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 the dials, and watched those six minutes sprint by. I never saw people so interested, and so anxious to help, as they are around that part of the country. I believe that the bricks and mortar in cities crowd people so close together, that they don't have room to stretch out helping hands,—and helping thoughts. But there,—why you'd have thought that every one of those men simply had to get that very train;—and several women came too, and tried to shove things along for me. I think they'd all have got out and helped me push the train, if it would have done any good.

"Our engine started up before the six minutes were gone; though it went awfully slow, and things began to look as if I might make the train by the skin of my teeth after all. And when we did pull into the station, before we had quite stopped, the men piled off with the type-writer and me, and a man in a blue uniform called out:—'Train for Chicago on the next track! Down the stairway, please,' and we all looked pleasant and made a wild rush.

"When we came up out of the subway, there stood the train, and I said, 'For Chicago?'