Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1921-12-01

III DO 4 UdNt-Hti Wdtiitu hhiht- Ah'
what's Vmore. | mean TO keep on for
. ffetttiHse ~
ETAeEe-wasRe-mist akHahnut+he-has
frown this time.
: THAT won't do. Upton he said
kind of warnlngly.
T ut will do well enough for thu
!, present. I'd marry her tomorrow. Ora
ham. II she were free. and there were
no other obstacles. Unhappily. there
are fwo-besldes the small legal diff
8culty she doesn't care for my money
having a little of her OWN; and
she happens TO be in love with the
other fellow"
I guess the boss was remembering
what Mrs. Sheila had told him In that
confidence before the back-parlor fire.
about Its being all of between her and
Collingwood. for he said Il think you
are mistaken as 10 that last"
"No. I'm % mistaken. But that's
neither here nor there. Neither you
nor ! cnn send ~Collingwood to the
penItentIary-thnt's n cInch. Where
fore, I'm advising you to quit. walk
out, jump the job"
At that the boss took a fresh brace.
righting his swing chair with a snap.
"You know very little about me.
Upton. II you think I'm going TO throw
up my hands now, when the real pinch
has come. i have a scheme-if II
could only be worked. But II can't be
worked on a rising market. BY some
trick or other, the Dunton people are
boosting the stock again. 1t went up
three points yesterday"
Mr.. Van Britt grInned. They're
~discounting the effect Of this little po-
litical deal-which will at least rope
your reform scheme down. II il doesn't
do anything else. What you need Is
a good. old-fasliioned cataclysm OF
some sort something that would fair
ly knock the tar out of p. s. L. secur-
tiles and send them suffering down
the toboggan slide In spite of anything
Uncle Breckenridge could do to stop
them down to where they could be
safely and proitably picked up by the
dear public. Unfortunately. those
things don't happen outside of the
story books. If they did. II the earth
quake should happen along our way
Just now. ! don't know but I'd be dis
loyal enough to get out and help 1t
shake things up a hit"
After Mr.. Van Britt had gone. the
boss put I'm the remainder OF the day
like n ~workingman. skipping the noon
luncheon as he sometimes did when |
the work drive IA extra heavy. Mean
while. as you'd snpp0serrumor- WIS
plentifulIy busy, on the railroad, and
also In town.
BY moo II was we'll understood TINT
had been a radical change in
the management OF c. S. & W.. and
That there was going to be a general
strike In answer TO the sfashing cut In
l slipped uptown 10 get a
bite. and I heard some OF the talk.
II was pretty straight. most of IT.
shows how useless II is 10 try
to keep any business secrets. nova
For example: the three men at my
able In the Billiard grill-room-they
iIdn't know me or who | was-knew
a council of war had been called
n the railroad headquarters. and that
Ripley had been pulled In by wire
rom L~esterburg. and that we were
along hurriedly TO provide
room Cor Ythe wheat shippers i
n case OF . tie-uH. and thar we were
Lrranging ro distribute railroad COM
ANY coai-lnL case the ltiesup- shoulaIH
ring on u fuel famine-knew all these
and talked about them.
They were facts. as far as they
'ent-these things. The boss hadn't I
cen idle during the forenoon. and he
ept nn the drive straight through 10
time. Word was brought IN /
uring the afternoon by TarbelI that !
Hatch--people wiring. the i
City and Omaha employment \
and placing hurry orders for Y
tri~ke-breakers. The boss answer to |
ais was a peremptory wire to our
assenger agents AT both points TO !
,ake ne rate concessions 2whatever~afAH
ny kind. for the transportation of \
sborers under contract. 1t was a \
hrewd little knock. Labor of that \
Ind Is mighty hard 10 move unless |
can get free transportation or a low /
ate of fare. and I could see that Mr.. \
iorcross was hoping to keep the strike Il
reakers away.
When six O'Clock came. the boss :,
May to stay and keep the office
pen while ! could go downstairs and
ri my dinner in the station, restaurant.
nd he went OF up-town-to the club. I.
suppose. After I'd had my bite. I
4 May go. Everything was moving
n right. so far as anybody c0nld see. a
ye had Eve extra fuel trains loading Il
/ the %company's chutes at CoaIville. v
nd the dispatcher was instructed to
'ork them out on the line during the h
light. Distributing them 10 the own /
Rat had reported shortages. They d
ere DOT to be turned over TO the reg
lar coal yards; they were TO be side h
ncked and held for emergencies. 4
Mr.. Norcross came back about eight z