Show 0 az 0 JANA LIMS il 1 au upton atoll lq Is well ible to lake care caie of nf himself Ilor nack find and I 1 dont think we NAC need coiry about liim anti then over ills his shoulder to mo me its time to wake up ill were pl Illint in As lie always did on a return trip dip mr s ran up to his oblie to see if there was anything pressing before lie did anything el r amny na ny wn was still nt fit ills desk lint and in anger alsor to tile the boss bogs question he shook hook alq ills head no nobody that lint wild nt wl walt it lie he said bald referring to tile day 31 mr hatch haq up tip with a couple of nf men me that I 1 know hut but lie only w canted lan anted ted to inquire if 1011 would lie in tile office tills this evening T told him id find out when on vimo and let him know by phone I 1 thought lit after nil all that hill had happened hatch certainly had it ad his id none to want to come find a 1 tall talk with fifth the man ills hig hired assassins trying to murder but if f mr noi ross took that view of it lie how iton the contrary lie he told fred it would he be all right to telephone hatch that lie he was wag coming down after dinner and the office N would lie ile open ns ansual I 1 slipped out arid and went to mr r van britts office at the other end of tile hall ball bobby kelso was there holding the office down and I 1 naked asked him I 1 could find tarbell luckily lie was able to tell me that tarbell was at that moment down in the station restaurant tau rant eating his supper so down I 1 went and butted in with ray my story of the hatch call arid and how it was to be repeated a little later on ill be there said tarbell find and with that load off my mind I 1 off uptown up town to the club to get my own dinner when I 1 broke into the grillroom grill prill room at the railroad club I 1 found that mr norcross had beaten me to it bv a few minutes that he had already ordered his dinner at a table with major kendrick d ra ck I 1 suppose by good rights I 1 ought to have gone oft off into a corner by ni myself self but I 1 saw raw that the boss bogs had tipped a chair lit at the end of tile table where I 1 usually sat at so 0 o 1 just went abbad and took it coming in late that aliat way ay I 1 get the first of the talk but I 1 took it that the hogs boss had been saying something about lilb rare good luck in having the major for ft a tablemate table mate two days in succession the donoh Is mine ma m deih dealt boy the genial old K kentuckian was telling liim him as I 1 sat down 1 I was by way of picking up a bit of late this aften oon that I 1 thou thought lit ought to be passed on to you without any great delay the boss looked up quickly what is it major lit he inquired are aie you going to tell me that something new hns has broken loose 1 I wish I 1 might be that helpfully hep fully definite I 1 do so graham but I 1 cant its a bit of street talk telling it ov eh at the commercial cina that natch hatch and john marshall you vou know him that sedgwick stock hobbeh who has been so active in this citizens litt zens storage warehouse business have finally come together in ft a business way you mean the major gave a right and left gwist to his b big I 1 mustaches and ana shrugged one shoulder they are most probably calling it hu cluess he rejoined the boss bosq nodded 1 I know what has happened in spite of the tact fact that the local people know that their eco salvation depends upon a wide mal and even distribution of their C Q S W stock there has been a good bt bit of bulu buying and setting selling nod and swap plug around I 1 remember you yon kroph caled that in a little while wed have adother trust a the banns bands of a few meu mea you may recollect that I 1 your prediction I 1 merely said our ground leases the fact that sill nil of the C S sc W plants and buildings are on railroad land would still gie ghe us ua the whip hand over any pew new bat ft might light 1 be eto found I 1 15 el beg yrs mill till I 1 remember you yon ald that the 1111 jol allo allowed Ned vor ver gond marhall and his pocket syndicate ma illa hane a voting in ill 0 K S W V and they may be milling now to patch up lip nn all alliance sill ianco N with ith hatch but in that case tin the new monopoly will still lack the lie one vital ingie hent tin thi pomer to liv pieres pi ires if thele i ia a nei nc combine oni bine arid it irles to in make inako lift producers and merchants P pa 13 1 1 I ole e talan the agreed agree for fol st toge orige ami if handling 1 I know tile the major cut in you yoki all will ill I 1 ilo ae ill in ill tile lie majesty of boull auh wrath rath and put it out of business q by terminating the leases lea eq I 1 liopo hope noll ou may ni ay iy I 1 tit tinly do hope yon may rut recollect that I 1 adaze noll on of on that aliat point still you took ri liples ples opinion op naion rale the coll coi cobit it 1 will ill hold kiili avith but candidly li graham Grah nn I 1 dollt it doubt it right much the hns lio seem eom to lie be much scared geared up lip oer the doubt just smiled and aid ned ed he be likely to find out hat was in the wind aind find and that before nery ry ion long then lie poka of hatch riat cli afternoon call at our offices and mentioned the lie fact that the red gocr president would probably try a acain aln later in the cenin ee gr