The whole group was upon him in an instant and he was soon overpowered.

They dragged him into the aisle, and, some at his head and others at his feet, lifted him and bore him to the door.

The train was speeding along at a rapid rate.

Belton grew somewhat quiet in his struggling, thinking to renew it in the second-class coach, whither he supposed they were carrying him.

But when they got to the platform, instead of carrying him across they tossed him off the train into that muddy ditch at which Belton had been looking.