Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-03-07
Continued from Page b

We had NNpn lllHrOulltN Tor nearly
all hour when | struck match and
looked nj my watch. Mr. NUrCroSS
was doing his best "a Kill time for the
Young womHu. and he was Just IN the
exciting part uf railroad story. telling
about right.of-way f@ht on the Mid
land, when the little girl grabbed my
arm ana said; Listen"
| did, and hroke IN promptly. 'lhN-
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OF 'he 'F"'h' OF maybe Tess, an" Gu,
men came luIh"i'hS OUT Vi II. IL
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had whipped The young woman over
the big roofing timber to a standing
place under the tank among the
braces, and l had done the same Tor
the girl
What followed was as mysterious
AZ chapter oct Of AN Anna Katherine
Green detective story. After doing
something to the switch Of the unused
spur track, the four men separated. one
OF them went back 10 the auto aud
the other three walked down the main
tack to the lower switch Of the short
siding, which was on the same side Of
the main line as the spur. Here the
fourth man rejoihed them, and the
girl al my elbow told Us what he had
gone back TO the car for.
''He has lighted a red lantern" she
whispered II saw it when he took
II out of the auto
guess il was pretty plain to all Of
US by this time that there wa. some,
thing decidedly crooked on the cards
but If we had known what il WAS. ~,
couldn't very we'll have done an,thinp
to prevent it. There were only Two
of us men TO their four, and. besides.
there wasn't any time The lantern,
carrying man had barely reached tho
lower switch when we hpard the wills.
tie of a LOCOMOTIVES There was - troiu
coming from tho wnst and q roy SOC
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up oh tue I"H- '"nHehi be\oHu ''t
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J., was ho' u''''' ",''' '''' 'F"'' was
S"i''i'eo ANU H"ie ''i"t we "'s'oFcleo
that two Of the bandits had been left
behind, These two reset the switches
for the main track, leaving everything
AS they had found IT, and then
crossed over to the auto.
/ was lust thinking that all this
mystery and kiduaping and Gun plav
must be sort of hard GA the young
woman and the yirl Int thouph INV
half Of the allotment was shiyprlng
n little and smuggling no inst a grain
closer To me she proypd that she
hadn't lost her nerve.
Did YOU see the name on that ear
when the engine went past to get in
behind IT." she asked
mo" said the boss. and | hadn't.