Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-05-12
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I.-Graham Norcross, rail-
road manager, and his secretary, Jimmie.
Dodds, are marooned at Sand Creek sid
ing with q young lady, Sheila Macrae;
nad her e n sma a cousin tga,n p SnI : they Il ywS Mit7
a special car is carried off.
u.-Norcross recognizes the
car stolen as John Chadwick's. financial
magnate whom he was to meet at Portal
city. He and Dodds rescue Chadwick.
The latter offers Ncrcross the manager
ship Of the Pioneer Short Line. which Is
In the hands of eastern spectators,
dent of the line. Norcross, learning that
Sheila Macrae is stopping at Portal City,
accepts.
CHAPTER III.-Dodds ~overhears con-
tave Henckel, Portal City ~fnanciers, in
which they admit completely in Chadwick
kidnapping, their object being to keep
directors to organiz the Pioneer Short
Line. which would jeopardize their inter-
eSts.
CHAPTER Iv.-To curb the monopoly
Tower corporation, Eorcross forms the
Citizens Storage and Warehouse COM
pany. He begins to manifest a deep in
t tsrest in sheila MacGae; Dodds learns
from her husband. Norcross does not
know this.
CHAPTER V. Hatch, aware that
Dodds has knowledge Of his and Hep H;d.
MAPPING. offers him inducements to leave
Norcross. Dodds refuses. Leaving the
office, he Is knocked senseless. Recov-
nrSN nNnGo{N11onnon HI q ri fhof Nor
cross has disappeared and is believed to
have resigned and gone east.
CHAPTER VI.-Dodds onnects Nor
of Hatch and Henckel, and on recover
ing strength sets out to solve the mys-
terry.
CHAPTER VII. With Kirgan. the
line IN Norcross' disappearance. They
follow a clue given them ehroush
missing locomotive.
CHAPTER VIIl.-The rescue party finds
which he had been lured. Norcross re-
sumes control Of the Pioneer Short Line,
refusing to give place to man whom
Dunton has sent to take charge.
CHAPTER Ix.-Dodds follows an ennis
sary of the Red Tower peop,e, spying on
Norcross. to a coal yard, where he over
hears a plot to put Norcross out Of
business, and at the risk of his life frus-
trates it.
CHAPTER Kat the home of sheila
Macrae Dodds is witness Of strange
signs on the life Of his friend and boss.
He prepares to defend him.
Pretty soon I heard the murmur of
their voices again, but now | was so
far away from the bamboo-screened
door that I couldn't hear what they
were saying. wished they would
break it off SO the boss could go. 1t
was getting late, and there had been
enough said to make me wish we
were both safely back in the hotel.
It's that way sometimes, you know, in
spite Of all you can do. You hear a
talk. and you can't help reading be-
tween the lines. l knew, as well as
1 knew that l was alive, that Mrs.
Sheila meant more than she had said:
perhaps more than she had dared to
say.
1t was while l was standing there
In the big window that I saw the man
on the lawn. AT first / thought it was
Tarbell, who was never very far out
Of reach when the boss was running
loose. But the next minute | saw /
was mistaken. The nan under the
trees had on a long travelling coat
that came nearly to his heels, and his
cap was the kind that has two visors,
n in front and the other behind.
Realizing that it wasn't Tarbell, 1
stood perfectly still. The house was
lighted with gas, and the dining-room
chandelier had been turned down, SO
there was a chance that the skulkef
under the trees wouldn't see me stand
ing in the corner of the box window.
To make it surer, / edged away until
the curtain hid me. I was just in time.
The man had crept out of his hiding
place and was coming UP to the Win
dow on the outside. AS he passed
through the dim beam of light thrown
by the turned-dOwn chandelier. l saw
that he had a pistol in his hand. or q
weapon of some kind; anyway, l
caught the CLINT of the gas-light on
dull steel.
That stirred me up good and plenty.
I still had the gun / had taken out of
Fred Mays drawer; l had carried it
ever since the night when it had
mighty nearly got me Killed off in the
Red Tower coal yard. / fished it out
and made ready, thinking, Of course,
that the skulker must certainly be one
of Clanahan's gunner. / still had
that idea when j felt. rather than saw,
that the man was pulling himself up
to the window so that he could take
a look into the dining room.
The look satisfied him, apparently,
for the next second / heard him drop
aIneng the bushes; and when stood
up and looked out again conld just
make him III going around toward
the back OF the house, knew the
house like n hook. and without making
any noise about 1t I slipped through