The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-07-14
CHAPTER xV-cont'nued.

"But you said you had f0rs0''sn 'ef n n
pspe!"' orr;od name And +
., MORE | mean to keep on for Il
getting it." ,s+o 10 onout the boss c
''v .,rh.t wont do, Upton" lie salo'
.,od CT warningly' 49,.
S'a ~. ', will do well enough for the (
,,essnt. I'd marry her tomorrow .sSs s Gsa,
p pre- Il she we're free, and there were
~ ''a', ether obstacles. Unhapplly' the ere
or a,e two-besdes the small legal un.
aeulty; she doesn't care for my m0 ous
having a little of her own; ana
che happens to be in love with tile
other fellow ,,or;no
guess the boss was remembering
what Mrs. sheila had tod MN In ' ee
" s,nadpnce before the back-parlor hre,
.sout ifs being all off between her and
col,;npwood, for he said: 81 think you
s,s mistaken as to that last"
/ mo. I'm not mistaken. But '"a1
,o,tner here nor there. Neither you
nc. : can send Collingwood to the
n r a cinch. Where
fore, I'm advising you to quit walk
q out jump the job
At that the boss took fresh oface'
fighting his swing chair With a snap
"you know very little about me-
linton If YOU think I'm going to throw
un my hands now, when the reel plhch
has come. l have a scheme-if 1t
ronld only be worked. But it can't De
uorked on rising market. BY some
4 trick or other, the Dunton people are
s boosting the stock again. 1t went up
q three points yesterday
Mr.. Van Britt grinned "Iheyre
discountins the effect of this little pc
utica, deal-whiCh will at least rop'
vour reform scheme down, If 1t doesh
do ANYTHING else. What, you need i
. good, old-fashioned cataclysm o
so,ue sort something that would falr
IL knock the tar out of P. S. L. secul
,ties and send them suffering DOW
the toboggan slide in spite OF ahv'hln
Uncle Breckenridge could DO to $40
thpm down to where they could
safely and proftably picked up by II
dear public. Unfortunately, tho:
things don't happen outside OF u
story books. If they did. If the cart
make should happen along our W.
inst now, | don't know but Ia be d'
Iowa, enough to get out and help
shake things up bit" ,
After Mr.. Van Britt had gone I
boss put in the remainder OF the q
like workingman, skipping the no
luncheon as he sometimes did WI
tbp w,,rk drive was extra heavy. Me'
while as you'd suppose, rumor "
nlentifully busy, on the Railroad a
also in town. !,
pv noon il was well understood Il
there had been radical change
the management of G. S. 4 w.
that there was going to be gene
strike in answer to the slashlng cut
wages. slipped uptown to ge'
Mite and heard some of the e
Il was pretty straight, most or
which shows how useless 1t IS 10
TO keep any business secrets no
days.
For example: the three men at
table in the Billiard grill-room-'
didn't know me or who l was-k
that council of war had been ca
in the railroad headquarters, ana
Ripley had been pulled in by
from Lesterburg, and that we
rushing along hurriedly to pro
storage room for the wheat ship
IN case of tie.up, and that we
arranging to distribute railroad
pany coal in case the tle-up 81
bring on fuel famine-knew all
things and talked about them'
They were facts. as far as
went-these things. The boss n
been idle during the forenoon ar
kent up the drive straight throu'
quitting time. Word was oroug
during the afternoon by Tarbell
the Hatch people were wiring
Kansas City and Omaha employ
agencies and placing hurry orde'
strike.breakers. The boss ans"
this was a peremptory wire u
passenger agents at both pom
make no rate concessions whate'
any kind, for the transportatl
,aborers under contract. 1t '
shrewd little knock. Labor OF
kind is mighty hard to move
It can get free transportation OF
rate Of fare and l could see tn
Norcross was hoping to keep Tie
breakers away.
When six o'clock came, the
asked May to stay and keep tht
open while could 60 down'stal
get my dinner in the station res ).
and he went off up.town-to IN
| suppose. After I'd had my
let May go. Everything was
all right, 50 far as anybody COT
We had five extra fuel trains
at the company's chutes At q
and the dispatcher was instru
work them out on the line our
night, distributing them TO tne
that had reported shortages
il were not to be turned over to
ular coal yards; they were 10
NF tracked and held for emergen
Mr.. Norcross came back aoo
o'clock, and l gave him my r.