CHAPTER XV—

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“ISol jmu miM r<m tad I'l.-potlrti her ' - -' »»me •- "Ho 1 have—ber nt»rri.-d name And •Iwl'a more. I cunn lo keep on tor-

m-tthig |r

Tl>«re pas no mlMakr about the boas’

fnwti JH« lime.

, "That won't lia. he eald. *tn4 of waruiagl.' - “Ii wil! do writ roowgh for tbv p wimm Pfl rwry 1«t touorro*. Graham, If die. were fn-e. and rtn-re wve eo Wto r oostacW. rnhappUy. there _ are two—beside* tb* ma!l legal dlf- «■ «ltf; ah* doesn't nrr for mr money >mrln« a UttJe .-f her own: and •» t*- .3 love with the

-Gutr feHow."

I gueoa the h«* »»* remembering; o-hal Mr*. SI.eila had toi.: him In that rrmStWire before the tach-pa.-'or Are. ar>o«it ha being all oh let ween he. ami OtHIhliMua. for he anM: “I think on

nr? miaUken as lo lh*t Iral."

“No, I'm not udatakeo lint tht fs ♦Wither here tier (l*re Neither y>tj oor I «tc acad roHIncwnod lo the

f—WrniV a finch. Where- j

tore. Pm afrialng >ou to quit, walk

OUl. }ttinp tier Job"

• U* l ‘i!S! iytt « Ireali brace, right Itijc hi* Swing chair wltn a an&ji.

•'foa ItJKfV. very IktP

Ginon. If you ihini I'm going to throw mp n r tmnd* row, when the real pinch b*.* come. I ha» * iwhem.—if tt ro-ild br worked. But It can't he weritesi on a rising market. By wkhc tririt or other. Uw liunton people are t-'naUpj the *ta:k agtilti If went op ion* potota pmterdaj.” ¥f ° Bri l’. ‘Ttey’r* diaSfirfitlng the efTert of Ihlr liUle poUflcai deal—which situ at Iron rope i-ovr reform sohetae down, if it doesn't do anything e!at. WJir.t you need Is *. p*dj oM-fauhtone-' catariyaro of *on"r aort; somethin; that would fnlrf» knock the tar out of P. H. I, secar-l-Jes and »end item skit'..ring down 'hr toboggan s'tdc in spile of nnythlag ' .tele Brecuenrldae twuto lo to stop down to wh -re they .ould Ip ittH, gad profltal-U- picked up by the W*F pool Sr" rnforinaTely. those-it-ng* don’t beppco .utalde of the .%■ books If they did. If tue eurtb tjoeJce ahoold happei- ah-ng oat way *Mt new. I don't know but I'd be dlaIrjal enough to get out and help :t

shake things up a bit.”

ofter Mr. Van Britt bad gone, the ho-* pat In the remainder of the day like « worfc'agmsn. skipping the noon loocheon as he sometimes did when flw seork drier was extra heavy. Menuwhile as you'd auppoa^. rumr-r w*a plentifully t>u«y, on iln railroad, and

aiao in town.

I By noon It was well understood that J tliere had been a radical chance '.ti l tht' roanagemeet of C S. A W„ and • th«» there wa coir,; to be a general strike In anae er tn the stashing rut in wages I slipped ap-town to get t »lto, rind I bi-oed some of the lalk. I.' was pretty atralpht. most ot It— v^'ch Hiiws how u«.ea* it I* to try to keep any business secrets, nowa-

