The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-02
CHAPTER TX
In the Coal Yard

yrrr not trying to find ON WHAT Nv
WAS doing. they didn't n''N To- 0e
,ousp he was udye.tiSin, ms "oI''I'
or hlnpman Was-in the newspapers
What they were trying to 90 N"' ~
catch him off his guard ah" 40 III"
,p-,hjs time to stay dome w.
If WAS safe to assume Nla' '''H
wouldn't tumble the BAH S''''''
time Mr.. Ripley had stood the ''1'7
fairly on its feet when he Sal" '""'
onr ra,npaiyn was purely one-''''''
nrono>jtjon so far as it had yet gone,
poon)e who had met the boss ana l'"'
done business with him llked min
hut the old-time prejudice asal'l|.
thp railroad was so widespread anu
ca hitter that it couldn't be overcome
al ot once. Juneman, our publicity
man was doing his best, but as YET
we had no party following IN the
state at large which would Slahn pS
rs and see that we got justice.
T was chewing this over WINE We
sat at dinner in the Billiard Gaze anu
7 gupss Mr., Norcross was, too, for ne
didn't say much. | don't know whet''e'
he knew anything about the SHADOW
ing business speak Of or not Ool lit
MIGHT have, We hadn't more ''a'
Given our dinner order when one U
uotch,s clerks a cock,eycd chap named
Kpst,pr came ~ and took table JUS
$ far enough from ours to be ont OF III.
way, and near enough to lis'e" IN
i we said anything. -.
When we finished, Kestler was Jus
getting his service of lce-cfea'"' W
5. noticed that he left it uhlooc''e
e and cot up and followed. us to III
il 1ohhv It made me hot enough
want to turn on him and knock IL
~ crooked eve out, but of course w
" wouldn't have done any good
N After Mr. NorcrOss had bought SUI
N cioors At the stand he said he suess'
Nd he,d RIM out to Major Hendricks I
i'd q LITTLE while; and with that he we
re m to his rooms. Though the maj
ed was the one he named, lEnew ne mea
de tha+ No was going to see Mrs. Shei
to 7 remembered what he had sal"
he Rin)ev about woman's giving II
ter Germ ideas and such things ana
Guess it was really So Every u
he spent an evening at the mae
he'd come back with a lot OF ne"
tons fer popularizing the Short Ii
When he said that about gong
to the majors, Kestler was II
y onouch to oyerhear it, and so he wall
. ,o,,ucing in the lobby and pretend
. 70 read a paper. About half-paa Sc
I'll tbp boss came down and asked ll't
I call a taxi for him. | d'd 't'
ri Kastler loafed around Just long eno
\ - coo him start off. Then he lit
y, A himself, and something in the way
IVA did # made me take out after III
NM THE first thing knew | was
inc him through the railroad yaro
j: on down past the freight house 'o'
the biz, fenced-in, he'd rover
At the coal yard he let himse
VI through a wicket in the wagon 6
M and | noticed that he used a key
~ locked the wicket after ne GOT III
. 7 ,,,t nv eye to a crack in the
I'M stockade fence and saw that the
Ss}N shack Office that was used for a
III house was lighted up. My burnt
~ vas healing tolerably we'll by
.11h fine and I could use it little,
INV WAS a slack pile just outside o
hir gate, and by climbing TO tn
Ike a Of it | got over the fence and
up to the scale-honse'
w A small window in one end
a., shack, opened about two lhc"es
IN al, notion answered well enough
lla!eo neep-hole. Three men were
IN ils little box of a place-three D
1oo'sil Kstler; Hatch, his barrel-bod'e'
Wl'ele ner, Henckel, and one other'
'nelh' third man looked like glor'l'e
y" Mr.. keen He was Of the type
END OIL heard called 'black Irish, 1a''
lth u.s. and well-fed, with little pr
black eyes half buried in the i
more his round face, and the pado'
a. anu and double chin shaved TO IN
'uld be 7 knew this third man well {
it was bv sight: everybody in Port'
ing TOT knew him-decent people only
) IS no when it came to an election
'ol ell He was the redoubtable fete
going. ~ d;voLepner and political
. every NAM .o,,;,o tho three
INV t,o , had Swallowed Mr.. Norcross IL
NEST, If fal,io'' -, a.nroa oround ,
dollar. anu ho" ~. 49,, +o,o q
49,. Major Hendricks. This SCENE
Tic Una. all that was wanted Of him, I
so' W." 49, he was through, Hatch tald
' ~ ,,, w, might 90 home. After the c
Ill au clerk was gone, Hatch lighted
, > s;nsle cigar and put it squarely VI
.om;d is Irishman.
ANU ~. -, "It's no use being mealy'
are ~ p. over this thing, Pete he &
arc ',hor that saw-mill voice Of MS
III a.,, s com cot to get rid Of this man. EV
- and delay gives him that much be
>, = 90" ora We can choke him off by lltt
-: +,ne. business game, Of course
us ns,,e s'p 'Dunton and the New Yorker
10 it, but side' anu ,ll.s oon no hrok
k on the has iauiene0 Dr. tha+ doe
,hind the win 'nvu.s' , noon,o ont.
open one you po''.,."' mo is oven hi
eforehand stake III 'ne s'
d pointed ours. ,oo,,od oround
il Fred Clananau ioon'u