Chapter XXXVI: “on Time, at Last!”

It was two nights later that Frank came home and found little Jack in a fairly frantic condition.

“What?--what is the matter?” asked Merry, stopping in the door and staring at the lame boy in astonishment.

Jack gave a great cry.

“Here!” he screamed, hobbling toward Frank, and holding out a slip of paper. “Read that!”

Frank took it, and read:

“I can forgive all my enemies but one, and that is Frank Merriwell. I have stayed near him as long as I can, but I can’t leave Nellie, so I take her with me. “OLD JOE.”

That was enough to set Frank’s blood on fire.

“Are they gone?” he cried.

“Yes! yes!” sobbed the lame lad, wringing his hands.

“You went out and left them?”

“Yes; I went to see if I could not earn some money. Nellie said she was not afraid of him, and I left them together. When I came back they were gone, and that note was here. Oh, Frank, it is terrible! My poor little, blind sister!”

“We will find her,” said Frank, growing calm.

“How?”

“Somehow. Don’t cry, Jack. Trust me. I will bring her back to you!”

“Oh! I believe you will!” cried the lame boy; “but do so as soon as you can. Think how frightened she must be, and how she must suffer. She will be ill again. Can’t I help you search?”

“Come,” said Merry.

Taking the note, he went to police headquarters, and reported what had happened. He was asked many questions, and the officer in charge promised that an immediate search for the abducted girl should be made.

Then Frank and Jack started out to search for the missing girl, asking questions everywhere. Till after midnight they wandered about the streets, but found no clew. The lame boy was ready to drop from exhaustion, and Frank literally carried him home on his back.

“Oh, Frank!” sobbed little Jack; “I’ll never see my sister any more. I know I shall not!”

“Yes, you will,” assured Merry. “She will be found.”

“He has taken her away--away out of the city. I feel sure of that, Frank.”

“I do not think he has.”

“Why not?”

“Because he had not the money to do anything of the sort. He used his money as fast as he received it, and I do not believe he had a dollar left to his name five hours after he was discharged from his job on the railroad.”

“But he might put her on a train some way. He might put her into a box car, and carry her off that way.”

“He might,” admitted Frank; “but I do not believe he has. It is likely that by morning the police will have found them both.”

It was difficult to reassure and quiet the boy, and Frank himself feared there might be some truth in Jack’s fancy that old Joe had carried Nellie off in a box car. The old engineer knew the ropes about the railroad so well that he might do such a thing with very little trouble.

Still carrying Jack, Frank mounted the stairs to the rooms they called home.

“Oh, it don’t seem that I can go in there!” moaned the lame boy. “It will be so bare and lonely without her!”

“Hark!” whispered Frank, stopping.

They heard a voice singing softly and sweetly, “Nearer, My God, to Thee!”

Little Jack almost shrieked aloud.

“It’s her--it’s sister!”

Frank bounded up the stairs and flung open the door. Beside the bed sat Nellie. She heard them and turned, with a finger uplifted, still singing.

On the bed lay the old engineer, and there was an ashen grayness to his face. One glance revealed to Frank that the man was facing the last mystery of life--death!

Merry lowered little Jack and gave him his crutch. Then they slowly and softly approached the bed.

“Twenty-three minutes late!” muttered the old engineer. “We’ve got ter make her up somehow. We must be at Roaring Run bridge in an hour and three minutes. More coal, man--more coal!”

“He is making his last run,” whispered Frank. “And the end of the trip is near.”

Little Jack crept up and kissed his sister’s cheek.

“How do you happen to be here now?” he asked.

“He brought me back,” said Nellie. “I begged him to and he did so. Before you came he was asking for Frank.”

“Frank!” exclaimed the dying man, catching the whispered word. “Where is Frank Merriwell? I’ve got to see him.”

“I am here, Mr. Hicks,” said Merry, stepping close to the bed.

“Yes; I hear you, but I can’t see you very well. Bend lower. Yes; it is you. I did hate you, but I was wrong. I ask you to fergive me. Will ye?”

“With all my heart!”

“I am glad. You are a fine young man, and I want to leave them in your care--Nellie and Jack. You will take care of them?”

“I will.”

“I believe it, and they will be safe with you. Oh! she is such an angel! She has put me onto a new trip, and--and I am making the run. The steam is getting low. More coal! more coal!”

