Show I 1 Ms l I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 1 I 1 ah I 1 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 aa r IN 1 fi 1 1 I 1 1 0 I 1 jr 4 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 allwin I 1 by Bs 11 1 t 11 1 1 1 rm 11 I 1 I 1 I P af I 1 I 1 A I 1 X I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 ML I 1 i S V i 1 94 c T ay 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 E 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 E ia I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 F R M C 1 S i 1 1 f 1 1 I 1 i I 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 I 1 I 1 1 N k I 1 LYN LYNDE D i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 7 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 by some 1 i 1 I 1 4 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 CHAPTER XIII continued 11 1 I 1 shut lint my eyes y und held ray my breath beuth mr Ilor hornack nack t the slightest idea what thin lee ice lio lie was skating abating over or how him this easy mention of mr van drift might be just like rubbing salt into A fresh cut by tills time it was growing crowing dark and we were running into portal city and I 1 was mighty glad bind lint flint it last much longer the boss speak dignin until tile hie yard switches were clanking under the car and then he be sold said upton Is well able to lo take care of himself flor hornack nack and I 1 dont think we need worry about him biro and then over his shoulder to me jimmie its it a time little to woke wake up were pulling in As lie always did on a return trip mr norcross ran up to hla his office to see eee if there was anything pressing before lie he did anything else may was 1111 at his desk and in answer to tile die boss question he shook his hen hend 1 no nobody that wait he be said referring to the days callers mr air match hatch was up tip with a couple of men that I 1 know but lie only wonted wanted to inquire if you sou would be in the office this his evening after inner dinner I 1 told him id find out when you came and let him know by phone I 1 thought after all lint flint land happened hatch certainly hall had his nerve to want to come cattle and make a talk with the mail his hired assassins were trying to murder but it if mr norcross took that view lew of it lie he show allow it on oil the contrary lie told fred it would be all right to telephone IlIn hatch that he was coming down own after dinner and the office would be open ns As usual 1 I slipped out slid and went to mr van Il ritts office nt fit the five other end of the he hall ball bobby kelso was there holding the office down and I 1 asked him where I 1 could find tarbell luckily he wits was able to tell ell me that tarbell was at that moment down in ili the he i restaurant ta tau rant eating his supper so down I 1 went and butted in with my story of the hatch call said and how flow it was to be repented repeated n little later on ill be there here said raid Tn tarbell rbell 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 room at the railroad club I 1 found that mr norcross had beaten me ta to li it by ay a few minutes that lie he had already ordered his dinner at a table with major ken drick I 1 suppose by good rights I 1 ought to have hare gone off into a corner by myself but I 1 eisaw aw I 1 lint the HIP boss had find tipped a chair at the end of the table where I 1 usually sat so I 1 just wont went allend final anil took it coining in late that way I 1 get the first of tile the talk but I 1 took look it that the boss had been saying something about his rare good luck lit in having the he major for s e table mate two days dava in succession the bonoli Is mine my denh deah boy the genial at old kentuckian Kentuck lan was telling lint as I 1 sat town down 1 I was ly by way of picking up a hit bit of information late this aften oon that I 1 thought ought to be pas passed sedon on to you without I 1 any great delay the boss looked up quickly what Is it major lie inquired are you going to tell me that something new tins has broken loose 1 I 1 wish I 1 might he be that helpfully hep fully definite I 1 do so ao Gr graham ahnin but I 1 cant its roe a bit of street talk telling it ite torch at the commercial 1 club that notch hatch and john I 1 marshall ill you know him that sedgwick stock hobbeh who has been so active in this citizens storage Ware warehouse bowie bust business hale bave finally come together 11 in a business way you vou mean the major gave a right and left twist to his big und and shrugged oil one P sho shoulder uller they or are e most probably calling it bu business bubines sines s he b rejoined the bos nodded 1 I know what tins has happened in ili spite of the enet that the local people know that their economic salvation depends upon a wide and even distribution of their C S IV stock there tins lias hern ficen a good bit of buying and selling and ail swap lIll ping around I 1 reini niber suber ou oil prophesied that in a little while wed cd hare another trust dust in ili the hands of a few nien men you