Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-21

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~aArTER u.-Norcross recognizes the
car stolen as John Chadwick's. financial
whom ne was to meet ct Portal
City, He and Dodds rescue Chadwick.
ship Of the Pioneer Short Line. which is
IN the hands of eastern spectators.
headed by Breckenridge Dunton. presi.
Sheila Macrae is stopping at Portal City,
accepts.
CHAPTER III.-Dodds overhears con-
.tave Henckei, Portal City fnanciers, in
which they admit completely in Chadwick
Kidnapping, their object being to keep
sdirectora to ,f reorg aaaia" the Pioneer 1leer'f Short It
Line. which would jeopardize their inter-
seSts. Y
. CHAPTER IV.-To curb the monopoly
"Tewer corporation, Norcross forms the
Citizens Storage and Warehouse COM
.pany He begins to manifest g deep in.
that Sheila is married. but living apart
from her husband. Norcross does not
know this.
CHAPTER ". Hatch. aware that
Dodds has knowledge of his and Henck-
sells participation In the Chadwick kid
mapping, offers him inducements to leave
Norcross. Dodds refuses. Leaving the
ering consciousness, he learns that Nor
tcross has disappeared and is believed to
have resigned and gone east.
CHAPTER W.-Dodds connects Nor
cross disappearance with Vaccinations
of Hatch and Henckel,4 and on recover
Ing strength sets out to solve the mys-
terry. E&s
CHAPTER VII. = With Kirgan, the
roads master mechanic, Dodds gets a.
n on Norcross' disappearance. They
follow q clue given them Through {
missing locomotive.
that they happened to need, usin' our
cars and engines on their loggin' roads
sand mine branches
You stopped all this e.
You bet ! did-between two days!
! They've been maxim seventeen differ
emf kinds of a roar ever since, but I've
had Mr.. Van Britt and the big boss
behind me, SO l just showed ahead.p'
What Kirgan said about the Red
Tower people using our rolling stock
.on their private branch roads set a
Dee to buzzing in my brain. What If
they had stolen the 1915 to use in that
way?,
You have a blueprint of the Portal
division here, haven't your" I asked.
dig it up and let's have a look at it."
At first the facts threatened to bluff
us. The blueprint engineers map was
an Ole one, but it showed the spurs and
side-tracks, the stations and water
tanks. Since the lost engine had been
standing at the western end of the
Portal City yards, we didn't try to
trace it eastward. To get ont in that
direction it would have had to pass
the round-house, tile shops, the pas
Senger station and the headquarters
building, and, even at that time of
night. somebody would have been sure
to see it.
Tracing the other way-westward-
we had a clear track for ten miles to
Arroyo. Arroyo had no night opera
tor, SO we agreed that the stolen en-
CINE might easily have slipped past
there without being marked down.
Eight miles beyond Arroyo we came
to Ranta, the first night station west
of Portal City. Here, as We figured
It, the wild engine must have been
seen by the operator, if by no one
else. Banta was an apple town, and
the town itself might have been
asleep. but the wire man at the sta
ton shouldn't have been.
Lets hold Banta in a bit,
! n allow that by some means or
other the thieves managed to get by
/ suggested. "The next thing to be
considered is the fact that the Ten
Sixteen must now have been rum
ning-without orders, we must remem-
: ber-against the Fast Mail coming
east. The Mail didn't pass her any
Where-not officially, at least; If it
had, the fact would show up in some
stations report to the dispatcher's
office
time-card and began to figure on the
meet" proposition. The Fast Mail
was due at Portal NCity at twelve
twenty, and on the night in question
1t had been on time. Making due
time allowances for i%naccuracy In the
yard watchman's story, the missing
engine could hardly have left the
Portal City yard much before ten
forty-ive.
The Fast Mail was scheduled at
forty miles an hour, Its time at Banta
was eleven-fiftyrtlree. Allowing the
lOl6 the same rate of speed In the
opposite direction. ii would have
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