Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-05

Griggs looked up from the stick he was whiting.
 No propects O the Boston folks get ting the road back again, T reckon" 1" he remarked tentatively
 You should read dose Arkoos news papers; den you should know some- t'ings alretty. ain'd it?" said Fischer.
 Brodrick laughed.
 If you see it in the papers, it's so" he quoted. What the Argus doesn't say would make 'nough sight bigger book than what it does. But I've been kind O watchin' that man Kent. He's been hot after the major, right from the jump. You rec'lect what he said in them Civic league talks O his; said these politicians had stole the road, hide hair an horns."
 "I'm onto him." said Callahan. "'Tis a bird he is. Oleson was tell ing me. The Scandehoovian was thry- in to get him down to Gaston the day they ray-ceivered us. Jarl says he wint a mile a minut', an the little l man never turned hair" .
 "Is he here yet, or did he go back to Gods country?" asked Engineer Scott, leaning from the cab window of the | 1,031. 4
 He's here and 80 is MT. Loring. They're stopping at the Clarendon" !" said Brodrick. 1E
 "Then they haven't quit," drawled Griggs, adding: ''I wonder if they have a ghost of show against the politi- cals?"
 Has anybody been to see emp asked Callahan.
 There's a notion for you, Scott" " said Brodrick. Scott was the presid- ing officer in the B. of l.. E. local. "Get up a committee from the Fedora tive to go and ask MT. Loring if there's any use in our tryin' to hold on." | Now 1t fell out that these things hap ! pened on a day when the tide of re- trieval was at It's lowest ebb; the day, namely, in which Kent had told Loring that he was undecided as to his moral right to use the evidence against Bucks as a lever to pry the Trans 1 Western out of the grip of the junto. It befell, also, that it was the day chosen by two other men, not members of the labor unions, in which to call upon the ex-manager; and Loring found M'Tosh, the trainmaster, and ] Durgan, the master mechanic, waiting i for him in the hotel corridor when he came in from a late luncheon at the i Camelot club.
 Can you give us few minutes, MT. Loring?" asked MTosh, when Loring had shaken hands with them, not as subordinates.
 Surely. My time is not very valu- able, just at present. Come in, and I'll see if MT. Kent has left me any cigars. '' "Humph!" said Durgan, when the ex-manager had gone into Rents room to rummage for the smoke offering. And they give us the major in the place of such a man as that!" with a jerk of his thumb toward the door ot the bedroom.
 Come off" warned M'Tosh; hell hear you" And when Loring came back with the cigars there was dry hu- nor in his eye.
 "You mustn't let your loyalty to the old guard get you into trouble with the receiver" he cautioned; and they both smiled.
 "The trouble hasn't waited for oul bringing" said M'Tosh. That is why we are here. Durgan has soured on his job, and I'm more than sick of mine | It's hell, MT. Loring. have been at il ! 20 years, and never saw such crazy railroading in any one of them.'
 Bad management, you mean?" l Bad management at the top, and rotten demoralization at the bottom as a natural consequence. We can't be