Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-02-01


h'A Il Iu@Nv WAS to xcl the drop On
MA. scare him w good and chase him
our ot town out of The country, he
ov'roln his orders and went To jail
+ for il"
''WeH?" said the mine owner.
Your scheme as You outlined 1t to
ME IN yrur cipher wire this afternoon
was built on this same weakness Of
/ LidGcrwoods. and | agreed to IT, As
+ understood II, YOU We're 10 toll him
W here with some lie about meeting
GrotSld, and then one OF us was to
put a. pistol in his face and blur him
into throwing up his Job As | SAY,
agreed to IT, He'll have IL 40 when
the eight with the men gets hot
+ enough, but he night hold on too long
Tor our comfort"
Nells" said Flemister again. this
/ time more impatiently, JudSou thousht
He Qucered your layout by care.
fully emitting to come on the pasSen.
ger, and now YOU propose 70 fall back
\ upon Runord's method, don't ap.
( prove"
/ Again the mine owner said, why
don't you?" And the other voice took
1 up the question argumentatively
! First, because 1t is unnecessary. as
] have explained Lidgcrwood is OH
ci0lly dead right now. When the
+ grievance committees tell him what
has tecn decided upon he will put on
his hat ard so back to wherever It
was that he came from"
/ "And seCondlyY suggested Flcmis.
/ ter, still with the nagging sheer in his
tone
The secondly Is weakness OF
mine. you'll say. Flemistcr want
his job. partly because It belongs to
me- hut chiefly because II | don't get
1t bunch OF us will wind up break
Ing stone for the state, But | 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.
/ lister"
rs that ALP" Queried the mine own
err in the tone of the prosecuting Mt.
torney who gives the criminal his full
length OF the rope with which to hang
/ himself
mo Iidgerwood Is Ford's man
II he throws up his lob OF his own &C.
! cord | may he able to swing Ford into
/ line to name me as his successor. On
the other hand. II Lidgerwood is
snuffed out and there is the faintest
suspicion OF foul play Flemistcr, I'm
: Coll .t.xIN
that man Ford will neither eat nor
sleep until he has set the dogs on us"
You say II is unnecessary, that
! Lidcerwood will be pushed out by the
labor fight" said Flemister MY an
swer to that Is that you don't know
him quite as we'll as you think you
do. If he's allowed to live he'll stay.
unless somebody takes him unawar
and scares him Off, as | meant to do
tonight when wired you. If he con-
TIMES 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
J Ut tlle suNuEt SuetIlliH.
"You can't put 1t all over me that
way, Flemister: you can't, and you
/ shan't You're In the hole just as deep
/ as am. foot for foot"
"Oh. no, my friend" said the cooler
| voice. II haven't been stealing In
/ carload lots from the company that
hires me. | have merely been buying
/ Itcnoa1 Won
may say that have planned 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
have. but you are the man who has
/ been carrying out the plans. and you
I are the man the courts will recognize.
But we're wasting time sitting here
jawing at each other like Il pair of old
women It's up to us to obliternte
Lidgerwood. after which II will be up
TO you to get his Job and cover up
your tracks as you can. II he lives
he'll dig. and II 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 II runs In my
mind that the somebody will be you"
But this trap scheme of yours"
protested the other man. IT'S n frost.
tell you You say the night pms
senger from Red Butte is late. |
know It's late now But Cranford's
running It, and II IS all downhlll
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, Cali il or for
tonight. Flemister Meet Lidgerwood
when he comes and tell him an easy
lie about your not being able to hold
GroheId for the right OF way talk"
Judson heard the creak and snap Of
a swing chair suddenly righted and
the floor dust Jared through the
cracks upon him when the mine own
er sprang 10 his feet.