And if they got off before the next station they must have landed on their heads, because Sixteen was making up time and Shorty pulled the throttle wide open at the first yank, I should judge, from the way he jumped out of town.

I've been expecting some of them to go and do their filing stunt--and if the boys have begun to devil them any, the chances are good that they'd take turns at it, anyway.

They'd leave someone always on the ground, that's a cinch.
"And Saunders," she went on rapidly, "returned safe enough.

He sneaked in just before I closed the office last night, and asked for a telegram.
There wasn't any, and he sneaked out again and went to bed--so Pete told me this morning.

And most of the Indians have pulled out--squaws, dogs, papooses, and all--on some fishing or hunting expedition.