can go aboard for a few minutes,
as the train will not pull out for seven or eight minutes. Do you care
to see how Polly will be located for the trip?"

With motherly concern Mrs. Brewster followed her husband, and in order
to be experienced when that trip east was to be taken, Sary dragged Jeb
after the Brewsters.

"Wall, suh!" breathed Sary, when Eleanor demonstrated where the beds
were hidden, and what the push buttons were for, and how the window
shades ran up or down on springs! She could hardly believe her eyes when
she was told about the convenience of modern traveling.

"All out not going East!" came a loud call from the colored porter at
the end of the Pullman, so Sam Brewster turned and hugged Polly until
she almost choked.

"Come out, Sary--bring your man!" ordered Sam Brewster in a harsh tone,
madly dabbing his eyes with a fist, as he left Polly to her mother.

"Jeb, Jeb! Come along--er we-all'll get taken along the trip!" cried
Sary, excitedly, trying to force Jeb ahead of her as she stumbled out of
the Pullman after Mr. Brewster.

The sight of big Sary urging little Jeb out to safety was so funny that
every one had to laugh in spite of tears at the parting, so that Sary
actually accomplished a great thing--she turned the sadness at Polly's
leaving her parents into a merry laughing scene for every one.

Once the four who were to remain behind were on the platform again, the
four in the Pullman gazed from their windows. Polly suddenly remembered
one last order about her ranch-home.

"Paw, don't you or Jeb ever forget to do for Noddy just what I would do
if I was home," was her choking command.

"No danger, Poll! Little Noddy will be my own pet charge, now. It's all
Ah will have at the old crater to tell me about you!" called Sam
Brewster as the conductor signaled the engineer to start the engine.

At this crucial moment Jeb remembered an important letter with which he
had been intrusted. He made a wild search in his pockets and as the
train slowly pulled away from the Brewster group, he found it. He gazed
distractedly at the car window where Polly's face was flattened against
the wire-netting, then instant action possessed him. His faculties began
to exert themselves.

"Hey, there! Mister Conductor, stop that car 'cause Ah got a big fat
letter for Polly!" Jeb shouted with all the power his small frame could
produce in such a hurry, but the conductor heard him not.

"Stop that car! Oh, jumpin' r