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    A Chariot of Fire
    A Chariot of Fire
    A Chariot of Fire
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    A Chariot of Fire

    By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 2007
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      A Chariot of Fire - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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      Title: A Chariot of Fire

      Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

      Release Date: November 8, 2010 [EBook #34254]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHARIOT OF FIRE ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      I'VE GOT TO GET TO GLOUCESTER, SIR!

      A CHARIOT OF FIRE

      BY

      ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

      ILLUSTRATED

      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      MCMX

      Copyright, 1905, 1910, by HARPER & BROTHERS

      Published October, 1910.

      Printed in the United States of America

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      I've Got to Get to Gloucester, Sir! . . . Frontispiece

      The Flowers in the Front Yard were Knee-Deep in Snow

      A CHARIOT OF FIRE

      When the White Mountain express to Boston stopped at Beverly, it slowed op reluctantly, crashed off the baggage, and dashed on with the nervousness of a train that is unmercifully and unpardonably late.

      It was a September night, and the channel of home-bound summer travel was clogged and heaving.

      A middle-aged man—a plain fellow, who was one of the Beverly passengers—stood for a moment staring at the tracks. The danger-light from the rear of the onrushing train wavered before his eyes, and looked like a splash of blood that was slowly wiped out by the night. It was foggy, and the atmosphere clung like a sponge.

      No, he muttered, it's the other way. Batty's the other way.

      He turned, facing towards the branch road which carries the great current of North Shore life.

      How soon can I get to Gloucester? he demanded of one who brushed against him heavily. He who answered proved to be of the baggage staff, and was at that moment skilfully combining a frown and a whistle behind a towering truck; from this two trunks and a dress-suit case threatened to tumble on a bull-terrier leashed to something invisible, and yelping in the darkness behind.

      "Lord! This makes 'leven dogs, cats to burn, twenty-one baby-carriages, and a guinea-pig travellin' over this blamed road since yesterday—What's that? Gloucester?—6.45 to-morrow morning."

      Oh, but look here! cried the plain passenger, "that won't do. I have got to get to Gloucester to-night."

      So's this bull-terrier, groaned the baggage-handler. "He got switched off without his folks—and I've got a pet lamb in the baggage-room bleatin' at the corporation since dinner-time. Some galoot forgot the crittur. There's a lost parrot settin' alongside that swears

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