He's just a little bit affected in his mind, you know, and at times isn't responsible for what he does." The conductor scratched his head doubtfully.
"I suspected he was crazy," he replied, "and that's why I didn't hurt him.

But if he's crazy he's the most deliberate loonatic I ever run acrost." The superintendent had just wired instructions to put the outlaw in jail when Mr.Merrick reached the telegraph office, but after an hour spent in sending messages back and forth a compromise was affected and the little millionaire had agreed to pay a goodly sum to the company by way of damages and to satisfy the crew of the freight train--which he succeeded in doing by a further outlay of money.
"You're not worth all this bother," said Mr.Merrick to the humbled Wampus, when the final settlement had been made, "but chauffeurs are scarce in Albuquerque and I can't be delayed.

Never, sir, while you are in my employ, must you allow yourself to be guilty of such an act again!" Wampus sighed.
"Never," he promised, "will I ride by freight train again.

Send car by express.

I am Wampus.