"Poor daddy!" murmured Ruth. "He does have such trouble!"
"Has Merley bothered him again?" asked Russ.
"No, he has heard nothing from him," answered Alice. "But daddy worries about it. Five hundred dollars means more to him now than five thousand may later. For I hope daddy will get rich some day," she finished, with a laugh.
The three walked on together to the subway, and got out at the station nearest their house. On the way they had to cross one of the surface car lines, and, just as they reached the corner, they heard a shout of alarm or warning, evidently directed at someone in danger from an approaching electric car.
"What is it?" cried Ruth, clinging to Alice.
"I don't know," answered the younger girl. "Oh, yes, there it is!" she cried, pointing.
Three men were on the car tracks, and two of them seemed to be trying to pull one away, out of the path of an approaching car. The shouts came from a number of pedestrians who had seen the danger of the man.
The latter seemed to be caught by the foot on the rail, though how this was possible was difficult to understand, as the rail was flat.
The motorman was doing his best to stop the car, but the rails were slippery and it was easily seen that he could not do it. Then he added his shouts to those of the others.
"Oh, he'll be killed!" cried Alice, covering her face with her hands. Ruth had also turned aside.