ticyw

b*or example: She three wen at my table hi »h« Bullard griH-rcom—they dtdnf know roe «r who ! wos—knew that a counri: of «ar had been i-al'ed to the railroad bradquar era. and that t-'lldey had been pnlied In by wire from I.rsterburg. and i!.at we were ruNbing aloof hurriedly to provide utorage room for ihe wheat ‘kipper* tp case of a tie-up. and that ue were arranging b> distribute- railroad cjuiiwiny coal la rjite the <le-un should bring on a ftu i famine—knew all these r\ingx and talked a bool <bem. They were fait# as fnr u they i went—these tbirg- The boss hado t j b-'nn idle during the forenoon, and hr j kept up the drive straight thrcjgh to quitting tlroa. Word was brought In ' during tta aft-moor by Tarbell that • he Hatch people were wiring the Kan*a» city anil Oicata employineot agencies and ptoring hurry order* for ! k-'rifcwbreaser*. Toe boas' aasnar to 1 ♦hi* wav a vremptory "ire to our | i-tooagr: alta * at both points to j make o» rati cot. -r-sfom. w«u.tever. of aav ktod. for the transportation of j laborers under contract. It w»r a j idirewd Mi tie knock. lAbw ol that J kusd 1* raighly hard to more unless I k caa gbt free trMn<q»rtrtk>n or a low s mta of Ur*, and l 'ooid see that Mr, ! Jivecroat was hoping to kee- the strike- 1 breaker* away When *U o'clock rams- the b-ws asked May to stay and keep the odk-e Opeti while I OKid ge dewo-ataln- :>ud get tuy dk t.er tu the stattou teetaut .iOt sad he west off up-town—to the club, r so;,P«»e Aftet I'd M.. my bite. I yet. May tu Everything wa* n<ov1ng We had »*• cgtm t.cH trato* ^din*

1 sltUHtion. and what it w-ns likely to develop. The Motmtalueer editor was

given all the facts, .'Xcept the

big one about Haldi's death-grip on us. and tn turn Mr. Cantrell promised the hvip of hit pajier to the last ditch— thtagh, of courte. be h , co idee of

how deep thet Inst di' a was going

lie. i had a lot of f ng and Indexing to do. and i kepi *u work while they were talking, wondering all the time If tii- boss would venture to tell toe editor about the depth of that “lari dltrfc." I> didn't. I guess be tlioaght

he wouldn't v'ril lie had to. H w*» pretty nearly tdne o'clock

wben the editor wse.i nway. and. Mr. Ner-ron* was )t,t taylng to me that he guessed we'd better knock off for the nigh!, when wg both besnl a step in May's room. A aoevrid liter the door was pushed open and a man cnr.je In. making for tl-e nrjrwt chair usd flinging himself Into it as if he'd tvoeh-d the limit. It w.a rolling, wood. He waa ohewlns on a dead, cigar and hU face was like the face

of n corpse But be was ocher. Naturally. I supposed be had come make troqbb with the hosa op Mrs.

Sheila's account, and I qateUy edged op»n tlit drawer of my desk where I Ired JJav'j aatoutotfe. su a* to ta ready, ffc dlJE 5 ! Swafe r "*

from KcnSrirk's last nleht," fc* Lagan. with e Metering rasp m hi* voice. "Did you go up against the gun 1 had loaded for your Mr. Norrross cut straight through to the bottom of that little tlcn at a single rfrie.

tglri

her, un bare no possible hewriug upon anything that you may have to aay to me. or that I caa consent to llaren to, Mr. Oul'liw:wood" Tne derelict sat up to his chair. “But youVa g« to keep bauds off. .'os'- the samr; a: Kevdrlck'a. -r in this other bust ness. t-»>. W you don’t, there la going to be Word on the mown! Get me?" Tlie boss never batted sn eye. “1m tnkior It for granted that you tire Bober. Mr. Oolllngwood." he said. “If you are. you must surely know that threat# are about the poorest possible weapons you can use Just now." “If* a plant, from start to tlnlab!” gritted -be man In the chair “I haven't done a d—d thing more than to ciah a few checks for—for expeoaes, am! luro the mone over to Bullock. Now Hatch trill me that I was working with a spotter—hl» tqwtter—a-.id that he cau send me up for bribery. Ifi a lie. 1 don't know what Bulhxk did with the money and I den t want to lt>ow.“ "But you had >rden> to give It to '-dm when he required It, didn’t youT Ur. NorcroM cut in. Thai's nour of your bDsluesc. I want you to choke thl* mau Hatvh off

says tie's got the Whole bust! ia Mark an' wMK*. with and all that. He had the t*Jl roe leas than on hour asf that he'd burn me alive If • .ida't toe thr mx-rk." M. “B ton does be warn you to fter “He want# roe to rttok arouad^hert so that he cau oae tne aga nat you ■ He knows how you're mixed ujt iritb Sheila -snd that you can't turn * Whf? I withoot making it look as If '' going after tu- on four own

account."

