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Identifier: stnicholasserial371dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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But the man leaned quickly forward, seized himby the shoulder, and threw him heavily back intothe chair. You move again and I 11 shoot! hesaid sharply, and Alex sank back helpless. Yes; hold-up men. And he had betrayed histrust. Betrayed his trust! That thought stoodout even above his terror. Oh, if he had onlykept a lookout! The man, who had said nothing further, pres-ently withdrew the revolver and took a comfort-able seat on the window-ledge; and when thesilence continued Alex began somewhat to re-cover himself. He fell to wondering what theother bandits were doing while this man waswatching him. A few moments later the answer came in asingle upward click from the instruments. There—wires cut, aint they? said his captor. Yes, I suppose, said Alex, bitterly. They sure are, said the voice from behindthe mask, and when we get through, themwires 11 be cut so you wont be able to fix em upin a hurry. Fifteen minutes later a second masked andheavily armed figure appeared. Every wire cut
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HE WAS GAZING NTO THE BARREL OF A REVOLVER, AND BEHINDWAS A BLACK-MASKED FACE.203 204 A STRANGE TELEGRAPH WIRE (Jan.. five poles back on both sides of the station, heannounced briefly. It 11 take a lineman half aday to fix them, and we 11 be twenty miles awayby that time. Now we 11 tie the youngster, andget out. Often Alex had longed for some such adven-ture. The reality was anything but glorious. As It required but a few seconds to get it into hispocket, reach his knife, open it with his teeth,and a moment later he was on his feet. He stag-gered out onto the platform. Yes, the wires were cut, five poles in eitherdirection. Alex wrung his hands. What couldhe do ? To restore the wires was out of the ques-

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