The Right of Way 2m 



cab-window watching for the signal, and 

 swung onto the train. Slowly the powerful 

 wheels upon the huge locomotives began to 

 revolve, and the Overland Flyer moved 

 cautiously out of the depot on its time- 

 breaking trip. 



Carefully, for they were not really off yet, 

 as the engineer would have said, they wound 

 their way in and out among the great build- 

 ings of this, the congested part of the city. 

 Across busy streets, where the human ants 

 swarmed like myriad insects ; over culverts 

 that spanned narrow and congested streets ; 

 through deep cuts that passed under other 

 thoroughfares ; bumping over switches and 

 cross-tracks, feeling their way carefully, for 

 they were still within the confines of the 

 city, where there was a speed limit, and all 

 these swarming ants that came and went 

 over and under the tracks were human be- 

 ings with lives and limbs that had to be 

 considered. 



