St Nicholas [serial] . out went up. Remember the lantern. Then began a race up the track that lastedduring the last thirty seconds of the seven-min-ute interval. Andy, who had placed the lan-tern on the track, won the race, snatching thesignal from between the rails and giving it thevertical jolt that extinguished the flame. Andjust at that instant, prompt to a dot, No. 84,the Southeastern Limited, came careeningaround the curve, and in another moment wasindicated only by two fast-diminishing greenpoints in the murky distance. A week later Andy McAndrews went aroundto Billy Iverss boarding-pla
St Nicholas [serial] . out went up. Remember the lantern. Then began a race up the track that lastedduring the last thirty seconds of the seven-min-ute interval. Andy, who had placed the lan-tern on the track, won the race, snatching thesignal from between the rails and giving it thevertical jolt that extinguished the flame. Andjust at that instant, prompt to a dot, No. 84,the Southeastern Limited, came careeningaround the curve, and in another moment wasindicated only by two fast-diminishing greenpoints in the murky distance. A week later Andy McAndrews went aroundto Billy Iverss boarding-place to call on thesufferer, who, with his head carefully bound ingauze, grinned wanly at him from the depths ofa feather-bed. How are you getting along? asked theboy. A good deal better than I would be if youfolks had stopped 84 that night, answered theinjured man. Henry Elder was in to see me,and he told me about it. Put it there, Andy,shake! Say, I guess Easy was right when hesaid vou had the makins of a railroad
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