the major let the lie buinys buIn cs matter drop and it lie was working his way patiently through the salad course then lie looked up to say was there anything in bouli trip to Stra Strath theona coni to warrant Sh eilas little telegraphic danged signal graham nothing worth mentioning said ald life boss without turning a hair do inc it as I 1 made surp sure because lie want mrs shella sheila to be mixed up tip lit in the husane hus lne q e eien en by implication the major press the inquiry any farther arid and when lit he spoke ngali it was of an entirely different matter away along alone in tile beginning somebody I 1 think it was wag john chadwock spoke of 3 ou ai i a mail with a of raw licad and bloody bobie tem peli graham what have you voil lone done with that lempell in ill these alles heah batteh da 1 I an 3 the hois smile as a good natured na lured grin temper Is not always a matter of temperament major sometimes it Is 19 only a means to an end much inch of my experience has been in the construction camps where I 1 have had to deal with men in the raw just the same there have been moments within the past six months when I 1 lime hae been sorely tempted to burn bum the wires with inith a few choice worn words of the short find and ugly variety and throw up ill my job which is as nou ou may say brine us around to Pre president dunton put in tile the old lawyer lawner shrewdly ue ile Is still opposing bouli policies up to a few weeks ago ns he was wag still hounding ine file to do some something thill that would boost the stock regardless of what nihat the something should be or or of its effect upon tho the permanent alii of the property did I 1 you to say that these uh nii suggestions tiong from dunton bad biad topped stopped the major inquired to at least I 1 I 1 heard anything from new york not lately then Dun tons nephew made himself known to you collingwood hardly im not in mr howle howie Colling woods set which Is 19 one of the things I 1 have to he be thankful for but this Is 19 news I 1 know he was out here the news giver elver bent his hia head gravely in confirmation ot of the fact hes hea heah beah im sorry to say graham he has been heah beah quite some uttie time vi brutin round with the Grigs Grigsb bys Ts and the cannons gannons and a lot mo of the new rich people up at the capital it was the basa turn to go silent and I 1 could gue ag pretty well what he be was war thinking the presence of president Dun tops ln in lie west might mean much or nothing but I 1 could imagine the boss bogs was that ills his own single experience with collingwood was enough to make wish tint the nephew of big money would stay tn where he be belonged the high rollers and spenders spender of his own on set in the effete east 1 I cant quite get the proper slant sant on men of the collingwood type he be remarked fitter after the pause the time I 1 eer saw him wag on the night before the directors meeting last spring ho he was here with his party in the alic special train find and that night at the bullard he had been drinking too much and made a braying braning a 0 of f himself I 1 had bad to knock him before I 1 co could lift got get him up to his room you lid did that graham Gralia nil for stran geb 1 I lid did it for the comfort or of nil ail concerned As I 1 say lie he was wag making an ass of himself s if there was nas another break and the major looked up with a frown that was bafo you had sheila lie asked thoughtfully why no not exactly it was same night the night we ne all oft off the lie flyer and got left behind lit at still sand cheek you may remember that we came in later on sir mr Chad Cb special the major made no reply to tins this all and soon the bos bo s was on oil ills his feet arid and excusing himself oner once more on oil the after dinner smoking blunt baying that lie be was obliged to go back to tile hie office thy the major got up lip and hands bands with him as ir if lit lie were bidding lint liim goodby good by for a long jounney jou joul iney ney you yon are n re going down to keep keel that appointment with rufus hatch lie it said you take an all old mans mails advice Gra gralian liam my boa bo find and keep heep nouh hand band speaking peaking of coute e on oil ouli zim gun it runs lit in my mind lintt it you tite 1 OR 4 to 17 T be lilt lift and lift bit right liard hard no dont ask mea me why call it it a rotten suspicion and let it go at that come up to the houe bouse aft eard if you have time find and tell me im a falbe prophet sub still I 1 hope you may the bobs promised plenty cheerfully as to the calling part as know he would since nee lie seen mrs sheila for I 1 dont know how long and a few minutes later we were inere on our way walking briskly to keep keel the fred may engagement with tile chief of the lie grafter gr CHAPTER XIV the deadline dead line we found the three disappointed afternoon callers already on hand when we reached the headquarters the boss bogs said good evening gentlemen as pleasant is as a basket of chips and invited the waiting bunch into the private office snapping on the lights as lie opened the door no introductions were needed one of the lie pair hatch had brought with ith him was inq a lawyer named marrow whose home ionic town na was sedgwick ek a sharp nosed ferret eyed man mail fl figured