. the two masked men roughly seized him, and pro-ceeded to bind him tightly to the chair in whichhe sat, the perspiration broke out on his forehead,and he thought he should choke for breath. But as soon as the two desperadoes had left,and in spite of their departing threats, he beganstruggling fiercely to free himself. It seemed ahopeless task, and the thongs cruelly hurt hiswrists and his ankles, but bravely he wriggled,and twisted, and struggled, paused for breath, andstruggled again. And finally one hand came suddenly free. tion; had there been but one break he could nothave climbed the pole and carried aloft thatheavy stretch of wire. And there was less than twenty minutes inwhich to work, to catch the Overland at BrokenGap; for undoubtedly it was beyond that pointthat the robbers planned to hold her up, on oneof the steep grades of the Little Timber hills. Suddenly Alex uttered a gasp of hope. A mo-ment he debated, with n
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