Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-03-09

ncryously forward. "wcll. that's a
dealt whn, YOU going IN DO about ~"
Fun w. Are YOU Mcwiillamsf'
"McWiliiamsl | wish was for just
one minute, I'm one u his clerks"
Where u hcT"
Il left him on Ia Sale street yes
tcriay afternoon"
what's your namcr
"1ust plain Ferguson"
"Won. Ferguson. it's none Of my
business. but ms long ms we're going
10 put you into Denver or into the
river In about minute I'm curious to
know what the hlnzcs you're hustlng
along this way for"
"Mcy I've got Sl.2O1.OOo In gold coin
In this car for the Sierra Leone Ma.
4 tlonnl bank-thnt's all. Didn't you
know that five big banks there closed
+ their doors yesterday Worst panic
IN the United States. That's what I'm
I here FOR and five husklcs with me eat
ing aud sleeping In this car" continu-
oil Ferguson. looking ahead. You're
not going TO tackle that bridge, are
your
1--WE are and right on. II there's
any Of your huskcs want 10 drop ont.
now's their chance" said Pat Francis
rs Sinclair slowed up for his run.
! Ferguson called his men. The five.
| with their rifles. came cautiously for.
ward
Boys" said Ferguson briefly,
there's n bridge aiirc ahead. These
| guys are going TO try to run II. It's
! not In your contract. that kind Of n
/ chance. DO you want TO get on
/ stay with the specie myself You can
do exactly as you please. Murray.
what do you sayT' he asked. address.
| Ing the leader Of the force. who appear.
ed to weigh about 2Go.
what do sayf' echoed Murray.
| with decision. MS he looked for n soft
| place 10 allght alongside the track. Il
| say I'll drop out right here. ! don't
mind train robbers, but don't tackle
a burning bridgc-not II ! know It,"
aud he jumped of.
well. peatcrs," asked Ferguson Of
the second man coolly, do you want to
stay"
"MeT echoed Pcatcrs looking ahead
at the mass of flame lcaping upward.
"NIc stay? Well. not In thousand
years. You can have my gun, Mr.. Fer.
| guson. and send my check 10 400 Mil.
wnukcc avenue, II you please. Gen.
tlcmcn, good day" And or went
\ PcatcrS.
And of went every last man Of the
valorous detectives except one lame
| fellow. who said he would Just as lief
| he dead rs alive anyway and declared
he would stay with Ferguson and die
rich
| Sinclair, thinking he might never get
another chance. was whistllng sharply
for orders. Francis, brcathless with
the news, ran forward.
Coin? How much? Twelve hun
dred thousand. Whcw.' cried Sinclair.
"Swlng mp. Pat We're off"
The Fivc-N!ne gathered herself with
n spring. Even the engineers heart
luailcd as they got Roadway. lie knew
his business. and he knew that II only
the rails hadn't bucklcd they were per
fectly safe, for the heavy truss would
stand II lot of burning before giving
way under II swiftly moving train.
Only, as they flew nearer, the blaze
rolling up in dense volume looked hor-
rIbly threatening After all, II was
| foo'hardy. and he felt II. but he was
past the stopping now, and he pulled
| the chokcr TO the limit. II seemed ms II
she never covered steel so fast. Under
the head she now had the cracking
bridge was less than, five hundred,
| -four hundred. three hundred, two hun
drcd feet, and there was no longer
time to think. With stare. Sinclair
shut or. lie wanted no push or pull Oh
the track. The McWilliams Special
was just n tremendous arrow, shooting
| through n truss OF fire ana half Il dozen
| speeches; men on either side Of the
river waiting for the catastrophe.
Jerry Ma"Eiroy crouchcd low under
the gauges. Sinclair jumped from his
box anu stood with hand on the
| throttle and hand on the air, the
glass crashing around his head like
hail. A blast o. fiery air and dying Gin
deri burned and chokcd him. The en-
ginc, alive with dIngcr, flew like II
great monkey along the writing steel
so quick, so black, so hot the blast and
81 terrific the leap she stuck her nose
into clean air before the men In the
cab could rise to It.
There was heavc In the middle like
the lurch of II scasick steamer, and
with II the Fivc-Nine got her paws on
cool iron and solid ground. and the
Mattaback nnd the blaze all except II
dozen tongues which licked the cab
mud the roof Of the baggage ear II min
ute, were behind. George Sinclair,
shaking the hot glass out of his hair,
looked ahead through his frizzled eye
lids and gave her u full head for the
western bluffs OF the valley; then look
cd ut his watch.
1t was the one hundred and nine.
tieth milepost just at her nose, and
the dial read $50 TO n second. There
was an hour to the good and seventy
six miles and II water TO cover, but
they We're seyeaty.sx of the pretticst
miles under ballast anywhere. and the
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