Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-16
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A ual. as it always was I ignSled
 sS Be resdyI" to the box ahead of
 me and got back the repeat, and l cleared my stretch of road.
 My cabin was situated in . lonely spot, at the beginning of s cutting with fairly long tunnel three hundred yards up the line. There open country round about it, and on moonless nights with the hlackness press ing up sgaia1t the windows, 1t wasn't the most cheerful cabip on the line
 Presently I heard the jar of the interiocking apparatus under the flooring that told me the express was coming up. The metals outside the cabin were laii on incline, or 'rbank," as railway men cal it; stifish pull which always made the express slow up q bit, so that got look at the passengers in the lighted carriages.
 Suddenly l saw the green and white glirrner of the engines headlights, and in twelve seconds the train was laundering by. Five coaches had passed when I saw something that sent my heart into my mouth.
 Two men were fighting in compartment. One had got hold of the others throst, was forcing his head back, and had big ugiy-looking re voiver pressed against the mans temple. 'Mmderl" l cried the wosd aloud in my horror. The next Instant and the express was gone by, and saw the red light at Der tail glarlng lurid on the met als till it vanished. l sprsng to the telegraph and sent a message ko the next calnn: Murder being done in one of the hrst-cizss eazTiaEasi"
 had done my duty. I knew that the train would be stopped and the crime discovered. But I was more than a bit shaky, as I returned te my levers. Though I called myself fool for it- yet kept thinking of a murder that had once been done in that very train-the Nimbls- ni ;1:o$ had started yarn that the coach haunted.
 I thought of that tale again the next day, when was called upor to give . rssson for my message. The express had been stopped at the next station, but there sign of anything wrong The frst-class passengers peace fully dozing, and reading. and smoking their pipes; and for crime comnitted-there wasn't q vestige of shadow of such q thing
 StiT wss told that had done the right thing, and so l had. A week passed, and I had pretty well forgotten the incident. Tben it recalled to my mind in a most astonishing fashion.
 l was in my cabin as usual, with the bells ringing now and again, and the keyu clicking and cruel cold wind that nrmbed my fingers, and made the different colored levers feel like BcicIes.
 Presently got the call that told me to get ready for the Nimbethorpe express, and soon saw 1t come tearing along under full head of steam, shaking the ground. As 1t went by looked. as usual, at the passengers, and you esn imagine my feelings when saw two men fight ing like furies and sort 'stsbbing at each other with knives!
 The train gone before got over the hrst shock What should dol For second CT two I hesitsted. You see had stopped the express for nothing a week back, and I didn't L.. n- hand, there were two men doing their best to kn each other in one of the frstclsss coaches, and was bound to report 1t by telegraph. So I sent on the message
 Will you believe it! When the train w.s stop ped nothing arniss was discovered! Every hess- cd passenger = the fst-clsss carriages seemed as happy could be; and when the ststicnmsste- wanted to know who had been doing the killing snd where the body was, he got unmercifuIy shaffed. After that, although vssn't told vas sus watched. Ihe division superintendent got it into his head that believed in that yarn of the Haunted carriage" He imagined, dare say, thzt the tale had sot on my nsrves sisnalman mustn't have nerves, 70 17oTs than enginedriver. My friends tolIeA nse good desi-not having gsod taste end poor idea of hurnor.
 'Ssen any more spooks, Jem Msson!7 called out c fireman to me. Why don't you write up to the Sighchucke Society about itT" while Ted dy McAllister driver, ended our twenty yesrs of friendship by coming up to me, most solemn, with teetotzl pledge to sign. fortnight went by, and nothing happened. Then came 8 night black the pit with driv- sns rain and wind. The Nimblethorpe express vas two minutes late for some reason other. Presently I got my message, Train on hnel" and after the usual send on and repeat, cleared my bit of fine. It came roaring out of the dsFk and rain, and as it passed my cabin what should I see but a man outside q hrst-class carriage, elingine to the handle, with another inside aiming blow at him with thing that looked like Hfe-preserveri
 The train thundered by, leaving me feeling mighty queer The thought that it was prac- ticsI joke aot up for my benefit never came to me No man in his ssnses would stand on the szzzhaard of aD express for lark All the ..fs my first impulse was to try and forget u1ast I had seen. If I stopped the train . third time for no cause should b> discharged, sure. What would you have donel The next few seeopds were the most tormentine l have ever endured A man might be lying the perms- pent way dead or injured, maybe in the path of l the next train, and his murderer escaping. Call me too teader-hesrted or call q born fool, | inst as VOL like Anyhow stopped the express 1 and once more stopped it for just nothing at all The result vas that got polite istimstion that ruy services were DO longsr required on the line
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