With a screaming of brakes, the elevated train on which I happened to be jerked to a stop, and passengers intending to disembark were catapulted toward the doorways—a convenience supplied gratis by all elevated roads, which, I have observed, is generally overlooked by their patrons. I crammed the morning paper into my overcoat pocket, fell in with the outrushing current of humanity, and was straightway swept upon the platform, pinched through the revolving gates, and hustled down the covered iron stairway to the street. Here the current broke up and diffused, like the current of a river where it empties into the sea.
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Charles Edmonds Walk was born in Indiana in 1875. In addition to The Paternoster Ruby, he wrote a number of other books, The Silver Blade (1908), The Yellow Circle (1909), The Time Lock (1912), The Crimson Cross (1913) with Millard Lynch, and The Green Seal(1914). He also wrote a number of stories published in Blue Book and other magazines. His date of death is unknown.
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