The book The Diamond Key And How the Railway Heroes Won It was written by author Alvah Milton Kerr Here you can read free online of The Diamond Key And How the Railway Heroes Won It book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Diamond Key And How the Railway Heroes Won It a good or bad book?
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The gray head rolled back against the fire^ man s shoulder, the unseeing, frosty eyes close to the young man s face. For a moment the fireman stared down upon the unearthly countenance, his faculties frozen by what he saw, then he lunged at the throttle. The dead man s hand seemed shrunk upon the lever like a claw of chilled iron. The youth laid hold of it and wrenched it away, then his hand flew back to the lever to shut off steam. But in that instant, as if stretching forth his hand conjured ...destruction, the 1202 crashed and leaped and seemingly rent herself into fragments. Wadd felt himself strike the fuel- deck, fire gushed from his eyes, he felt one of his legs snap, and somehow realized that boul ders and mud and logs were hurling over him. The next moment, as it might be, he felt himself thrashed upon the earth. The green box lay crushed beneath his breast; things, he knew 142 THE DIAMOND KEY not what, were piled upon him. He felt flat tened, pinioned, smothering; he must have air or perish.
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