T! rv was silence for a lit; ft was an awful muddle, with murder sticking out -if “If you have come ioea that i can orcelirtch'* hi are very much misted.' w d at the close of the electric [>ae ihe« “Ha* he made It appear' that he was merely trying to *’*'• your own fancied wronjaT •He said I ough* to get youj -tli.t any roan whe vrou’d make lev* to a marri<*t woman f-ogm to tie gof." My chief wav- looking pai 1 IStcgBerrilct and out tb* -ugti ihe oark»o< '

window.

••You don't know me. Mr. wooti. hot you do know your nnd you kryw font she i ahXv-f ?ui^iUion « the fc JiMrcn. Eel That pan ot !t J wa* merely ‘jfng you for e.-da If he could persuade kill me off out of the way. I ta merely ihui much gallic', business figtu. Ter. haven't thus far. and now he la u-ia^ you: check-cashing cxcorsimi as u cittb aritli which lie proposes to brain the;* railroad trnuagen.-nt. your t eluded. If we Interfere with hi* {j Oollitigwood scowled up at t Ing, shifting the dead cigar f corner of his im>u:h to the C t^»f* the way ,.f It, ig|) .•owroeeltal -He v.-av w orking Mr n own pocket ai. the tiro*, and Utic

tceth-b^pS grimace. .3i.de birr eedU% j.-rowey with tne once, whee t+v Was *““* ••ighteen. Tb- next t-irh roe it win be sf I'v* e-raes it, and Tta r«t *jcWng. And about thl* Other ,oing: I c&h'l duck. Ton kaow what Iitcli fcs boldiog me for. He a* Joat » nttU while age that If I tifepped aboard of ; train. I'd be a ire* led before tne tr-iio c.Mil't pnr out." . It W a iAtulfc-mc WBc r vraattc* on iha part of th* eb!«f of tlie gmft•■r». If a tight shh»Ui he ptveii-itiued— if ti.- Uw‘ aborod try m cheeks-w the c. ff A. W. gobWo-«he amwt and indict watu ot Proatder,! &ur„oi:'„ nepirow would s e &u»v good cad welt as a drwhatid bit « tito; play to keep the cwspc.pers from i^tetln* loo miKh a!-wit the other thin*. "tt tvo -'ally want to gc, I think it cm u- arnroged to bob* way. In spit* of ”mc'; and w» Uaflhta." Mr. Noreroaa put lu qa ciiy. -go t*r ffs our wllrorl trenWa* a»e concerned a will neither help oor hltuhr for you to atay on Itatt-. now.’' -M 1 ^ Eto hripftn a^eatiee had oeati mileS ic Sre «< hidden

to hi* fret

a lighted n

go^tf tleep breath of tree tur aci shake tay fl#i ct your blamed «lfk<ow tr*<* 9t « •allroad and Ml n to n t< th.-

* little

i «ing DPtS-r the bos* skM *•*:. “1 can't believe ihnt t«i it tt ’V* *n." he hnAt- ont ao-t o. iropeteasiy. «jf* eimpty pn-

poMeroosr

It do out of the future and put If in the preset t, and you've got Jf told Mr, Van Britt. “I have reMrtatl- I wrote It cm; on a piece of paper :,nd dropjmd It into ytnr mn ' box as' I eaiuf- through the outer otfl.-.-It'saipned, acnlc^i, and drotvered. Ton'!' givv roc n tei*th»gBl|.i. nr something of thr.. wj. t«Whom It May ronwrr,.' wont m» I've bcei otadieut and tntthfnl atw honest am! cffk.cot.

•li that, taTra't VT

“M like JO know when got your auor. Upton. That is the mom cberwnsttweflee 1 can put npoc all thH. tVh.. inon alive! you're quHUtig me in Uie thick of tta tooshest flgbt the grafteri, hare put upj" Tea. t kuam; hat a roan's got oaty » tire ic Mr* and I've alt. ays had vper.kjrjr '•yapathy for the high prixiite In tta front -wa* who didn’t want

it waa all r.hom. Bet the who* tiling Kg# now n horribly -juddled that a little rtystc ry more or leas on toCbody * pari rouMuT make roorti dlffrreace; and that was tta tti aught I tot* ro *.«d with me a little later afw we readiet our room* In the railroad

