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"It's a comparatively recent piece of business apparatus," smiled Tom. "It is employed by big corporations as a club with which to hit smaller crowds that want some of the business of life. The gloom department might be called the bureau of knocking, or the hit-in-the-neck shift." "Is that what you accuse me of doing for the Colthwaite Company?" asked Fred Ransom, his scowl deepening.
"Ransom? Fred Ransom? I never heard of any Colthwaite agent of that name." "He's one of the Colthwaite people's troublemakers," Tom went on, opening his own eyes rather wide. "If you were sure of this why didn't you report it to me earlier?" "Why, I supposed your railroad detectives knew all about it. And that you had heard of it long ago," Reade declared.
These boys figure on using dirt and then more dirt, and still more, until they've satisfied the appetite of the Man-killer, filled up the quicksand and laid a bed of solid earth on which the tracks will run safely for the next hundred years. The Colthwaite people have looked over the whole proposition. They know that it can't be done.
I don't want to accuse anyone, but I am just a trifle suspicious that the concern of Chicago contractors " "The Colthwaite people!" broke in Mr. Ellsworth. "Yes; if they were bad people, and ugly business rivals " "How would the Colthwaite people be able to foresee that you were going to have a fight with Jim Duff?" interposed Mr. Ellsworth. "I'm going after the answer, if there is one.
Bang! sounded further down the Street, and the flash of a rifle was seen. Tom Reade, his speech unmade, fell from the barrel into the arms of those crowded about him. Daylight found Jim Duff and some of his cronies of the night before either absent from Paloma, or else securely hidden. Fred Ransom, the Colthwaite Company's representative, had also vanished.
"Thanks from you would make me feel like a traitor to the community. Skip! Carry word to the Colthwaite Company, however, that their latest scheme against us has failed like the others!" At mention of the Colthwaits, Danes turned and fled in earnest. "That was their second attempt," muttered Tom grimly, as he turned back to where the flames still held dominion.
"By the way, Harry," predicted Tom, as the chums were riding back to Paloma at the close of the afternoon, "look out, in about three of four days, for a new and permanent guest at the Cactus House." "Who's coming?" inquired Hazelton. "Whatever man the Colthwaite Company decides to send to the Cactus House as soon as headquarters in Chicago receives Ransom's report.
The two hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be wasted, and then the Colthwaite Company will have to come in, after all, drive its pillars of steel and concrete, lay well-founded beds and get a basis that will hold the new earth above it. Then the track will be safe, and the people of this part of Arizona will have a railroad of which they can be proud.
Ransom, but I am really worth the money. Talk it over with me, and convince me that your company will be sufficiently liberal in return for large favors." "Oh, the Colthwaite Company would be liberal enough," protested Ransom, "and quick to hand out the cash, at that." "I took that for granted," smiled Duff, showing his white teeth.
My, but they do look like some of the fellows that Hen Dutcher used to tell us about. Hen used to waste more time on dime novels than " "Shut up!" again commanded Duff. "These gentlemen feel that there is no need of their being recognized." "Then why didn't Fred Ransom, of the Colthwaite Company, cover up the scar on his chin?" retorted Reade.
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