The Last Spike

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Cy Warman. The Last Spike

The Last Spike

Table of Contents

THE LAST SPIKE

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FOOTNOTES:

THE BELLE OF ATHABASCA

PATHFINDING IN THE NORTHWEST

THE CURÉ'S CHRISTMAS GIFT

THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNAL

CHASING THE WHITE MAIL

OPPRESSING THE OPPRESSOR

THE IRON HORSE AND THE TROLLEY

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II

III

IN THE BLACK CAÑON

JACK RAMSEY'S REASON

THE GREAT WRECK ON THE PÈRE MARQUETTE

THE STORY OF AN ENGLISHMAN

ON THE LIMITED

THE CONQUEST OF ALASKA

NUMBER THREE

THE STUFF THAT STANDS

THE MILWAUKEE RUN

BOOKS BY CY WARMAN

SHORT RAILS

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THE WHITE MAIL

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TALES OF AN ENGINEER

With Rhymes of the Rail

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THE EXPRESS MESSENGER

And Other Tales of the Rail

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FRONTIER STORIES

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Cy Warman

And Other Railroad Stories

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The dew of her sweet sorrow was still upon her face when Bradford entered, but the sunshine of her smile soon dried it up. The hands he reached for escaped him. They were about his face; then their great joy and the tears it brought blinded them, and the wild beating of their happy hearts drowned their voices so that they could neither see nor hear, and neither has ever been able to say just what happened.

On the day following this happy meeting, when the consolidated special was rolling east-ward, while the Judge and the General smoked in the latter's car, the tent boy brought a telegram back to the happy pair. It was delivered to Miss Manning, and she read it aloud:

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