CHAPTER XVII

Th* b *8 Inn tag o’ the tad However rocch tta Hatch fTOP** may have wanted fr avoid pnBCrtty _ regariii..t the iTOauge iff ownentfilp ■ and policies In the Storage * War*- | house reoTganitattoo. the prompt au-

to mac op ar-a get hharelf ahoi full of hole-, rm nroalog, and if von Hiotftd »ic roe way. I'd Ml you what Uie ntrentlug artdler (Md Btepewatl

lie snid fee w#“ mnuing on*} to CMlOn't fly Cue-* BHUV

the haw r.-w eilecity tbimehtful. Our of tta (I'lrsTid; mental inquiry he

“Hn* th-s coddw, notion of

•r'yxWng to db with Stall-i ftlaccae.

Upton T

"Ptrilge you ruy woni agalu. t met Sheila on tta arw-ot tovay «nC pro ro-

of t

The Im»s had picked op hi* p«:>erknlfe. “I don't know why you should to me for help!" he aaM. "Yon have beet hand-lo-giove will, these conspirators ever since you came out In-re. Two days ago you knew that they bad set r. trap for my special train on tta Stratbcona branch—a trap that waa meant to kill rx_" It was a random shot, and I ke* : •hat Mr Normas was just guessing

arv be ovedlna to make hia'hanrf T. Between you and roe, Kwr-her-ve tbiv d—d piker Breda killing a few tiroes, himself” '

boro mi back In Me

and I could Just iroa.lnc that tryiug to get aome von of . on this young feUow who. In _ hts other .-coundrellsnis, Wg ar.^y IlU’o.* tad wrecked the Ufe of Sheila Macrae. I knew what be wa* tbbftHe had a ttieory ttmt no man that wa* ever bom was either all aoeei or all devil, and ta w#> IrantlBE for the redeeaili^ (break :.i thlf one. Wtan you looke-l right hard at tie hafrnrd far* you <x»uld see s.cnethtb, •on of half-appealiag in t:. t^metMME to make yon Udnk that perhaps, s aw* back yonder before tor vpoiilog' Bagan. there used to be a man : oevOr-a strqng man. I guerac. but oae tlun uitgld hare been xenerons abb free-1 * '

! K"! a fleeting linlo

of that back-number man « j turned si-ddeuly and rohl line night a few weeks u*o when l was fr li Up. Hatch got hUfl of gne nnd told me you were out „t the Rawdrick f.iace with Sheila. He made too h..i;*\e that I ought to *.> ..ut there and k'H yon. and I started to rta It. Ito you know why I dHn't do Itv’f ’ "No." wW the chief, tnighn qtaeH*. "»>H. Ill tell you. on. nigat Mat spring u;. at the Bullard you HtauMsed “ta >a the t*t* UM dr.irv-,-: io* off

^ 'cep me from makihr

en't fcrtotteti.aat. y*«n r.obodyAUie » trouh!.- to cMnk

a bigger as* *f myself thap I'd al-

n-ady made. I haven't frrgt

1* til tlieso crook*? yt ha* ev>Hi taken tta

me decently out of sight and ^ a chance to brace. Drum a* I m-ta. I ivniemlKjred It-tbat debt whan 1 wa* rHmhtDg lip to « window Ml the majort tause and trying t,. K n j ahot

at you."

Mr. Norcroas shook hit taod. rorrv than half nyiupatoadralh i ; hough’ “l-et thv von U it r- and teM me ■taut tfci* other troot is," be gata “How badly are you tingled tap to thi» political hiudneaa?"

to you Mra'ight

brthieg proposition. Tu. roa ar a money carriemay’w It wu^ tacausthwt Bulloc .. I didn't k

what HtitUck waa (‘cn-.g with the checks I cashed for hlo. though JMPP .«k,. of rourse. tt was - ■mc-htog th-1 wouldn't «taud oayUgtd <t r »* only a aide iaanr xriib mr. i was euffricg out here anyway. I knew sbetta had

ma.fr up her tinted—Go-i

bad me*- enough; N». I t*d qi loti'll) that I’d like e t-.- th* »mtor vide of tta ea«-N w ith her agai|^ ter Jaw a little while Then thltaW te liwiled .df tn « haUde ; m.tecUat «b« I^rore-! ..in upon tta mat- who had ttapt--.) Mn sou raed r.ao. i •lla- Ktaicn.ene , hfmsetfdtohb ctair trot be ,111 wa- -prakiaj:

