Train Passenger Interlude Recounts Delayed Express Robbery
An Arkansaw Traveller narrates a scene on a Kansas railway where passengers discuss train delays and a supposed train robbery. The dialogue touches on coal versus wood fuel and waiting for robbers to blow open the express safe as figures approach the carriage.
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