and had almost resolved to go Wffik, when he heard the faint, dis tant scream of a locomotive and the sound recalled him to himself.
.  and had almost resolved to go Wffik, when he heard the faint, dis tant scream of a locomotive and the sound recalled him to himself.  He saw that there Was a man who Was carrying the lantern, and within a minutes more he had run up, almost out of breath, aud was brokenly telling his story of what he had seen ahead, to which ha trackman listened in silence.