He seemed peering ahead, as he had peered out from the window of an engine cab many times.

“This is the straightest strip of road I ever struck,” he muttered. “Not a curve nor a grade as fur as you kin see. It’s wonderful! But the steam is low, and we are behind time. We must be at Roaring Run bridge on time. We must get there somehow. More coal!”

Then, after another period of silence, he began again:

“I’m runnin’ her in the right notch now, and we’re gaining. We will make it. Hear her sing over the rails. Oh, she is humming now! Ah, we are beginning to make up lost time.”

“Sing, Nellie,” whispered Frank.

The girl did so, although her cheeks were wet with tears. For a long time the dying engineer lay still and listened.

“’Sh!” he whispered, now and then. “Somebody is singing. It is such sweet singing! Don’t make a noise, for she may stop.”

Finally he began to peer before him again. All at once he cried:

“It’s getting dark on the track! Light the headlight! We’re gaining--we’re gaining. Only ten minutes late! We--will--make it!”

His hands gripped and relaxed. With his left he reached out, as if feeling for the throttle.

“A little more does it,” he muttered, weakly. “There--that’s it. We’ll be--there--soon. It’s just--just--ahead. Ha! Here we are on time--on time, at last!”

The end of the trip was reached.

* * * * *

And so passed away the principal enemy that Frank Merriwell had. As for Frank himself, he had already won a place and respect on the railroad. He was in a position to help the blind girl and her crippled brother, and there was no one who could hinder him now. He was recognized already as one of the best firemen on the road, and eligible for promotion to the post of engineer at any time. He had taken the first step upward in the struggle through life, and the first step in this struggle is always the hardest one. After this, it would be plainer sailing, and although Frank Merriwell was destined to pass through many more adventures on the railroad, he had overcome the chief difficulties in the way of success, and made a good start. He had started at the foot of the ladder with his first job, but already he had surmounted the lowest rung and was in a fair way to climb, up and up, to ultimate success.

THE END.

