Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-02

- WAS suetallsd TO WIN -fTlSblG over To
1.-THE change of route---no difficul thing.
Isince the change was for the better.
But Merriam's part was chiefly TO
keep Frisbie from finding out anything
about Ford's mine; which he did. Am
making It clear?" -
/ The president bowed his head
Then when you came west on your
! inspection trip, the trap was sprung.
You We're told that Ford had been do
| ing dishonorable thing. and you were
urged to come over here and see for
yourself. To make sure that there
should be no slips Penheld was sent
with you, ostensibly as your acting sec
rotary, but really as a SPY
"0h, no5I can't think that Of young
Pentield.' protested the president.
i say yes; and the proof is that
Pentield has confessed He was scared
into it when told him what had hap
pened at Horse Creek and gave him
his choice OF telling me what he knew
or going to Jail, Then / came on the
scene at the iuopportune moment, and
after North had carefully issued instruc
lions intended to delay me as much rs
possible he sent Eckstein in post-haste
| by way of Jacks Canyon and the stage
| trail to get ahead of me- You see, he
was afraid to trust matters to Pen
field who would most certainly have
stopped short Of the desperate meas.
ures Eckstein and the MacMorroghs
| finally took 1t was decided at a coun-
| Gil in which Penfield was present that
| Ford's elimination must go through
| II you didn't quarrel with him and
drop him, he was to be murdered
! Mr.. Colbrith was silent for long
minute after Adair ceased speaking.
Then he looked UP TO say: what
was Ford doing at Horse Greek that
night2 He had left me only few
hours before; and, as have said, we
had--we had some words
Adair smiled "He was about to be-
gin doing what he has been doing ever
since: fiogging the extension into
shape night and day to get it ready 20
carry passengers and freight He con-
ceived it to be his duty--to you rs
well as the other stockholders. And
he has logged it into shape, Look ont.
OF that window, Uncle Sidney"
A long passenger train, crowded 10
the platforms, and with the privaGe
car or in tow, was winding down
the grade of the opposite hillside and
as they stepped to the windows the,
engineer woke the echoes with the
engine whistle.
| The first one of many, let us hope"
said the Young man, standing at his
uncle's elbow Then, with quite a diff
Iferent note: IT'S Stuart's work. ali
of it, He has scarcely stopped to eat
or sleep since that horrible night In
the Pannikin valley. And that night,
Uncle Sidney. [ fought shoulder 10
shoulder with him---as brother
should; he is a man, and--there are
not many more--like him."
The presidents thin lips were drawn.
| into straight lines, and the thin goats
beard stood out at the argumentatiye
angle. Mr.. Colbrith was .chary of his
emotions.
| will he sell us that stock in the
Little Alicia. Charles Edward?"
Adsir smiled at the determined re-
turn to the practical.
| No he said: 81 don't think he will
i shouldn't if | were in his place
| But he will do the next best thing: he
| will marry Alicia and SO bring it into.
the family. And on the railroad con
ditlons | have named. am quite sure
ne will make you, his voting proxy if
you want to use ii in forcing the com
| bine'
The president took a turn as far as
the clerks counter and back. The
| lobby was deserted, everybody having
gone to welcome the first train into
Copall.
You seem to have North against
| the wall, he said when he came back
Yet, for the sake Of of, we'll of his
wife and children, he must have even
handed Justice. I must insist upon
| that"
1t was the most logahls JSns in the
irascible old man--his undviag 10y
| atty to man in whom he had cnce
| believed Adair slew the last hope
with reluctance Drawing q thick
packet of undelivered kilograms from
! his pocket, he handed il to his uncle.
| Justice Is the one thing Mr.. North
is most anxious to dodge" he said
gravely. When the news of the catas
| trophe reached him, he resigned by
wire--to New York: not to you-got
his physician to order him out of the
country, and left Denver between two
| days. Ford has sent Frishie to Den.
| NST 10 nOlQ tIlnSS ,tOgetQer, anu LQere
| has been n F" 't'. of removals SUB.
iect, of coursa to your approval. You
will find the history OF all these minor
happenings in those kilograms, which.
! l have been collecting-and holding.
until you had leisure to look them
| over
/! Where is MI. Ford now" asked the
president crisply.
! d.
He is not very far away; in fact,
he is upstairs in the sitting room OF
our suite with Aunt Hetty and the two
Van Bruce ladies and Alicia. Incl
dentally-quite incidentally, YOU uu-
| derstand-he is waiting to be asked
to help you out in that mining deal .
Fetch him. was the curt command.
and Mr. Colbrith sat down to wade
resignedly through the mass of delayed
wire correspondence.
What remains OF the story of the
Pacific Southwestern is chapter, as
yet unfinished, in the commercial his
I tory of the great and growing empire
of the west,