The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-04-07

But al she said was. 4 want you %
hurry up and get well. Jimmie, 50 you
can help"
I'm well enough now. II they'll let
me set up.
"Not tonight; tomorrow, maybe"
Then: "Air. Van Britt IL downstairs
with Cousin Basil. he has been very
anxious to talk with you as soon as
you were able 20 talk May ! send
him upT"
OF course / said yes; and pretty
soon after she went away, our one
and only millionaire came In He
looked as he always did; just as II
he had that minute stepped out OF
Turkish bath where they shave and
scrub and polish a man TIL he shines.
"How are you, Jlmmief he raped
out GLAD to see you on earth again.
Feeling a little more NJ. tonightf'
told him / didn't think Il would
take more than half a dozen fellows
OF my size 70 knock me out, but was
gaining. Then he sat down and put
Inc on the question rack. ! gave him
all | had-exeept that thing about the
undeliyered kilograms and two or three
others that couldn't give him or any
body
"we're In pretty bad shape. aren't
wefs | suggested.
ave couldn't be In worse shape
was the way he put IT, Then he told
Mafgfa had
how President DUnton had wired TO
stop all the bottertncni WORK on me
Short Line until the new general man
ager could gel GA the ground how The
local capitalists al the head Of the
new Citizens Storage q Warehouse
organization we're scared pluini out OF
their shoes and we're afraid 10 make
move, aud how the newspapers all
over the state were saying that II was
just what they had expected--that the
railroad was crooked in root and
branch, and that good man couldn't
stay with il long enough TO get his
breath.
Then the new general manager has
been appointedY | asked.
He nodded "Some fellow by the
name of Dismuke. | don't know him,
and neither does 'Hornack He is on
his way west now, they say
Mr. NorcrOss hasn't shown up at
Mr.. Chadwlck's Chicago oliicesT 1
ventured.
NO The telegraph people have
been wiring everywhere and can't get
any trace Of him"
TELL them to try Galesburg. That's
where his people live"
Il know" he said; and he made
note of the address on the back Of an
envelope. Then he came at me again.
on the direct" as a lawyer would
say.
you've been closer to Norcross in
an intimate way than any OF us, Jim
mie haven't you seen or heard some
thing that would help 20 turn a little
more Hight on this damnable blow-up|
I hadn't-outside of the one thing
| couldn't talk about-and | told him
so, and al this he let me see a little
more Of what was going on In his
own mind.
you're one OF us, in way, Jim
nile, and | can talk freely to you.
Mrs. Macrae insists that there has
been foul play of some sort You say
you weren't present when Hatch called
on Norcross at the Office that nightr
NO; came in just after Hatch
went away"
Did Norcross say anything to make
you think there had been a fightf'
"TIe told me that Hatch was abusive
and had made threats-in a business
way"
In business wayl What do you
mean by that?"
| quoted the boss own words. as
nearly ms | could recall them.
80 Hatch did make a threat, thenf
Can you add anything moreT
| could, but / didn't want to. Mr..
Van Britt didn't know anything about
the Sand Creek siding hold-up, or
supposed he didn't, and didn't want
to be the irst one TO tell him. Besides,
the MDblt UIslIehS MhS hfsiAt t"S
mark. Maisie Ann knew. and ! knew,
that the boss. strong and unbreakable
as he was In other ways, had simply
thrown up his hands and quit because
somebody had told him that Mrs.
sheila had a husband living. So /
just said:
Nothing that would help out" and
after he had talked a little while
longer our only millionaire went down
stairs again.
It's SO funny how things change
around for a person Just by giving
them time to sort of shake down into
place and 1T themselves together.
After a while the chin edge Of the
wedge that Mrs. Sheila had been try
ing 10 drive into me began TO take
hold. Just little. In spite Of what
Enew-Or thought / knew. Was Il
barely possible. after all, that there
had been foul play Of some sortf
In the first place something had
been done 10 me by somebody; It was
a sure thing that ] hadn't crippled and