Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-28

--aA AfftA a4lLltA NLA 10 MAKE EODll.
% why not switch hack with N
u mogul after the log train has bee
s hauled oct on the main liner Bryc
e demanded pointedly.
q Pennington, however, was nc
trapped. Ny desr fellow he reptile,
e patronizingly, quite impossible. I as
Q sure you. That old tresue across the
creek. my boy-it hasn't been looked
, 81 for years While Ia send the light
switch-engine over II and have no
! fears
4 happen 10 know. Colonel. that the
big mogul kicked those fats in to load
the rails -
4 know II. And what happened?
Why. that old frestle squeaked and
shook and gave every evidence Of be
ing about 10 buckle in the center. Ny
engineer threatened to quit if I sent
him IN again"
Very well suppose I'll have to
/ uait until the switch-engine comes
oEt Of the shop" Bryce replied re-
I signedly. and hung up. He turned a
I VII
I mated - he announced. Whipped 70
frazzie. The colonel IS lying. Buck.
and I've caught him at 1t. As a mat
ter Of fact. the mogul didn't kick those
fats in at ALL The switch-engine did /
and ] know H. Now I'm going TO /
send man over TO snoop around Pen /
nington's roundhouse and verify his
report about the switch-engine being
in the shop"
lie old Sc. Half an hour later the
messenger returned with the informa-
tion that not only was the switch-en-
CINE not In the shop but her fire.
box had been oyerhauled the week be-
fore and was reported to be in ex-
cellent condition.
That settles It," Buck Ogilvv
mourned. The Colonel Is as suspicious
as a rhlno. lie doesn't know anything.
but he smells danger just the same"
Exactly, Buck. So he is delaying
the game until he can learn something
definite" He drummed idly on his
desk for several minutes. Then:
Buck, can you run a locOmotivey' ,
with one hand, old man." =
Fine business Well, l guess wen +
put In that crossing tomorrow night
me switch-engine will be in the round u
house NJ Pennington's mill tomorrow =
light so we can't steal that. hut wa =,
'an steal the mogul. I'll lust send .
word up TO my woods boss not to
ave his train loaded when the moeuI ~
'omes up late tomorrow afternoon n
iaul II down to our log landing. or N
curse, the engine crew won't bother n
o run down TO Sequola for the night h,
that IS. they won't run the mogul =,
own. They'll just leave her at our
os landing all night and put up for nj
he night az our camp" q,
But how do you know they will nut m
p at your camp all night. BryceTp o,
My men will make them comfort. oy
Bile. and II means they can lie abed TO
ntl seven O'Clock instead Of having
roll out az five o'clock, which wouId r
the case II they spent the night nj
rs end Of the line. There is a slight
'ade AT our log landing. know
ar. because the air leaked our of
e brakes on a log train / was on n
ort time ago and the train ran
fay with me. Now. the engine crew
~ set the airbrakes on the mogr,
q leave her with steam up to tbrob !
night; they'll not blow her down IL
; that would mean work firing ba- ll
the morning. Our task. Buck win "
10 throw OF the airbrakes and let
glide silently out Of our log land. h
About a mile down the road
III stop, get up steam, run down Ia |
Junction with the main line back |
on the Laurel Creek spur connie |
o those fat cars and breeze NOR.
dc~n 20 Sequola with them
ayil be loaded waiting for us: our
VIII be cOngregated in 0ur dry
q just or Water street near y
ting for rs 10 arrive with the rails
I'd bingo-we 90 20 II. After we =
. the fats. veil run the engine
70 the woods, leave It where we
I'd IT, return a-hying. You can oe, -.
IN ample time 10 superintend the
ing Of the crossingl"
spoken Ike a man 2" quoth Ruct ma
w. You're the one man IN This
ID for whom I'd steal a Iocomo-
At-a-bOyf e"st
I'd either Of the conspira,c,s war,
80 Of P'snn'ngton's plans 10 enter. ns ,,
Mayor Fvundstone al dinner n, pu',
Il M, 80 49,, 1'oDaDie hey snap
'ars were out Of the woods. -
"t"Df
yor Poundstone and bis wife mr.. ~ q
az the Pennington home In ned. =" ~,
boulevard al six forty-Aye Thurs p
sfeDing n was with profonns .'-'i'''
y Of relief that bis honor H.. '''e
ie lady from their modest Iiflo a,s...
fr' for once inside the pcueino. an,
ioese, he felt he w0Uld he froa 49,.
peculiarly deyiiish brana ~ .l.s..
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