02120cam a22003493u 4500 77344 UtSlPG 20260610134806.0 m cr n 260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Brady, George Keyports, 1893-1984 On advance of time Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from the December 19, 1925 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine. Release date is 2025-11-27 Roger Frank and Sue Clark On advance of time by George Keyports Brady is a pulp-era railroad short story written in the early 20th century. It blends high-speed rail drama with a modest romance, focusing on an express run under an “advance of time” order, a jealous act of sabotage, and a brakeman’s courage. Elsie Macumber refuses a proposal from hostler Sam Dobinski, calling him neither tall nor brave. Stung and drunk with spite, Sam sets a free engine onto the main line in a dense fog, aiming to wreck the express her father is driving. Brakeman Patrick O’Hara spots the danger, leaps aboard the loose locomotive, and coaxes it forward just in time, while the express grinds down under full brakes and disaster is averted. Sam slips away unseen. Hailed as a hero, the bashful Patrick asks the engineer to put in a word with Elsie; soon after, her father ushers Patrick into the parlor, where the romance that courage has earned is ready to begin. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1925 Short stories Railroad stories Ohio -- Fiction Produced from the December 19, 1925 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77344 118064 118064