The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

Threw His Whole Weight on the
 Brake.
 careful aim, threw it up on top of the car The men secured the shoe and read the note:
 Passenger due-must ditch
 car-Jump.
 Rhinelander and Storm looked a, each other and looked down the line The smoke of the passenger train rose on the horizon There was nothing to do but what Helen directed. They thought of Spike below, but Helen was 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 were | no more than a detail, slued the ma chine from between the rails, drove l around the outfit car, slowed along side it and all three shouted. Spike hearing his name, listened and sat up He saw the machine outside the dool and crawled forward but he was un equal to a leap. Rhinelander and Storm urged him to make every ef fort. He got to his feet and dio the best he could toward a jump. The men together half caught and hall pulled him into the machine. With the three aboard, Helen sped on ahead of the runaway.
 Storm had decided what to do. "Tr drop of the hind end, Helen,'' he ex claimed, and derail the car.''
 She caught his idea "Quick!" shs cried No time to lose.''
 Storm rolled over the back of the machine 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 a negotiable roint turned her machine courageously on the right of way and steered it safely down the embankment The outfit car struck the rocks Storm had thrown on the track. It reeled, plunged wildly into the air and shot headlong over the bridge into the bottom of the ar royo
 In the distance the oncoming pas senger train was whistling for a cross ing close ahead. Storm running back to the track, cleared it hurriedly of the obstructions. The engineer of ths train, scenting trouble, tried to check his train, but it was too late and Storm, to save himself, dropped down between the ties and hung there till the heavy train hurtled past No en. zine driver was ever more relieved than the man in the passenger cab, when he saw himself safely acrosB. He stopped his train. From the foot of the bridge, Helen, Spike and Rhine- lander were making their way to the top and were with Storm when the crew and passengers came back Ths engineman angrily told the conductor the trouble. But after Storms briet story, he was as grateful as he had been indignant.
 The conductor, knowing the anxiety among the dispatchers, urged his pas sengers on board and the train has tened on. The moment it pulled into Arden the conductor gave the details to the operator and the latter wired headquarters.
 In the dispatchers office it was tse chief himself who jumped to the in. strument when he heard the Arden call. It was the chief who took the message telling how Helen and Storm had saved the train. But the chief, as he wiped his face with his handker. chief, reflected that it was only an other incident in the days work on the rail. happily, instead of traRically, closed.
 At the bridge Spike was trying to express his gratefulness to the thres who had rescued him. They left the scene together in the commaa1sered machine; and with perhaps little better understanding of one anotaas than any of them had yet reached,
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