The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-13

 told by the Red Butte doctors" Heavens and earth! The men are calling it a broken rail. Was it?'' "A loosened rail-" corrected Lidger- wood
 The master mechanics eyes narrow ed. "Natural?' he asked. "No; artificial"
 Gridley swore savagely.
 '"This things got to stop, Ljdger- wood! Sift it-sift it to the bottom! Wbom do you suspect?"
 It was a plain truth, though an un- Intentionally misleading one, that the superintendent put into his reply.
 "I don't suspect any one, Gridley," he began, and he was going on to say that suspicion had grown to certainty when the latch of the door opening from the outer office clicked again and McCloskey came in with Benson. The master mechanic excused himself ab ruptly when he saw who the trainmas- ter's follower-was.
 ''I'll go and get something to eat," T. pick up few men whom we can de- pend upon and garrison the shops. Send over for me if you need me-" Benson looked hard at the door which was still quivering under Grid ley's outgoing slam. And when the master mechanics tread was no longer audible in the upper corridor the young engineer turned to the man. at the desk to say, What tickled the boss machinist. Lidgerwood?"
 1T don't know. Why?"
 Benson looked at McCloskey.
 "Just as we came in he was stand ing over you with a look in his eyes as if he were about to murder you and couldn't quite make up his mind as to the simplest way of doing it. Then the look changed to his usual cast iron smile in the f1irt of a fea's hind leg-at some joke you were telling, took it.
 Being careful and troubled about many things, Lidgerwood missed the point of Benson's remark; could not remember when he tried just what it was that he had been saying to Grid ley when the interruption came. But the matter was easily dismissed. Hav- ing his two chief lieutenants before him, the superintendent seized the op- portunity to outline the plan of cam paign for the night McCloskey was to stay by the wires, with Callahan to share his watch. Dawson when he should come down was to pick up a few of the loyal enginemen and guard the roundhouse. Benson was to take charge of the yards, keeping his eye on the Nadia. At the first indication of an outbreak he was to pass the word to Van Lew, who would immediately . transfer the private car party to the second floor offices in the headquarters building.
 'sThat is all," was Lidgerwood's sum. ming up when he had made his dispo- sitiors like careful commander in chief-"all but one thing. Mae, have you seen anything of Hallock?"
 "Not since the middle of the after noon." was the prompt reply.
 "And Judson has not yet reported?
 "No."
 Well, this is for you, Benson-Mac already knows it: Judson is out look ing for Hallock. He has warrant for Hallock's ss-est.''
 Benson's eyes narrowed.
 "Thep you have found the ringleader at last, have you?" he asked
 "I am sorry to say that there doesn't seem to be any doubt of Hallock's guilt The arrest will be made quietly. Judson understands that. There Is an other man that we've got to have, and there is no time just now to go after him."
 "Who is the other man?" asked Ben son.
 Tt is Flemister, the man who has the stolen switching engine boxed up in a power house built out of blanks sawed from your Gloria bridge tim bers.'
 T told you so.'' exclaimed the young engineer. "By love, I'll never forgive you if you don't send him to the rock pile for that, Lidgerwood"'
 T have promised to hang him." said the superintendent soberly-"him and the man who has been working with him."
 And that's Rankin Hallock!' cut in the trainmaster vindictively, and bis scowl was grotesquely hideous. "Can you hang them, MT. Lidgerwood?"
 "Yes. Flemister and a man whom Judson has identified as Hallock were the two who ditched 2o4 at Silver Switch last night The charge in Jud- sons warrant reads train wrecking and murder''
 The trainmaster smote the desk with his fist.
 'I'n add one more strand to the rope -Hallock's rope" he gritted ferocious- ly. "You remember what told you about that loosened rail that caused the wreck in the Crosswater hills? You said Hallock had gone to Navajo to see Cruikshanks. He did go to Nav ajo, but he got there just exactly four 1