Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 385
ollowed, and sprang into the cab atKents heels. The others held back and stareddubiously. Give her draught, Charlie! Stir up thecoal, muttered Kent through quivering lips. Hereversed the engine, opened the throttle andforced the remaining cars twenty feet down thegrade, below the switch. Leighton… … 1,1.1 ,-. Ivl. Itll KM KI:l()KE •nil-.Y .MAKK lH K NEXT CURVE, SAID LEIGHTON was reached and the engine leaped away in pur-suit, the wild freight was several minutes awayand out of sight behind the first curve. For a mile there was silence, Leighton busy at the fire and Kent sitting with hand at…
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