may mav thit that I 1 t dispute your prediction I 1 merely said lint flint our ground lenses alye tile fact eliat nil all of file C S W plants and buildings are on oil railroad ral rall limul road land would still give us its flip filp lindt over oni new monopoly that lie ile formed yes yei su duj A I 1 remember atif you sald ul that the ke major allowed very coq cooil lind am ahi Jils s pocket aref i vil voting t ing control in P V la A va 4 v pud I 1 of A pey inny be wl it inao ewh biow 4 01 e with hiitt 0 V I 1 lo 10 I 1 ill 1 t ew ila monopoly 3 will ill 9 1 it gnp n 0 vital er iia 0 o if mis a to nizile fh r 0 if c W aeve ar pay nc R i arsi aw ofte iw 1 for nn I 1 4 vt 1 1 I know the th ma in or cut in yop yon oll all j will hoedl eft wl gly of auh 1 w arnt rn i afria t air rok iilo A I 1 si ille M 1 tl the e jrsn ell sf s I 1 ave A ve ami u 1 I 1 ahl mat ift iti la 14 roll 1 I p collel that thail 1 I N 1 X 4 far IX 0 1 V I 1 41 t I 1 C vhf alt I 1 1 I 1 jo t hii uli off rii 1111 ildur 11 ibor still took fook Kl ItI pleys opinion mil be file I 1 lie couts will hold with lah you lint lv graham I 1 doubt it doubt it right much i tilt the boss seen eem i 10 0 o tic be feared cured up over tile lie doubt lie ile just stalled smiled and anil sold s wed ed tie lie likely to mid out who W IR lit in life hie win wind land that before very tong louir then lie spoke of hatcha hatchs afternoon cull call at our or ollices and intentioned the lie fact that ali it tle the cited tower toner pi evident would mould probably try again agnin later inter ili the evening the major let the bus iness matter drop and lie was an working ills his way patiently through tile the salad course couise wheat he up lip to tny say was ans there anything in kiil wit trip to 0 o to warrant little littie telegraphic danged signal tl gnal graham linar nothing Zo thing borth ment mentioning loning sold mild the boss without turning it liala doing it lit As I 1 mode sure kine becal bc cinie tite lie 1 want mrs sheila to be mixed up in the lie plotting business even een by 13 implication tit alip ninnor prea ill hie inquiry anny further and when he spoke ngul n it was of nil entirely different nn iller awny any along in ili the lie beginning amp body boilvin I 1 think it was jolin john spoke of you jon ns as a inan with a of lidai ik nd iiii and alood bones kempeh lein peli Gr ahnin what anne love you ion done avith flint leipelt in these henh beah latteri dal the ios boss smile wnm MI A good tinctured grin biln temper Is not always a matter of temperament major sometimes it Is only a meana to on an end much of nii any experience hns been in hie flip construction camps where I 1 lime have hild to deal with ilen men in the lie raw jut the same there here lime have leen been moments within the const six months when I 1 lime have hem been sorely tempted to hum burn the hie wares lies with n few choice words of the short and ugly variety and throw ill up my joh job which ns As you may say brings us at around to president ident dunton put in ili the he old loftier lawyer shrewdly ue Is still op potting policies up to in a few weeks URO ago lie wits still hounding me to do something that lint would boost the stock of what the something should be or of its effect upon the permanent value alne of the property datt 4 I 1 kj stand you lo 10 abny trint thi tl these h froin I 1 had stopped the major inquired temporarily nt at least I 1 lf nent heard anything from new york not lately intel then Dun tons nephew li nuit ninde mode himself lilii elf known to you vou Vol collingwood lingwood hardly im not in mr bowle Colling woods set ts Is one ode of the things I 1 have to he be thankful for but this la Is news I 1 know he rn was out here the news bent his head gravely in confirmation of the fact lies iles baab im sorry to graham lie ile tins lins been befall quite some little time round with tile alie GrIgs bys and the cannons gannons and a lot roo ino of the new rich people up tit nt the it was the boss turn to go silent and I 1 rould out guess pretty well what he was thinking the presence 0 of f president Dun tons nephew in fl the e west wes t might menn mean much or hut but I 1 could longine the boss was thinking that his own on single experience with was enough to male him film wish lint flint the nephew of nig big honey bloney would stay where alnie he belonged among tile the high rollers and spenders spend cis of ili his own div n set in tle the effete fast 1 I cant quite get the prope mont on oil men of the lie collingwood type lie remarked after tile the pause ilie the only time line I 1 ever eer saw nw him M was on oil the before the directors meeting last spring ile he ans here with his uncles party in the he special train and that hint night sit lit the bullard hp he tin lanil been r I 1 1 ai ing too much nn and almade ninde a 1 bi ayla nia of nf himself I 1 had to knock him flint silly before I 1 could get him film up lip to ills his room you did that brnham fo a 1 IT I ill did it for the comfort of till nil ron con arned berried ried As