Show the wre wreckers acke rs BY FRANCIS LYNDE by cha SYNOPSIS I 1 I lgraham norcross road man mainger manni nger and his hl secretary creteur cret fur dodde dodds are marooned at sand creo creole k ild old ine ing with a lady bhella macra nd her time hafl mounir I 1 cousin 1 uneven unseen they whid wit I 1 w dean a peculiar pc ular train holdup in which a special car ear is carried off IL norcross the car boolen mi john Chad chadwick wicks financial wa inami ate whom he h was to inget at f city 11 ty he ale and bojas rescue chadwin k the latter tatter mortars norcross M the manager hip ship of the 1 ahart line which to in the handa hands ot of eastern hadl by breckenridge Lu titon proal dent of the line lint norcross if leg thai shella maccaa Is at Ilir tal city accepts caw III dodds overhear farm con var hartion tion between curua hatch and oue tave Ilen henckel ckel portal city oty linal bumler num lers ler in its which t they he aalt admit complicity hi in chudwick ahu kidnap 1 n arf their object beltis to koei chadwick from rom attending atten dinU a melitina meli ting at i directors to reorganize the pioneer hilert ua une which would jeopardize their inter ajtal astal uk CHAPT KIt IV into acl curtt the allino POly controlled contro llod by hatch and land llen fien ckel uio use tower corporation norcross forast the h ClU couzens zens and warehouse con com pany lie begin begins to manifest a doop in ili tret lerest in shella liella fi Afa crue dodde lean learia that bhella shella Is married but living apan apart from her bar husband norcross does not know this V hatch dwar thui that doddi haa ham ot of hie his and el s participation in the chadwick kid naping offers him hlin inducement inducements to lav leave norcross ea dodds refugee refuses leaving the tb office he be la to knocked senseless I 1 tt mo v alog dofing he 1 learns that nor cross haa ham and la in to have hilve and gone east CHAPT luR VL dodds cunnetta vun cun necia necta nor irm with machination machinations of hatch and henckel and on recover las ing strength neth sets f out io to solve the myo tery CHAPTER VIL with karran ui road a master mechanic dodds iweta 61 line on norcross ea disappearance rance the tile foll follow ovir a clue riven them it nils sing locomotive loco motlya CHAPTER the rescue party and indi and nd releases sis from captivity to which he bad had been lured ee re a umea control of 0 the pioneer fiort une refue refu inc tiang to elve give place to nun whom IDu dunton otton haa has sent to toka ta charge ax bodda follows an owls ot of the red tower people spying on ea to a lit cool yard where he over heare 1 a plot to put norcross ae out of bue lueM and at the riak risk ot of his hl ats U true ustes H IL X XA at the home of shella macrae dodde dodds la in wit nisse of of a man he bal believe levits haa has de do atom on the tile lite ot of his friend and boas he lie prep prepare arev to defend him chastell CHA CHAP ITEll TEll XI the sudden return ot of fib lillas uncle drives the intruder away leter ter dodde dodds recognizes him a as howard collingwood nephew ot of president Preat dent lun dun ton ot of we il pioneer loneer short june unit A A aerie series of wreck wrecks on the line impossible to ex x plain cau cause alarm to the management manafe ment CHAPTER ail durgin oa n likht ht dispatcher routes passenger and freight trans to meet on an a aidele 1 track die bator la in narrowly ave averted rt na durgin corn com tilte suicide ul clde leaving evidence that he wae bribed to bring about collision ool llalon XIII LN BM dente accumulates Nor croaa ng enemies are plotting plott lne hia ill death but arnst all jill advice he delldee on DIU a trip on 0 pedal train over the line ak pilot engine truvell travel lne nic ahead discovers die cover rail real which would hae thrown the icmat ici at down a mountain ida side nor croes cross hearts for the nral strut time that bhella shells in 1 married lie refused to believe you think thoro there 1 no hut