Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-11-23

"h1eh the headlight glare of his own
eiis5he was helped out. by the burn,
ing OF haIf dozen matches, whoever
dld that knew his business
Row do you know?"
/ Little things. a regular spike pulleE
Claw BAR was used. The marks of its
heeI are still in the ties. The place. was
enoseh TO the exact rail Iength-just
Nhefe your engine would begin to hug
the outside Of the curve. Then the rail
IS sprung aside barely enough TO let
the wheel fanges through and NOT
ehough TO attract an engineers atten=
lloh unless he happened to be looking
directly at it and in a good light
lhe superintendent nodded What
Is your inference?s' he asked.
only what | say-that the man knew
ms business. He is no ordinary hobo.
ae Is Ia your class or mine"
Fred, tell me-you'ye known John
Judson longer than | have-do you
trust him when he's sober?''
yes The answer was Unqualified.
think | do. but he talks too much
he IS over here somewhere tonight
shldoWlng the man who may have
done this. He-and the man-came
down on POS this evening. saw them
both board the train at Angels as it
was pulling OUT
Dawson looked up quickly, and for
once the reticence which was his Gus
tOmary shield was dronnad
You're trusting me now. Mr.. Lid
gerWood, Who was the man-Grid
ley?n
"Gridley? No. Why, Dawson, be is
the last man should suspectw
"AIl right, if you think So"
Don't you think sop
1t was the draftsman's turn to hesi-
tate
I'm prejudiced," he confessed at
length II know Gridley. He is
worse man than good many people
think he Island not so bad as some
others believe him to be- # he thought
you or Benson was getting in his way
up at the house, you know
LidgerWood smiled
You don't want him for brother
fn-law- Is that it, Fred?"
I'D cheerfully help to put my sister
in her coffin if that were the alterna-
tive, said Dawson quite calmly.
We'll" said the superintendent. she
can easily prove an alibi SO far as this
wreck is concerned. He went east on
1O2 yesterday, You knew that. didn't |
Tou?"
Eyes. knew it, butt
''But what?'
1T doesn't count said the drafts
nan briefly. then, who was the other
nan-the man who came west on 2O5?"
CHAPTER XXI.
SIT WAS HALLocK.''
IN HATE to say it, Fred, but 1t was
Hallock. We saw the wreck,
all of US, from the back plat
= form Of my car. Williams
lad just pulled fus out on the old
pur. just before Crawford shut Off
nd damned on his air brakes a man
an down. the track swinging his
rms like a mailman OF course there
wasn't the time or any chance for
&c to identify him, and | saw him
My for the second or two intervening
nd with his back toward US. But the
ack looked like Hallock's I'm afraid
was Hal1ock's'
"But why should he weaken at the
list moment and try to stop the
-ain?' queried Dawson.
'SYou forget that it was the special
nd not the passenger that was to be
yrecked."
Sure" said the craftsman ,
eve told you this, Fred, because if
he man we saw were Hallock he'll
robably turn up while you are at
with Judson at his
cells. You'll know what to do In that
Vent?"
II guess so. Keep a sharp eye on
.alloek and make Judson hold his :
'ngue. I'll do both" !,
That's ALL said the superintend :
It. Now I'll have Bradford pull us :
, on the spur to give you room to ;
It your baby crane ahead. Then you :
IN pull down and let US out" !
The shifting took some few minutes ;
i'd more than a little skill While it :
as in progress Lidgerwood was in :,
'e service car trying to persuade the
oung women to go t. his stateroom
II a little rest and sleep on the re
I'm run. In the midst of the argu-
ent the door opened and Dawson
me in. From the instant Of his en-
ance it was plain that he had ex-
scted to find the superintendent
one; that he was visib1y and pain
lily embarrassed
excused himself and
ent quickly to the embarrassed one,
no was still anchoring himself to the
'orknob. What is it. Fred 2" he asked.
"Judson: he has just turned up,
alking from Little Butte. he says,
ith a pretty badly bruised ankle. lie
loaded to the muzzle with news OF
me sort. and he wants to know II