'aighl OB the - Brtvk uarot Can^AjI. he . oaidn't

j f#i

“ { Site like » t-uHet. ADd ■ -ec: "Xa i i tnhl you in the taagtonti.R. we vrw»y t ; go tot-' any H 'luit »h»o!.e» < ! Mr*. Coiiicgnood, ha.% Into ye* l j cara bowl. Are (oo trymg "to tell roe i. ' now that Hatt.li U ttarwreoliks your “Heap

"No, by <led r ta swore. Tm going to make h’ro cum*- nerm* with itbive affldu-lf pa porw flfta • Too wait rigt-t here. NofcriMB too think I"n cur but TII show yox There isn't i me but hour.d dog. bst Men a hound dog w ! bite If yut kick him Paid enough. Lend nro a gun. if you're got ooe and Pi—> "Hold on—none of that r the bow ore *• t.. Merely. Jraupto* oet of .Km chafr to enforce the cororoacil BM I Wore he could make tta grattoiu. movv Oie corridor door aUiuined noisUy nod tht roadtovn waa gone.

CHARTER XV. Tha Oanrtar

Mr. M-rccrwt* rhsurod cot apd tried

to overtake (»i!ogwe J. going as far as the foot <•» the xtatra. » wept. too. hot rot only tr.r e.-rrogl. to meet the boro lorolBg up again. There wa* nothin* dotny.. T.w vtatioa ^oBveman had rreti tta cra*» rxronthr .'crop tore

a tas 1 uo>: gi, -apinulnr off up-town. There wa* anottar Jolt waiting IV•js when «r got hack to tta oSc*

Wufle w - were hath ou;. Mr. Van Britt Im* htowc tn from i.H room ar the foot of ihe tun and we found him

lounging -e-nfcrtaMy la the chair thoi CoUlngwood had Just vacated. “2 f bought maybe ywe'd tom op

acMo pretty aooe. Mae* yood left >ta door* all -pen." ar** the wa? he atartod

U-d her that I wouldn’t #o moch *► tip ray hat to her whjle Cblllngwood •* on this ai'le of the Missoori ri rer." “Bet If you quit, you'll go **« yoar-

•elf. wot''t your

_ “Maybe, after a while For toe time

out. Tta*;. “Fit. i \ r<1 Vta to loof on you for

wont to talk a f-'-w Mr. XU* cross Aoak hi* own chair and ,w fried ii to face the gvary*l usper 'itendewt. “Say It.” he commanded

brtefiy.

Mr. T-n Britt booked bit tbmobo tn l U anrho-’es Tv* Jo« ta*e Jlguring a hi: on the gene-at outlook: yon have a d*e**»!j efficient operating outfit here, what with Perktua and Braut and Conway handHQE the three dirietona as selfcontained uaiu. Yoa don’t need a general sui erinte.ident any more than s monkey needs two tall " "What are you driving at?" was

‘WeU, auppose we aay retrenebroont. ten one tbtog. As T atro. it up. yatt might jo*t a* wen h* aav^g at? salary. " would troy « good «auy orw croaatiea in th# ’ roiraa of a year." •‘Ttaffa a-i bank, aud yoc Law lt.ipped toe bow. The orgai.Uatioc a* i' stands hasn't a vopto ■*tU2» ot I wend io ■!, Ton know very well that a reltaK.d toe alae of tta -ihort tone can’t run without an Individual ta-ad of tta operating departtavat ” r. fan Britt laughed a ttttle at

that.

If y<w atastd pat aoou- «*• Jf <heao new eAchrocy expert* art tare l« would probably tell you that you ooold <m >our araff rtgU la two In the

roiddKT

1 voci-* ta--' that too boa* waa writing mlgbly nearly to patron: ■' OU are mere!, t«rnmg hautapvtnaa ■wind tta edges of U * ttoeg ro« tava n* to aay. Upton." be hart eo oet. \,me to tta pula! ritot ya*>» Mfbat hot- vou got 00 your *>oev*r •N-xhlng that 1 could make you i.-Vrstand ia • ro^'h of Suodaya | I'm sore oo r*y Job end * »«« ,t H>

qu't." !H|

n’t r>*oi thatr* ired it wecrttjg

ex I do. Ita ttred

the ora** collar of a aoaUcro ti»:.. What's too a*-* an/may? » found taoct of dividend - iw-Ls fiwu. roy ank at hot-D In the twH its day. and nut good Area the rooney do tne» (.•n't spend It out berv; cant »-\on p <h«- se-vant* at tta hotel wltboc! reriaattngiy dew. -*11*11* them I'm k-- tta Hltie boy wta wreve.! to go ut u tta gardr.i and eat worma'' Tne btou wa* ft owning t' •ugi.'Ttffly. • You're cot gHmg «u* a show Up-

tkro.

