32/123 "They are changing the run of one of the crack passenger engines down below, and are sending her up to Fresno. There was a smash of some kind on the Bakersfield division, and she's to hell and gone behind her time. I suppose when she comes, she'll come a-humming. It will be stand clear and an open track all the way to Fresno. They have held me here to let her go by." He took his pipe, an old T.D.clay, but coloured to a beautiful shiny black, from the pocket of his jumper and filled and lit it. |