Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-12-14
The Tanning OF
Red Butte
Western

By
FRANCIS LYNDE
o,nvrtght. 1910, by ch-r1es scrib-
C0p' ner's Sons.

r,bon the sally of the tra1nmaster
his forIorn hope squad had left the
sau story If the headquarters build
o"' almost deserted it vas le force
n D. mere mechanical h' ut that sent
o. .,.,rwood back to his room TO close
LpI desk before going down to order
y. Nadia out Of the zone Of immediate
s W. There was chair in his way,
pa,s IN the darkness and in his haste
~ .+nmbled over 1t. When he reco-v-
Ds ~ himself two men with handker-
S s,ot masks over their faces were en-
t .n from the corridor, and SIS he
s,,nod at the sound of their footsteps
tbsv sprang upon him.
IT, ror the first rememberable time In
~ HE Howard Lidgerwood met the
1baIIppge of violence joyfully, with
ororv muscle and nerve singing the
hottIa song and a huge willingness to
sror or be slain arming him for the
hand TO hand struggle. Twice he drove
tba lighter of the two to the wall with
we'll planted blows, and once he got
. deadly Wrestler's hold on the tall man
and would have killed him if the free
occomDIjce had not torn his locked fin
GERS apart by main strength. But it
was two against one, and when it was
over the confagration light reddening
tbo southern windows suficed for the
knotting of the piece Of hemp flashing
with which the two masked garroters
were binding their victim in his chair.
Meanwhile the pandemonium raging
at the shops was beginning to surge
backward into the railway yard. Some
one had fired a box car, and the upblaze
ceDtered a fresh fury Of destruction.
Tn at the head of the three sectioned
freight train mad mob was cutting
the leading locomotive free.
Dawson, crouching in the round
house door directly opposite, knew all
that Judson could tell him. and he in
stanHy OWNED the purpose Of the en-
CINE thieves They were preparing to
,end the freight engine eastward on
the desert division main line to collide
with and wreck whatever coming
thing it was that they feared
The threatened deed wrought itself
out before the craftsman could even
attempt to prevent it, A man sprang
to the footboard of the freed locomo
tire jerked the throttle open, stayed
at the levers long enough to hook up
to the most effective cutoff for speed
and jumped for his life.
Dawson was deliberate, but not slow
Witted. While the abandoned engine
was as yet only gathering speed for
the eastward dash he was lodging the
struggling rioters in the yard, racing
pnfposely for the only available To-
eomotive, ready and headed to chase
the runaway-namely, the big eight
Wheeler coupled to the presidents car.
he set the switch to the main line as
he passed it, but there was no time to
uncouple the engine from the private
car, even II be had been willing to
leave the woman he loved and those
with her helpless in the midst OF the
iioting.
so there was no more than gasped
out word to Williams as he climbed to
the cab before the eight wheeler, with
inc Nadia in tow. shot away from the
CfoW's Nest platform. And it was not
anal the car was growing angrily
over the yard limit switches that Van
Lew burst into the central eompart-
nent like a man demented to demand
e2eltedly Of the three women who
were clinging, terror stricken, to Judge
Holcombe;
VINO has seen Miss Eleanor? Where
is Miss Eleanor?"