Chapter I: Front Matter

THE YOUNG TRAIN MASTER

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The Works of

Burton E. Stevenson

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THE
YOUNG TRAIN
MASTER

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_By_ BURTON E. STEVENSON

Author of “The Young Section-Hand,” “The
Young Train Dispatcher,” “The Quest
for the Rose of Sharon,” etc.

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ILLUSTRATED BY
HENRY GOSS

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_Boston_ ❧ L. C. PAGE & COMPANY ❧
_Mdccccix_

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_Copyright, 1909_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

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_All rights reserved_

First Impression, August, 1909

_Electrotyped and Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C.H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A._

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TO

_The “Beddy Magraw”_

WHOM I KNEW

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. OLD FRIENDS
II. NEW DUTIES
III. THE MIRACLE AT GREENFIELD
IV. AFTERMATH
V. THE NEW TIME-CARD
VI. THE LITTLE CLOUD
VII. A THREAT FROM MR. NIXON
VIII. MR. ROUND’S DECISION
IX. A BUBBLE BURSTS
X. IN THE SWITCH TOWER
XI. ALLAN’S EYES ARE OPENED
XII. THE INTERVIEW WITH NIXON
XIII. MR. SCHOFIELD’S BOMBSHELL
XIV. DECLARATION OF WAR
XV. IN CHARGE AT WADSWORTH
XVI. THE STRIKE BEGINS
XVII. EVENTS OF THE NIGHT
XVIII. THE DERELICT
XIX. THE OLD STONE HOUSE
XX. THE AWAKENING
XXI. “C. Q. D.”
XXII. THE MYSTERY SOLVED
XXIII. COMPLICATIONS
XXIV. ALLAN FINDS HIS MATE
XXV. THE DOWNFALL OF BASSETT
XXVI. NEMESIS
XXVII. THE BOMB
XXVIII. HUMMEL KEEPS HIS WORD
XXIX. THE YOUNG TRAIN MASTER

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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“LEAPED OUT INTO THE DARKNESS” _Frontispiece_

“THE NEXT INSTANT IT FLASHED INTO VIEW AROUND THE CURVE”

TIME-CHART

“CONTROLLING IT, AS IT WERE, BY A MOVEMENT OF A FINGER, STOOD JIM”

“HE EXPLAINED THE DIFFICULTY TO THE ENGINEER”

“THEN, WITH A HOARSE YELL OF RAGE, HURLED HIMSELF UPON THEM”

“HE HEARD THE BULLETS SING PAST HIS HEAD”

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THE
YOUNG TRAIN MASTER

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