The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-02

Threw His Whole Weight on 9lhG
Brake.
careful aim, threw it up on top of thN
car. The men secured the shoe and
read the note:
Passenger due-Must ditch
car-Jump.
Rhinelander and Storm looked On
each other and looked down the line
The smoke Of the passenger traiR-r rose
on the horizon. There was nothing IA
do but what Helen directed. They
thought of Spike below. but Helen waa
calling to them and without further
delay the two men Jumped one after
the other down into the machine
They told Helen Of Spikes plight
She nodded as If the difficulty wer6 )
no more than a detail, slued the ma
chine from between the rails, drove
around the outfit car, slowed along
side it and all three shouted. Spike
hearing his name, listened and satSup
He saw the machine outside the dooA
and crawled forward but he was un
equal to a leap. Rhinelander ant
Storm urged him to make every eff.
fort. He got to his feet and did the
best he could toward a Jump. Tn.
men together half caught and half
pulled him into the machine With
the three aboard, Helen sped on ahead
Of the runaway.
Storm had decided what to do. "I'H
drop Off the hind end. Helen" he ex.
claimed, "and derail the car
She caught his idea "Quick!" she
cried. mo time to lose"
Storm rolled over the back OF the
and dropped to the ground.
A bridge spanned an arroyo just
ahead. Running forward, Storm caught :
up such loose rocks as he could reach
and placed them along the track.
helen, choosing negotiable point,
;urned her machine courageopsly on
he right of way and steered it safely
Town the embankment. The outfit car
struck the rocks Storm had thrown ON
he track. 1t reeled, plunged wildly
INTO the air and shot headlong over
he bridge into the bottom of the ar
oyo.
In the distance the oncoming pas
enger train was whistling for a Cross
ng close ahead. Storm running back
o-the track, cleared it hurriedly Of the
distractions. The engineer OF the
rain, seeming trouble, tried to check
lis train, but 1t was too late and
storm, to save himself. dropped down
etween the ties and hung there tin
he heavy train hurtled past No en-.
inc driver was ever more relieved
haa the man in the passenger cab,
Theri- he saw himself safely across.
lie slapped his train. From the foot
the fridge, Helen, Spike and Rhine
lnder were making their way to the
op and were with Storm when the
rev and passengers came back. The
ngineman angrily told the conductor
lie trouble. Bet after Storms brief
sOry, he was az grateful as he had Z
cen indignant.
The conductor, knowing the anxiety
nong the dfspatcherg. urged his pas
,ngers on board and the train has :
med on. The moment it pulled into
rden the conductor gave the details
the operator and the latter wired
In the dispatchers' Office it was the
lief himself who jumped to the In
rument when he heard the Arden
IL. It was the chief who took the
essage telling how Helen and Storm
ID saved the train. But the chief. md
} wiped his face with his handken.
fef, reflected that 1t was only am
her incident in the days work on the
il, happily, instead of tragical1y,
osed.
At the bridge Spike was trying %
press his gratefulness to the three
10 had rescued him. They left the
enc together I'm the commandoerod
achine; and with perhaps . little
tier understanding OF one anothnR
n any 81 them had yet ra.nleA