The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-04-22

tn $ COIN on oyer at the mead
Quarters, didn't want to bother lIr.
Van Britt, and I haven't been adj
veeisiI2 in the newspapers. But IFS
g holy Fact, Jimmie. The 'SiGteen's
salar
was trying to pry myself loose.
from tle u0tica that the loss Of the
ela.ne and the boss disappearance
AT about the same time were in some
way connected with each 6ther It
was 30 use the idea refused to let go.
Look here, Krgan," | showed in;
Can YOU think of any possible reason
why Mr. Norcross should write Mr..
Van Britt letter saying that he had
GU ana y as going east on the mid
H,elt train and then should change
lis mind and Gomez down here and go
Somewhere on that engineer"
a2c had said it, it sounded SO
foolish that / wanted to take it back.
I9g Nifgan didn't seem to- look at it
tia way
"WeB. III be shot!" he exclaimed.
81 never once thought Of that Bat
whore the devil would he go? Aud
hw woG.d he get there without some
b finding out? And why in Sam
Hill would he Go a thing like that,
anyway? Why, sufferin Moses! if
he wanted to go anywhere, all he had
to 60 was to order out his car and
tell the dispatcher, and 60
II can't igure.it out any better than
you can" I confessed. "AIr. .Norcr0ss
is gone, and the Ten-Sixteon is gone,
ana they both dropped out between
ten and twelve O'clock on the same
night. Mart, I don't believe Mr.. Nor
cross went east at all! I believe,
whom we find that engine, Wen find
hin /"
Nirgan got out OF his chair and be-
gan to walk up and down in the little
apace between his desk and the draw
n@board Besides being the best boss
mechanic IN the Vest he was "a first
class fighting man, with clear head
and nerve to burn When he had got
as far as he could 60 alone he turned
on me.
Jimmie, do You reckon this Red
Tower outfit was far enough along in
IDS scrap with the boss to pat up. job
70 pass him out Of the game?" he. de-
ltndc1
told linn it didn't seem to fit into
sr tventieth-contgry scheme Of
tain@s, ana past chat I mentioned the
tt Chat he Hatch people had taken
lsa bac1 rack and Wore now 6tTering
Ia sell out and stop checking the
wheels os reform.
d know, he put in. "But I've been
adin ha papers, Jimmie, and it
anti ai Red Tower. not by a jugful.
ne biz graft in this neck-a woods IS
psIitical, qnd the Red Tower gang is
only scta cocS in the bull-wheel Mr..
Norcross was gettn' himself mighty
pointedly dislilled: you know that.
The way he was aiGain' to run things,
it was beginnin' to look as if maybe
tie people of this state might wake up
some day and turn in and help him"
81 know all about that" I threw in,
.Gut where are YOU trying to land,
gsalt:"
Right here. Mr.. Norcross was the
whole Show Take him out of il aud
rna nlQle shootin'-match would fall
Is .piSees-as its dom, right now
ey d,ln't need to slug him or Shoot
h9 ~ or anything like 6hat.:+if {
could be made to look as if he'd
ianped the job. quit, chucked it air
up, why, there you are. A hew boss
would be sent out here, and you could
let your sweet life he wouldn't be
ANYBODY .,lilye Mr. Norcross. Not SD
vac could notice it, Tie New Yors
"a would -a&e blamed good care-a-
Haf."
Tou think TIE Dunton people are
.andiug IN win the graft?%
Nctoay could've grabbed off tie
n4oeive-pover Sob en- this railroad, rs
dsa. Jnamia, and not think it-and
he ,i-n' sare Of it. Why, Lord o
Heavens. ms Red Tower bunch was
usin' us just The same as if we be.
lanead to en- ordering our men te
heir machinery repairs, helpin
themselves 10 any railroad materia.