The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-09-06

son, don't you let McClOskey's preJu
dices run away with you: make a
memorandum Of that and paste 1t in
your hat. / know what you have been
instructed to do. and III tell you here
and now that shall be much better
pleased If you can bring me the assur-
ance that Hallock Is true man."
But that was Hallock," insisted
Judson. cor else 1t was his livin' dou-
BILE"
mo; follow him and you'll see for
Gulch operator who quit in quarrel
with McCloskey a week or two ago.
What is his name-Slieffield?
Judson FASTENED down the platform
to satisfy himself, and LidgerwOod
mounted the stair to his Office. Grady
was still pounding the keys Of the
Typewriter on the batch OF letters
given him in the busy hours following
his return from supper, and the super
intendent turned his back upon the
clicking activities and went to stand at
the window. from which he could look
down upon the platform with the wait
ing passenger train drawn up beside 1t.
Seeing the cheerful lights in the side
tracked Nadia. he fell to thinking Of
Eleanor, opening the door of conscious
thought to her and saying to himself
that she was never more than single
step beyond the threshold of that door.
Looking across to the Nadia, he knew
now why he had hesitated so long be-
fore deciding to go on the night trip
to Timanyoni park But he could still
resolve that there should not be a
repetition OF the old tragedy OF the
moth and the candle. 1t was we'll that
to enable him to break the spell Of her
nearnesS. and it was also we'll that he
had decided not to disregard it.
The train conductors ''All aboard
shouted on the platform just below his
window drew his attention from the
Nadia and the distracting thought OF
EleanOr'S nearneSS. Train 205 was
ready to resume its westward flight,
and the locomotive bell was changing
musically.
At the critical moment when the
train was fairly in motion Lidgerwood
saw Hallock - 1t was Enthusiastically
Hallock this time-spring from the
shadow Of a baggage truck and whip
up the step Of the smoker, and scant
half second later he saw JudsOn race
across the wide platform and throw
himself like a self propelled projectile
against and through the closing doors
Of the vestibule at the forward end Of
the sleeper
Judson's dash and his capture Of the
outgoing train We're easily accounted
for-he had seen HaIlock. But where
was Hallock going: Lidgerwood was
still asking himself the question half
abstractedly when he crossed to his
desk and touched the buzzer push.
! dispatch IS room.
| Wire Mr. Pennington Flemister,
| care of Goodloe. at Little Butte. that
! / am coming out with my car and
/ should be with him by II o'clock.
| Then call up the yard office and tell
/ Matthews TO let me have the car and
| engine by $50 sharp" he directed.
/ The operator made 4 note Of the or
/ der and went out. and the superlntend-
/ ent settled himself in his desk chair
/ for another hours hard work with the
! stenographer. At twenty-five minutes
past he heard the wheel grindincs
+ Of the up coming service car. and the
weary shorthand man snapped rub
Der hand upon the notes Of the final
letter.
! Bidding good night to Grady. the
/ superintendent put on his light coat
and went out and down the stairs.
At the outer door he turned up the
long platform instead Of down and
! walked quickly IL the Nadia. persuad
ing himself that he must. In common
decency. tell the president that he was
going away-persuading himself that
Il was this and not at all the desire
to warm his hands at the ungratefu
fire Of Eleanor's mockerv that was
making him turn his back for mo
ment upon the waiting special train.
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