The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-07

has been decided upon he will put on his hat and go back to wherever it was that he came from"
 "And secondly?" suggested FIemis- ter, still with the nagging sheer in his tone.
 'The secondly is a weakness of mine, you'll say. Flemister. want his job, partly because 1t belongs to me, but chiefly because if I don't get it a bunch of us will wind up break ing stone for the state. But I haven't anything against the man himself. He trusts me; he has defended me when others have tried to put him wise; he has been white to me, Elem ister."
 ''Is that all?' queried the mine own CT in the tone of the prosecuting at torney who gives the criminal his full length of the rope with which to hang himself.
 "No. Lidgerwood is Ford's man. If he throws up his job of his own ac- cord I may be able to swing Ford into
 
 the other hand. if Lidgerwood is snuffed out and there is the faintest suspicion of foul play-Flemister, I'm telling you right here and now that that man Ford will neither eat nor sleep until he has set the dogs on us."
 "You say 1t Is unnecessary; that Lidgerwood will be pushed out by the labor fight said Flemister. My an- swer to that is that you don't know him quite as well as you think you do. If he's allowed to live he'll stay, unless somebody takes him unawares and scares him of. as I meant to do tonight when I wired you. If he con- tinues to live and stay you know what will happen sooner or later. He'll find you out for the double faced cur that you are, and after that the fireworks"
 At. this the other voice took its turn at the savage sneering.
 "You can't put-it all over me that way, Flemister; you can't, and you shan't You're in the hole just as deep as I am. fooa for foot.''
 
 voice. "I haven't. been stealing in carload lots from the company that hires me. I have merely been buying a little disused scrap from you. You may say that have planned a few of the adverse happenings which have been running the loss and damage ac- count of the road up into the pictures during the past few weeks. Possibly I have, but you are the man who has been carrying out the plans, and you are the man the courts will recognize. But we're wasting time sitting here jawing at each other like pair of old women. It's up to us to obliterate Lidgerwood, after which it will be up to you to get his job and cover up your tracks as you can. If he lives he'll dig. and if he digs he'll turn up things that neither of us can stand for. See how he hangs on to that building and loan ghost. He'll tree somebody on that before he's through, you mark my words. and it runs in my mind that the somebody will be you"
 "But this trap scheme of yours" !" protested the other man. "It's a frost, tell you. You say the night pas senger from Red Butte is late. I know it's late now. But Cranford's s running it, and it is all downhill from Red Butte to the bridge. Gran ford will make up his thirty minutes. and that will put his train right here in the thick of things. Call it off for tonight. Flemister. Meet Lidgerwood when he comes and tell him an easy lie about your not being able to hold Grofeld for the right of way talk
 Judson heard the creak and snap of a swing chair suddenly righted. anG the floor dust jared through tho cracks upon him when the mine own CT sprang to his feet.
 "Call it off and let you drop out O it? Not by a thousand miles, my eau tious friend. I'm about ready to freeze you anyway for the second time mark that. will you?-for the second time No: keep your hands where J gan see lem or I'll knife you right where you sit. You can bully anf browbeat q lot of railroad buckle: when you're playing the boss act. bu, I know you. You come with me oi I'll give the whole snap away to Vice President Ford. I'll tell him how you built street of houses in Red Butte out of company material and with company labor. I'll prove to him that you've scrapped first one thing and then another-condemned them so you might sell them for your own pocket. TIP
 "Shut up"' shouted the other man hoarsely. "Get your tools and come on. We'll see who's got the yellows before we're through with this.''