The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-05-19

he boss disappearance WIN tl'at VI
he engine which had been left stand
ne below the coal chutes, but the TWO
hings snapped themselves tose'''er
or me like the halves OF an auto
matte coupling, and l couldn't "eoSe
hem apart.
"An engine-even little old ATTAIN
tic-type-is a pretty big thing to 'ose'
isn't it, Kirgan?' | asked.
Kirgan righted his chair with d
crash.
Jimmie, re sifted this blamed out
fit through an eighty-meSh screen
he growled. "With all the devlI-to-laS
that's gOin' on over at the he"u'
quarters. I didn't want to bother Nl'
Van Britt, and I haven't been ao-
vertisin' in the newspapers. but IL
a holy fact, Jimmie. The sixteen
gone"
| was trying to pry myself loose
from the notion that the loss or the
engine and the boss disappearance
at about the same time were IN some
way connected with each other' IL
was no use; the idea refused to let co.
Look here, Kirgan,' l showed III
"can you think of any possible reason
WHY Mr.. Norcross should write Mr.
Van Britt a letter saying that ne hao
quit and was going east or the mlo'
night train and then should change
his mind and come down here and 90
somewhere on that engine?
After | had said it, 1t sounded So
foolish that ! wanted to take 1t pack
| But Kirgan didn't seem to look al II
that way.
"Well. III be shot" he exclaimed
81 never once thought of that! bu
where the devil would he go? ANT
how would he get there without some
body finding out? And why III e"''
Xiii would he do thing like that
! anyway: Why, sufferin' Moses!
) he wanted to go anywhere, all he IA
, 70 do was to order out his car an
tell the dispatcher, and 60.
e II can't figure it out any better '''
0 YOU can" I confessed. mr. NorcroS
l. is gone, and the Ten-Sixteen IS soh
n and they both dropped out oe"et
e ten and twelve o'clock on the san
# night. Mart, I don't believe Mr. NO
It cross went east at all! | belleV
when we find that engine, we'll M
l him" :.
Kirgan cot out of his chair and b
pon TO walk up and down in the ll''
to snace between his desk and the ara
n. hoard, Besides being the best Do
Ill mechanic in the West, he was hr
e, class fighting man, with clear ne
ly and nerve to burn. When he had
Il. as far as he could 60 alone ne turn
e- on me. 49,, ~
"Jimmie, do you reckon this Il
IN Tower outfit was far enough along
GU its scrap with the boss to put up a.
3D. to pass him out Of the game!" ne
re manded.
told him it didn't seem to tit Il
le- any Notwithstanding scheme
things, and past that | mentioned
,ht fact that the Hatch people had tai
'1f the hack track and were now offer
,se 70 sell out and stop checking
hat wheels Of reform.
gle 81 know" he put in. "But I've b
readin the papers, Jimmie and
md amt all Red Tower, not by a jug
IAN The big graft in this neck'a wooo
.ttv political, and the Red Tower gam
~ only set-a cogs in the bull-wheeI'
will Norcross was gettln' himself nil
pointedly disliked; you know I
MID The way he was amin to run I'M
Ave # was beginnin' to look as II M
.ida the people of this state might wax
,na, some day and turn in and help n
s 81 know all about that" threw
,tt,e "But where are you trying to
dea, Mart?
tch. Fright here. Mr.. Norcross was
tho whole show. Take him out or II
T. 10 the whole shootin'-match would
oua, 70 pieces-as it's dom, right
not They didn't need to slug him or
hut him up or anything like that:
rbot could be made to look as II
i If jumped the Job, quit, chucked
Tim. up, why, there you are A ne"