I 1 he was nn fill ansa of if himself there wits another break bieh find lien the major looked up nil with a little brou frou n tant was ns lefo roll nii lint lind let Sl aliello iello lie naked thought runy liv no not it was tho alif mine night the n eglit we nil dro plied olt off tin me flyer yer and rot got ip ft hybla cheek you vou may remember that imp e cainie eume tn lit later on oil mia clin awk I s I 1 1 I 1 11 1 F imol I 1 tile iiii ir W inep cepl fo to ifsits fit ni plo 1 t tty POll the lile bo 6 ills fek and elc fisl ing olice awe ite on oft hn flip art arfer ei amm sili sriv 4 in abat iW Kil fideli i llie allf office the major kot got tip find and allo 1 w will jill him na its if lip were opre bi hilli di frig fit him in gialy gix I 1 ly r t l efting lep I 1 im po lan li il it fiti lavoix latO trw IX tic 1 ie si sa lal 4 I 1 ou nyi i tal 1 tv ft 14 vl t pl kp 0 O FT tl ilk it it IL vl clr ae jj tl olle n amai I 1 or he t hn n U I 1 I 1 kp aseh I 1 I 1 Ai sl 1 alv 1 11 kill ll IN I 1 w I 1 th I 1 A al t vu alyo ing if tc lie W I 1 and 1 l y 11 l L 1 p dont it n i mil nil it ji a I 1 1111 usiel if usi il J M wt biff ff J I 1 ul r i 1 lil af r 0 o wo illich etc ott ax it s sa 11 iti offal i TOS it f 1 I er nr 1 i 1 4 W va VO all to at 1 1 11 1 41 it 1 taw iloie hoir p urite aft euid it if you line little find lell fell me im it a false prophet still mill I 1 hope you ion lefly nin 1 ahe lie linss boss plenty lity cheel rully ns As to tn the culling calling part ns as you know lie would since lie seen mrs Shel lafor for I 1 dont know how long and a few minutes intel we e were on oil 0 our ll 11 r avay uv walking briskly to lo keep fi the ie fred may engagement with tile the chief of tile the gi adlers I 1 CHAPTER R XIV I 1 I 1 the deadline dead line V we found I 1 lie three disappointed afternoon callers already of on hand when we v the the lius boss suld gold good evening gentlemen ns pleasant us its a baket ba ket of chips and invited the waiting bunch into the office snapping on th he e lights As n lie opened the lie door no N introductions were fre needed one of the pair hatch had tit ought with will him was ins a lawyer named marrow whose linse home town ans as sedgwick A n ha ip nosed ferret cd ann alio fi fig ined red az n title me of flip many leml coun sets pl for lied tower the other oilier ned ded inon mn A place who ulio lind once giue dixen sheriff of arrowhead lt tr hiie youve oi ie kept kena us cooling our beds heds lit in your walling room loom for just about she last mile iline sir mr Nor norcross crossl ns alie spiteful way in which hutch opened it lie re weve come to talk straight business with you sou this trip find it will he be more tf for your hiir interest titan ours ouis if t 1011 II 11 send scud your clerk away while they had been drugging up their choirs and rilling down I 1 had heard fred I 1 efty mn lok up ills hn typewriter nil and go K find had ben b en listening alixi bously h for sainte home none hint flint would toll tell me file inerbell In rbell was ns on oil deck I 1 thought I 1 heard file lie door of tile hie outer open again just ns as halcli blatch spoke and it comfor lel me a whole hole lot lol the ali boss pay uny any atle ution to to futchs suggestion about sending me acted its if lie heard it Opening his lils desk lie ile took a box of froni a drower drawer find passed it this ills concession to the hie small hos the lie boss hoss swung sing alf hi ghali to face the life trio my M time Is yours youia gentlemen he unit hatch jumped lit in like a man fairly calil sp forn for n fight jor j or six ic mouths months ct OIK qs 3 ive been allowing a pr eriv iv wide swath out liere here lit in hie file tall fall a youve wen been pa ing na fast a little tin in gd before life people of this stiff und and nl at the while alle youve ou e been knifing find slugging and black jacking private capita i find arl rate inte hushie ts wherever tie reci find whenever they have happened to ret get in your way etoy now nl at the end of the lane hy by jupiter lup lter weve vee got you vou den dead d to rights you find your bour d d rall cut out as ninny of the the personalities tie as roil ion can find come to the he point suggested the lie boss quietly you think I 1 any point to come to barked the lie grafter with rising anger ill show youl you I 1 YOU ton thought you iou were tile the only original trust buster when you ou started YOU houi r I 1 I 1 i W I 1 I 1 I 1 1 4 in 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 weve got you dead to rights you and your D d railroads sc home of locally loci illy owned irs fit nl warehouses find coal coa and f r 1110 and rn r nh I 1 11 out of s but itu ini ira t n toll you t F M ill v your vou r fill abili 1 I 61 t roti ns ley iiii I 1 I 1 to I 1 tile n ill vist ii A q 1 jt J ys nr UM livi in n I 1 I 1 allou bilow SO POT inquired flip all hus KISS hii il u lt t ll 11 before lf leol ol your our little ton II 11 sr pro i i ploll I 1 er I 1 agali a gali ini 1 iti ill w 1 I fici 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