Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-01-05

he saw what | was doing.
They don't make many OF them Tx.
you, Jimmie" he said. And then
Have you n news7"
] had, a little. and ! CAV Il to him
Fred May had come tip-toelng up into
my sentry corridor about ten O'Clock
to tell me that Mr. Perkins had ar.
ranged with the strikers e have a spe-
cial 20 east with the major and Mrs.
Sheila and Collingwood's body to
catch the Overland at Sedgwick and l
told the boss this. and that the train
had been gone for an hour or more.
Also. ] gave him a sealed package
that a strange boy had brought up
just a little while after May went
sway. We took the elevator to the
grill-room for something 10 eat. and
at table Mr. Norcross opened the pack
age. 1t contained a bunch of afida-
Wits. eleven OF them In all, and there
was no letter or anything to tell where
they had come from.
He handed the papers over 10 me,
after he had seen what they we're
sort of frowned across the table at me
and said: do you know what 1t
means-this surrender Of those bribe
afidayits. Ummief"
] said ] guessed I did that Hatch
being dead. and Collfngwood. too. there
wasn't nerve enough left In the Red
Tower outfit to keep up the fight; that
the surrender of the afidaylts was a
kind OF a plea for n let-up ON our
part.
Wen begin to show them. In just
about fifteen minutes. Jimmie" was
I b short comment. Reach over and
get that telephone and tell Mr.. Ripley
and MFR. B%llloughby that / want them
TO meet me AT my Office AT haIf-past
twelve. Any news from the striker
Nothing | told him. white Cen
trail" was getting me Mr.. Ripley's num-
her. Fred May said ii was going on
just the same: everything quiet and
nothing doing, except that the wreck
ing train had gone out TO pick up the
scraps at Timber Mountain " Klr-
gan is bossing IL. and the strikers
manned II for him."
Nothing more was said until after I
had sent the two phone messages. and
then the boss broke out in a new spot.
HAS anything been heard from Mr..
Van BrIttfa he asked.
Not that ! know of"
Again he gave me that queer little
ScOwl across the table.
Jimmie. have you found out yet
aRhyz If |.FaH-Rrttt insisted on quit
ting the service?"
| guess l grInneI a little, though
I tried not TO.
"Mr. Van Britt is one OF the best
you VI got said. He thought
you needed this strike. and he wanted
TO go out among the payroll men and
sort Of help Il along. He couldn't do
thing like that while he was an Of
icer OF the company and drawing his
pay like the rest of us"
II might have known-he as good as
old me. was the reply. made kind
II half-ahsenfly and then. short and
luick flows the stock market? Have
Tou seen a paper?"
/ had seen both papers, at break
'ast-time, but of course they had moth
ng startling in them except a last
minute account OF the wreck at Tim
Yer mountain .Y." grabbed on Just
before they went TO press. They
COULDN'T have anything later from New
FORK than the day before. But Fred
lay had tipped me on when he came
~ to tell me about the Major Ken
special. The newspaper Offices
putting out bulletins by that
l told Mr.. Norcross about the bull
and was brash enough TO add
We're headed for the r~ecelvershlp all
light. ] guess our stock has tumbled
o t~wenty-nlne. and there's a regular
going m oye 1t at the rail-
Dad post In the Exchange. Wall
afire and burning up, so they
ay."
The chief hadn't eaten enough to
eep a cat alive. but at that he pushed
is chair back and reached, for his
-
at
"Come on Jimmie he snapped.
We've got to get busy. And there
sn't going TO be any r~eceTvershIp."
We reached the railroad headquar-
ers-which were as dead and quiet as
g~raveyard-a little before Mr.. Rip
and B%illoughby got down. But
fr. Editor Cantrell was there. waiting
o shoot an anxious question at the
Hoss-
well. Norcross, are you ready to
ak nowf"
~Not just yet; tomorrow, maybe" :
the good injured rejoinder-
AN right; then perhaps you wiz !
I'll me this. Do you. yourself, believe Z
bat -four or I'VE thousand railroad I
len have gone ON strike out OF sheer I
smpafhy for q few hundred G. y ?
w. employees. most OF whom are
ierely common laborersf Can you :
aae In the eyre and tcfi me ttnt
haven't fomented this eruption on }
quiet 10 get the better Of the Red +