"There that will do," he said, in a tone of satisfaction.
He had reserved for possible need fifteen dollars in small bills,
which he put into his pocketbook.
John Fox had heard the news in the post office, and started off at
once for the scene of danger.
"How'd they hear of the washout?" he asked, puzzled.
"I heerd that a boy discovered it, and signaled the train," said his
neighbor.
"How did he do it?"
"Waved a shawl or somethin'."
"That don't seem likely; where would a boy find a shawl?"
His informant looked puzzled.
"Like as not he borrowed it of Mrs. Brock," he suggested.
Mrs. Brock was the woman living in the small house near by, so that
the speaker's surmise was correct. It struck John Fox as possible, and
he said so.
"I guess I'll go and ask the Widder Brock," he said. "She must have
seen the train, livin' so near as she does."
"I'll go along with you."
The two men soon found themselves on Mrs. Brock's premises.
"Good-mornin,' Mrs. Brock," said John Fox.
"You've come nigh havin' a causality here."
"You're right there, Mr. Fox," answered Mrs. Brock. "I was awful
skeered about it, for I thought my Nancy might be on the train. When
the boy run into my yard----"
"The boy! What boy?" asked Fox, eagerly.
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