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`` And you has the nerve ter run through , while yer handles ther ribbons as though yer was born on a stage-box . But yer 'll find drivers scarce at t ` other end , Doctor Dick , or I 'm greatly mistook . '' `` I hope not ; '' and the fresh team being ready , the doctor pushed on once more . The second relay-station was reached at noon , and here Doctor Dick had his dinner . He had come over the worst part of the road , as far as danger from attack was concerned , but had fifty miles yet before him , where a halt was always made for the night , as there was a cañon there to go through which could only be driven in daylight , and the relay of horses taken in the morning had to pull on into the station at the end of the ran for the driver on the Last Chance end of the line . But the doctor reached what was known as Cañon-end Station soon after dark , and after supper turned in in one of the cots in the cabin provided for passengers , and was soon fast asleep . He was up at an early hour , had breakfast , lighted his cigar , and with a spanking fine team took the perilous run through the cañon at a trot , driving the twenty miles that ended his run in a little over three hours .