'Come to think of it, our runnin' time from San Diego to Chicago was 57.54.You can tell that to them Eastern way-trains.

When we're tryin' for a record, we'll let you know." To the Western man (though this would not please either city) Chicago and Boston are cheek by jowl, and some railroads encourage the delusion.

The Limited whirled the "Constance" into Buffalo and the arms of the New York Central and Hudson River (illustrious magnates with white whiskers and gold charms on their watch-chains boarded her here to talk a little business to Cheyne), who slid her gracefully into Albany, where the Boston and Albany completed the run from tide-water to tide-water--total time, eighty-seven hours and thirty-five minutes, or three days, fifteen hours and one half.

Harvey was waiting for them.
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

They feasted the returned prodigal behind drawn curtains, cut off in their great happiness, while the trains roared in and out around them.