lint flint lit li ns Irl bilhl letl to put plit hose to ethor tonight none noue lit flip tl leant I 1 i asli wu e half n little better proof of it where tl aj IK tie lle ile sit aira mrs out on cri q hirm morris tl alir ir too I 1 cullee lu ohp 1 bo 44 turned to rne me go a get morria I 1 tin flit calill and brought brou Klit 1 asfor rit rl back witti me itse lie ile uni a a cheer cheerful fill fello it ani lit ever boll liked him 1 it n anent hox box hanlon mor atiq rl still the he ho hot hen ne e ennie in lit kutni the relief 11 nt it lt i ort of halt soared on nit taw th mice of a thair ve want to know stomp thin filing more nor about purlin durgin HP lip roomed nt tit a knur place be her morris A admitted it but hut hed lied never neer been erv ry clu with the dix dl pitcher tint burgin sittia t chuning nith mill 11 tinn atio IMAR orrt Orsil glit to he the point he fie 11 ld slid you were yere present end atlin w nil all hut happened in thu the other room cm an vou voin fell us its im io thine thing rubout that 7 pointing po intini to ho the pile of bill 4 on lilt my illy de neilt derk rk illah morri w rifled hlin blin stif into n little better letter chair hold Noth Voth liiK ilig that he worth if it thing turned out juet just nm they ahne he returned but no I 1 1 kno know I 1 left mr flit eleven to come on duty and durgin esix jut just bhend of me some fellow a man in R muff colored overcoat and with rith n soft hot hut pulled down so that I 1 ift fac face topped durgin on the dewalk al I and hey they talked to together ether 1 I hear what wa was aid said tint I 1 saw tilt roan man pass something to durrin and baw aw 10 surgin put whatever whale vcr it wn wa s into tits hl pocket then the other othe r ann dodie dand ap abent away and did tr tor so that 1141 dodot 1 eg f wn he went pill or r aint N of blin munt finx line run rtin after he ito left the lefortier efort ier for I 1 imire of dm him until milli I 1 cot got to fhe mitre I 1 HP I 1 p noi n there uit when en ill 1 alm a rose in it nair nobern orron w who hn lit lam nott i ex if ic had tits hi coat off orr and WIH nt pt nork ork on oil tin firnin sheet 1 1 I don t link durgin loft left his hair chair nr or bild i nothing to until in ill jumped i p in welk the tile conr inking kin o 0 0 is nix niini chilt cited 1 lint four floor stool I 1 ie together ott hr on oil 1114 ailigh ruck there war ax gil lence for n little time thol ind whets fill hoa ho old po ilo on hink imi bould recognize e the its issitte in lit the iliff colored oer cont if it kep e illin li gaill yen I 1 tf it h he on oil the little con onal anol tint lint illint ahn will III sin 1 hen then keep keety thi thin ihma thing I 1 our lf will if alie hi newspaper IMO IM O i ile romp rome afler nn oil ond mewl alivin to mr nir nn nit lorit or to tile after lind hold eom wine mr ir atin on aritt hook fila fil lit A hwd art obort nf onal vely kr it I 1 hp he ripped out lo 10 hlib ft 1441 1 nud heir 11 innIng to in up tip antill flim anun ri lie file roon room to think ehni 1 hem all noulia enke tin I 1 ill plinnie dmn of murdering n lot lilt of inn oMit icile ii Ile ile to enin gain heir their adl endl till t n nrc re atin going to dv tits ulmant 10 1 I dun I 1 1 lanou 1110 a ct ai I upton 1 I uni an giltig it to do to something thim of 1 irm tnt tint so go on oil alio at thine thing IN lot for nf lite it to throw up tip the hi job filliol it 1 the fill short linto drop litick into the old rut im nut not sure it alle it good tili tily iti lit ilic ilip end if it I 1 do tits it and atilt jet ft ll 11 mems suits ll 11 it n cottrill com trill hint thing to do 1 I to 1 ti titter fire ir mr ur imi hold alil hl hul mimi on oil flit I 1 ho door kimb and aliat hist lie uld suld inside flit arin 1 to 0 illy ivere rill till ly ity iu ou ural in lit in ill nil till to to the ilist mid the luht last ditch and atilt loarf oure nut going to pitch it up bouru 60 ing tn to u misty until till in butte siroun lie the liin into hist high