as one of the many local counsels for red tower the other dedmon was w iv a political place hunter who lind once been sheriff of Air ai row ohead head county youve kept us its cooling our heels beels in bour our waiting room for just about tile last time mr or cross W was at the spiteful way in which hatch opened fire wee ee come to talk straight business with nou ou this trip and it will ile be p to 0 o your interest than ours it if buil send end your clerk away while they had been dragging up their chairs find and sitting down don I 1 had heard fred may ilay lock up his typewriter and go find and had been listening anxiously for some isome noise that would tell me e tarbell was on deck I 1 thought I 1 heard the door of the outer office open again just as hatch spoke and it comforted me a whole lot the boss pay any attention to hatchs hatcha suggestion about sending me away acted as if he heard hear 5 it opening his big desk lie he took it a hot box of cigars from a drawer and passed it with this concession to the small hos hob pita litle the bogs bogg swung chair to face the trio my time la is yours youra gentlemen lie he sald said and hatch jumped in like a man fairly a fight for six months norcross youve been mowing a pretty wide swath out here in the tall hills youve been posing na as a little tin god before the people of this state arid anil fill all the while youve been and slugging and black jacking private capital and private wherever and whenever they have happened to opt lu your way now nt at the end of the lane by jupiter weve got you dead to rights you and your d d railroad 1 ill cut out as many of the personalities I 1 as you can and come to the p point nt suggested the boss quietly 11 you yon think I 1 any point to come to tol barked barbed the grafter with rising anger TU ill show youl you I 1 you thought ought yon were the only original trust buster blister when you started your scheme of locally owned aleva elevators tors and warehouses and coal and lumber yards and ran us ua out of business but im here to tell you that your fine haired little deal to rob u us 3 began to die about as soon as it was born how flow so 0 o inquired the boss tt it a month before your little local stockholders erg began to get together arid and swap stock and sell it in it a very short time the control of the string of local plants blunts was in the hands of a hundred men today to day its in the he hands of less than twenty henty with john marshall at tile the head fiend of them citizens 1 Is nu it i consolidated plo lint and jolin john Maisl Mals nill liall henckel Henc Ilen ckel kol and I 1 control a u majority of its stock how doe daei M i ajr 0 o A 1 weve got you dead to rights you and your D d Rall railroad t h I 1 I 1 sli SI I 1 I 1 na e 3 bouy ju 7 it strikes me file that the people most deeply interested hae been exceedingly tm jediny foolish h to bell their birthright I 1 bi ut it d that Is strictly their onn on business an and not mine or the railroad companas comp anys s walt wait hatch snarled it s going to be both bours and the i company compan 3 s business beffie you yon are through with ith it marrow liete here telli ie os eals marshall and I 1 henckel find and my myself elf what file aie DU going goin to do li about those thoe ground leases tothill No nothing thill lit sill except to insist upon the condition under blell thea the wele granted hy by the railroad rail rall roid road company Meal lill that iou nie going to tl ti to hold if us to tile fixed percentage porcen tw charge for handling handl liiK packing pAC kiny loading loail lii nil and lians lian ferring meaning jut that if you aai laisch tin the price charge on oil the producers producer and tile lenses leases ill 1 I thought that wai about eliout here ln ru aoud land now listen ll ero ere it 2 marshall and I 1 henckel arid and I 1 and v hat ie e say roes goez as it lie lies we are arc going to use ube the present C S W plants and equipment charin charging out our on storage st oraRe arid and handling liand lins percentages based on oil anything ne e ee tit if you pull that ground lease business on oil us anti and try to drive us its out well light you all the way up to the supreme court if you heat beat us there thare well ciciel N moe over to the lie other side of your tracks to our old red tower hoti houses aes find lords and go ou doing business at the old stand the bo boss bois is sat back in ahli chair nn and d ifould tell by the set of hn his jaw that he was refusing to be panic stricken you are taking altogether too toor much for granted arent you he put in mildly you are assuming that tile the courts will trill eventually nullify the terms terig of the ground leases or if they do not that the railroad company will do nothing to save its patrons front from falling failing into this new graft trap hatch snapped his fingers now you are coming to the milk in tho the coconut lie he rapped oot ont that lit la exactly what were assuming you are going to let go once for all norcross you are not going to fight its in the courts and neither are you going to abass us out of existence with short cars over charges and the thousand and one petty persecution persecutions that you railroad buccaneers bucca make ube of to 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