1:52
Like a shot , Bob made for the door , banged the screen open wide -LRB- Betty heard it hit the side of the building -RRB- , and fled up the straggling , uneven street . Instantly the five toughs were in pursuit . Betty heard the counter-man calling to her , but she ran from the place and sped toward the station . It was completely deserted , and a written sign proclaimed that the 1:52 train was ten minutes late . Betty judged that the ticket agent , with whom they had left their bags , would return in time to check them out , and she sat down on one of the dusty seats in the fly-specked waiting-room to wait for the arrival of Bob . That young man , as he ran , was racking his brains for a way to elude his pursuers . There were no telegraph poles to climb , and even if there had been , he wanted to get to Betty and the station , not be marooned indefinitely .