Show the i 1 wreckers vy FRANCIS kr by ob 1 SYNOPSIS I L Nor cre xii rh road mx nager and him hi jimmie dodds are maroo marooned nod at st band 4 aid id ing with a young lady bhulla macrae nd rid her small cousin unseen they wit nm peculiar cullar train holdup in which a a afo car to carried off 11 tn c cr etolen stolen aa john chadwick 0 tInk neiLl magnate whom he wha was to neel at oft city lie lie and dodds rescue chadwock the me tetter latter norcross the tile manager hip ship of the pioneer short line unto which U in the hand hands of eastern peculator speculators headed by breckenridge dun Pun puntoni loll 1011 president d a nt 1 of the lur line Nor crow am learning that b baell b allm attar macrae in stopping at ILL portal ol 01 city s ty adepts CHAPTER ill budds overhears over hM pol vow vernar between etutus emch md and ou tave lave eickel I 1 Ilen ckel uty in which th they or in chadwick Chad i kidnap na their object being to k aliee chaaw ck tron from attending a director directors to the peorl une which would jeopardize their inter CI LAIMit IV to dro curb the monopoly controlled by hatch and nd flen henckel ckel tha lied corpa ratio torand tt ti citizens ClU xene d 1 baroo warehouse I 1 oual corn com pany lie begina 1 to manifest a dep deep it il terest in bhella macrae dodds leuria ithac shella li Is majr led but living part t from grain ber bar norcross Kor croaa cross duee does not know oila V hatch ware aware blut dodds hm has knoWl of at tile hi and elis el in the th chadwick ki ku 3 naping offers him to lv Nor croe dodds refuses leaving lis tl 1 4 he b Is knocked senseless IWU 11 ring eiring conw he h learns leaa na that nor cross has disappeared and Is believed to have resigned and gon gone st all VL dodd dodds vu nicie nor I 1 arose 4 appos with machination machinations ot at hatch and nd lle flen ckel end and on ing strength th te is out to solve the ray mys fry tery CHAPTER Ci VIL wah kirgan alif road master mechanic dodde dodds gets a una line on norcross Nor croMa disappearance they follow clue given tam thaw brough a waal misling CHAPTER the rescue party lands and releases re laa norcross Nor croaa from rApt lylly to which he had ben been lured Nor cu re 1 9 umea control ot of the steart une refusing to irive place to wan man whom hai ban ent sent to take charge IX dodds follows an emi emis BUT of the tied tower people pyeng on norcross Nor croM to a coal yard where he be 0 over ri beardt a plot to put norcross out of business bul and at the risk of his hi life feus rue I 1 aratea it X at 1 the home of Ma lacorne corne dodde Is I 1 witness ot of strange lac octlona tiona of a man he believes bellev ca has ha do d alynn on it the life of hie his mend friend and boa boss he prepare v to defend him 11 XI the budden return ol 01 cibella a uncle urlce arles the intruder away latter dodds recognizes him ua an mamard collingwood nephew oc of president dunton oc at the honnor pioneer short uns A ertel series I 1 of D f wr wreck O 0 e ks on the line impossible to ex p plain la c acusio llari to the tie pal XU night die dis router anci and freight train to meet on a single ingle rack track die LAs aster ta Is narrowly averted durgin corn com mits ul clde r leaving evidence aviden cw that be he wae was bribed to bring about collision 1117 here Is 1 n loigi to ohp crow chulch atu hilll hn hnit uin tried flat he br Rl nt at ell tile til alz young ft mio lloN atlo w looked like a n caho ho annl haai itell 1 I 1 one I 1 hey ley ditl up ciul it 1 I tho ibe calest in lio lit responded t voll aral pays mitsuho all fallt I 1 lt for the next three or foor four iii hinto the as soi fie 1 rhe UK bo 4 atilt sir vai valt britt chulig jiuu A r 11 tile train dask 14 and tarbell kept up till film hi insistent clutter clatter nt at thu the key 1 all eo on oil durgin ho lie was still liui ulic I 1 up in the tho record ieans clifair aul to it all 4 hl boost stone al A rk of 1 I ga get t rid of the idea that J i he wai was 4 araxy yet f couldn coul coulden sef rid of thel u adom that he V baj in if nil all bf hta hit sealed oJe dup up ansee ensee hapl linera I 1 turned in to intensify the th e one of hear tee I 1 the time 1116 th n uri I 1 V 1011 liml loll grown groo so keen win al 41 it 1 l na if it it coul tint bo lip horni it i bongo 1 r morriss who to a as it tibt in tit nt at the tile atme antl phone rial lill olit ii lonk long plot hf bin ill lr crow lumber cami mr tr vim lit britt jumped it t take li phone and we e got one side of iho tb talk our ahle heln an like rient oil Iler tram all right 1 1 N vim in britt at portal city ekr title of tit the tho and ride for your life own the flip glitch to the tile let ihnat stop number phe me nud anti pinke ank I 1 cr er ink anke biding quick port 0 our er our 0 own n wire ire what flat yon you do I 1 ily the time mr bir van britt got buck to tit the deak the bools lind loll il I 1 lall ent 11 out tit and wn ax figuring on oil r rii inH nto time little margin it ann no tn len t n aple ond and