Show Doolin and the Thunderbolt P P. P Doolin was a walker track-walker on the therie Erie Crie rie railroad He attended a wake one day shortly before It was time for him to go on duty with the lamentable lamentable lamentable lament lament- able result that early In the evening he seemed ambitious to walk on both sides of the track at once says Harpers Harper's Harpers Harper's Harpers Harper's Har Har- pers per's Magazine The Thunderbolt express was due to pass the Haskell road at At that time Doolin reached the road but the train did not appear She was still invisible at 9 and Doolin began to worry about her In a maudlin way When she was twenty minutes late he could control his anxiety no longer and began walking the track toward her as fast as he could In his unsteady condition The Thunderbolt meantime was was flying along at unusual speed She had been delayed by a trifling wreck and the engineer was making up lost time Suddenly a lantern whirled like a giant pinwheel In the gloom fardown far fardown down tie Ue track The engineers engineer's face whitened the brakes ground into the complaining wheels the engine rocked and trembled passengers lurched in their seats and with a hiss of air and steam th the Thunderbolt stopped Dropping from his cab the trembling engineer ran up to where P. P Doolin stood What What what's what's the matter he gasped i Yere late said Doolin kept I |