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The Depot Master

CHAPTER X
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'Twas pressed hard down on the speed lever.
"'You crazy loon!' I screeched.

'You--you--you--Stop it! Take your foot off that! Do you want to--!' "I was climbin' over the back of the front seat, my knee pretty nigh on Bradbury's head.

But, would you believe it, that Jonadab man let go of the wheel with one hand--let GO of it, mind you--and give me a shove that sent me backward in Henrietta Bassett's lap.
"'Barzilla!' he growled, between his teeth, 'you set where you be and keep off the quarterdeck.

I'm runnin' this craft.

I'll beat that Loveland this time or run him under, one or t'other!' "As sure as I'm alive this minute, the man in the front car was Tobias Loveland! "And from then on--Don't talk! I dream about it nights and wake up with my arms around the bedpost.


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