The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-20
SYNOPSIS.

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road manager, and his secretary, Jimmie
Dodds are nIhrooned at sand creek blu-
ing with young lady. Shella hacras'
and her small cousin. Unseen, they Wiz
ness peculiar train hoidup' IN "hlSA
a special car 10 carried on.
CHAPTER u.--Norcross recognizes the
car stolen as John Chadwick's, financial
maRnata. whom he was to meet at PoTtaA
City he and Dodds rescue ChadwIck'
The latter offers Norcross the manager
ahip Of the Pioneer Short Lane, when y
in the hands OF eastern speculator9'
headed by Breckenridge Dunton, presi..
dent OF the line Norcross, learning tnat
Sheila Macrae is stopping at Portal Cly'
accepts
CHAPTER uI.-Dodds overhears con-
vtrsation between Rufus Hatch ana Gus
tave Hsnckel, Portal CITY hnanciers, In
which they admit completely In CHADWICK
Kidnapping their object being TO Keep
Chadwick from attending meeting OF
directors to reorganize the Pioneer SNORT
Lane, which would Jeopardize their inter-
este.
CHAPTER IV.-To curb the monopoly
controlled by Hatch and Henckel, the hed
Tower corporation, Norcross forms the
Citizens Storage and Warehouse COM
paBy. He begins 10 manifest q deep m
terest in Sheila Macrae. Dodds learns
that Sheila is married, but living apart
from her husband. Norcross does not
know this
CHAPTER v. Hatch, aware thai
Dodds has knowledge of his and henck-
els participation in the Chadwick kld-
naping, offers him Inducements TO leave
Norcruss. Dodds refuses. Leaving the
office, he is knocked senseless., Recoy-
erlng consciousness, he learns that NOT
cross has disappeared and is believed 70
have resigned and gone east
CHAPTER VI.--Dodds connects Nor
crosa' disappearance with Vaccinations
OF Hatch and Henckel, and on recover
ing strength sets out TO solve me mys-
terry.
CHAPTER VII. - With Kirgan, the
roads master mechanic. Dodds gets q
line on Norcross disappearance. They
follow q clue given them ehrough .
missing locomotive.
CHAPTER VIII.-The rescue party hnds
and releases Norcross from captivity tn
which be had been lured Norcross re-
eumes control of the Pioneer Short Lane
refusing to give place to man whom
Dunton has sent to take charge,
CHAPTER Ix.-Dodds follows an ennis
Mary OF the Red Tower people, spying 81
Norcross, to a coal yard, where he over.
hears a plot to put Norcross out o.
business, and at the risk of his life frus'
trates 1t.
CHAPTER x.--At the home Of sheils
MacraA Dodas ia witness or strange
actions OF man he believes has de.
signs on the life of his friend and boss
Re prepares to defend him.
CHAPTER xI.-Jrhe sudden return OF
6heila's uncle drives the intruder away.
Later Dodds recognizes him as Howard
Coiiingwood, nephew of President Dun
ton Of the Pioneer Snort Line. A series
OF wrecks on the line. impossible to ex-
plain, cause alarm TO the management.
CHAPTER xII.--Durgin, night dis
trains TO meet on q single track. Dis
astef Is narrowly averted. Durgin COM
nits suicide, leaving evidence that he
was brlbed TO bring about collision.
CIgAPTER xTII.--Evidence accumulates
that Norcross' enemies are plotting his
death, but against oil advice he decides
ON trip on a special train over the line.
A pilot engine, travelling ahead, discovers
displaced rail which would have thrown
the special down Il mountain side. Nor
cross hears for the liyst time that sheiia
It
CHAPTER XIV.--Hutnh and other own
ers of the Red Tower corporation call on
Norcross and inform him they have proof
that In the recent election the road has
made use of bribery. Hatch gives Nor
Cross proof that the actual bribing was
done by Howard Collingwood. Hatch
demands Norcross' immediate resignation
~ the price OF silence. Norcross learns
from Sheila that Collingwood is her hus-
band, and feels the ground has been cut
from under his feet.
CHAPTgIR &V.--Hatch secures control
of Citizens Storage and Warehouse COM
pany, and engineers q strike. TO embar-
rass the railroad line. Norcross shows
C0lhngwood how Hitch has used him for
his own ends, to down him (Norcross),
and Collingwood threatens to kill Hatch.
CHAPTER XVT.--van Britt, general
superintendent, Noroross' right-hand man,
resigns, refusing TO give any satisfactory
reason Tor the act, NorcrosS begins TO
feel the situation is about hopeless.
CHAPTER XYII-Pioneer Short Line
employees cali sympathetic strike Coli
MhkWOuAa GtAAAAhE he4NAty 64tu 1epurkSu
close to insanity. remains in hiding.
CHAPTER XVII. =, mine owners
charter q special, the strikers allowing
q to run. President Dunton demands
Norcross' immediate resignation. Nor
cross delays. Collingwood hires special
engine 10 follow .''nine owners party.
Norcross, suspecting Collingwood plans
TO kin his enemy. follows on another
special, with Sheila, Major Kendrick and
Dodds.
CHAPTER XIX.-Colltngwood terror
lies the driver and fireman OF his engine,
and when they jump from the cab, to
mine owners special, NorcrosE. though
on the scene. is too late to prevent the
crime. Hatch aud eight OF his party are
practically killed outright. Norcross,
Iisking his life, pulls Collingwood from
the wreck, and he dies in his wife's
arms.
CHAPTER xX.--Sheila goes east with
the body of her husband The Red Tower
people surrender bribery evidence giving
up the fight on Norcross. 1t transpires
that Van Britt had been largely ,instru-
mental In bringing about the strike to
cypress securities OF the Pioneer Short
Lane. On the break In the market, Nor
cross, with the aid OF his friend Chad
wick, succeeds in having shippers. small
business men, and employees Of the line
buy up the stock. Erecting, in the owners
snih OF the me, the complete overthrow
OF tne stoekJobbers who had been in con-
LoL With his business dream realized.
Noreross arranges TO 20 east shortly 10
Ms otner and more important dream
ehetla and his LIES happiness.