Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-09-21
The Tanning OF
Red Butte
Western
By
FRANCIS LYNDE
Copyright. 1910 by Ch-r,es scrib-
ner's Sons.


Tideerwood looked at McCloskey
and st the trainmasters almost i'm
rarcontible nod, said That's ALL and
Hollock disappeared and closed the
.cWeII?" queried Lidgerwood sharply
-uhon they had privacy again.
Me- Wellesley was shifting uneasi1y
erom one foot to the other.
A'v avon,ve got man for your chief
,..,, who has kept this whole town
e. .,asa,no for two years, Mr.. Lidger
su 800 Some say he isn't all to the
wv, 49, some say he is q woman killer,
p pat' tbev all agree that he's as spite
t ed 90 an Indian. He wanted your
49,, sunposing he still wants it?"
'o 4c+ick 70 the facts, Mac" said the So
..orfntnndent. You're theorizing now,
you know
"Vell, by gravels | willE' rasped
wccloskey. "Hallock puts IN his day
time scratching away at his desk out
there But when that desk is shut up
von,u find him at the roundhouse. over
n the freight yard, round the switch
shanties or up at Biggs' anywhere he
can get half dozen Of the men to-
getber haven't found a man vet
that could trust to keep tab on him,
and don't know what he's doing. but
| can guess.
as that ala" said Lidgerwood
quietly
mo, 1t isn't That switch engine
dropped out two weeks ago last Tues
day night. I've been prying into this
locked up puzzle box every way ! could
think of ever since. Hallock knows
where that engine went"
what makes you think so?'
'I'll tell you Robinson. the night
crew engineer, was a little late leaving
her that night His fireman had gone
home, and so had the yardmen. After
he had crossed the yard coming out he
saw a man sneaking toward the shift
er keeping in the shadow OF the coal
chutes. He was. just curious enough
to want to know who II was, and he
made little sneak Of his own. When
be found 1t was Hallock he went home
and thought no more about ii till / got
him to talk
Lldgerwood had gone back to the
pencil and the plotting pad and the
making OF squares. But the motive.
Mae?" he questioned without looking
up. How could the theft or the de-
structton of a locomotive serve any
purpose that HaIlock might have in
yiew?s
McCloskey did not mean any disre-
spect to his superior officer when he re
torted: I'm no cyclopedia. There are
lots of things ] don't know. But IN
less you call it off I'm going to know
few more Of them before / quit"
7 don't call it of. Mac. Find out
what you can. But can't believe
that Hallock is heading this organized
robbery and rebellion"
Somebody is heading it to a dead
moral certainty, Mr.. Lidgerwood The
ticks are coming too straight and TOO
well tined
Find the man. If you can, and well
eliminate him. And, by the way. il It
comes to the worst, how will Hep
burn, the town marshal, stand?"
The trainmaster shook his head.
u don't know. Jacks got plenty OF
sand. but he was elected out OF the
shops and by the railroad vote. Il II
comes TO a showdown against the
men who elected him''--
That is what mean" nodded Lid
gerWood 1T will come to q show
down sooner or later il we can't nip
the ringleaders. Young Ruford and
a dozen more of the dropped employees
are threatening to get even. That
means train wrecking, misplaced
switches. arson-anything you like. Al
The first break there are going to be
some very striking examples made OF
ell the Wreckers and looters we car
land onn
Where had McCloskey fallen upon
the idea that this carefully Numbered
gentleman. who never missed his daily
plunge and scrub and still wore i'm
maculate linen. lacked the confidence
OF his opinions and conVietions2 The
rainmaster knew and he thought Lid
gefWood must also know that the frs
oloW Of the yengeful ones would b
directed at the man rather than o
me company's property.
] guess maybe Hepburn viii do bis
aaty when it comes to the pinch, II
said finally. And. the subject having
apparently exhausted itself. be wen
ABOUT his business. which was 20 cal
up the telegraph operator at Timan
5oni to ask why he had broken tn
1aie requiring the conductor and en-
stAeer, both of them, TO sign train OF
aefs In his presence.
lt was after dark that evening wheI
Llagerwood closed his desk Oh the pen
aed plotting pad and CROPPED bis wa1
s = the unlghted stair to the Crow
Nest platform.
me day passenger from the east m:
= ana the hostler had just coupled