"No," replied Franklin. "We both came off without a scratch."
"You can thank your lucky stars! What were you doing on the track anyway? Don't you know it is against the rules to walk there?"
"I sprang over the fence to get the girl," explained the young electrician. "Were you on the other train?" he asked, turning to the little one.
"Yes, sir. The train stopped so long that I got out to walk to the station, same as lots of the big folks."
"It was very wrong for you to remain on the tracks and run such a risk, besides giving me a big scare and delaying the train," said the engineer, but not very unkindly. "All right, Dick," he added, to the conductor, who was hurrying to the spot. "Nobody hurt."
"Good enough," returned the other official. "Then send her through, Sam, for we are ten minutes behind time."
And off the train people hurried, leaving Franklin and the little girl on the sidewalk alone.
"I wouldn't have walked on their tracks, only I was in a hurry to get down to the city," exclaimed the little miss, who, now that the danger was over, was rapidly regaining her composure. "I wanted to get a street car to the Erie depot."
"Is that so?" returned Franklin, in some surprise. "I'm going to the Erie depot myself."