hind citar clear tit ii to its tho chingta hit tny my pro pi ec tin tilt troubled uhlee lex or for tonight nod olad ud hotter better go o 0 up lilt to the hotel jairl iiii I turn in there thre IH in another lay nit or if hero there it bont rooke make nn sin to ally of UN good CHAPTER XIII what the pilot engine found bior it time little sifter the dulcide of f the off trick dispatcher he the wreck epidemic sed acting upon mr mr air van britt drift called hie tits in a crew at a tini time anil and cne thein th the straight tip and after j the hoodoo died a natural death and nd n rood good mona roan pair pairs of eye eyer nil all 1 flip short line were a linro lookout for the file trouble in ili tiie file meantime tarbell Tn still digging to turn up tip n few facts that were worth sonic some thine thing in tit the cuse lit li found a lone prospector llvine in a chaek I 1 cigis hi up on the farther side of the th j hobold ho jold film that inte into in the tilt diening of the day the wreck ho be hod hall seen two tun men climbing the tile from which the flip houlder had j heen dIel odRed and that one of them nna ins ing n pick also further in 1 to proe that the lite mil roll which filch flip h blow of the rock was iva s gruppo mip posed rea lw hare knocked loose and he bein n previously weakened either by dra ernwine ing some of the or by unscrew ine the nut on the bolte bolts nt at the joint joints in another field and thie time under RI R I 1 s instructions our ex cow pl punch inell liall been able to set pet and halt brit n trap by diligent search he lie had found the flip ronn man Murp murphy liy the Claw kisan liello tiann who under pressure had ahten eh en awni the tile timber mountain plot midch lind hall climaxed in the of he the boam thir ronn had been de lie shot in a barroom bar room brawl I 1 and left for dead but he be bad had crawled nav and had hall pot got out nut of town toun to live will recover nt at a distant cuttle cattle ranch ain in the libberton LIm berton bills when tarbell discovered him he had cut out the booz had grawn n bearil mill was for enen engin nce tar bell brought him hick to portal pit rita there becan began to in be he fie d murpha knew nil nit flip in ill a little time illsley Ill pley with 11 help a unit loaded for hen hear gnp on chilev october r the lie inn a anine down to 14 our to tell mr ii m hat that tle like game cor tiered all von hate to do now no poi 1 to elve ltha the N word ard ans na the way fly i wound mind up lip you refused refu steil to do in it on n n fort for forar ter pr we ile ct lilt tl men nien higher lip till tinta we ann anti a and n good few of flie th and homi in lit th 1114 other town towns along the line in went do sin vou volt tany tle the bo hoa bom m looked up with the little borst foreshoe bo shoe frown wrinkling bot botteen neen his eye eyes L arnn we get et nitch and Urne lel no 0 o not yet very well then you may loch lock those palem up in your afe anti well talt when yon can ern itee your nay iny clear to in a criminal trial with fintch I 1 ind gustave fenckel in the prisoners dock dork well start the legal irin chInery hut hill not heton bv now we e were right 6 on the ee of he lie stata election an far ai anny div could ace soo the railroad lind stayed red afree free and clear cipar of the political fight the bow had lind ke kept pt hia his pro mitto to maintain ni neutrality and was wax adill keep fig if it at the tip appointed poInted tinte unie tho WR big day dawned and anti the political windup wind up held beld the center of the tho taire so far an all we e concerned it aasem off v err ery quietly alone alons in the flip afternoon the neopa per onre ofil besch to in put out ont bulletin tin lietIns nod and hy by ei ening the result was no lone long et or d douht 0 Cul r or the first time la in yeara pow tr r T bf alif ot political ma chirip food been rt at the poll polls annl on n mp following follow lne the file the pic pipe inn nf of loverni nr flu clurrell