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The
longest
train
on
the
John
Galt
Line
had
forty
cars
;
the
fastest
ran
at
fifty
miles
an
hour
.
The
engines
had
to
be
spared
:
they
were
coal
burning
engines
,
long
past
their
age
of
retirement
.
Jim
obtained
the
oil
for
the
Diesels
that
pulled
the
Comet
and
a
few
of
their
transcontinental
freights
.
The
only
source
of
fuel
she
could
count
on
and
deal
with
was
Ken
Danagger
of
Danagger
Coal
in
Pennsylvania
.
Empty
trains
clattered
through
the
four
states
that
were
tied
,
as
neighbors
,
to
the
throat
of
Colorado
.
They
carried
a
few
carloads
of
sheep
,
some
corn
,
some
melons
and
an
occasional
farmer
with
an
overdressed
family
,
who
had
friends
in
Washington
.
Jim
had
obtained
a
subsidy
from
Washington
for
every
train
that
was
run
,
not
as
a
profit
making
carrier
,
but
as
a
service
of
"
public
equality
.
"
It
took
every
scrap
of
her
energy
to
keep
trains
running
through
the
sections
where
they
were
still
needed
,
in
the
areas
that
were
still
producing
.
But
on
the
balance
sheets
of
Taggart
Transcontinental
,
the
checks
of
Jim
’
s
subsidies
for
empty
trains
bore
larger
figures
than
the
profit
brought
by
the
best
freight
train
of
the
busiest
industrial
division
.
Jim
boasted
that
this
had
been
the
most
prosperous
six
months
in
Taggart
history
.
Listed
as
profit
,
on
the
glossy
pages
of
his
report
to
the
stockholders
,
was
the
money
he
had
not
earned
—
the
subsidies
for
empty
trains
;
and
the
money
he
did
not
own
—
the
sums
that
should
have
gone
to
pay
the
interest
and
the
retirement
of
Taggart
bonds
,
the
debt
which
,
by
the
will
of
Wesley
Mouch
,
he
had
been
permitted
not
to
pay
.
He
boasted
about
the
greater
volume
of
freight
carried
by
Taggart
trains
in
Arizona
—
where
Dan
Conway
had
closed
the
last
of
the
Phoenix
-
Durango
and
retired
;
and
in
Minnesota
—
where
Paul
Larkin
was
shipping
iron
ore
by
rail
,
and
the
last
of
the
ore
boats
on
the
Great
Lakes
had
gone
out
of
existence
.
"
You
have
always
considered
money
-
making
as
such
an
important
virtue
,
"
Jim
had
said
to
her
with
an
odd
half
-
smile
.
"
Well
,
it
seems
to
me
that
I
’
m
better
at
it
than
you
are
.
"
Nobody
professed
to
understand
the
question
of
the
frozen
railroad
bonds
;
perhaps
,
because
everybody
understood
it
too
well
.
At
first
,
there
had
been
signs
of
a
panic
among
the
bondholders
and
of
a
dangerous
indignation
among
the
public
.
Then
,
Wesley
Mouch
had
issued
another
directive
,
which
ruled
that
people
could
get
their
bonds
"
defrozen
"
upon
a
plea
of
"
essential
need
"
:
the
government
would
purchase
the
bonds
,
if
it
found
the
proof
of
the
need
satisfactory
.
There
were
three
questions
that
no
one
answered
or
asked
:
"
What
constituted
proof
?
"
"
What
constituted
need
?
"
"
Essential
—
to
whom
?
"
Then
it
became
bad
manners
to
discuss
why
one
man
received
the
grant
defreezing
his
money
,
while
another
had
been
refused
.
People
turned
away
in
mouth
-
pinched
silence
,
if
anybody
asked
a
"
why
?
"
One
was
supposed
to
describe
,
not
to
explain
,
to
catalogue
facts
,
not
to
evaluate
them
:
Mr
.
Smith
had
been
defrozen
,
Mr
.
Jones
had
not
;
that
was
all
.
And
when
Mr
.
Jones
committed
suicide
,
people
said
,
"
Well
,
I
don
’
t
know
,
if
he
’
d
really
needed
his
money
,
the
government
would
have
given
it
to
him
,
but
some
men
are
just
greedy
.
"
One
was
not
supposed
to
speak
about
the
men
who
,
having
been
refused
,
sold
their
bonds
for
one
-
third
of
the
value
to
other
men
who
possessed
needs
which
,
miraculously
,
made
thirty
-
three
frozen
cents
melt
into
a
whole
dollar
;
or
about
a
new
profession
practiced
by
bright
young
boys
just
out
of
college
,
who
called
themselves
"
defreezers
"
and
offered
their
services
"
to
help
you
draft
your
application
in
the
proper
modern
terms
.
