Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-05-06

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key, and loaded into the cab Of the
engine. From that on, it was all
plain sailing"
"As fast as the engine could be
made to turn her wheels. Arroyo has
no night operator, and when we
sneaked through the Bantna yard and
past the station, the operator there
was asleep. saw HIM. with his head
in the crook Of his arm, at the tele.
graph table in the bay window as we
passed.
I'VE ran out to the Timber Noun
tain ~ and from that on up the old
saw-mill line. The rail connections
were all in place. and I knew from
this that preparations had been made
beforehand. They wouldn't tell me
anything except that was to be
locked up for a few days"
Perfectly. My drop-out would be
made to look as If I had jumped the
Job, and Dunton would appoint new
man. After that, I could come back
IL / wanted to. Whatever might dc
or try to do. would cut no figure, and
no explanation could make would be
believed. I had most obligingly dug
my own official grave, and there could
he no resurrection"
what thenY' pressed Ripley. keenly
interested. as anybody could see.
when they took the clothes-line
from my arms there was another
scrap. 1t didn't do any good. They
got the door shut on me and got
it locked. After that, for four solid
days, Ripley was made to realize
how little II takes to hold man. I
had my pocket.knife, but couldn't
white my way out. The floor punch
cons were spiked down. and couldn't
dig out. They had taken all my
matches, and couldn't burn the place.
l tried the stick.rubbing, and all those
things you read about: they're fakes;
I couldn't get even the smell Of smoke"
1.-THE chimney?"
"There wasn't any. They had heated
the place. when 1t was commissary,
with stove. and the pipe hole through
the ceiling had piece of sheet iron
nailed over 1t. And couldn't get to
the roof at all. They had me-"
Ripley nodded and said. snappy.
like: swell, we've got them now-any
time you give the word. Tarbell has q
pinch on one Of the Clanahan men and
he will turn states evidence. We can
railroad every one Of those fellows
who carried you off,"
"And the men higher up7" Queried
the boss.
mo; not yet"
"Then we'll drop It right where It Is.
I don't want the hired tools; no one
Of them, unless you can get the devil
that crippled Jimmie Dodds, here"
They went on. talking about my
burn-up. Listening in, learned for
the first time just how 1t had been
done. Tarbell, through his hold upon
the welshing Clanahan striker. had
got the details at secondhand. A lead
had been taken from power wire
at the corner Of the street and hooked
over the outer door-knob. And inside
I had been given a sheet Of copper to
stand on for a good ground" the
copper itself being wired to water
pipe running up through the hall. Tar
bell had afterward proved up on all
this, 1t seemed finding the insulated
wire and the copper sheet with its
connections hidden in small rubbish
closet under the hall stair. just where
a fellow in hurry might chuck them.
''Tarbell Is a striking success" Mr..
Norcross put In, along at the end Of
things. "Well keep him on with US,
Ripley"
Past this there was a little more
talk about the c. s. & w. deal. and
about what the Hatch crowd would be
likely to try pext; and when Il was
finished, and Ripley was reaching for
his hat, the boss said. "There Is no
change in the orders: we've got 'em
going now, and we'll keep 'em going.
Drive 1t. Ripley: drive 1t for every
ounce there is in you. Never mind the
election talk or the stock quotations.
This railroad is going to be honest, II
It never earns another net dollar.
Wen win!"
Its beginning to look little that
way, now" the lawyer admitted, with
bis hand on the door knob. "Just the
same, Norcross, there ID safety in num-