Chapter 6

Narrator: When Harry woke up the next day, he tried looking through the book to try and find some way of resurrecting Polly, but he did not see anything of real interest. He did however find something very interesting. He saw a spell in the book that said that "By Fire and blood will man be connected to the things he loves". Harry wondered what it meant.

Harry: I wonder what this spell means?

Narrator: Then it hit him.

Harry: I could spiritually connect a person to a machine!

Narrator: But then he wondered if the person could be dead and still be connected. Then he thought of something

Harry: If I connect Polly to a steam engine, I could have my dream of having a child who likes trains and a train to play with! But I wonder if it will woek with the person being dead?

Narrator: Harry was so concentrated on this that he did not notice someone coming towards the cave, and look inside. The man noticed harry and screamed

Man: You B*****d! First you killed Polly, now you steal her body from the morgue! You Scum Bag!

Narrator: harry was very surprised and jumped to his feet. He tried to fight off the man, but was having a hard time. He finally was able to punch him in the head hard enough that he knocked him out, and he set off carrying Polly in his arms.

Harry: I must find some other town to get to or I will be certainly killed.

Narrator: So harry went to the railroad tracks and started to walk down the PRR Main Line towards Harrisburg. He knew that that was a long ways from there and that he would not be known about there. He started to walk down the main line carrying Polly and the book. He walked on and on and on, stopping every 5 miles or so to take a quick breather, and to duck from sight from any trains that came by. Finally, after traveling all night he finally reached the station at Harrisburg.

Harry: I have made it!

Narrator: He walked over to the station. There was no one there because it ws night. He then put down Polly and the book and hid them underneath the station platform and went inside for information of where he could go for the night. He then noticed the station clerk looking at him and he wondered why she was staring at him for. Finally he spoke up.

Harry: Why are you staring at me?

Clerk: Because you're clothes are all dirty and you smell like heck!

Harry: I just need to know where I could go for the night. I am very tired.

Narrator: But the desk clerk noticed that harry was not looking all right. He was trembling a little bit. She asked him what was up.

Clerk: What is the matter with you! You look as if you have committed a murder and are trying to cover it up.

Narrator: Harry knew that he would have to explain something to the desk clerk so that she would know why he was so nervous. So he decided that it was the best thing to do to tell her everything.

Harry: Listen, I have something I have to tell you. When you said that it looked as if I had committed a murder, I really have been framed for it. I worked in a steelworks near Strasburg where a 15 year old girl was drafted to work after her father died. I tried to help her get through all of her troubles, but they killed her and framed it on me! I stole her body from the morgue and have it with me here.

Clerk: Dear God! Why would they do something like that?!

Harry: Because they did not like me trying to tell them that she was not fit for the work there, and they lost patience with her barely getting the work done and they killed her over that.

Clerk: Where is she now?

Harry: She is underneath the station platform right now.

Clerk: Well come on. Lets get her out of there and you can come to stay at my place until you can find some way to prove your innocence.

Narrator: So Harry got Polly and the book out from under the platform. Just then the clerk noticed the book.

Clerk: What is that?

Harry: This is a magic book that I found in my study a few days ago.

Clerk: There is no such thing as magic!

Harry: There is in this book! I will show it to you when we get to your place.

Narrator: So Harry carried Polly over to the station clerks house and brought her inside. Just then harry thought of something.

Harry: Say, what is your name?

Clerk: My name is Sally.

Harry: That is a nice name.

Sally: Yes. Now about this magic book, show me some of its stuff.

Harry: Alright.

Narrator: So harry did the stuff the book said to do, and before Sally knew it, a candleholder that was sitting on a table was floating in the air.

Sally; That was incredible!

Harry: Yes it was. Now I am going to use this book to bring Polly back to life somehow.

Clerk: When will you do it?

Harry: As soon as I find an object to spiritually bond her with. I always wanted to have a daughter that loved trains, and a steam engine to play with, so I was thinking that I would spiritually bond her with a steam engine, and hopefully it will bring her back to life.

Sally: I think I know where we might be able to get a steam engine. I have some books and instructions on British locomotive builders that might be of very good interest to you. I would not advise you to build an American steam locomotive because the steam locomotives here are very explosive.

Harry: Why would building a British steam locomotive make any difference?

Sally: Because the British build their locomotives to higher safety standards than Americans do.

Harry: I see.

Sally: Here they are.

Narrator: So Harry opened up the instructions and started reading the information on them. He noticed that the engines in the instructions were somewhat smaller than American locomotives, but he could tell that by the way they fabricated the boilers they were much safer than the American Locomotives. He started to look into some of the designs that were in the book, and saw that they were just getting cabs on the locomotives in Great Britain. But then he saw a steam locomotive they were building called Captain Baxter that looked just right for Polly to drive. It was a small engine, and he figured that it would be proper that the most wonderful engine in the world would be a small one. He thought to himself.

Harry: This little engine can do a very big thing.

Narrator: Then Sally spoke up.

Sally: Now I know about an engine works that can build this engine for us. The Pennsylvania railroad shops in Altoona is the best builder of locomotives anywhere in the country. They can build this locomotive to these specifications.

Harry: This is going to be very cool. I can't wait till I spiritually connect Polly to this.

Narrator: So harry went to bed that night knowing that he might just have his chance to save Polly and have a lovely daughter and a locomotive all to himself. But what he did not know that he was going to be having a lot more than that.