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V'v- ? L X*rHB MCHENBY PLAINDEALFR, MeHBNlT, k>V« ;•'• ' •••* _ \ ' QtL:'9 1LP f•'.n A|_B-^^ffe .'«<iIT'--. w»nw WHUiitr^ •j£>- *?'??], ..- fca•>> i\A- '• m FRANCIS LYNDE <3' Hv d ?"IjS I %. vW,; .':«rl: ;<|>-.w5 -• .'4 fyKf*. sV*«Wv> A ;• -V?.' ^ «WHO--SHEILA MACRAE? SHE'S A WIDOW" ^ •••• Synopsis.--Graham Norcross. an all-around railroad man, having Hirtitt*.! the construction work on the Oregon Midland, is on his way to Chicago. He Intends to take a vacation and then consider a ( anadlan general manager s Job. Jimmle Dodds, his secretary, is with him. They are marooned at Sand Creek siding, -with a charming young woman, Mrs. Sheila Macrae, and her young cousin. Malsie Ann. Unseen, they witness an exceedingly odd sort of train holdup A special car Is carried oft into the hills. It turns out to be the car of John Chadwick. financial magnate, whom Norcross was to meet at Portal City. The "Boss" and his companions rescue "Uncle John." yW CHAPTER II--Continue Mr. Norcross told what we had seen. &nd how we had come to be where we were able to see it, but that didn't help oat much, either. From any point of view it seemed perfectly foolish, and the boss made mention of that. If we hadn't happened to be there to bring the engine back, the worst that could have befallen Mr. Chadwick and the crew of the special would have been a few hours' bother and delay. In the course of time the conductor would have walked out and got to a wire station somewhere, though it might have taken him all night, and then some, to get another engine. Nkturally, Mr. Chadwick was redhot about It, on general principles. I guess he wasn't used to being kidnaped. "I can't help thinking that It Is connected with what is due to happen to-morrow morning, Graham," he said, at the end of things. "There are some certain scoundrels In Portal City at the present moment who wouldn't stop f|t anything to gain their ends, and I am wondering now if Dawes wasn't Btxed up in it." ••Who is Dawes?" s ; "Dawes is a mining OMUi in Portal City, and before I'd been an hour in town yesterday he hunted me up and wanted me to go over to Strathcona to look at some gold prospects he's trying to finance. I said 'No' at first, because I was expecting you, and thought you'd Beach Portal City this morning. When you didn't show up, I knew 1 had twelve hours more on nyn hands, and as Dawes was still hanging on. I had our trainmaster give me a special over to Strathcona, on a promise that Fd be brought back early this evening, ahead of the •Flyer' from the west--the train you wore cn." Mr. Norcross nodded. , "And „• the promise wasn't kept." V *No promise is ever kept on-the Pioneer Short Line," growled the big magnate. And then, with a beautiful disregard for the mixed figures of speech: "Once in a blue moon the Chapter of accidents hits the buil's- • «ye whack in the middle, Graham When Hardshaw wired n)e from Portland, I knew you couldn't reach Portal City before this morning, atjthe very earliest. That was going to cut my time pretty short, with the big gun due to be fired tomorrow morning, and you cut it still shorter by losing twel\# hours somewhere along the road--they told me in the dispatcher's office that your train was behind a wreck somewhere up in Oregon. But it has turned out all right, in spite of everything. You're .• here, and we've got the night before m" Then I suppose be nodded toward me. for the boss said: "Oh, Jlmmie's all right; he knew * what I bad for dinner this evening, ami he'll know what I'm going to have te breakfast tomorrow morning." With the bridle off, the big man Ittat ahead abruptly, cutting out all Ac frills. "Too finished your building Contact on the Oregon Midland, Graham. and after the road was opened for business you refused an offer of the general managership. Would you ; mind telling me why you did that?" "Not in the least. There is nothing fal It. An operating head is now ! nothing more than a score-keeper for a national gambling game. The boss ' gamblers around the railroad post In the Stock exchange tell him what be 1i«b to do and where he ha* to get mtL Stock gambling, under whatever name it masquerades--boosting t aloe*, baying and selling margins, reorganisations, with their huge rake-offs for the underwriters--in the incubus which is crushing the life out of the nation's industries, especially in the railroad field. It makes me wish I'd never seen a railroad track." "Yet it is your trade, isn't ItV " asked the wheat king. s "It is; but luckily I can build raili toads as well as operate them; and - there are other countries besides the c , United States of America. I'm on my >'• Way home to Illinois for a little visit I with my mother and sisters; and after that I think I shall close with an I: - offer I've had from one of the Call ; tiadian companies." t "Good boy!" chuckled the Chicago magnate. "In due time we might lope to be reading your name In the jf newspapers--'Sir Graham Norcross, D.K.O.," or something