They took me up a steep, short slope, and set me down near the top.

I knew that was the railroad embankment, and I thought they meant to lay me across the track, but it didn't occur to them, I suppose--they are not familiar with melodrama--and a long time after that I felt and heard a great banging and rattling under me and all about me, and it came to me that they had disposed of me by hoisting me into an empty freight-car.
The odd part of it was that the car wasn't empty, for there were two men already in it, and I knew them by what they said to me.
"They were the two shell-men who cheated Hartley Bowlder, and they weren't vindictive; they even seemed to be trying to help me a little, though perhaps they were only stealing my clothes, and maybe they thought for them to do anything unpleasant would be superfluous; I could see that they thought I was done for, and that they had been hiding in the car when I was put there.

I asked them to try to call the train men for me, but they wouldn't listen, or else I couldn't make myself understood.

That's all.

The rest is a blur.