Cornered!
“Hugh Stewart drove Ann Burley home at midday, Bob Saywell immediately prepared to make his trip through the storm to Graintown and the public library. As Bob Saywell passed the Burley farmhouse and noted the automobile of Dr. Hugh Stewart parked in the farmyard, Billy Quirter was on his way to the railroad yards.
Billy was cold. But he moved with a deadly determination. He ran from the back of a woodshed through a grove of elms and oaks. The wind whipped at him, slicing through with its col...d to the inside of his bones. The snow now was like fine white sand, granular, stinging when it struck Billy’s freezing face. But Billy darted relentlessly from cover to cover.
The railroad yards were on the northeast edge of Graintown. At the east end was the train depot. Outside the depot, the tracks moved westward a short distance to the switch-offs for the cattle and hog pens on the tip-end of Graintown’s small stockyards. At that point lay two alternate tracks that carried the stock cars to the loading chutes.MoreLess
Billy was cold. But he moved with a deadly determination. He ran from the back of a woodshed through a grove of elms and oaks. The wind whipped at him, slicing through with its col...d to the inside of his bones. The snow now was like fine white sand, granular, stinging when it struck Billy’s freezing face. But Billy darted relentlessly from cover to cover.
The railroad yards were on the northeast edge of Graintown. At the east end was the train depot. Outside the depot, the tracks moved westward a short distance to the switch-offs for the cattle and hog pens on the tip-end of Graintown’s small stockyards. At that point lay two alternate tracks that carried the stock cars to the loading chutes.MoreLess
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