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330--Bob Burton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
329--Masterman Ready By Capt. Marryat
328--Frank Merriwell’s Prosperity By Burt L. Standish
327--Jack Harkaway’s Friends By Bracebridge Hemyng
326--The Tin Box By Horatio Alger, Jr.
325--The Young Franc-Tireurs By G. A. Henty
324--Frank Merriwell’s New Comedian By Burt L. Standish
323--The Sheik’s White Slave By Raymond Raife
322--Helping Himself By Horatio Alger, Jr.
321--Snarleyyow, The Dog Fiend By Capt. Marryat
320--Frank Merriwell’s Fortune By Burt L. Standish
319--By Right of Conquest By G. A. Henty
318--Jed, the Poorhouse Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
317--Jack Harkaway’s Schooldays By Bracebridge Hemyng
316--Frank Merriwell’s Problem By Burt L. Standish
315--The Diamond Seeker of Brazil By Leon Lewis
314--Andy Gordon By Horatio Alger, Jr.
313--The Phantom Ship By Capt. Marryat
312--Frank Merriwell’s College Chums By Burt L. Standish
311--Whistler By Walter Aimwell
310--Making His Way By Horatio Alger, Jr.
309--Three Years at Wolverton By A Wolvertonian
308--Frank Merriwell’s Fame By Burt L. Standish
307--The Boy Crusoes By Jeffreys Taylor
306--Chester Rand By Horatio Alger, Jr.
305--Japhet in Search of a Father By Capt. Marryat
304--Frank Merriwell’s Own Company By Burt L. Standish
303--The Prairie By J. Fenimore Cooper
302--The Young Salesman By Horatio Alger, Jr.
301--A Battle and a Boy By Blanche Willis Howard
300--Frank Merriwell on the Road By Burt L. Standish
299--Mart Satterlee Among the Indians By William O. Stoddard
298--Andy Grant’s Pluck By Horatio Alger, Jr.
297--Newton Forster By Capt. Marryat
296--Frank Merriwell’s Protege By Burt L. Standish
295--Cris Rock By Capt. Mayne Reid
294--Sam’s Chance By Horatio Alger, Jr.
293--My Plucky Boy Tom By Edward S. Ellis
292--Frank Merriwell’s Hard Luck By Burt L. Standish
291--By Pike and Dyke By G. A. Henty
290--Shifting For Himself By Horatio Alger, Jr.
289--The Pirate and the Three Cutters By Capt. Marryat
288--Frank Merriwell’s Opportunity By Burt L. Standish
287--Kit Carson’s Last Trail By Leon Lewis
286--Jack’s Ward By Horatio Alger, Jr.
285--Jack Darcy, the All Around Athlete By Edward S. Ellis
284--Frank Merriwell’s First Job By Burt L. Standish
283--Wild Adventures Round the Pole By Gordon Stables
282--Herbert Carter’s Legacy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
281--Rattlin, the Reefer By Capt. Marryat
280--Frank Merriwell’s Struggle By Burt L. Standish
279--Mark Dale’s Stage Venture By Arthur M. Winfield
278--In Times of Peril By G. A. Henty
277--In a New World By Horatio Alger, Jr.
276--Frank Merriwell in Maine By Burt L. Standish
275--The King of the Island By Henry Harrison Lewis
274--Beach Boy Joe By Lieut. James K. Orton
273--Jacob Faithful By Capt. Marryat
272--Facing the World By Horatio Alger, Jr.
271--Frank Merriwell’s Chase By Burt L. Standish
270--Wing and Wing By J. Fenimore Cooper
269--The Young Bank Clerk By Arthur M. Winfield
268--Do and Dare By Horatio Alger, Jr.
267--Frank Merriwell’s Cruise By Burt L. Standish
266--The Young Castaways By Leon Lewis
265--The Lion of St. Mark By G. A. Henty
264--Hector’s Inheritance By Horatio Alger, Jr.
263--Mr. Midshipman Easy By Captain Marryat
262--Frank Merriwell’s Vacation By Burt L. Standish
261--The Pilot By J. Fenimore Cooper
260--Driven From Home By Horatio Alger, Jr.
259--Sword and Pen By Henry Harrison Lewis
258--Frank Merriwell In Camp By Burt L. Standish
257--Jerry By Walter Aimwell
256--The Young Ranchman By Lieut. Lounsberry
255--Captain Bayley’s Heir By G. A. Henty
254--Frank Merriwell’s Loyalty By Burt L. Standish
253--The Water Witch By J. Fenimore Cooper
252--Luke Walton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
251--Frank Merriwell’s Danger By Burt L. Standish
250--Neka, the Boy Conjurer By Capt. Ralph Bonehill
249--The Young Bridge Tender By Arthur M. Winfield
248--The West Point Rivals By Lieut. Frederick
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247--Frank Merriwell’s Secret By Burt L. Standish
246--Rob Ranger’s Cowboy Days By Lieut. Lionel Lounsberry
245--The Red Rover By J. Fenimore Cooper
244--Frank Merriwell’s Return to Yale By Burt L. Standish
243--Adrift in New York By Horatio Alger, Jr.
242--The Rival Canoe Boys By St. George Rathborne
241--The Tour of the Zero Club By Capt. R. Bonehill
240--Frank Merriwell’s Champions By Burt L. Standish
239--The Two Admirals By J. Fenimore Cooper
238--A Cadet’s Honor By Lieut. Fred’k Garrison, U. S. A.
237--Frank Merriwell’s Skill By Burt L. Standish
236--Rob Ranger’s Mine By Lieut. Lounsberry
235--The Young Carthaginian By G. A. Henty
234--The Store Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
233--Frank Merriwell’s Athletes By Burt L. Standish
232--The Valley of Mystery By Henry Harrison Lewis
231--Paddling Under Palmettos By St. George Rathborne
230--Off for West Point By Lieut. Fred’k Garrison, U. S. A.
229--Frank Merriwell’s Daring By Burt L. Standish
228--The Cash Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
227--In Freedom’s Cause By G. A. Henty
226--Tom Havens With the White Squadron By Lieut. James K. Orton
225--Frank Merriwell’s Courage By Burt L. Standish
224--Yankee Boys in Japan By Henry Harrison Lewis
223--In Fort and Prison By William Murray Graydon
222--A West Point Treasure By Lieut. Fred’k Garrison, U. S. A.
221--The Young Outlaw By Horatio Alger, Jr.
220--The Gulf Cruisers By St. George Rathborne
219--Tom Truxton’s Ocean Trip By Lieut. Lounsberry
218--Tom Truxton’s School Days By Lieut. Lounsberry
217--Frank Merriwell’s Bicycle Tour By Burt L. Standish