of that sort." • V; Then, with a sharp return to the sort of gritting seriousness: "You've been & tiding over the Pioneer Short Line if, since early this morning, Graham: • what do you think of it?" *,?,/ I couldn't see the boss' smile, but I could figure it pretty well when he said: "There may be worse managed, worse neglected pieces of railroad track in some of the great transcontinental lines, but if there are I haven't happened to notice them. 1 suppose it Is capitalized to death, like many of the others." "-Fictitious values doubtless have something to do v»lth It at the pres- 5 ent stage of the game," Mr. Chad- ' wick admitted. "It has always been a good earning property, being largely even yet, without much local competition.. But from ihe day It was completed its securities hnve figured fti the market only for their .speculative values. The property itself has never been considered, save as a means to an end; the end being to enable one bunch of the Wall Street gamesters you speak of to make a •killing' and unload on another bunch." - "The old Story," said Mr, Norcross. "We are bumping over the net result, right now." Mr. Chadwick went on. "Pioneer Short Line is practically In the last ditch. The stock has slumped to forty and worse; Shaffer, the general manager and the onlyable man we have had for years, has resigned in disgust; and If something Isn't done tomorrow morning In Portal City, I know of at least one minority stockholder who is going to throw the whole mess into the courts and r^YA for a receivership." Mr. Norcross looked up quickly. "Are you the minority "stockholder, Cncle John?" he asked, letting himself use the name by which Mr. Chadwick was best known in the wheat pit. "I am--more's the pity. I had a Httle lapse of sanity one fine morning a few years ago and bought in for an investment. I've done everything I could think of, Graham, to persuade Breck Dun ton and his Wall ^Street accomplices to spend just one dollar in ten of their reorganization and recapitalization stealings on the road itself, but it's no good. Dunton has been making an inspection trip over the system with a dozen or so of his New York cronies. It's a junketing excursion, pure and simple, but while they're here they'll get together and go through the form of picking out a new general manager. I'm on khe board and they had to send me notice, though it's an even bet they hoped I'd stay away." "Are you really going to spring the receivership on the Dunton people tomorrow?" "I'm going to give Dunton his chance. He can appoint the man I want appointed as general manager, with full power to act, and ratify a little plan I've got up my sleeve for providing a bit of working capital for the road, or--he can turn me down." "And if he does turn you down?" "Then, by George, I'll see if I aan't persuade the courts to put the property into bankruptcy and install my man as'receiver!" "I «on't envy your man his Job, eith<ef way around; not the least little mot^el in the world," said the boss, quietly. And then: "Who Is he, Uncle John?" The wheat kiqg gave a great laugh. "Don't tell me you haven't guessed it," he chuckled. "You're the man, Graham." But now Mr. Norcross had something to say for himself, sitting up straight and shaking his head sort of sorrowfully at the big man in the padded chair. "No, you don't, my good old friend; not In a thousand years! You'd lose out in the end, and I'd lose out; and, besides, I'm not quite ready to commit suicide." And then to me. "Jimmie, suppose you go and tap on the door and tell the ladles we're pulling into Portal City." I hung around while the boss was telling Mrs. Sheila and Maisle Ann good-by, and I was In the baggageroom, digging up the put-off stuff, at the good-by minute. But I gutjss they didn't quarrel any--the boss and Mrs. Sheila. She was laughing a little to herself as I helped her down from the car, and when I asked her where she wanted to* go, she said I might "You're the JMan, Graham." ask one of the porters to carry the traps, and we'd walk to "the hotel, which was only a few blocks up the main street. She took Malsie Ann on the other side of her and let two of the blocks go by without saying anything more, I and then she gave that quiet little I laugh again and said, "Your Mr. Norcross amuses me, Jimmle. He says have no business to travel without h guardian. What do you think about It?" I told her I hadn't any thinks coming. and sfye seemed to take that for « i r y,4l joke and laughed some more. Then she asked me if I'd ever been In New York, and I felt sort of small when had to tell her that I had never been east of Omaha in all my life. \Vith that, she told me not to worry; that if I stayed with. Mr. Norcross I'd probably get. to,go anywhere I wanted to. Something In the way she said It made it sound like a little slam on the boss, and of course I wasn't going to stand for that. There is one thing about it: the boss will make good wherever he goes," I hit back. "You can bet ou that." , "I like your