"You have spoken only of the difficulties and responsibilities, Graham, but there is another side to it."


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [At Sand Creek Siding]1
II. [A Tank Party]11
III. [Mr. Chadwick's Special]23
IV. [The Tipping of the Scale]36
V. [The Directors' Meeting]51
VI. [The Alexa Goes East]60
VII. ["Heads Off, Gentlemen!"]65
VIII. [With the Strings Off]75
IX. [And Satan Came Also]90
X. [The Big Smash]96
XI. [What Every Man Knows]102
XII. [With the Wheels Trigged]112
XIII. [The Lost 1016]123
XIV. [A Close Call]140
XV. [The Machine]155
XVI. [In the Coal Yard]169
XVII. [The Man at the Window]185
XVIII. [The Name on the Register]200
XIX. [The Hoodoo]206
XX. [The Helpless Wires]216
XXI. [Billy Morris Explains]225
XXII. [What the Pilot Engine Found]232
XXIII. [The Major's Premonition]247
XXIV. [The Dead-Line]262
XXV. [Flagged Down]274
XXVI. [The Dipsomaniac]292
XXVII. [The Deserter]312
XXVIII. [The Beginning of the End]319
XXIX. [The Murder Madman]334
XXX. ["Under the Wide and Starry Sky"]349
XXXI. [P. S. L. Comes Home]365

THE WRECKERS


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