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THE HAMBURG REPORTER, HAMBURG, IOWAof the car. Inside, Helen was reading quietly when Lug's hand, bolding a handkerchief saturated' with chloroform, was thrust through.the window and despite her struggles Helen booh was overpowered.With a quick-word to Dill, above, Ltig scrambled into the car. He placed Helen, now unconscious,1 in .a sitting: position and ran to the hind end . to look for the - machine. It1 hart overhauled the train and was speeding beside it along the highway. Lug waved to the driver to come on. Returning to the car, he motioned to Bill to help him carry Helen out, The two men picked her up and took her to the platform. How to transfer h^r to the motorcar was a problem that might have given pause to more^clever men. Lug intended at first to throw the helpless girl from the platform into the machine, but. this he discovered would never do—the distance was too great. Bill, an old sailor, came to the rescue with another arrangement, In a jiffy he had lashed Helen iuto a kind of cradle in the middle of the long rope, and, throwing one end to thedriver, shouted to him to make It fast. The latter, when he caught the line, hitched it to the side of his car, and with the motor and the train still at high speed, Lug, on the rope, went •hand over hand down to the motorcar. Loosening the hlteh, he then drew in the rope, while Bill, on the platform, carefully paid out and Helen was. transferred, .uninjured, from the train to the machine.Once within the motorcar, Helen was unceremoniously dropped to the bottom and left there, whiia the machine was turned around and her captors whisked back for Las Vega3 with her. .Storm, by this time, had left the. construction camp and/ was waiting at Baird for the train bearing Helen. The train drew in and stopped. To Storm’s surprise and disappointment, not a solitary passenger got off. He accosted the conductor; “Heien Holmes was comlng-up today.' Where is she?” 'The conductor looked down the platform. She certainly was on the train,” he declared, puzzled. “I saw her juBt before we got to Arden,”Storm, the trainman following, walked hastily through the coaches. Helen was not to be found. A freightof Mountain Railroad Lifelalttle Helen Holmes, daughter of General Holmes, railroad man, is rescued .from imminent danger on a scenic railroad k,by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown to n .young womanhood Helen save* Storm, 'now a fireman, her father, and his friends Amos Rhinelander, financier, anti Robert Seagrue, promoter, from a threatened•collision, Satebresikurs employed by Sea-• fiTUe a teal General Holmes' survey plans of the cut-ofT line for the Tidewater, fatally wound the jreneral and escape. Her father's estate badly involved by hla death, Helen gxies to work on the Tidewater. Seagrue usea Spike to sot fire to a -powder train hauled by Storm’s engine, . .Helen saves Storm from a horrible, deaEh. t iHelen recovers the ‘ survey plana from ; 'fieagme, and though they are taken from her, finds an accidentally made proof of the survey blueprint. Storm, employed by .Rhinelander, wins a fight with Seagrue's men for possession of a consignment of railroad ties. Spike and his confederate «afe-breakers steal Rhinelander’s pay-roll money. Helen pursues and, with a policeman’s aid, captures two of them and recovers the money.SPIKE'S AWAKENINGI’ll Brain the One That Lays a Hand on Me
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Hamburg Reporter
Hamburg, Iowa, US
Fri, Apr 07, 1916
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