fiven bitne at crow 1101 ten eighteen the crow ouch i brator bud had just alx six in to get ills 11 incle and cover the rough talho don ff there van nothing clothing to do hut but alt ault antl the tho unItI nir wae savage 11 lind load a nere of iron tron hut but I 1 could art hix blinke an it luy lily on tile alag 1 4 topped able table the tito boom van cowl bough i out hut but I 1 knew that III hlo film hnilo there WH nn n henrt breaking picture of mono two tuo fant tout o 0 irnine 1 rushing together in tile th night xintong the lip hills fill no hint of wn ing in to hell help them travo mr ir van elritt keep till still lie he gitil liln ills bunds jammed in the litti betm 1 of him cont and nit pacing bulk back ml forth in lit the like little space hetteen the train desk amk and the counter railing at tho different table tables in ili abo room the soun sounders derm V rp clicking ana an if tio thIng era ero or duy due tu to linvik ii and above the ao 10 und you could lear hear the tho 1 went of the big litno oil the inal nl out the gec that inight nullis life or donali to two or three hundred innocent people in horri horribly blu suspense mu the elx six li pulled tilled out to an sit eternity fur hir that little bunch hunch of us in the die pit Irit chere chers ottice office who could do nothing lint lilt ant avalt on the stroke of ten elgh uell en the tile lime timp han fhe fine ae as due nt at cou gulch on her tier schedule 11 limed film to cotch the he first full falot t tap topping pings from front taut 11 another as etienn thero ins hope in the delay and anti astorr ili voiced it t lies there and hes lies too busy to falk to um he suggested in a buohl dilce moil disbrow DIsh row it the carret cur record artl ded ibets it take tale a n minute or two to to ret get them thein in on oil the tile alding the tile bernd minute past packed sted anti then thell it third and bet et there bax no artl boni from front bertram cull him iii pl flip io boss 4 to Tt Tu irbell rbell lut lout before tin flit cou ro boyn licud lion could benh flip ati kry ley the wi tinder began to rattle nut fout n string of lots dots and daches niad d morse it ajam hut but we tohild nil till rend read it only too plain plaint too lute litte mule intile thre nn lilt binl I 1 awl to cral and drag it gilme lee five pei full speed ut sit ten let nineteen I 1 coul thit wake it I 1 bu u the bos boss hands up us though the linger units cut luto into the lo joulius ulius that ends it he lie said lilt u sort of Henr liiK aroun in hid ills oila mid tile to burbell Tu rbell you muy loa ell cull kirgan Kirt iii und acid tell blin to order out tle the train then atio per aklan inake up a it relief train while toure joure calling ull lug the he doctor doctors von van britt you 90 tind and notify the huelit hue pit over our own un ottlee wire ire ila hau ilae e my lily car cara put into the relief and acid dee see to it molt it has all the tile deles tary supplies and better notify tile undertakers tow too great joasil but it as horrible fur for us to bo be hustling k around and maff ing blu fur for the f ulerid title the people ahu ho were to be gathered ui and burled were still ui swinging nging along jle and well anif holt of illeta in ill the croo brookings croll kings nga among the timber moun foothills foot hills and tit the oilier half botne hen in the il adert eiert below sand creek I 1 Ti Tt irbell had sent to tle the phone to coll cull kirgan and mr van elritt its turning a auy it to gu go lu to lilot on n office when the cluer hi ill tin flit cor tier by the car record bublo rt fall il biet vei ith lilt a crush allot durgin situe staggering acro acqua As tile lie aa marini bhend or hlin mill if it lie lit load gone blind and flit ent US wi running doti 1111 1114 alia 11 IU lf t it alf self in the struggling beard adilen he lie spoke hi ills volke oel 4 ined liell to come from front ulia au ott off boint wit re and ho he wa as still staring nt at the tile finnk au all bayoud the counter did I 1 did I 1 ler bear som somehow ehod sui sail boure sending for the he choked with till a dra dr in lit lil throat and anti then without It hout abtin at attin itH tin ln for an answer wisner youre oure nt at lk 1 til better get one for nit there 4 the to pay him hint and lie 1 io 4 wal at thick roll of bank bill bills cupped rup ped astound with a rubber band hand iner oer to fit liell at the train desk naturally the little grand fittano tand play with the bank roll ninde tunde a di bielon elon anti ilont Is why the cral cra erit l 11 of n pistol shot came lilt to i albock to 0 o everybody when we tie turned to look the mischief was aas none pur gin had crun crumpled crump lel down don into a mie capen Wh ailen heap on oil the floor and the right flight we aw was enough to make our blood run cold eold you see be he had put the muzzle of the pluton into his hi mouth and hut blit its IUD ue u 11 e 0 1 cant tell about it it and anti the NW y thought of that thing that had judit it nute