The Snare of the Road by A No. 1

Author:A No. 1
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781891053726
Publisher: Garrett County Press

The night was moonless and hanging low overhead were rain threatening clouds. The gloomy darkness proved to be so soul depressing that it seemed to have been especially fashioned to induce sleep. To add another dreadful strain on our desire to loll away into a slumber from which we knew that there Would be no awakening, the whirling wheels which spun over the rails ahead, beside and to the rear of us, where ceaselessly whining their monotonous refrain of “Clickety Click!” and “Clackety Clack!” that had proven a lullaby of death to so many danglers who unable to further resist its fascination had dozed away and then with an uncanny suddenness had been hurled to a horrible destruction beneath the pounding wheels. Had it not been for the countless painful jolts we were continually receiving from the wildly cavorting brakebeam that was but loosely attached to the fiercely bouncing truck, there would have been no telling how soon our perilous midnight journey might have terminated in disaster.

Now and anon when the limited passed by the homes of planters and cabins of darkies where midnight oil was burning, the blackness of the outdoors was momentarily relieved by brilliant shafts of light. We welcomed these glittering gleams and the rays emitted by lighted lamps at stations where the train made stops and at others by which the limited thundered, as there was no counteractive for drowsiness superior to the penetrating brightness of light.

The Crow Limited had halted at Stillwell and at Salisaw. Fearing for our safety because of our constantly increasing sleepiness, we decided to quit the train at the first water stop beyond Spiro, a junction point where the Fort Smith Branch of the Casey joined the main line and where a sleuth made his headquarters who had earned a reputation as a hunter of trespassers.

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