Capitolo 74
"You do me more than the justice", the engineer answered. "It was not me who
saved the train but that boy."
All the eyes were turned on Robert that, not used to being the center of this way
many throw a look, they blushed and they seemed prepared for withdrawing.
"As it is that?" asked the dealer.
"He saw the obstruction, and it tried to remove him/it, but, not being able to
does so, taken his/her station on the stone, and, to the risk of his/her his/her own life,
attracted my attention, and it saved the train."
"It was a noble action my boy,; which is Your name?"
"Robert Rushton."
"It is a name that we am able all has cause to remember. Gentlemen,"
the dealer continued, while turning to the group around him, "you see before
You the preserver of Your lives. Will its action go unrewarded?"
"No, no!" it was the general exclamation.
"I don't want any reward", said Robert, modestly. "Some boy would have
fact so much."
"I don't know that my young friend. There are not many boys, or
men, I think, that would have had the courage to involve him as you it did. You are able
doesn't ask or wants some reward, but we should be forever disgraced if us
not succeeded in giving credit to our great indebtedness to you. I offer one
one hundred dollars like my action of the reference to our young friend."
"I follow with fifty!" says his/her next neighbor, "and he/she will ask the
straight to pick him/it up from the hand."
Robert had won honors to school, but he never had first state in a
positions trying so to his/her modesty. The passengers, following the example
of the last orator, crowded around the takings and he from the hand,
expressing their individual recognitions for the service he had
I made them. Now our hero that we so properly designate, hole
the test with a mastery of itself that won the favor of everybody.
While this was following, the harvest was quickly made by the
dealer that had proposed him. The amounts contributed widely varied, but
nobody refused to give. In ten minutes the fund had arrived on six
one hundred dollars.
"Robert Rushton master", says the dealer, "I have the great pleasure in