216--Campaigning With Braddock By Wm. Murray Graydon
215--With Clive in India By G. A. Henty
214--On Guard By Lieut. Fred’k Garrison, U. S. A.
213--Frank Merriwell’s Races By Burt L. Standish
212--Julius, the Street Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
211--Buck Badger’s Ranch By Russell Williams
210--Sturdy and Strong By G. A. Henty
209--Frank Merriwell’s Sports Afield By Burt L. Standish
208--The Treasure of the Golden Crater
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207--Shifting Winds By St. George Rathborne
206--Jungles and Traitors By Wm. Murray Graydon
205--Frank Merriwell at Yale By Burt L. Standish
204--Under Drake’s Flag By G. A. Henty
203--Last Chance Mine By Lieut. James K. Orton
202--Risen From the Ranks By Horatio Alger, Jr.
201--Frank Merriwell in Europe By Burt L. Standish
200--The Fight for a Pennant By Frank Merriwell
199--The Golden Cañon By G. A. Henty
198--Only an Irish Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
197--Frank Merriwell’s Hunting Tour By Burt L. Standish
196--Zip, the Acrobat By Victor St. Clair
195--The Lion of the North By G. A. Henty
194--The White Mustang By Edward S. Ellis
193--Frank Merriwell’s Bravery By Burt L. Standish
192--Tom, the Bootblack By Horatio Alger, Jr.
191--The Rivals of the Diamond By Russell Williams
190--The Cat of Bubastes By G. A. Henty
189--Frank Merriwell Down South By Burt L. Standish
188--From Street to Mansion By Frank H. Stauffer
187--Bound to Rise By Horatio Alger, Jr.
186--On the Trail of Geronimo By Edward S. Ellis
185--For the Temple By G. A. Henty
184--Frank Merriwell’s Trip West By Burt L. Standish
183--The Diamond Hunters By James Grant
182--The Camp in the Snow By William Murray Graydon
181--Brave and Bold By Horatio Alger, Jr.
180--One of the 28th By G. A. Henty
178--Frank Merriwell’s Foes By Burt L. Standish
177--The White Elephant By William Dalton
176--By England’s Aid By G. A. Henty
175--Strive and Succeed By Horatio Alger, Jr.
173--Life at Sea By Gordon Stables
172--The Young Midshipman By G. A. Henty
171--Erling the Bold By R. M. Ballantyne
170--Strong and Steady By Horatio Alger, Jr.
169--Peter, the Whaler By W. H. G. Kingston
168--Among Malay Pirates By G. A. Henty
167--Frank Merriwell’s Chums By Burt L. Standish
166--Try and Trust By Horatio Alger, Jr.
165--The Secret Chart By Lieut. James K. Orton
164--The Cornet of Horse By G. A. Henty
163--Slow and Sure By Horatio Alger, Jr.
162--The Pioneers By J. F. Cooper
161--Reuben Green’s Adventures at Yale By James Otis
160--Little by Little By Oliver Optic
159--Phil, the Fiddler By Horatio Alger, Jr.
158--With Lee in Virginia By G. A. Henty
157--Randy, the Pilot By Lieut. Lionel Lounsberry
156--The Pathfinder By J. F. Cooper
155--The Young Voyagers By Capt. Mayne Reid
154--Paul, the Peddler By Horatio Alger, Jr.
153--Bonnie Prince Charlie By G. A. Henty
152--The Last of the Mohicans By J. Fenimore Cooper
151--The Flag of Distress By Capt. Mayne Reid
150--Frank Merriwell’s School Days By Burt L. Standish
149--With Wolfe in Canada By G. A. Henty
148--The Deerslayer By J. F. Cooper
147--The Cliff Climbers By Capt. Mayne Reid
146--Uncle Nat By A. Oldfellow
145--Friends Though Divided By G. A. Henty
144--The Boy Tar By Capt. Mayne Reid
143--Hendricks, the Hunter By W. H. G. Kingston
142--The Young Explorer By Gordon Stables
141--The Ocean Waifs By Capt. Mayne Reid
140--The Young Buglers By G. A. Henty
139--Shore and Ocean By W. H. G. Kingston
138--Striving for Fortune By Horatio Alger. Jr.
137--The Bush Boys By Capt. Mayne Reid
136--From Pole to Pole By Gordon Stables
135--Dick Cheveley By W. H. G. Kingston
134--Orange and Green By G. A. Henty
133--The Young Yagers By Capt. Mayne Reid
132--The Adventures of Rob Roy By James Grant
131--The Boy Slaves By Capt. Mayne Reid
130--From Canal Boy to President By Horatio Alger, Jr.
129--Ran Away to Sea By Capt. Mayne Reid
128--For Name and Fame By G. A. Henty
127--The Forest Exiles By Capt. Mayne Reid
126--From Powder Monkey to Admiral By W. H. G. Kingston
125--The Plant Hunters By Capt. Mayne Reid
124--St. George for England By G. A. Henty
123--The Giraffe Hunters By Capt. Mayne Reid
122--Tom Brace By Horatio Alger, Jr.
121--Peter Trawl By W. H. G. Kingston
120--In the Wilds of New Mexico By G. Manville Fenn
119--A Final Reckoning By G. A. Henty
118--Ned Newton By Horatio Alger, Jr.
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109--A Dash to the Pole By Herbert D. Ward
108--Texar’s Revenge By Jules Verne
107--Van; or, In Search of an Unknown Race
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105--The Young Actor By Gayle Winterton
104--Heir to a Million By Frank H. Converse
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95--By Sheer Pluck By G. A. Henty
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93--A New York Boy By Horatio Alger, Jr.
92--Spectre Gold By Headon Hill
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90--Out on the Pampas By G. A. Henty
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88--My Mysterious Fortune By Matthew White, Jr.
87--The Five Hundred Dollar Check By Horatio Alger, Jr.
86--Catmur’s Cave By Richard Dowling
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84--The Butcher of Cawnpore By William Murray Graydon
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59--The Rajah’s Fortress By William Murray Graydon
58--Gilbert, The Trapper By Capt. C. R. Ashley
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56--Nature’s Young Noblemen By Brooks McCormick
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264. Hector’s Inheritance.
268. Do and Dare.
272. Facing the World.
277. In a New World.
282. Herbert Carter’s Legacy.

