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Just before his special rounded the bend which brought it within sight

of Bayham Junction the Lynhaven express had reached within a few

hundred yards of annihilation The signal rush of Bones's train, and, having a fairly

extensive knowledge of the "Mary Louisa" and her eccentricities, he

realised just what had happened

There was only one thing to be done He could see the s above the cutting two miles away, and

he threw over two levers siht the Lynhaven express on to theit

from the deadly bay wherein the runaway train would have been sainst the special

It was a toss-up whether the special had not already passed the distant

signal, but he had to take that risk

Bones, with his ar a noisy and violent

dissolution, felt the "Mary Louisa" sway to the right when it should

have swayed to the left, heard the clang of the points as he passed

the a

straight clear stretch of line It was some time before he found his

voice, and then it was little ," he said treh her face was deathly pale