loyalty," she flashed out. It is a fine thing In a day that Is much too careless of such qualities. And I agree with you that your Mr. Norcross Is likely td succeed; more than likely, if he will only learn to combine a little gentle cleverness witi) the heavy hand." I don't think you have any cftuae to blacklist Mr. Norcross," I said. "Hasn't he been right good and brotherly to both of you this evening?" H, I didn't mean that," she said earnestly. "But in the stateroom r. Chadwlck's car: the ventilator open, you know, until Malsie Ann got up and shut It, and we couldn't vei'y well help hearing what was said about the kidnaping. Neither Mr. Chadwick nor Mr. Norcross seemed to be able to account for it." Can you account for it?" I asked, bluntly enough, I guess. At this she smiled and said, "It would-be rather presumptuous for m$ to try where Mr. Norcross and Mr. Chadwick failed, wouldn't It? But maybe I can give you just a wee little hint. You saw the two men who went over to the auto and smoked while they were ^waiting for the other two to come back? If I am not mistaken, I have seen them many times before, and they are very well known here In Portal' City. One of them, the smaller one with the derby hat and the short overcoat, was either Mr. Rufus Hatch or his double; and the other, the heavy-set one, might have been Mr. Gus'tave Henckel, Mr. Hatch's partner In the Red Tower company." This didn't help out much, but you can bet that I made a note of the (fvvo names. "You are going back to Mr. Chadwlck's car?" she asked, when she was telling me good-by and thanking me for coming up to the hotel with them. I told her I was, and then she came around to the kidnaping business again of her own accord. "You may give Mr. Norcross the hint I gave you, if you wish," she said; "only you must be a good boy, Jimmle, and not drag me into it.' "I see," I nodded; "I'll t*ll the boss, when I get a good chance, and you can bet your last dollar he won't tangle you up in it--he isn't put together that way." "Well, then, good-night," she smiled, giving me her hand. And with that she sort of edged the little girl Into the elevator before we could get a chance to shake hands, and I heard her tell the boy to take them op to the mezzanine landing. By and by, I went down to the station and began to hunt for the Alexa. The boss and Mr. Chadwick were facing each other across the table, which, was all littered up with papers and maps and reports, and they hardly noticed me when I blew in and sat down a little to one side. Just after I broke in, Mr. Norcross jumped up and began to pace back and forth before the table, with his bands in his pockets. "No, I can't see it. Uncle John," he said, still sort of stubborn and determined. "You are trying to make me believe that I ought to take the biggest Job that has ever been set before the expert In any field; tp demonstrate, on this rotten corpse of a railroad, the solution of a problem that has the entire country guessing at the present time; namely, the winning of success, and public--and industrial-- approval for a carrier corporation which had continuously and persistently broken every commandment in all the decalogues of business; of fair-dealing with its employees; of common honesty, with everybody," Mr. Chadwick nodded. "That is about the size of it," he said. "I wouldn't say that it can't be done," the boss went on. "Perhaps it is possible,* for the right man. But I'm not the right man. You need somebody who can combine the qualities of a pretty brutal slugger with those of a fine-haired, all-thlngs-to-all-men, diplomatic peacemaker. I can do the slugging; I've proved It a time or two in the past. But I'm no good at the other end of the game When It comes to handling the fellow with a 'pull,' I've either got to smash him or quit. I am too heavy-handed for this job of yours. And as for the other thing-- the industrial side of it: that's a large order; a whaling big order. I'm not even prepared to say, off-hand, that It's the right thing to do." "Right or wrong, it's a thing that Is coming, Graham," was the Rober reply. "If we don't meet it halfway-- well, the. time will come when we of the hlrlng-and-flrlng side won't be given any option In the matter. You may call It Utopian If you please, and add that I'm growing old and losing my grip. But that doesn't obliterate the fact that the days of the present master-and-man relations lu the Industries are numbered. "We'll let It rest until morning and give you a chance to sleep on It. You have spoken only of the difficulties and the responslbllites, Graham; but there Is another side to it. In a way, it's an opportunity, carryldg with it the promise of the biggest kind of s reward." "I lion't see it," said the boss, briefly. ; "Don't you? I do. I have an idea rambling around in my head that It fs about time some bright young fellow was showing the people of the United States that a railroad needn't be regarded as an outlaw among the Industries; needn't have the enmity of everybody