The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 76: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY, 67 CHAPTER IX. AN AWFUL DISCOVERY. It is still dark outside. The stars shine overhead; I can see them as I glance out of the window. “At the same time we pass through quite a town with a clanging of the engine bell, hardly slackening our tremendous speed. I watch fugitive glimpses of lamps on the street, fed by the natural gas that has been crop- ping up all over this region, see a few houses, all of which appear dark and deserted at this hour. and then we rush out upon the open land again with accelerated speed. This traveling on the Limited express is a thrill- ing experience, even to an old tourist, when one sits down to realize what tremendous forces are in- voked to speed across nearly a thousand miles in twenty-three hours, over a great mountain chain, through deep valleys, along majestic rivers and over broad prairies. One morning you breakfast in New York, and a little after nine o’clock on the next day you take your morning meal in the great metropolis of the | West. s “oh if . o~- “ 7 , "| — ar a) eal x ue au es an . are To a novice it must be a revelation indeed, this annihilation of time and space, surrounded by all the luxuries money can buy or the craft of man invent. As there is no use in my remaining up any longer, again seek that lofty berth. Ido not expect to GComicboo m1