Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-09-14
The Tanning OF
Red Butte
Western
By
FRANCIS LYNDE
downright, 1910 by ch~r'es scrib-
IVY ner's Sons.
FRANCIS LYNDE
downright. 1910 by ch~r'es scrib-
IVY ner's Sons.

.r+ was the devils own game JACK
vras g handsome young fellow,
wa HalIock set a woman on nina
an naoan out of Cat Biggs' dance hall.
Tram that to holding out fares to get
s,oro money to squander was only
FIR tha young fool, and he took
sp Having baited the trap ara set it,
T ~ sprung it. Jackson's got
A- 1nIo If years to serve yet, / believe"
TiTdqsrwood was listening thought
,,IIv The story which had ended so
~ for the young conductor
law rather lurid side light upon
,AlG accuser. Yet the superin-
,ondnnt was just enough to dlst1n-
irish between gross vindictiveness and
- OWL which bore no relation to the
gengeful one.
"a financially honest man might
sill have q weakness for playing even
narsonal quarrel" he commented.
Your story proves nothing more than
that.
II know It,"
aRut / am going to run the other
thing down, too," LidgerWood insisted.
nHalIock shall have chance to clear
himself, but if he can't do it he can't
stay with me-"
At this the trainmaster changed
front so suddenly that Lidgerwood
bpgan to wonder il his estimate OF the
mans courage was at fault
Don't. do that, Mr.. Lidgerwood.
Don't stir up the devil n that long
haired knife fighter st such time as
his" be begged. '"The Lord knows
Von'ye got trouble enough on hand as
o Is without digging up something
that belongs to the has-beens."
~ know, but justice is justice" was
The decisive rejoinder. "The question
Is still a live one, as the complaint of
fhe grievance committee proves If
dodge, my refusal to Investigate will
he used against us in the labor trou-
bic which you say is brewing. I'm
not going to dodge. MeCloskey."
"You haven't asked my advice, Mr..
Lidgerwood, but here 1t Is anyway"
said McCloskey. "Flemister, the own
pr Of the Wire Silver mine over in II
manyoni Park, was the president Of
that building and loan outfit. He and
Hallock are at daggers drawn, FOR
some reason that I've never under
stood. If you could get them together
perhaps they could make some sort OF
statement that would quiet the kick
ers for the time being, at any rate"
Lidgerwood looked up quickly.
That's odd" he said. "No longer than
yesterday Gridley suggested precisely
the same thing
McCloskey was on his feet again
and fumbling behind him for the door
knob.
"Im all in" he grimaeed. "When it
comes to figuring with Gridley and
Flemister and Hallock, all IN the same
breath, I'm done"
Lidgerwood made memorandum on
his desk calendar to take the building
and loan matter up with Hallock the
following day. But another wreck in
teryened, and after the wreck con-
ference with the Red Butte mine own
ers postponed all office business for an
additional twenty-four hours. It was
late in the evening Of the third day
when the superintendent special
steamed home from the west. and
Lidgerwood, who had dined in his car
went directly to his Office in the Crows
Nest
He had scarcely settled himself a
his desk for an attack upon the accu
mutation Of mail when Benson came
In. It was trouble call, and tht
young engineers face advertised it.
ITS no use talking, Lidgerwood," h'
began, II can't do business on thi'
railroad until you have killed off som'
Of the thugs and highbinders.'
Lidgerwood flung the paper knit
aside and whirled his chair to face tn
new complaint.
What is the matter now, Jack?" b
snapped.
"Oh, nothing much-w when your
used to 1t, only abclt thousand do
lars worth of dimension timber gon
gl1mmering; that's all. It's the Glori
bridge. We had the timbers all read
to pull out the old and put in the new
and the shift was to be made toda
between trains. Last night every site
OF the new stock disappeared
Lidgerwood was not q profane MAJ
but what he said to Benson in Il
coFuscating minute or two which 70
lowed resolved itself into very "a
imitation OF profanity, inclusive al
world embracing.
... And you didn't have wit enough
leave Waterman on the job
ehafed. by heavens, this thing b
sot TO stop, Benson! And it's going
sIop if we have to call out the sta
militia and picket every mile OF th
rotten railroadP
DO it, said Benson gruffly, IA
When It's done you notify me and
come back to work. And with tn
ne uamped out and was too angry
telhember TO close the door
1dgerwood turned back to his de