Emmons County record., 1921-06-30

Ms WIN = young Iady, snella Macrae.
ness peculiar train holdup. In which
special car Is carried of.
CHAPTER II-Norcross recognizes the
car stolen as John Chadwick's, financial
masnate whom he was to meet at Portal
City. He and Dodds rescue Chadwick
The latter offers Norcross the manager
IN the hands Of eastern SPECTATORS.
dent Of the line Norcross, learning that
eheila Macrae u stopping at Portal City.
CHAPTER III.-Dodds overhears con-
versation between Rufus Hatch and Gus
taye Henckel, Portal City hnanciers. in
kidnapping. their object being to keep
Chadwick from attending q meeting Of
airectors to fsorganize the Pioneer Short
ests.
CHAPTER Iv.-To curb the monopoly
controlled by Hatch and Henckel. the Red
anS S0FEess fos' the
pany He begins to manifest q deep In
tsrest in sheila Macrae. Dodds learns
shs hs1 s married. but Living apart
know this.
CHAPTER ". Hatch. aware that
Dodds has knowledge Of his and Henck-
naping. offers him inducements to leave
Norcross Dodds refuses. Leaving the
Office. he is knocked senseless. Recov-
cross has disappeared and is believed to
have resigned and gone east.
CHAPTER VI.-Dodds connects Nor
cross disappearance with Vaccinations
of Hatch and Henckel, and on recover
Ing strength sets to solve the my0.
terry. q
CHAPTER VII. = With Kirgan. the
roads master mechanic. Dodds gets
line on Norcross disappearance. They
follow clue given them ehrough q
missing locomotive
CHAPTER VIIl.-The rescue party finds
which he had been lureJ. Norcross re-
sumes control Of the Pioneer Short Line,
refusing to give place to man whom
Dunton has sent to take charge.
CHAPTER IX.-Dodds follows an ennis
sary of the Red Tower people, spying on
Norcross. to coal yard. where he over.
hears a plot to put Norcross out Of
business. and at the risk Of his life frus-
trates 1t.
CHAPTER, Kat the home of sheila
actions Of a man he believes has de de-
signs on the life Of his friend and boss
He prepares to defend him.
CHAPTER xI.-The sudden return of
Sheila's uncle drives the intruder away:
Dodds a h as n
ton OF the Pioneer Short Line: A series
of wrecks on the line. impossible to ex-
plain. cause alarm to the management
Notwithstanding the slow run and
the manchester on Slide mountain,
we had our meeting with the Strath-
coma mine owners the following MORN
ing; and that much of the special train
trip served its purpose, anyway. The
boss met the miners good bit more
than halfway and gave them their
retief-and the Hatcl,-owned smelter
it~ knock-out--by promising that our
traffic department would make an ore
tariff to the Independent smelter on
the other side of the range low enough
to protect the producers.
1t was nearly three o'clock in the
afternoon before we got away for the
return to Portal City.
We had seen nothing of Mr.. Van
came to start out thought maybe
he had gone back to Portal City on
the regular train. But at the station
saw the pilot engine just ahead Of
us again, and though couldn't be
quite sure, 1 thought caught a glimpse
of our athletic little general superin-
tendent on the fireman's box.
The boss was pretty quiet all the
way on the run down the mountain
to Bauxite, and, for wonder, he
didn't pitch into the work at the desk.
could tell pretty. we'll what he was
thinking about. For ,six months he
had been working like horse to pull
the Short Line out Of the mudhole Of
contempt and hostility into which a
more or less justly aroused public
enmity had dumped it; and now, just
as he was beginning to get it UP over
the edge, he had been plainly notified
that he was going 20 be killed If he
didn't let go.
just as the way seemed to be open
ing out to better things for the Short
Line, mis-set switch or a bullet in
the dark would knock the entire hard
built reform experiment into a cooked
hat.
There was every reason, now, to
hope that the experiment was going
to be success, at least, at our end
of it. If it could 60 on just little
farther. Slowly but surely the new
policy was winning its way with the
public. Traffic was booming, and al
most from the first the Interstate Com.
merce inspectors had let us alone, just
as, the police will let man alone
where there is reason to believe that
he has taken brace and Is trying
his best to walk straight.
Also for the drastic fntrastate reg
.ulatlons- the laws about headlights