Benton, the new superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, will not designate Lone Point as a regular stop for the Limited. Squire Briggs, in retaliation, gets a village ordinance passed requiring all ...See moreBenton, the new superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, will not designate Lone Point as a regular stop for the Limited. Squire Briggs, in retaliation, gets a village ordinance passed requiring all trains to slow down to four miles per hour within the corporate limits. Patton, an engineer, is fined for disregarding the ordinance and the war is on. Benton's next move is an order closing Lone Point as an agency and curtailing the passenger service to one train, and that in the dead of night. But Benton and Grace, the Squire's daughter, have planned an elopement. Helen assists the lovers to board the Limited that stops on orders to pick them up. Squire Briggs gets the news and shows up at the station with the sheriff. Engineer Patton is about to take his freight train out of the siding when he finds himself looking into the muzzle of the sheriff's revolver. Under compulsion he takes the Squire and Sheriff aboard and starts out to overtake the elopers. They pull out just as Helen gets word that a broken rail is sending the Limited back, to Lone Point. Helen goes in pursuit on her motorcycle and, by a daring leap from an overhead bridge, gives the warning just in time to avert a collision. Benton and the Squire, thankful for their lucky escape, bury the hatchet forever. Written by
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