The Wreckers

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Lynde Francis. The Wreckers

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

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When he saw that it was no manner of use, the boss quit on the handicap race and put his two armfuls down while he still had breath enough left to talk with.

"Well," he said, in his best rusty-hinge rasp, "you've done it! Why, in the name of common sense, couldn't you have let me go back after that muff thing?"

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I did, and broke in promptly. "Excuse me," I called to the other two, "but I think there's a train coming."

The boss cut his story short and we all listened. It seemed that I was wrong. The noise we heard was more like an auto running with the cut-out open than a train rumbling.

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