[The Black Box by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Black Box CHAPTER V 17/62
You fellows can go and have a smoke for an hour.
I'm going to take her down the line a bit." The two men obeyed and disappeared in the direction of the section house. Quest looked after them curiously. "That's a big fellow," he remarked.
"What did you call him? Red Gallagher? I seem to have seen him before." "He was the most troublesome fellow on the line once, although he was the biggest worker," the boss replied.
"He got five years in the penitentiary and that seems to have taken the spirit out of him." "I believe I was in the case," Quest observed carelessly. "That so! Now then, young ladies," Mr.Horan advised, "hold tight, and here goes!" They ambled down the line for about half a mile.
Then Horan brought them to a standstill. "This is the spot," he declared.
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