rrell with n safe in both hoth hotinen 1 nf of the in for the it un was in n the tile third day after fill h rather late into in the tile afternoon the fill hoops hod n enil from n min inc named pewee reprint ing n hunch of if ielne at lit straits i olin who vilio were ere lining trouble with will pin elfer tin tile smelter one of hp fen anth which harint hwn kill loose tie n yet wan nast located in aloe ati six miles bolow below Strath potin owl it nii speed exclusively b hy it nun mit industrial railroad rall rond which tt it tillit nine no n ler imer to 0 o pry on an charge out of ho the mine own err erp liln ili try to do 1 nig nhoun it tit lines said hod do lit h tind alint the mine own erv nn annl nl dimes bald they holp help flint tty they wro were going to hom hold a tu eptIng nc in the fol inq fill mornin nt of nine Wc locc woula it or it ho be 1 ble for mr norcross Norr rM to he lie present rt at that bitet ing of course the tile bow bou aid hed hold go went any and before we broke off to go to dinner at tile rull mil roald club I 1 ab galien a 0 memorandum order for a special at the tile club I 1 found that mr nor trusts had nn an invited guest major lit lid I 1 it k for a 0 week or two tire tillit had been visiting at the tile state cu und tind the majores inn jore wife and ann atilt borc ere with her lier bo so the gaid a old till nus sort of unattached and glad 1 enough I 1 took it to bo be a cast lit n hodys bablo or a the file table talk in to which of ca tyvr Jlii nute dodd lindet imy part lintjer lint mer circled around the latu late and anil nihat hat Goer governor nor ll linit do now that it hall the he MI so M but by and by it go col to the tile railroad situation youre loure piffling up a good brahimi Is in fion but it our nir et ml 1 h it euh thlu lunt 41 tile uny the said it bill hill iam it us 4 mur sitar na 43 1 I itin come to hie his 1 afi I ill inal with the tile moth ertel red llast tt IL gnoun dietch b for it good ealis and he lie hn no the th perm of the vey vely doll oll ills nil till lia lius 4 liven duno alone you ihunt beeh forget fur for u 11 boruh liou ull that auh reform ciul stati libi its tt et upon the tile lift life of a single dont lose loge sight of that gru gra linni I 1 iho lie bois boss looked up kind of curl col isly you nit oaid win to 0 o think that iwine more than ny y other he lie commented the fine old cold eyes twinkled irli yr ely you are mighty ante in payin strict to what teer the little goerl bellm 11 iou my tny bo ioa 1 he lie as up st sifted rt ed she has ills a way of settin nt st lie lite feurt of taint that put puts Us u meah men iren to she has tins for a fact sub suit she hns been very helpful to me the bosq put in with ith his eeb in bis tits plate in fact I 1 may sai sol that she ha lins herself suggested sup Kested a good many of llie the boes in lit the railroad ite its ma nin relous melous and I 1 cant understand ho how rhe she can do it 1 N I 1 A 6 y shella are mighty neah uncanny thiv tato went on for a while singing Kingl nir air sire Shell ns praise over iia 10 n good many different and I 1 thought N wherever here er she might happen to be just then her pretty little ears ought to be burning bood and hard to hear them thein talk you would have thought khe he waa was another and then some the dinner wore itself out after a while and when the u alter brought the clears cigars tho boss boas was looking at bis his watch im sorry I 1 cant atay stay and smoke with you major he said pu ahing hie life chair back but tile buarne grind i never lets up iro im obliged to go to strathcona Strath cona font tonight I 1 dont k know now what the major waa was coing going to way tiny to thia this abrupt break away the after dinner social cigar was as a sort of religious ceremony with him but whatever r he was as boing to say he say it for at that moment a telegraph boy came in and handed him film a message he lie pot put on his 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