The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-13

'He is the only man who could have used the private code. Dix probably picked out the cipher He's got a weakness for such things. Hallock' s carrying double. He has fixed up some trouble making message or faked one and signed your name to it and then schemed to let it leak out through Dix"
 "It's making the trouble, all right, was Judson's comment. "When left Biggs' a few minutes ago Tryon was calling for volunteers to come down here and steal an engine From what he said I took it they were afn1in' to go over into the desert to tear up the track and stop somebody or some thing coming this way from Copah, all on account of that make believe message that you didn't send"
 Thus far Judson's report had dealt with facts. But there were other things deducible. He insisted that the lie in the dissatisfied employees of the Red Butte Western or even in the ex- employees; 1t was rather in the law less element of the town, which lived and fattened upon the earnings of the railroad men. Moreover, it was cer- tain that some one high in authority in the railroad service was furnishing the brains. There was a chief to whom all the indictments deferred and who figured in the barroom talk as the ''boss'' or the ''big boss"
 "And that same big boss is sitting up wonder in Cat Biggs' back room right now givin' his orders and tellin' lem what to do," was Judson's crown ing guess, and, since Hallock had not been visible since the early afternoon, for the three men sitting under the superintendent desk lamp Judson's inference stood as fact assured. 1t was Hallock who had fomented the trouble: it was Hallock who was now directing it.
 The trainmaster returned to his post fin the wire office, and Judson was sent back to Riggs to renew his search Tor the hidden ringleader Judson's re port was grave enough, but it brought a good hope that the crucial moment might be postponed until many of the men would be too far gone in liquor to take any active part. Lidgerwood took the precautions made advisable by Tryon's threat to steal an engine, send ing word to Benson to double his guards on the locomotives in the yard and to Dawson to block the turntable so that none might be taken from the roundhouse.
 Afterward he went out to look over the field in person. Everything was quiet, almost suspiciously so. Gridley was found alone in his office at the shops smoking cigar, with his chai1 tilted to a comfortable angle and hi feet on the desk. His guards, he said were posted in and around the shops and he hoped they were not asleep Thus far there had been little enoug' to keep them awake.
 door opening upon the electric lighte Tard, surprised a man in the act -urning the knob to enter. It was tn nerest incident, and he would Il, rave remarked it if the door. closii rehind Gridley's visitor. had not
 ected a violent outsHrst of profar Y, vocalizing itself in the harsh toN # the master mechanic, as thu You chuckle headed fool! Haven 'ou any better sense than to come With the impact of blow Lidgerwo 'ecognized the "chuckle headed foo if Gridley's ma!edictson was Richa, eufford, the killers" younger brothe
 Lidgerwood said nothing os this in, lent to Dawson, whom he found D rolling the roun6house. Here. as he shops and in the yard, everythi, vas quiet and orderly. The crews .he three sections of the midnig freight were all out. guarding tb, trains and engines. and Dawson h; only Bradford and the roundhou' night men for company
 ''Nothing stirring, -Fred?" inquir: he suIeriE.en
 Less than nothing. It's almost tc quiet" was the rober reply, and the1 T see you haven't sent the Nadia ou. Wouldn't it be good scheme to get couple Of buckboards and have ths women and Judge Holcombe driven t. our place on the mesa? The trouble, when it comes, will come this way"
 Lfdgerwood. shock his head.
 My stake in the Nadia is precisely the same size as yours, Fred, and I don't want to risk the blackboard busi- ness. We'll do a better thing than that if we have to let the presidents party make run for it. Get your smartest passenger fier out on the ta- ble, head it east, and when I send for t rush it over to couple on the Nadia, with Williams for engineer. Has Ben son had any trouble in the yard?"
 "There has been nobody to make any. Tryon came down a few minutes ago considerably more than half seas over and said he was ready to take his engine and the first section of the east bound midnight, which would have been his regular run. But he went back uptown peaceably when Benson told him he was down and out"
 Gro Be Continued.)