The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-04

some trouble making message or faxed
one and signed your name 20 1t and
then schcmcd 10 let IL leak out
through Dix"
Its making the trouble. all right"
4 was Judson's comment. when l LEFT
Riggs few minutes ago Tryon was
i calling for volunteers to come down
here aud steal an engine. From what
he said l took II they were amin 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
strength OF the instruction did not
| lie I'm the dissatisfied employees of the
| Red Butte Western or even In the eX-
employees: it was rather In the law
less element Of the town, which lived
and fattened upon the earnings OF the
railroad men. Moreover, it was GER
tain that some one high In authority
I'm the railroad service was furnishing
the brains. There was n chief TO
whom all the malcontents deferred
and who figured in the barroom talk
as the boss or the "big boss"
"And that same big boss is sitting
up yonder In Cat Riggs back room
right now givin' his orders and tellin'
'cm what 10 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's desk lamp Judson's
Inference stood as n fact assured. IL
was Hallock who had fomented the
trouble: It was Hallock who was now
directing il.
The trainmaster returned to his post
I'm the wire office, and Judson was sent
back to Biggs' to renew his search for
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 10 Dawson to block the turntabe
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 n cigar, with his chair
tilted to comfortable angle and his
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 enough
to keep them awake.
Lidgcrwood, passing out through the
door opening upon the electric lighted
yard. surprised n man in the act OF
turning the knob to enter. 1t was the
merest incident. and he would not
have remarked 1t If the door, closing
behind Gridley's visitor. had not BIZ
sected n violent outburst of profani
ty. vocalizing itself in the harsh tones
Of the master mechanic, as thus:
'You chuckle headed fool! Haven't
you any better sense than TO come
With the impact of blow Lidgerwood
the "chuckle headed fool"
Df Gridlcy's malcdiction was Richard
the killers" younger brother.
LidgerwOod said nothing of this Incl
don't tn Ta Nvhor1, hn founH M
trolling the roundhouse. Here, as at
the shops and in the yard. everything
was quiet and orderly. The crews for
the three sections of the midnight
freight were all out. guarding their
trains and engines, and Dawson had
only Bradford and the rcIndhouse
night men for company.
Nothing stirring, Fred?" inquired
the superintendent.
LESS than nothing It's almost too
quiet" was the rober reply, and then:
Il see you haven't sent the Nadia out
Wouldn't it be good scheme to get
couple Of buckboards and have the
and Judge Holcombe driven to
Dur place on the mesa? The trouble,
when it comes, will come this way"
Lidgerwood shook his head.
'My stake in the Nadia is precisely |
The same size as yours, Fred, and I |
ion't want 10 risk the blackboard bust |
ness. Well do a better thing than |
hat If we have to let the presidents |
party make a run for il. Get your
passenger flier out on tho TIA |
bic, head it east, and when send for |
L rush it over TO couple on the Nadia, |
with Williams for engineer. Has Ben |
son had any trouble in the yardY
There has been nobody to make |
any. Tryon came down a few minutes |
,go considerably more than half seas !
over and said he was ready to take |
MS engine and the first section OF the |
EAST bound midnight, which would |
nave been his regular run. But he |
went back uptown peaceably when
Benson told him he was down and |
)ut"
Lidgerwood did not extend his round |
o include Benson's post at the yard
,fiice, which was below the coal |
'hutes. Instead. he went over TO the |
Nadia. thinking pointedly Of the two
added mysteries-thc fact that Gridley |