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Glover was asking questions, and awith sobs, was answering "Are you sure your signals were

right?" she heard Glover ask slowly and earnestly; and again,

patiently, "how could you be doubled up without the flanger's leaving

the track?" Then the man would repeat his story

"You must have had too much behind you," Glover said once

"Too ines behind us all

day yesterday Paddy told hiot in the cab she

wouldn't never stand it He told him it as plain as a h a thousand feet in the gap like

cheese he ordered us up the hill When we struck the big drift it was

slicing rock, Mr Glover Paddy told hio in a hundred feet with the engine

churning her damned drivers off We went into it twice that way I

could see it was shoving the tender up in the air every time and told

Doubleday--oh, if you'd been there! The next tih the first crust and drove a wind-pocket maybe forty or fifty

yards and hit the ice with the seven engines ja into us My God!

she doubled up like a jack-knife--Pat, Pat, Pat"

"Can you recollect where Blood was standing when you buckled?"

"In the right gangway" There was a pause "He must have dropped,"

she heard Glover say