Chapter III

The Wrong Side of Her Dream%

The ice had been thick-ribbed, product
of a bitter winter, but it could not
withstand the shock of a hundred and
eighty tons of leaping locomotive--it
splintered in all directions.

Of the whole long train, however, only
two cars and the cab had followed the
engine's plunge when those skidding pony
wheels[**hyphenated EOL on 037.png] turned traitor, and were now ice-*bound
and flooded in the middle of a small
lake, while the remainder of the fast express,
with one coach actually standing
on its head, hanging pendent between
the ice and the bridge, was not submerged.

It was as if a steel bar were hurled
violently at that solid ice, when one end
only would pierce the crust and the remainder
be left sticking, slanting, up.

When Pemrose, a Camp Fire Girl of
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