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The despatchers were annulling , holding the freights and distributing passenger trains at eating stations . But an hour 's work at the head-breaking problem left the division , Callahan thought , in worse shape than when the planning began , and he got up from the keg in a mental whirl when Duffy at Medicine Bend sent a body blow in a long message supplementary to his first report . `` Bear Dance reports the fruit extras making a very fast run . First train of eighteen cars has just pulled in : there are seven more of these fruit extras following close , should arrive at Sleepy Cat at four A.M. '' Callahan turned from the message with his hand in his hair . Of all bad luck this was the worst . The California fruit trains , not due for twenty-four hours , coming in a day ahead of time with the Mountain Division tied up by the worst washout it had ever seen . In a heat he walked out of the operators ' office to find Agnew ; the two men met near the water tank .