The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-04-29
SYNOPSIS.

ing with you're lady, Sheila l1aclae'
and her fmall cousin. Unseen tney XIX %ib
ness 81 peculiar train hoidup IN Whlch
8 special car is carried or.
CHAPTER U.--Norcross recognizes me
car etolen us John ChadWick's' hnancia,
magnate. whom be was TO meet at fotuHl
city. lie end DodGs rescue ChAuWlth'
The latter oncra NOrcross the manager
ship OF the Pioneer Short Line when Is
In the hands Of eastern speculhtols'
headed by breckenridge Dunton, presl-
Gent OF The line Norcross, learning mat
Shea Maerae IL stopping at foftal City'
accepts.
CHAPTER III.-Dodds overhears con
VerEaton between Rufus Hatch ana Gus
taye ldenckcl. Portal city inancieIs, "
which they aomit completely IN ChauWlch
Kidnapping, their OBJECT being 70 Keep
Chadwick from attending meeuhB LoI
directors 10 reorganize the Pioneer snort
Line, which would Jeopaful@e lielr Hilei
ests.
CHAPTER IV.-To curb the monopoly
controlled by Hatch and Henckel, the lted
fewer corporation, Norcross forms Ine
citizens Storage and Warehouse com
pany. He begins to manifest deep M
tereet IN Sneila Macrae. Dodds learns
that sheila Is married, but living apatt
from her husband. Norcross does not
know this.
CHAPTER V. - Hatch, aware that
Dodds has knowledge of his ana Henc2-
els participation in the Chadwick Alu-
naping offers him inducements TO leaVe
Norcross. Dodds refuses Leaving the
office, he is knocked senseless. tIecoV-
ering consciousness he learns that NOR
cross has disappeared and Is believed 10
have resigned and gone east
CHAPTER VI.-Dodds connects Nor
cross disappearance with Vaccinations
of Hatch and Henckel, and on recover
ing strength sets out to solve the mys-
terry.
CHAPTER VII. - with Kirgan. the
roads master mechanic, Dodds gets Il
line on Noreross' disappearance. They
follow q clue given them Through
missing locomotive.
CHAPTER VIII.-The rescue party finds
and releases Norcross from captivity to
which lac had been lured. Norcross re-
eunes control OF the Pioneer Short Lane,
refusing TO give place TO man Whom
Dunton has sent to take charge
CHAPTER IX-Dodds follows an ennis
cary OF the Red Tower people, spying on
NorcroBs, to a coal yard where ne over
hears a plot 10 put Norcross ont or
business and at the risk of his NE .irus-
trates IT,
CHAPTER X--At the home of sheila
Macrae Dodds is witness of strange
actions OF a man he believes has de-
signs on the lie or his friend and boss
, He prepares TO defend him.
CHAPTER %I.-The sudden return of
Sheila's uncle drives the intruder away.
Later DoGGs recognizes him as Howard
Collingwood. nephew or Fresdent Dun
ton OF the Pioneer Short Line. series
of wrecks ON the line. impossible to eX-
plain, cause alarm TO the management
CHAPTER XlG,--Durgin, night dis
pateher, routes passenger and freight
trains to meet on n single track. Dis
aster ia narrowly nverted, DurSin com
nits suicide, leaving evidence that he
was brihed. TO bring about collision.
CHAPTER NIIl.--Evideuce accumulates
that NoreroSs' enemies are plotting his
death, but against all advice lie decides
on n trip on Il special train over the line.
A pilot engine, travelling ahead, discovers
displaced rail- which would nave thrown
the special down mountain side Nor
cross hears for the fest time that Sheila
Macrae is married, He refuses TO believe
1t.
CHAPTER XIV.--Hatch and other own
ers of the Red Tower corporation call On
Norcross ana inform him they have proof
that In the recent election the road has
made use OF bribery. Hatch gives Nor
cross proof that the actual bribng was
done by Howard ColimgWood, Hatch
demands Norcross immediate resignation
as the price OF silence NorcroSs learns
flom Sheila thai CollinSwood is her hus-
baud. and feels the ground has been cut
from under his feet
CHAPTER XN.-Hatch secures control
OF Citizens Storage and Warehouse COM
pany, and engineers strike, to embar-
fhA rltllNNd line. NOTNpOSS shows
Colimgwood how Hatch has used him for
his own ends, TO down him (Ncrcrossl,
and ColhnSwood threatens TO kill Hatch.
CHAPTER AVI-Nan Britt general
superintendent NorcroSs' rlght-hand man,
resigns, refusing 60 give any satisfactory
reason FOR the act Norcross begins to
feel the situation is about hopeless.
CHAPTER XVIL-Pioneer Short Line
employees call sympathetic strike. Col
lingwood drinking heavily and reported
close 10 insanity remains in hiding,
CHAPTER XVIII. Mine owners"
charter special the strikers allowing
IL 10 run. President Duuton demands
NorcroSs immediate resignation. Nor
cross delays Collingwood hires special
engine 10 follow mine owners party. !
Hatch is with the mine owners" and
NoreloSs, suspecGng Colllngwood plans
70 XIII MS SNcFlNs lhtttMS On announcer
special, with Sheia, Major lNendrick and
NOdds
CHAPTER XIX.-Collingwood terror
ICES the driver and fireman OF his engine, !
and when they jump from the cab, to
save their lives deliberately drives into
mine owners special. Norcross, though
on the scene, is too late TO prevent the
crime Hatch and eight of his party are
practically killed outright Norcross,
l3slling his life, pulls Collingwood from
the wreck, and he dies in his wife's
arms.
CHAPTER XX.-Shella goes east with
the body OF her husband The Red Tower
people surrender bribery evidence giving
up the light on NorcroSs. 1t transpires
that Van Britt had been largely instru-
mental in bringing about the strike, to
dspress securities Of the Pioneer Short
Line On the break in The market Nor
cross, with the aid of his friend Chad
wick, succeeds in having shippers small
business men and employees of the line
buy up The stock, effeeting, in the owners
snip of the hEe. the complete overthrow
OF the stockholders who had been in con-
troi. With his business dream realized
Norcross arranges 10 20 east shortly 10
his other and more important dream
sheila and his LIES happiness