Once he had ridden all night in a freight-car to keep a promise that he had made the child.
All the men jumped into the cab or the tender or swarmed up the freight-car ladders.
"I know where there's all the powder you want," he said, and he told of the freight-car on the siding.
The freight-car with over two tons of gunpowder on board was anchored firmly in the centre of the bridge.
When he reached his freight-car home a delicious savor greeted him.