been beon a imn ly lug awre here on the floor makes wt iu see black and want to keel oer what he had hail su eathl ill about finding for an extra undertaker unile otaker was right as right with the too tou ot of ills hi heart head blown off air the th emmr 1 devil need 11 cumre in tit hie this world except the burying somebody hir has paid mighty truth fully abat eten a death leatia III the tile family xui it I 1 top stop lie tile routine lint that the things lint have to 1 be done will go 10 grinding on oil just the file whether all 11 of tin live or of tin die tile PI brow lorow hall jumped from froin the he telephone lit tit the anh trash of lne hot shot und for JUKI jupt a second or so we e all stood around the IN bend dispatcher nobody ti making taking a anine r 1 alien I lift mr norcross Nor crom cattle elliva with willi a ja lik telling ll albrow brow 10 0 o got get hack bac k on his him job joh of culling calling oui ut the wreck wagon wagons tile lie relief train rum and directing ICA to 90 to 10 another Jill phone olits stood ull till an nit undertaker to como come und kl 1101 lne body tarbell turned buck to thi lim train denk deak to keep from fruits getting into a orme langla iloilo flit ready already were in and unit to unit for the dreadful beux nw and tic tile boe boom ettoil by fly thin second wait promised prom leed to be the arst of all the tito collision wax was due to to li huppen tippen miles from front the lica wire ire Ht nilon the tile newe news when hen we should get got it would probably be carried back 0 o Juu junction cllon by the lausher 1 en I cine RIM which dad ling cone gone out to try to overtake the tile a flaer hut lint even ili I 1 flint case it might be an II 11 or tir more before wo we could hear herr nil thing in lit a is little while disbrow had clicked click 1 I in ili film call to birgan and when the tile mider takers angon came to father up tip alint UK as left of the file dead dispatcher tin flit nr record mat mail was hurriedly writ uril ing off hia his lint of doctor and mr lir jiin oil britt had cone gone down to super intend the flit finking up of the trull true to ills 1 theory which o 0 long other things laid dop flip th hut the he public jai 0 i klit light to he be g given iven all the filets in a disaster 11 taster air mr norcross eB gs witti st telling me file to call up the moun office ulian lien Tu torbell rbell calmly time tittle reports upon the hung down his him pen und and snatched nt key to ll break breaM the tile chattering bat sounder mr van ritt lind come up 1 gitil he lie solid he tile boss were both iner er ambell hen the 0 IS S brenk breah lidid it lilt it the flip U aire irp instantly there here annu to alido lulik k call fl S GS G S fol 1 lowed 11 flit bill B ill for Iti luxie nn and anti ibria c e nil till heard what to ill it blushi Ili i overtook m number four I 1 alire tit 1 of sand creek mid lins brought lar back liere here ant vital I 1 for haill I 1 somebody conned groaned ro nned oh thank G god oil I 1 and mr air van britt dropped into a chair ns if he fie had hat boen bit by a rill nan non baij only the boss kept hie ills bend liend calling out hardly to disbrow to brenk break off on the doctor doctors list mind to hurry burry and stop birnn from front getting with wills the M becking train when it anns all over rind anthell had been riven given charge of the alq 11 bout pitt ehing bottle a hurry call ns sera ut for the night relief man Do donohuk Dono nobue hut to come down olon and take the lie fredn desk here there was as a little committee il meeting leeling in flie the general trin managers office with tin the botts in lit the chair and mr van sitting in lit for lilt other member of course youve bouve dran bour owa lr the boss bosa began when he had asked me to shut we door 1 I gubb so 80 was all the grave grae rejoinder im afraid it Is only too phalti phi in flint durgin was its hired to do it what became of the mone 1 I hu have hute te it U here said the bose botts and he lie took the flit blood money bankroll bank roll from hb hill pos pocket clet and reni removed oed the rub her band hand count it gimmle lie lit or jered dered pacing passing it to me ine I 1 ran hunch it was 1 I 1 I 1 twe tw e W ao I 1 I 1 there s wa was an n even thousand dollar 1113 in 1 twenties and miles and there was wa nn even een thousand dollars doll irs that tha t Is lq the tile price of a m n 11 4 te uld air sir van von brict r soberly an dillen air sir norcross said who knows eny any hing thing about durgin win he fie a char ried man inan I 1 14 me mr van britt hit hn head lie bud hold been married but he lie and wife ife live together tog ellier he lie had no relatives lex liere here I 1 knew knem him hill in the southwest two moot aa ago hed had domestic ilot nestle trouble of some kind and mix inix or mingle ingle much with I 1 t h the other men nien hut lie a a good die dle and two months mouths neo when w ila eliud I 1 nn an liere here r int ent for bim CONTINUED NEXT |