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pen ty } CARTER WEEKLY. __ 3 : , he tr rain, acted as if it had been Stet: could have touched them if he had stood out. of its position by the cars in front / upright and reached out his hand. pushing one way and the cars behind! They came just so far and then stopped. — peoshing : in another. _ |The wreck was complete but the danger It fairly jumped over the sleepers and | was greater if possible tham before. - ‘3 San to plunge down the embankment The lighted lamps had been knocked Into the chasm. | from their fastenings. gash ‘Tri im, who had peen thrown forward| One at the further end of the car had ; ~ into the vacant chair in front of the one | been put out in the collision and its o1l he had heen sitting in, tried to keep his Wasiow streaming harmlessly over chairs _ balance by grasping at the window sash. and curtains. = » As he did so he wondered how far the| It was harmless as long as no fire Te : Then reached it, butif so much as a spark the he Oe girl i es ad ae OPE with Should catch in the wreck, escape would her mother across the aisle came tun mbling | be hopeless. | eae toward him and he eaught.her with one The lamp which had hung nearly over - arm thus preventing her from plunging | Trim had come down with a crash. head foremost through the window. Its own flame had gone out but it had — x Phe mother, who had been thrown to’ set fire to a curtain on the way. ‘ her knees, was s clinging to her chair to | Trim Saw this at the Saimme instant that * son from sliding further down. he saw that the mother of the child, . After one terrible instant of crunching | whom he still held in his ari, had been mete the TOCKS on. ine slope the car iin prisoned between her chair and a por- down upon her. | She was screaming wildly, but at the first glance, Trim believed that she was 2a and bi Seg saried to say saved en-| More irightened than hurt. oe - Pl) help you in a minute, madam, ' . coure aging to his fellow passengers, when. he became ‘oN : are of anath er and equally | from 1 going g farther down the chasm. fire first.’’ Placing the little child upon the floor — 1 the Pullman | rom the tracks. he ieieiendities had bétn broken at the = ot shock and as the Pullman went over | r the embankment, the sm oker rushed On | pe > the top of the car. i eeeeward trucks were even now erind-_ flames had made too much headway, so sia ge the roof and when they had | he canght the burning cloth and tore it “es Ie 2 ss mt_ half the eee of the Pull- from the rod to which it was / fastened 5 ‘against a chair, he turned around with ‘soine difficulty for the floor was slanting isteeply', and tried to be curtain with his hands. hopeless experiment. T he It was glass from the | ‘There a Dern ed itself out | a tion of the car roof that had been crushed he shouted. ‘‘I’ve got to attend to this of the car so that she could be braced at out the burning . was shusiget pee “him, ee ‘shrew the Se soards and bro- burning curtain several feet fro ibe car. are aay