We might have had a dozen collisions or smash-ups, for he went around curves at sixty miles an hour.

We'd cut our train in two, so as to pull half of it at a time up the grade at Lamy, and so there were only six cars on this end of it.

The other half is seventy miles back, and part of what we have here ought to have been left at the way stations.

I can't make out, sir, whether it's burglary, or highway robbery or arson an' murder he's guilty of, or all of 'em; but I've telegraphed for instructions and I'll hold him a prisoner until the superintendent tells me what to do with him." Mr.Merrick was very sober now.
"The matter is serious," he said.

"This man is in my employ, but I did not hire him to steal a railway train or fight its crew.