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Updated: June 17, 2025
After the disappearance of the big black from the scene there was no further trouble at the breakwater. Blixton is now an important though artificial harbor. With the completion of the breakwater, and the building of a lighthouse, the next work undertaken was the building of stone docks at which the steamships of the Melliston Line now dock.
He hasn't had time enough to go away over to Blixton and get enough liquor to make him drunk. Moreover, in his present condition, the fellow couldn't have walked back from town the same evening. This man got his liquor in camp, and it will have to be stopped. Now, put this man in his shack; see that he gets into bed. Then come back to me." The gang-master obeyed.
Dropping the trigger into his own pocket, Tom tossed the weapon back. "Catch it, Hawkins," he called. "You may want this to frighten some children with over in Blixton. Now, Mr. Renshaw, I believe you know what you're to do." "Yes, sir," nodded the superintendent, from the doorway, and vanished.
Foreman Johnson, who had been over in town, now came along. He halted some distance away, beckoning to Reade. "Mr. Reade," murmured the foreman, in an undertone, "over in Blixton I just heard some news that I thought would interest you. Evarts is out on bail." "He furnished a five thousand surety?" queried Tom. "Yes, sir, and who do you suppose went on his bond?"
The motor boat had followed, but did not come all the way in. After the sail had been lowered and made snug the party took up its way, on foot, to the nearby town of Blixton. Justice Sampson was found, and consented to open court immediately. Officer Carnes brought his prisoners forward, stating the charge. The young engineers and the army officer gave their testimony.
In their efforts to improve their service the Melliston owners had found at Blixton a harbor that would have suited them excellently, but for one objection. The bay at Blixton was too open to shelter vessels from the severity of some of the winter gales. Up to the present time Blixton had not been used for harbor purposes.
"You refer, sir, I take it, to my act in having Blixton police officers come in here and chase out some gamblers who had come here for the purpose of winning the money of the workmen?" "That's it," nodded Bascomb. "In that matter you went too far -altogether too far!" "I'm afraid I don't understand you, sir." "You mean, Reade, that you don't want to understand me," snapped the president.
"Twenty minutes to two," murmured Tom to himself, glancing at his watch as the "Morton" went laboriously back over the dancing, glinting waves. "There's a train due at Blixton at 1:30. By the time I get back to the house I ought to find one or more officials of the company impatiently waiting to jump on my devoted neck." Nor was Tom disappointed in this expectation.
"We'd be scorched for endangering the town if we took those things into Blixton. Your foreman, Mr. Reade, called us out here to see if we could get trail of your missing Mexican servant." "That's a vastly more important thing to do," Tom replied with enthusiasm. "I want to find Nicolas before I do another thing." "Come here, Bill," called one of the officers.
"Then," Reade continued, "I wish you would search through Blixton for him. If you find him, be good enough to lock him up and notify me." "Is there a warrant out against him?" asked one of the policemen, cautiously. "You don't need one," Tom replied. "I will make a charge of felony against Evarts, to the effect that he is concerned in the outrages against our wall.
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