We were better chums than ever.

I've got another half barrel of sugar--lump sugar--on the way from Edmonton.

An' now what do you think that damned C.N.R.gang has done ?" "They haven't shot her ?" "No, they haven't shot her.

I wish to God they had! They've _blown her up!_" The little engineer subsided into a chair.
"Do you hear ?" he demanded.

"They've blown her up! Put a stick of dynamite under some sugar, attached a battery wire to it, an' when she was licking up the sugar touched it off.