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I merely directed things, except taking
up the rails. I happened to know how to get a rail up quickly, without
waiting to unscrew the bolts. I had read it, years before, in a book on
railroad construction. I didn't think that paragraph would ever help me
to save forty lives--for five minutes' delay would have been fatal. The
inside of the shed was one sheet of flame. After we broke the door down,
I only stood and superintended the moving of the cars. The men did the
real work."
"But you said the inside of the shed was a sheet of flame."
"Yes. The railroad had to give us all fresh uniforms. So we made new
toggery out of that night's work. I've heard people say militia are no
good. If they could have stood by me that night, and seen my company
working over those blazing cars, in that mass of burning freight, with
the roof liable to fall any minute, and the strikers firing every time a
man showed himself, I think they would have altered their opinion."
"Oh," said Leonore, her eyes flashing with enthusiasm.


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