Graham.

wts l or so end watch the wheel* go a round without my having to prod them H‘s nmuing id mr mind that thl* trowtwx phase of the C *. * W. burttM'ra t« goitiR to atir op a mighty pretty shindy, and I bad a foqifrti no tidn toat Td like to stick around nnd look iro—oa tiu tnnoreci byatander ’ ‘•The innocent bywrander iiTOettv ge;- shot la the leg." tta bow ripped out, with the brittle*! kind of horoor. And tbe»; “X soppo** 1 ahull have to In you da whs-, you want to—and let you pick your own tiro* for gMng me tta *.*al reuson. But you’re crippling me uto« aavageiy. Upton—and *t n rime when ! am least able to stand it." Mr Van Britt g*t up and edged hi*

wuy toward too door.

Tt’* a good reason. Giaham : and aoroe taae—uay »h«s we are walking through toe penrty gate* of tta New Jcrvaaleui torvtb*’—mayta I'll tell yots ahoui It. tf 1 srw many a good scrapper. I'd May and help you fight It ont with Hatch: tat you know the pi w. ythg—rapUal la always coucn’iy ; ami i»y present credit ar the Portal City National Is pretty.well cp to a quarter of a million, thanks to tta iUvid#ods J depoaHed today. Goodnight. I'll re* yon its tta mornlng lf by tusi thue you haven't decided to

cut roc «Jd-“

l W t right busy over tta iudcxv*

,-W Mr V„ BrW .... •«„. ™ to give t JO boas a little chance to rarrh ' ' *“ a

up with himself, lie aure was catch its* M tat esrit tioavy roc ail sidm. /J! we needed sow wa* tor President INwton to oosv sura shine In with coe more gtxd Nni and It would U all cree but tta <e*equ»e*. tta m-minnut and tta epitaph At lewt. rtat U the

-ay H tootaii to roe

It was along .iWut ien o'clo. k wtu-n the bta* cloned his de*k with u hang and re'd wr d better M*. it ofl tor the night. I watted «p-totvt> with him anu e* we vtm p*roa. k the I'.ullurd be tnrreC Us to aok tta ».:«h: , i.-rk tf GoekkEWt-ad war la hL. locn the answer wa- fix; that tta young N,-« YOther hadn't hocn «e*r .. ! r:„-r >>n tta way <":t w* saw M. Van Britt at tta f-frgrrt a alcove, iw » a . t»™3ing in a thick bunch ietcKruro, |for trosrobroioii, sad he rat!....I;diy tatc-ri* the stroaf fro tta mart.fr *a,‘. when ve <- me «* math a» to say Tt'a net- : I b ivJneos wb.fr I'm Joins ' I It atru-Hi roc a. sort . > ctsttt, , -i ;a . by shotvM have ru iau-h air.- .

he ctsim.-d r« :j; ■ ivt.y he v. it* ... ■. - ./•< » g! i-rpre »' :

of a general at like of tta employees was enough to make evity nowrpaper ,u the state sit op and take

neitce.

- We bad the Motmta.'oeer at the taroskfrst-tahrt tu toe dub grlU-room on the roernlag of tin- dar wVj* to* Strike wa* advertised to go Into eff< cl. There wav a new* atory. wlto b!g beadlh).* In red Ink. and vlao aa editorial. GanfruB* dido’’ aay anything *„ain*t the rallroao ctwopany HI* ecaiujsenty were tho*. of an observer who vfitbrd tfi ta atralaht-forward i.od fair to all eaeereb-d. but hi* ed torial did dm apere tta atoy local affockhriderr whose «arap|Mt>x end itedtog had road* tta reap dossIW,Cantrell, blmsalf, mlM-erci a. d tookIne as If he'd gw trot of bed al*uri three boars too eariy. drifted In: - tta krtil-ro-jtn end took a seat at wtr labia

before we rrcrc through

'I wanted to br decent about tt j Ifatowaa.” he s*«\ rorestni'lng -'ny l that the ».j** might he going lo ’ «•! ahou: tta editorial le tlw Moua

"I'm trying to believe that

the men higher up iu your railroad eOhorils haven't fathere*’ thl- Hctto

eocsoildat Ion-which to some of the other ;.c-v8-

wh.- fio tin y«u. Im afraid.