It serves; needn't be the prey of a lot of disloyal and dissatisfied employees who are interested only M&tflll " c " i'nj.ii I'l'telil) Cuffing Him Along to the Nearest Elevator. in the figure of the pay-day check; needn't be shot at as a wolf with a bounty on its scalp. Let it rest at that for the present. Get your hat and we'll walk up-town to the hotel." When we got out of the car, Mr. Norcross told me to, go by the station and have our luggage sent 'to the hotel. It was some time after eleven o'clock when I got around to the hotel with the traps. Mr. Chadwick.had disappeared, but I saw the boss at the counter waiting for his chance at the clerk. The people melted away at last, all but one--a young swell wbo would have been handsome if he hadn't had the eyes of a maniac and a color that was sort of corpse-like with the pallor of a booze-fighter. He had his hat on the back of his head, and he was ripping it off at the clerk like a drunken hobo., It seemed that he had caught a glimpse of somebody he knew--a woman, I took it, because he said "she"-- looking down from the rail of the mezzanine, and he wanted to go up to her. And it appeared that the clerk' had told the elevator man not to take him up in his present condition. The boss w-as growing sort of impatient; I could tell it by the way the little side muscles on his jaw were working. When he got the ear of the clerk for a second or so between cusses, he asked what was the matter with the lunatic. I caught only broken bits of the clerk's halfwhisper : , "Young Collingwood President Dunton's nephew . , . saw lady . . . mezzanine . . . wants to go up to her." The boss scowled at the young fellow, who was now handing himself around the corner of the counter to get at the clerk again, and said: "Why don't you ring for an officer and have him run in?" The night clerk was evidently scared of ills job. "I wouldn't dare to do that," he chlttered. "He's one of the New York crowd--the railroad people -- President Dunton's nephew -- guest of the house." The young fellow had pulled himself around to our side of the counter by this time and was hooking his arm to make a pass at Mr. Norcross, trim mlng things up as he «*ame with a lot more language. The boss said, right short- and sharp, to the clerk, "Get his room key and give It to a boy who can show me the way," and the next thing wre knew he had bashed that lunatic square in the f&ce- and was cuffing him along to the nearest eleva tor. He came back In a few minutes, looking as cool as a cucumber. "What did yqji do with him?" asked the clerk, kind of awed and half scared. "Got a couple of the corridor sweepers to put him In a bath and turn the cold water on him. That'll take the whisky out of him. Now, If you .Jiave a minute to spare, I'd like to get my assignment." We hadn't more than got our rooms marked off for us when I saw Mr. Chadwick coming across from the farther of the three elevators. He was smiling sort of grlo', as If he'd made a killing of some sort with Mr. Dun ton, and Instead of heading back for his car he took the boss over to a corner of the lobby and sat down to smoke with him. raised, as you might guess," Mr. Chadwick was saying. I grabbed at the name, "Basil," right away: it isn't such a very common name, and Mrs. Sheila had said something-- under the water tank, you recollect-- about a "Cousin Basil" who was to have met her at the train. I was putting two or three little private guesses of my own together, when one of the elevators came down and here came our two, the young lady and the chunky little girl, with the major chuckling and smiling and giving an arm to each. They had apparefltly stopped at the Bullard only to wait until he could come after them and take them home. I saw the boss sit up In his chair and stare at them. Then he said: That's Mrs. Macrae with him now. Is she a member of his family?" A second cousin, or something of that sort," said Mr. Chadwick. "I met her once at the major's house out in the northern suburb last summer." Mr. Norcross let the three of them get out and away, and we heard their taxi speed up and trundle off before he said, "She is married, I'm told. Where is her husband?" Mr. Chadwick looked up as If he'd already forgotten the three who had Just crossed the lobby. "Who--Sheila Macrae? Yes,, she has been married. But there Isn't any husband--she's a widow." For quite a while the boss sat staring at his cigar in a way he has when he is thinking right hard, and Mr. Chadwick let him alone. Then, all of a sudden, the boss got up and shoved his hands into his coat pockets. I've changed my mind, Uncle John," he said, looking sort of absent-like out of the window to where the major's taxi had been standing. "If you can pull me Into that deal tomorrow morning-- with an absolutely free hand to do as I think best, mind you--I'll take the Job." CHAPTER III The Directors' Meeting I was up bright and early the next morning, and after breakfast I 6>ok a little sashay down Nevada avenue to have a look