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“She lost her home,” Bell replied cryptically, theabruptly when the shock hurled their bed across the rooh the front wall into the street

“Marion stayed on, caring for orphans Now that most are settled, she has taken a position at a newspaper”

“Have you set a wedding date?” Hennessy asked

“Soon,” said Bell

Lillian Hennessy seee “We’re so far from San Francisco”

“One thousand rades and endless switchbacks through the Siskiyou Mountains-the reason for your Cascades Cutoff, which will reduce the run by a full day,” he added, deftly changing the subject froe “Which reminds me, it would be helpful to have a railway pass”

“I’ll do better than that!” said Hennessy, springing to his feet “You’ll have your railway pass-ie on any train in the country You will also have a letter written inyou to charter a special train anywhere you need one You’re working for the railroad now”

“No, sir I work for Mr Van Dorn But I proood use”

“Mr Hennessy has equipped you ings,” said Mrs Comden

“If only you knehere to fly …” The beautiful Lillian smiled “Or to whom”

When the telegraph key started clattering again, Bell nodded to Van Dorn, and they stepped quietly off the car onto the platfor smoke and cinders “I’ll need a lot of our men”

“They’re yours for the asking Who do you want?”

Isaac Bell spoke a long list of na approval When he had finished, Bell said, “I’d like to base out of Sacramento”

“I would have thought you’d recommend San Francisco”

“For personal reasons, yes I would prefer the opportunity to be in the same city with my fiancee But Sacramento has the faster rail connections up the Pacific Coast and inland Could we assemble at Miss Anne’s?”