Thana* h> yorr publlrity measure*, evervbodr belle-res that you still hold " j ’ whip-hand over tta rombinadoB j with your ground lessee. I'm not aafc- : 1 log what you propose to do; I tm | merely taking tt for granted that you j.are going to stick to yonr pniicy. and f hoping that you will .war and tell roe

J about It when you are reedy I T shall do Jaw that.” the t* toed; anti 1 guess ta would have glad to let the matter fire:,

only Cantr '.l wnntrtni

T if*: tliree good taurs' sleep thl morning oo the chance catching here pt table," the editor went “A little whisper leaked m ovewlres last night, or. rather, eariy th.* ' tswdnK. that set me to thinking. Yoa haven’t been havio* any trouble with poor own wnpiojees lately, hare you.

Norcroas?"

“Not a bit in the werm Whyr “There ia aoroe itttle exettemeot, with trie public taking a hand lo it. There were Indignation meeting* held law night tn * number of tta towns along your tinea, and resolution, wfre parsed proteWing against tta net loo °< tta new camblnatio^ In ruttlaE wwge*. and asserting that public k*ariroem would be with ttie C. R. k W. emploreca If the, are forced to carry on: their threat of striking at ooo* todny. The whisper that 1 oiroke of intimated that tta protest migh! «g. tend to the railroad employe “There's aMhing in tt “ said tta • -m derisively. “I snppo*.- you mean * the way of a v.mpaibrttr strik.-, that to entirely Improbable, very few of the C. S A VT. «uploj„ tatong to any of the labor unions” “A strike po the railroad would hit you pretty hard Jaw now, aouidnt tt?” Cantrell asked Mr Norcroas dodged the qoeatkm. 'We're not going *u lure a strike,” ta averred; and Mnce wr had fl.-.lsbad our breakfast, he made a business «. cose and we slid out. When we reached tor office we fn U &d r. Van Britt on hand, readme tho morning paper. "Y'ou oont get around as early «* i might." wa* tta little ratlUouaireM nroent wim. the boro waked ir, ^ ■o*<! up hi» desk. "I've been watting nearly a half-hou* f.,r ,ou to sta.

Thr boro nodded

T doo t mean tta write biwJnea.; I roren the market quotetioc*.' Nb: I didn't took at tbaro.’ j ^ They are tucerrattiig p g_ i « fomroen went up another torre prom* ^ yesterday. It cloro-d at liS and H ftap.

You know what that

» ’tat Unci* I

widge aod uu crowd ...

JuyBiUj diacoootin* your coming rtTOg nation. .Somebody ha* given item. . ^reMpthat^aareM -rod ^3 and out. and nnfrs. a miracle of loom ,* a . «rai^,t oae. streag w. T i. i »*«** Ireitebto. Ar-I then "Have yoc come to tali ^ ‘hat you have re-onsttar.r toot letter you wrote me last n'abtr’ ‘ N« to a million year, " returned ,ta es-'aped captive aWly. -) _ lit 1 * morning „ , ^ hire a special to go-wTOl. , 8 y. ' T 00 - T,,ur Jwkw»t« ral Buck ?« h ’ nf ^ n TU' tte wttfe

Buck Oum.’frr to run |t“

, ‘* h ** : toke your own car OM any

'’••-WwfiE riuu'tpar'.tiOo to you”

Yes. you ite; Ttu goin. .. re-

lha. train, .od whaf. uh‘^ It 5 yon. writtw, receipt fur •! rf . ^ g

•• •*> my taa£ne«s. Tm * ' tandier snouid Nappeu •<,

dum.. me , u t 0 ^ t ",

I cat. sue you for damage*,-

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