The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-17

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things in just about as many seconds
Has Flemister used that spur sine,
you took charge of the road?"
mo"
Have you ever suspected him o.
being mixed up In the looting?"
II haven't known enough about hin
TO form an opinion"
Benson stepped to the door communi
eating with the outer office and closed
ii quietly.
Your man Hallock out there-how
is he mixed up with Flemistcr?"
81 don't know. WhyY"
Because the day before yesterday
when was on the Little Butte station
platform talking with Goodloe | saw
Ilemister and IIallock walking down
the new spur together. When they
saw me they turned around and began
to walk back toward the mine"
"Hdllock had business with Flemis-
teri know that auckland he took
half day off Thursday TO go and see
him." said the superintendent.
"Do you happen to know what the
business wasr
Yes, do. He went at my request -
"Hm!' said Benson. Another string
broken. Never mind; I've got to cate h
that train"
still after those bridge timbers?"
still after the boards they have
probably been sawed into. And before
l get back am going to know what's
at the upper end of that old Silver
Switch Y spur"
The young engineer had been gone
less than half an hour and Lidgerwood
had scarcely finished reading his mail
when McCloskey opened the door.
Like Benson, the trainmaster also had
the light of discovery In his eye.
More thievery," he announced
gloomily. This time they have been
looting my department I had ten or
twelve thousand feet of high priced in
sulated copper wire aud a dozen or
more telephone sets In the storeroom.
The wire and all those telephone sets
are gone"
"WellT' said Lidgerwood evenly.
The temptation to take 1t out upon the
nearest man was still as strong as
ever, but he was growing better able
TO resist It.
I've done what / could" snapped
McCloskey, seeming TO know what was
expected Of him. but nobody knows
anything, of course So far rs I could
fnd out, no one of my men has had &C.
casion to go to the storeroom for
week"
"Who has the keys?"
II have one. and Spurlock. the line
chief, has one. Ilallock has the third"
Always lIallock" was the half i'm.
patient comment. 81 hope you don't
suspect him of stealing your wire"
That's just what do. I've got him
dead to rights this time He was in |
that storeroom day before yesterday.
or, rather, night before last Callahan
saw him coming out Of there"
Lidgerwood sat back in his chair ond |
smiled.
dont blame you much, Mac. This |
thing Is getting to be pretty binding
upon oil OF us. But l think You are
your conclusion, / mean
iiallock has been making an inventory
of material on hand for the past week
Or more. and now that l think of IL
remember having seen your wire and
he telephone sets included I'm his last
sheet Of telegraph supplies"
There II goes again." said the train
sourly. Every time | get n
laif hitch on that fellow something
urns up TO make 1t slip"
Try to be as fair TO him MS Won
an" Lidgerwood advised. 81 know
you dislike him, and probably you have
'ood reasons. But have you STONED
o ask Yourself what possible use he
'ould make Of the stolen materialr
L can tell you one thing. Mr.. Lid.
serwood-Flemister has just put com.
''ete system OF wiring and telephones
u MS mine, and If be had the stun for
no system shipped In over our rail.
DAD the agent at Little Butte doesn.t ,
now anything about IT,"