If these books are ordered by mail, add four cents per copy to cover postage.

STREET & SMITH, Publishers, NEW YORK

A New Novel by

Charles Garvice

The publication of a new copyrighted story by the celebrated Charles Garvice is an event eagerly looked forward to by all lovers of good fiction. We are glad, therefore, to be in a position to offer “=Edna’s Secret Marriage=.” This story has never been published in book form before and will make its appearance as Eagle Series No. 440.

As the authorized American publishers of Charles Garvice, we take this opportunity to warn the public against purchasing spurious Garvice books. The early novels of Garvice, written before International Copyright, have been published on this side of the water in pirated editions under all sorts of titles to the great confusion of the reading public. In some cases, books bearing the name of Charles Garvice as author, but which Mr. Garvice never wrote, have been forced on the unsuspecting public. We are now preparing to prosecute the offenders in all such cases in behalf of Mr. Garvice.

STREET & SMITH, Publishers

MEDAL LIBRARY

A weekly publication devoted to good literature.

November 12, 1904. NO. 284

The HARKAWAY LIBRARY

Detailing the Complete Adventures of Jack Harkaway

Every boy will rejoice to know that at last the adventures of the famous Jack Harkaway are published in cheap paper edition.

Bracebridge Hemyng, the author of these tales, has established an enviable reputation as a writer of stories for boys. No better tales of thrilling adventures, in school and out, on land and sea, have ever been written. The boy reader at once feels a most lively interest in Jack’s welfare and will not miss following him through all the ups and downs of his interesting life.

STREET & SMITH, Publishers
238 William Street, NEW YORK

Transcriber’s Note

The Contents has been added by the transcriber.

Punctuation has been standardised. Hyphenation and spelling have been retained as in the orignal publication except as follows:

Page 12
did the old food do it _changed to_
did the old fool do it

Page 101
cheeks of Frank Merrriwell _changed to_
cheeks of Frank Merriwell

Page 131
Jack started to pour the tea _changed to_
Jack started to pour the coffee

Page 195
the black vail between them _changed to_
the black veil between them

Page 201
an ugly look overpread his face _changed to_
an ugly look overspread his face

Catalogue of books page v
Hunting Tour, Burt L. Standish _changed to_
Hunting Tour, By Burt L. Standish