The Wreckers

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Lynde Francis. The Wreckers

The Wreckers

Table of Contents

I

At Sand Creek Siding

II

A Tank Party

III

Mr. Chadwick's Special

IV

The Tipping of the Scale

V

The Directors' Meeting

VI

The Alexa Goes East

VII

"Heads Off, Gentlemen!"

VIII

With the Strings Off

IX

And Satan Came Also

X

The Big Smash

XI

What Every Man Knows

XII

With the Wheels Trigged

XIII

The Lost 1016

XIV

A Close Call

XV

The Machine

XVI

In the Coal Yard

XVII

The Man at the Window

XVIII

The Name on the Register

XIX

The Hoodoo

XX

The Helpless Wires

XXI

Billy Morris Explains

XXII

What the Pilot Engine Found

XXIII

The Major's Premonition

XXIV

The Dead-Line

XXV

Flagged Down

XXVI

The Dipsomaniac

XXVII

The Deserter

XXVIII

The Beginning of the End

XXIX

The Murder Madman

XXX

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

XXXI

P. S. L. Comes Home

BY FRANCIS LYNDE

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Francis Lynde

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It must have been four or five miles back in the hills to the place where we found the private car, and a little way short of it we picked up Mr. Chadwick's conductor, walking the ties to try to get in touch with the civilized world once more. He looked a trifle suspicious when he found the engine in the hands of still another bunch of strangers, and two of them women; but as soon as he heard Mr. Norcross's name he quit being offish and got suddenly respectful. Young as he was for a top-rounder, the boss had a "rep," and I guess there were not very many railroad men west of the Rockies who didn't know him, or know of him.

The conductor told us where we'd find the car, and we found it just as he said we would: pushed in on an old mine-loading track at the end of the spur. The other members of the crew were off and waiting for us; and standing out on the back platform, in the full glare of the headlight as we nosed up for a coupling, there was a big, gray-haired man, bareheaded and dressed in rough-looking old clothes like a mining prospector.

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