at our railroad. Of course, I knew, after what the boss had said to Ml*. Chadwick the night before, just before we went to bed, that we weren't ever going to see Canada, or even Illinois. I'll have to admit that the look I got didn't make me feel as If we'd found a Cullinan diamond. Down In the yards everything seemed to be at the loosest kind of loose .ends. A switching crew while they were waiting, for the actual kidnapers to return. You can bet high that I made myself mighty small and unobtrusive. After a wbHetbe Mg mftQ spofee again. •What has Uncle Chon Chadwick'6p his sleeve got, do you think?" "I don't think--I know!" was the snappy reply. "It's one of two things: a receivership--which will knock US Into a cocked hat because we can't fool with an officer of the United States court--or a new deal all around in the' management" 'Vlch of the two will it be that will come out of that commiddee room upstairs?" 'A new management. Dunton can't stand for a receivership, and Chadwick knows It. The securities would be knocked out and the majority holders-- Dunton and his bunch--couldn't unload. Chadwick will name the man who is to take Shaffer's place as general manager <3* the railroad outfit. We might have stood it off for a while, just as I said yesterday, if we could have kept Chadwick, from attending this meeting." "But now we don't could stand it off--what then?" "We'll have to wait and see, and size up the new man when he blows In. He'll be only human, Herickel. And if we gel fight down to it we can pull him over to our side--or make him wish he'd never been born." The big man got up ponderously and brushed the cigar ashes off of his bay-window. "You wait and see what comes mlt the commlddee room out. I go up to the ovvlce." When I was left alone in the row of lobby chairs with the snappy one I was scared stiff for fear, now that he didn't have anything else to think of, he'd catch on the fact that I might have overheard. But apart from giving me one long stare that made my blood run cold, he didn't seem to notice me much, and after a little he got up and went to sit on the other side of the big rotunda where he could watch the elevators going and coining. I guess he had lots of patience, for I had to have. 1 had been sitting In toy corner for two full hours when I saw the boss coming down the broad m&rble stair with Mr. Chadwick. LydBa EL PinldiBin's Vegetalile Compound, Restontt|t Mrs. Benz to Health " ' "Now let's go and get ear fighting clothes on." % "You Wait and See'What Comes the Commlddee Room Out." Mlt was making up a freight, and the way they slammed the boxes together, regardless of broken drawheads and the like, was a sin and q shame. After a Nvhlle, after I'd loafed through the shops and around the yard and got a few more whiffs of the decay, I strolled on back to the hotel. I was wondering a little what had become of the boss--who w^s generally the earliest riser on the Job when two men came bulging through the screen doors of the cafe, picking their teeth and feeling In their pockets for cigars. Right on the dot, and In the face of knowing that ltvcouldn't reasonably be so, I had a feeling that I'd seen those men before. One of them was short and rather stocky, and his face had a sort of hard, hungry look; and the other was big and barrel-bodied. The short one was cleanshaven, but the other had a reddishgray beard clipped close on his fat jaws and trlmnped to a point at the chin. After they had lighted up, they came along and sat down three Or four chairs away from me.* They paid no attention to me, but for fear they (TO BE CONTINUED.) "SABBATH DAY" NOT SUIIDAY Modern Writers Display an Amazing Carelessness in Their Misuse of the Words. Id English ttaere iS not a more definite word than sabbath, yet it" is used with an amazing carelessness as a synonym for Sunday. The writers and translators of the New Testament use sabbath correctly, says a writer Ml the Brooklyn Eagle. It is alwaj-£ Hebrew and in no instance is it *Kssociated with the New Testament dispensation--now universally known as Christianity. Indeed the apostles were severely rebuked by the Jews for breaking the sabbath. 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At the expiration of this time none of the pieces showed any separation of the plies. might, I tried to look, as sleepy as an They dljin't seem to be talking any-'l all-night bell-hop In a bilsy hotel. •WlaCi' thing private, so I sat down Just beyond them, so sleepy that I could hardly see straight. Mr. Chadwick was telling about his early experiences In Portal City, how he blew In first on top of the Strathcona gold boom, and how he had known mighty near every body in the region in those days. While he was talking, a taxi drove up and one of the old residenters came In from the street apd crossed to the elevators; a mighty handsome, stately oid gentleman, with fierce white mustaches and a goatee, and "Southern Colonel" written all over him. 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